Liliane Weissberg

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Liliane Weissberg (* 1953 in Vienna ) is an American literary scholar . Her research interests are primarily directed towards the rediscovery of a German-Jewish literary and cultural tradition from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries, but also the Enlightenment and European and American Romanticism . She worked on Edgar Allan Poe , Walter Benjamin , Sigmund Freud , Hannah Arendt and writers of the early 19th century such as Henriette Herz , Dorothea Schlegel and Rahel Varnhagen .

life and work

Liliane Weissberg studied comparative literature and philosophy in Berlin and Harvard . In 1984 she received her doctorate from Harvard University with a dissertation on the subject of allegory with Edgar Allan Poe to the Doctor of Philosophy . She taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1983 to 1989 and then moved to the University of Pennsylvania , where she has since taught German and comparative literature as Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences .

Liliane Weissberg has lectured as a visiting professor at the Universities of Hamburg and Potsdam, the Ruhr University Bochum, the Humboldt University Berlin, the University for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg and Princeton University. In 2001 she taught again as Ernst Cassirer visiting professor in Hamburg, and in 2007 as Kurt David Brühl visiting professor for Jewish studies at the Center for Jewish Studies in Graz. In 2009 she was visiting professor for interdisciplinary Holocaust research at the Fritz Bauer Institute of the University of Frankfurt , in 2010, 2013 and 2018 a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies of the LMU Munich and in 2011 she was a Fulbright visiting professor at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. 2012 gave the University of Kassel , the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professor at Liliane Weissberg. In 2013 she taught as a visiting professor at the ETH Zurich, in 2014 at the University of Stuttgart and in 2016 at the RWTH Aachen and the University of Innsbruck. In 2019 she was a Humboldt Fellow at the Dubnow Institute of the University of Leipzig.

She curated several exhibitions in the USA and Germany, including for the Slought Gallery in Philadelphia, the Jewish Museum Frankfurt , the German Literature Archive Marbach and she is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Historical Museum.

She has received numerous awards for her research and teaching, including the American Prize from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the German Humboldt Research Prize and the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2020 she was an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Fonts (selection)

Individual works

  • Ghost language. Philosophical and literary discourse in the late eighteenth century . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1990, ISBN 3-88479-480-9 .
  • Edgar Allan Poe (= Metzler Collection, Volume 204). Metzler, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-476-10204-1 .
  • Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin and the hidden Jewish tradition (= lectures of the Center for Jewish Studies, Volume 1). Leykam, Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-7011-0165-8 .
  • About hashish and Kabbalah. Gershom Scholem, Siegfried Unseld and the work of Walter Benjamin (= Marbacher Magazin, 140). German Schiller Society, Marbach am Neckar 2012, ISBN 978-3-937384-94-8 .
  • Coins, hands, notes, fingers: Berlin court Jews and the invention of a German musical culture (= lectures of the Center for Jewish Studies Graz 12). Graz: Clio Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3902542717 .

Editions

  • Femininity as a masquerade . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-11850-6 .
  • Hannah Arendt: Rahel Varnhagen. The Life of a Jewess. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8018-6335-X .
  • with J. Gerald Kennedy: Romancing the Shadow. Poe and Race. Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-513710-8 .
  • Reluctant affinity? Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno and the Frankfurt School (= yearbook on the history and effects of the Holocaust, 2011). Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39490-9 .
  • with Fritz Backhaus and Raphael Gross: Jews. Money. An act. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2013, ISBN 978-3593399232 .
  • with Karen Beckman: On Writing with Photography. University of Minnesota Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8166-7729-0 .
  • with Andreas Kilcher, Retrospectively, fundamentally: Commentary as a way of thinking in Jewish modernity from Hermann Cohen to Jacques Derrida , 2018, ISBN 978-3835333697 .

Articles and book chapters (selection)

  • "The Jew as a Pariah: Stations in the History of an Idea in the Discourse of Assimilation". In: What was German Judaism? hrg.v. Christina von Braun (ser.) European-Jewish Studies: Articles 24 (Oldenbourg: DeGruyter, 2015), 117-133.
  • "Return to the Resistance". In: Return to enemy territory? Fritz Bauer in German-Jewish Post-War History, ed. v. Katharine Rauschenberger, Yearbook of the Fritz Bauer Institute 2013 (Frankfurt / M .: Campus Verlag, 2013), 15-37.
  • “Longing for Goethe. Sigmund Freud and the Summer of 1931 ”. In: German language culture of Jews and the humanities , hrg.v. Stephan Braese and Daniel Weidner (Berlin: Kadmos Verlag, 2015), 201-214.
  • "The Unconscious of the Federal Republic: Alexander Mitscherlich popularizes psychoanalysis". Journal for the history of ideas and ideas V, 3 (2011): 45-64.
  • "Karl Löwith's trip around the world." "I'm amazed that you can breathe in this air". In: Jewish intellectuals in Germany after 1945 , hrg.v. Monika Boll and Raphael Gross (Frankfurt / M .: Fischer Verlag, 2013), 126-170.
  • "Postcards from the Avant-Garde". MLN 132.Special Issue: Else Lasker-Schüler and the Avantgarde (2017): 575-601.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Rosenzweig Professorship goes to Prof. Dr. Liliane Weissberg , University of Kassel ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.uni-kassel.de
  2. ^ Liliane Weissberg: The heart of the letter. Allegory in Edgar Allan Poe , Thesis (Ph. D.), Harvard University, 1984.
  3. ^ Liliane Weissberg at the University of Pennsylvania
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Liliane Weissberg, visiting professor for research into the Holocaust and German-Jewish history, website of the Fritz Bauer Institute
  5. ^ Lecture by Prof. Liliane Weissberg, Ph.D. - "Ariadne's thread: Sigmund Freud, the textile industry and the invention of psychoanalysis", LMU Munich July 7, 2009
  6. ↑ Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freud-museum.at
  7. ↑ Inaugural lecture on "Franz Rosenzweig and the Free Jewish Teaching House" on April 25, 2012, available as a sound document from the KOBRA university publication server
  8. ↑ Jews. Money. A performance (2013)
  9. ↑ On hashish and Kabbalah. Gershom Sholem, Siegfried Unseld and the work of Walter Benjamin (2012)
  10. ↑ Humboldt Research Award for Liliane Weissberg (University of Pennsylvania) ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-stuttgart.de
  11. ↑ Selected Awards and Honors to Penn Faculty: Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching
  12. ^ Review
personal data
SURNAME Weissberg, Liliane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ṿaisberg, Liliʾan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna