Marina Münkler

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Marina Münkler (* 1960 in Bad Nauheim ) is a German literary scholar .

Life

After graduating from high school, Münkler studied German , philosophy and theater studies from 1978 to 1984 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . She then worked as a freelance translator ( English , Latin and Italian ) and literary critic (reviews for Hessischer Rundfunk , Österreichischer Rundfunk , Die Zeit , Süddeutsche Zeitung and Tagesspiegel ). In the summer of 1994 Münkler started her dissertation on “Experience of the Stranger. The description of East Asia in the eyewitness reports of the 13th and 14th century "and was in October 1997 when Werner skirts at the Philosophical Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin to Dr. phil. PhD . From June 1998 to May 2000, she then worked as a post-doctoral student at the graduate school "Coding Violence in Media Change". Then worked Münkler as a research assistant and research assistant at the Institute for German Literature, HU Berlin, where in July 2007 with a signature on "Narrative ambiguity . Transformations of storytelling and character identity in the Faust books of the 16th and 17th centuries " habilitated . Between October 2007 and February 2010 she held various visiting professorships at the HU Berlin and the University of Zurich . In January 2010, Münkler finally accepted a professorship for older and early modern literature and culture at the Institute for German Studies at the Technical University of Dresden . Since June 2011 she has also been the project manager of the sub-project S “The Ethos of Friendship . Discourses and narratives of common sense in medieval literature ”at the Dresden Collaborative Research Center 804“ Transcendence and common sense ”. Since July 2017 she has been the sub-project manager and deputy spokesperson in the Dresden Collaborative Research Center 1285: “Invectivity. Constellations and dynamics of degradation ”.

Marina Münkler is married to the political scientist Herfried Münkler , with whom she has a daughter (* 1985) and a son (* 1988).

Research priorities

Münkler mainly deals with medieval and early modern literature; especially medieval travelogues, descriptions of hell in the high and late Middle Ages, forms of the constitution of the self in the literature of the late Middle Ages, melancholy discourse in the early modern period, books of fist from the 15th to 17th centuries, dialogue in minstrels, courtly novels, friendship discourses in medieval and early modern literature, early Bohemian humanism. In addition, she researches alterity and interculturality, legendary narration and deals with genre theory.

Publications

Monographs
  • Marco Polo . Life and legend. CH Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-43297-2 .
  • Experience of the stranger. The description of East Asia in the eyewitness accounts of the 13th and 14th centuries. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-05-003529-3 . (see also: Diss. phil., HU Berlin 1997)
  • together with Herfried Münkler : Lexicon of the Renaissance. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-52859-7 .
  • Narrative ambiguity. The Faust books of the 16th to 18th centuries. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-36714-8 . (also: Habil. phil., HU Berlin 2007)
  • together with Herfried Münkler: The new Germans. A country ahead of its future. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-871-34167-0 .
  • together with Herfried Münkler: Farewell to the descent. An Agenda for Germany Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7371-0060-1 .
Editorships
  • together with Steffen Martus and Werner Röcke : Schlachtfelder. On the coding of violence in media change. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-003587-0 .
  • together with Werner Röcke: The literature in the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age. dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-446-12775-5 ( Hanser's social history of German literature from the 16th century to the present. Volume 1).

Awards

  • 2017: Marsilius Medal from the University of Heidelberg for special merits in the discussion between scientific cultures
  • 2019: Supervisor Award of the Graduate Academy of the TU Dresden

Web links

Commons : Marina Münkler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Subproject S: “The Ethos of Friendship. Discourses and narratives of common sense in medieval literature ” ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Subproject E: Older German Literature. Retrieved May 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Prof. Marina Münkler is honored with the Marsilius Medal , TU Dresden November 28, 2017, accessed July 18, 2019
  4. ↑ Prof. Münkler receives the supervisor award of the Graduate Academy , TU Dresden July 2, 2019, accessed July 18, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Münkler, Marina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Nauheim