Matthias Teichert
Matthias Teichert (* 1976 in Delmenhorst ) is a German Scandinavian.
Life
He studied Scandinavian, German and English at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (2002 master's degree ). Since 1999 he has been a research assistant (tutor). In 2000/2001 he studied in Newcastle-upon-Tyne . From 2002 to 2003 he was a lecturer , from 2004 research assistant at the Nordic Department of the University of Tübingen . After completing his doctorate in 2006, he worked from March 2006 to September 2008 as a research assistant on the DFG project "Edda Commentary" (headed by Klaus von See ) at Goethe University . From 2008 to 2014 he taught as a junior professor for Scandinavian Medieval Studies (including Germanic Antiquities) at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . After his habilitation in 2015, he was a senior assistant at the Institute for Nordic Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from February 2015 to June 2016 . In the 2016/2017 winter semester, he represented the professorship for Comparative Literature / Scandinavian Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . Since the 2014/2015 winter semester he has been an adjunct professor at the Scandinavian Seminar and at the Comparative Literature Department (second membership) at the University of Göttingen .
His main interests are Germanic heroic sagas and poetry, mythology and religious history, the reception of ancient and courtly literature in Old Norse, sport and games in medieval Northern Europe, the modern reception of Old Norse materials and texts since 1800, fantasy, horror literature and science fiction and Ingmar Bergman .
Fonts (selection)
- From the hero legend to the hero myth. Comparative studies on the mythization of the Nordic Nibelungen saga in the 13th and 19th / 20th centuries. Century . Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8253-5512-8 .
- with Klaus von See, Beatrice La Farge, Eve Picard, and Katja Schulz: Heldenlieder. Bread af Sigurðarkviðo, Guðrúnarkviða I, Sigurðarkviða in skamma, Helreið Brynhildar, Dráp Niflunga, Guðrúnarkviða II, Guðrúnarkviða III, Oddrúnargrátr, fragments of stanzas from the Vo̧lsunga saga . Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8253-5564-7 .
- as editor: Sports and games among the Germanic peoples. Northern Europe from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages . Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033497-5 .
- as editor with Niels Penke: Between Germanomania and anti-Semitism. Transformations of Old Norse Mythology in the Metal Subcultures . Baden-Baden 2016, ISBN 3-8487-1275-X .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Teichert, Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Scandinavian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Delmenhorst |