Monika Wolting

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Monika Wolting, 2015

Monika Małgorzata Wolting (born May 16, 1972 in Słupsk , Poland ) is a literary scholar and university professor. She is a university professor for modern German literature and literary didactics at the chair for German literature and culture after 1945 of the German Institute at the University of Wrocław .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1992, she studied German at the Akademia Pomorska in Słupsk and the University of Gdansk from 1992 to 1997 . She then studied German for a while at the University of Düsseldorf . After that she completed a doctoral degree at the University of Warsaw and in 2002 at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Warsaw with a dissertation on The Fountain theme in German literature and culture PhD . From 2003, she then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Wrocław . In 2010 she completed her habilitation with the work Der Garten als Topos in the work of Marie Luise Kaschnitz , Undine Gruenter and Sarah Kirsch .

Research priorities

Monika Wolting's research focuses on German literature from the 20th to 21st centuries. Century; Literature mediation, production, reception and impact research, literature and aesthetics, research into the relationships between Polish and German literature, popularization of contemporary German-language literature, system and modernization theory ; Memory research, migration research , war literature , media in the 20th and 21st centuries, literary criticism and narratology . Her current research focus is on the investigation of contemporary literary texts, including children's and youth literature, with regard to current cultural-political discourses in the German public.

Memberships

Monika Wolting has been Deputy President of the Goethe Society Poland since 2015 . Since 2013 she has been the spokesperson for the International Christa Wolf Center (research center for German and Polish contemporary literature and culture).

Awards

  • 2002: Rector Prize of the University of Warsaw for the doctoral thesis
  • 2010: Rector's Prize of the University of Wroclaw for the habilitation thesis
  • 2015: Prize from the Institute for German Studies at the University of Wroclaw
  • 2016: Rector's Prize of the University of Wroclaw

Publications

Monika Wolting is the author of monographs, publications and editions on German literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.

As editor

  • with Anna Majkiewicz: Post-Migration - Identity - Transculture. German-speaking authors of Polish origin . Transfer. Reception Studies 4.
  • with Paula Wojcik, Stefan Matuschek and Sophie Picard: Classics as a cultural practice. Functional, intermedial, transcultural . (= Spectrum literary studies. 62). de Gruyter, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-060328-6 .
  • with Ewa Jarosz-Sienkiewicz: Zaangażowanie. Reprezentacje polityczności w literaturze niemieckiego obszaru kulturowego. Kraków Universitas, 2019, ISBN 978-83-242-3521-6 .
  • Identity constructions in contemporary German literature (= German-language contemporary literature and media . Volume 23). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8471-0741-5 .
  • with Stephan Wolting: Zrozumieć obcość. Recepcja literatury niemieckojęzycznej w Polsce po 1989 roku . Universitas, Kraków 2016.
  • with Carsten Gansel : Pictures of Germany and Poland in literature after 1989 (= German-speaking contemporary literature and media . Volume 16). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8471-0459-9 .
  • with Carsten Gansel and Markus Joch: Between memory and foreignness. Developments in German and Polish Literature after 1989 . Vandenhoeck-Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015.
  • with Edward Białek : narration between historical traces and contemporaneity . Neisse Verlag , Dresden 2015.
  • with Wojciech Browarny and Markus Joch: Opcja niemiecka . Universitas, Kraków 2014, ISBN 978-83-242-2359-6 .
  • The labors of the plains. Essays on German literature after 1989 . Wydawnictwo WSPiA, Poznań 2013, p. 461.
  • with Edward Białek (ed.): Continuities - Breaks - Controversies. German literature after the fall of the wall . Neisse Verlag, Dresden 2012.

As an author

Monika Wolting has written more than 130 scientific articles dealing with authors such as Sarah Kirsch , Undine Gruenter , Hermann Hesse , Christa Wolf , Brigitte Reimann , Günter Grass , Jenny Erpenbeck , Sabrina Janesch , Olga Grjasnowa , Katja Petrowskaja , Artur Becker Matthias Nawra t , Olga Tokarczuk , Jacek Dehnel or Marie Luise Kaschnitz . In addition, she has worked in articles on topoi such as fountains, gardens and cities and has investigated German-Polish literary relations.

Monographs

Article (selection)

  • The Politics of Migration Literature Example from Olga Grjasnowa s novel “ The Russian is one who loves birch trees ” . In: Migration and contemporary literature. The contribution of authors of Eastern European origin to literary culture in German-speaking countries. Edited by Matthias Aumüller i Weertje Willms. Wilhelm Fink: Munich 2020; Pp. 91-108.
  • War in Afghanistan - Trauma Experience and Its Artistic Darposition in Jochen Rausch's “War” (2013). In: Carsten Gansel (ed.): Trauma experiences and disorders of the “self”. Medial and literary configurations of lifeworld crises. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter 2020, pp. 385–402.
  • “In Mother Makryna I see the symbol for Poland” - To settle with a romantic myth in “Mother Makryna” (2014) by Jacek Dehnel . In: New historical narration. Edited by Monika Wolting. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage: Göttingen 2019, pp. 263–275.
  • At a losing point. On the situation of the Bundeswehr soldiers in the war in Afghanistan . In: Facts and reservations, edited by Bjoern Hayer, Gabriela Scherer and others KOLA, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. Trier 2018, pp. 161–173.
  • War, women and the utopia of a community. “Stütze der Welt” (1980) - a story by Elsa Ulmer. In: Literature of the Russian Germans and memory. Ed. Carsten Gansel . Okapi Verlag: Berlin 2018, pp. 185–204.
  • Pictures of the Breslau train station in contemporary German literature. In: Connections. Ed. Torsten Erdbrügger / Inga Probst. Frank & Timme Berlin 2018, pp. 351–366.
  • Talking about violence. Friedrich Anis “Underground Sun” (2014). Studies on German Studies LVII, 2016, pp. 294–304.
  • "And deep down in the water, in the mud and silt, the objects of the stories told are hidden". Norbert Scheuer in an interview about his new novel “At the bottom of the universe” . 09/2017, http://literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=23677&p=2da5
  • The promise of the good life and the fear of failure - consequences of the modernization processes in Daniel Kehlmann's novel  "F". In: Identity Constructions in Contemporary German Literature. Ed. Monika Wolting, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, pp. 49–64.
  • An interview with Markus Stromiedel . Identities in distopic worlds. In: Identity Constructions in Contemporary German Literature. Ed. Monika Wolting, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, pp. 345–354.
  • “Identity can only exist as a problem” - On identity constructions in contemporary literature. Introduction. In: Identity Constructions in Contemporary German Literature. Ed. Monika Wolting, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, pp. 9-20.
  • The fate of refugees in the youth novel “Hesmats Flucht” (2008) by Wolfgang Böhmer. A case study for realistic writing about Afghanistan in the German-speaking KJL . Germanica Wratislaviensia 142/2017.
  • The struggle for individuality in a time determined by the collective. Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" . Studia Neofilologiczne XIII / 2017, pp. 6–21.
  • Literature as a playground. A conversation with the author Tilman Rammstedt about the seriousness of comic literature . W: Literaturkritik .de 11/2016, http://literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=22643&p=320c
  • “Everything around was so empty and so strange ...” Approaching the fate of expellees from the Polish East - To Sabrina Janesch's Katzenberge and Olga Tokarczuk's Taghaus Nachthaus. Dialogue culture. In: Studia nad literaturą, kulturą i historią. Ed. Anna Warakomska, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa 2016, pp. 587–604.
  • “What we describe is still less bad than reality is often” - the disturbing character of Sebastian Fitzek and Michael Tsoko's novel Abgschnitte . Germanica. 58/2016, Université de Lille 3, pp. 211–215.
  • Second creation through art. A conversation with the author Silke Scheuermann about idealism, utopia and the big questions in life . Literaturkritik.de 08/2016, http://literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=22306
  • "The bad way of knowledge". East German intellectuals and the loss of utopia. In: From critical thinker to media celebrity. On the role of intellectuals in literature and society before and after 1989. Eds. Carsten Gansel and Werner Nell. Transcript, Bielefeld 2016, pp. 179–202.
  • Opowieść o przemocy. “Podziemne słońce” (2014) Friedricha Ani . Studia Niemcoznawcze LVII, 2016, pp. 294-304.
  • Ways out of personal responsibility? Religion, esotericism and parapsychology in Daniel Kehlmann's "F". In: Religion and Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Edited by Tim Lörke / Robert Walter-Jochum. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, pp. 203–226.
  • A region is opened up through storytelling. To Olga Tokarczuk's “Taghaus Nachthaus”. In: Pictures of Germany and Poland in the literature after 1989. Red. Carsten Gansel / Monika Wolting. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, pp. 149–162.
  • "Future? That is the fundamentally different ”- On aspects of the reception history of Christa Wolf in Poland. In: Between Moscow Novella and City of Angels. New perspectives on Christa Wolf's life's work. Edited by Therese Hörnigk and Carsten Gansel. Berlin: VBB 2015, pp. 151–170.
  • The "entanglement" of the intellectuals in communism. In: Between memory and foreignness. Developments in German and Polish literature after 1989. Eds. Carsten Gansel, Markus Joch, Monika Wolting. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, pp. 343–364.
  • Felicitas Hoppe's novel “Johanna” as a contribution to the discussion about cultural memory. In: Telling between historical traces and contemporaneity. Ed. Monika Wolting / Edward Białek. Neisse-Verlag, Dresden 2015, pp. 13–28.
  • Unreliable narrator - programmatic figure of thought in Felicitas Hoppe's novel “Johanna” (2006) . La prose allemande contemporaine. Voix et voies de la génération postmodern . Germanica 55/2014, Université de Lille 3, pp. 13-28.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c dr hab. prof. UWr Monika Wolting - Instytut Filologii Germańskiej Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. Retrieved November 8, 2017 (pl-PL).
  2. ↑ Monika Wolting. Retrieved July 14, 2020 . , on christa-wolf-zentrum.de
  3. ↑ a b Nowa Nauka Polska. Retrieved November 8, 2017 (pl-PL).
  4. ↑ a b Friedrich Michael dimples: German studies directory: Monika Wolting. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .
  5. ^ Goethe Society Poland - Instytut Filologii Germańskiej Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. Retrieved on February 25, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ International Christa Wolf Center - International Christa Wolf Center. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .
  7. ^ OPI LIL: PBN Report. Retrieved November 8, 2017 (Polish).
  8. ↑ TRANSFER. RECEPTION STUDIES Czasopismo naukowe wydawane przez Uniwersytet im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Wirth & Horn - Informationssysteme GmbH - www.wirth-horn.de: Identity Constructions in Contemporary German Literature | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Universitas: obcość Zrozumieć. Recepcja literatury niemieckojęzycznej w Polsce po 1989 roku, 97883-242-2784_6. Retrieved November 8, 2017 (Polish).
  11. ↑ Wirth & Horn - Informationssysteme GmbH - www.wirth-horn.de: Pictures of Germany and Poland in the literature after 1989 | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Wirth & Horn - Informationssysteme GmbH - www.wirth-horn.de: Between memory and foreignness | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Universitas: Opcja niemiecka. O problemach z tożsamością i historią w literaturze polskiej i niemieckiej po 1989 roku. Retrieved November 8, 2017 (Polish).
  14. ↑ The Troubles of the Levels Essays on German literature after 1989 »Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiki i Administracji in Mieszka I w Poznaniu. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Monika Wolting, Artur Becker: Kim jest, może i powinien być Europejczyk? Kosmopolakiem? Z Arturem Beckerem * rozmawia Monika Wolting . In: Transfer. Reception Studies . tape 4 , December 30, 2019, ISSN  2657-7216 , p. 263–272 , doi : 10.16926 / trs.2019.04.16 ( edu.pl [accessed on July 14, 2020]).
  16. ↑ Monika Wolting, Matthias Nawrat: Wytrzymać niejednoznaczność - co to jest: literatura europejska? Matthias Nawrat w rozmowie z Moniką Wolting . In: Transfer. Reception Studies . tape 4 , December 30, 2019, ISSN  2657-7216 , p. 273–281 , doi : 10.16926 / trs.2019.04.17 ( edu.pl [accessed on July 14, 2020]).
  17. ↑ Winter Verlag: Wolting: The new war novel. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  18. ↑ red: The garden as a topos in the work of Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Undine Gruentner and Sarah Kirsch - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .
  19. ↑ OpenSolution.org: Motyw studni w literaturze i sztuce niemieckiej - Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT - Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Migration and contemporary literature: the contribution of authors of Eastern European origin to literary culture in German-speaking countries . Wilhelm Fink, 2020, ISBN 978-3-8467-6524-1 ( fink.de [accessed on May 14, 2020]).
  21. ↑ Trauma experiences and disorders of the 'self': Medial and literary configurations of lifeworld crises . De Gruyter, 2020, ISBN 978-3-11-068302-8 ( degruyter.com [accessed May 14, 2020]).
  22. ↑ New historical narration. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wolting, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolting, Monika Małgorzata
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Slupsk , Poland