Norbert Kössinger

Norbert Kössinger (* 1975 in Landsberg am Lech ) is a German Germanist and Medievalist .

Live and act

From 1994 to 2001 Norbert Kössinger studied German , Nordic , Italian and Catholic theology in Munich and Pisa and in 2001 passed his master's degree and the first state examination for teaching at high schools at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 2005 to 2006 he was a research assistant at the Institute for German Philology at LMU Munich, where he received his doctorate in 2006 with a thesis on Otfrids von Weißenburg's Gospel Book in the Early Modern Era.

From 2006 to 2011 he was a research assistant at the Institute for German Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Paderborn . From 2011 to 2014 he was a university assistant at the University of Vienna , where he completed his habilitation in 2014 with a thesis on German-speaking and Central Dutch rotuli .

In 2012 he was a junior professor at the Department of Literature at the University of Konstanz , took on a visiting professor at the Department of German Studies at the University of Salzburg in the 2014 summer semester and from 2014 to 2018 he was the W3 professor for German literature with a focus on the Middle Ages at the Department of Literature at the University of Konstanz.

Since 2018 he has been Professor of Older German Literature and Culture at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg .

Kössinger's main research interests include Old High German and Old Low German literature, literature and religion, media and transmission history, edition science and history, and the history of German studies.

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Monographs

• Scrolls. Studies on the German-speaking and Central Dutch Rotuli (= Munich texts and studies on German literature of the Middle Ages 148), Reichert, Wiesbaden [announced], ISBN 978-3-95490-279-8 .
• Otfrid's Gospel Book in the Early Modern Era. Studies on the beginnings of German philology (= early modern period 135). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-484-36635-0 .

Editorships

• Edited with Elke Krotz, Henrike Manuwald and Stephan Müller : Rudolf von Ems. Contributions to the author, work and tradition (= magazine for German antiquity and German literature , supplements 29). S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-7776-2679-6 .
• Edited with Claudia Wittig: Prodesse et delectare. Case Studies on Didactic Literature in the European Middle Ages / Case Studies on Didactic Literature of the European Middle Ages (= The Middle Ages. Perspectives of Medieval Research , Supplements 11). De Gruyter, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-065006-8 .
• Ed. With Elke Krotz, Stephan Müller and Pavlína Rychterová: First stories . The beginning of vernacular writing from a comparative perspective (= Medieval Studies 31). Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2018, ISBN 978-3-7705-6346-3 .
• Edited with Cornelia Herberichs and Stephanie Seidl: Liturgy and Literature. Historical case studies (= Lingua Historica Germanica 10). De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-037759-0 .
• Edited with Elke Krotz and Stephan Müller: Ekkehart IV. Von St. Gallen (= Lingua Historica Germanica 8). De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-038785-8 .
• Hrabanus Maurus. Profile of a European Scholar. Contributions to the Hrabanus year 2006, Sankt Ottilien 2008, ISBN 978-3-8306-7319-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Norbert Kössinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Norbert Kössinger at the University of Magdeburg
• Publications by Norbert Kössinger in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii