Ortrud Gutjahr

Ortrud Gutjahr (* 1954 ) is a German specialist in German .

Life

She studied German, philosophy and sociology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg ; continuously active as tutor, assistant or project worker at the Institute for German Studies, at the Institute for Sociology and / or at the Institute for Philosophy (1980: Master's thesis on critical theory). From 1980 to 1985 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Medical Sociology in a German-American research project. After completing her doctorate in 1986 on Ingeborg Bachmann , she worked from 1985 to 1994 as a research assistant, assistant (C1) and senior assistant (C2) at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . After her habilitation in 1993 on the self-reflection of literary modernity, she taught from 1994 to 1997 on the professorship (C3) for modern German literature and intercultural German studies at the University of Karlsruhe . Since 1997 she has been professor (C4) for modern German literature and intercultural literary studies at the University of Hamburg . She had visiting professorships a . a. at the University of California, Berkeley (2017), Macquarie University , (2013 and 2016), University of Mumbai (2014), Istanbul University (2011), University of Sydney (2006), Stockholm University (1988 and 2002) and the University of Adelaide (1994 and 1999) and is an adjunct professor at Macquarie University.

Her focus areas are intercultural literary and media studies, literature from the 18th century and from around 1900 to the present, intercultural film, forms of staging and theater, German-Turkish studies and gender and theater research, literature and psychoanalysis, cultural theory and the theory of intercultural modernity .

Fonts (selection)

• Fragments of irresistible love. On the dialogue structure of literary delimitation of the subject in Ingeborg Bachmann's “The Franza Case” . Würzburg 1988, ISBN 3-88479-312-8 .
• Introduction to the Bildungsroman . Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 3-534-17912-9 .
• as editor: Heinrich von Kleist's broken jug . Balancing the Law in Bastian Kraft's production at the Thalia Theater Hamburg . Würzburg 2015, ISBN 3-8260-5725-2 .
• as editor: Lessing's legacy? Theater as a discursive institution . Würzburg 2017, ISBN 3-8260-6195-0 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Ortrud Gutjahr