Petra Ernst

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Petra Ernst , married Petra Ernst-Kühr (born November 10, 1957 in Munich , † November 29, 2016 in Graz ) was a German - Austrian literary and cultural scientist .

life and career

Petra Ernst was born in Munich on November 10, 1957 and, after completing her schooling at the universities of Würzburg and Munich, studied German literature , linguistics , musicology and theater studies before starting her academic career in Munich after completing her studies. In the course of her work, she also came to the University of Graz , where she took over the management of the Center for Jewish Studies and carried out this activity for years. Furthermore, from 1992 to 2007 she was head of the Department for Foreign Relations and Public Relations ( known as the Department for International Relations from the 2001/02 winter semester ) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz .

Ernst, who was both artistically and scientifically trained (she studied guitar at the Universities of Vienna and Frankfurt am Main ), also worked alongside her future husband Gerd Kühr , an internationally known composer and conductor. The couple, who remained childless, had not only lived in Graz since 1996, but also had an apartment in the Lesachtal valley . Various works were created here in cooperation, such as the small opera Agleia Federweiß , for which Petra Ernst wrote the libretto and which premiered in 2001. In addition, she appeared as the author of various other libretti and was also a children's book author, journalist and editor. She has worked as an editor and author for the literary magazine Literatur in Bayern and for the New Handbook of Contemporary German Literature since 1945 ; in the latter, she wrote the portraits of the authors. She also worked on the ARD International Music Competition and the 1st Munich Biennale .

During her life she also published many non-fiction articles and reviews, including in programs for the Munich Bach Choir , in the literary magazine Literatur in Bayern or in the literary dictionary of Bertelsmann Verlag . She has also published various books on Jewish-German literature from the 19th and early 20th centuries with a focus on the last decades of the Habsburg monarchy . As a project manager, she appeared in a project on Jewish-German literature during the First World War .

As a co-founder of the Center for Jewish Studies, the private lecturer at the University of Graz, she also appeared as a long-time member of the editorial board of the cultural studies journal transversal: Journal for Jewish Studies and, in the years before her death, as co-editor of the series of the Center for Jewish Studies. Together with the university professor Stephan Moebius , she was the spokesperson for the university's research focus on European history of culture and interpretation. She appeared as a board member at the Aussee Talks .

On November 29, 2016, a few weeks after her 59th birthday, Petra Ernst-Kühr died in Graz after a long and serious illness . After a cremation , she was buried on December 12, 2016 in an urn burial in the urn park of the Graz Central Cemetery, which was newly built in the same year .

Web links

  • Obituary on the official website of the humanities faculty of the University of Graz

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Part 1 in the obituaries of the Kleine Zeitung , accessed on March 26, 2018
  2. ↑ Part 2 in the obituaries of the Kleine Zeitung , accessed on March 26, 2018
  3. ↑ Petra Ernst - The Book and the Sword - The Bible in the Experience and Legacy of the Great War on the official website of the University of Cambridge , accessed on March 26, 2018
  4. ↑ The Graz University of Art mourns the loss of Petra Ernst-Kühr , accessed on March 26, 2018
  5. ↑ When the Tone Sets the Day , Retrieved March 26, 2018
  6. ↑ Petra Ernst-Kühr on the official website of the Styrian Society for Cultural Policy , accessed on March 26, 2018
  7. ↑ FONTS, PICTURES, DIARIES OF JEWISH SOLDIERS , accessed on 26 March 2018
  8. ↑ obituary on jointdegree.eu, accessed on 26 March 2018
  9. ↑ In memory of Petra Ernst-Kühr , accessed on March 26, 2018
  10. ^ Parte in the Passauer Neue Presse , accessed on March 26, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Seriously, Petra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernst-Kühr, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian literary and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 29th November 2016
Place of death Graz