Renate Stauf

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Renate Stauf (* 1949 ) is a German literary scholar and university professor .

academic career

Renate Stauf studied German, history and educational psychology at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen from 1978 to 1983 . From 1984 to 1986 she received a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation. In 1987 she became a research assistant at the Institute for Modern German Literature at the Justus Liebig University and editor of the Germanic-Romanic monthly . In 1989 she did her doctorate under Conrad Wiedemann with the work Justus Möser's concept of a German national identity. With a view of Goethe. The work was awarded the Justus Liebig University Giessen prize for the best dissertation of the academic year . From 1989 to 1996 Renate Stauf worked as a research assistant at the Institute for German Philology, General and Comparative Literature at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1997 she completed her habilitation here with the work The Problematic European. Heinrich Heine in the conflict between criticism of the nation and social utopia .

Since 1999 Renate Stauf has been teaching as a full professor of modern German literature at the Institute for German Studies at the Technical University of Braunschweig . Since 2002 she has been a full member of the class for humanities in the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (BWG). She is also Vice President of the Lessing Academy Wolfenbüttel, a member of the Lessing Board of Trustees of the Free State of Saxony and a member of the jury for the award of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize.

From 2000 to 2005, Stauf co-edited the comparative specialist journal Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift ( GRM ). She has been the main editor of GRM since 2005 .

Research priorities

Renate Stauf's main areas of work concern German literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, literature, aesthetics and history of the Enlightenment, the Classical and Romantic periods and the pre-March period. Her main research areas include Heinrich Heine research, national stereotype research in a European comparison and letter and love letter research ( love letter culture from the late 17th century to the present day of e-mail communication ) oriented towards cultural history and comparativeism . Stauf is also involved in setting up an international research group on aesthetics, emotion and gender in modern times.

Publications

Monographs

  • Justus Möser's concept of a German national identity. With an outlook on Goethe , Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1991.
  • The problematic European. Heinrich Heine in the conflict between national criticism and social utopia , Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 1997.
  • Heinrich Heine. Poems and prose , Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2010.
  • Poetic contemporaneity. Heine studies , Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2015.

Editing

  • Cultural configurations. Conrad Wiedemann on his 65th birthday. Together with Cord-Friedrich Berghahn. Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2002.
  • World literature. A Brunswick Lecture I . Together with Cord-Friedrich Berghahn. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2004.
  • Aspects of Romanticism in Europe. A German-Italian symposium. Together with Cord-Friedrich Berghahn. Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2005.
  • Conrad Wiedemann: Crossing borders. Studies in European literature and culture. Together with Cord-Friedrich Berghahn. Winter-Verlag, Heidelberg 2005.
  • World literature II. A Braunschweig lecture. Together with Cord-Friedrich Berghahn. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2005.
  • Johann Gottfried Herder: European cultural theory between historical individuality and global perspective. Together with Cord-Friedrich Berghahn. Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2007.
  • Building blocks of modernity. A research. Together with Cord-Friedrich Berghahn. Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2007.
  • The love letter. Written Culture and Media Change from the 18th Century to the Present. Together with Annette Simonis and Jörg Paulus. Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin 2008.
  • Controversial postmodernism. Readings. Together with Andrea Hübener and Jörg Paulus. Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2010.
  • Writing pleasure. The love letter in the 18th and 19th centuries. Together with Jörg Paulus, De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin 2013.
  • Interactions. The challenge of the arts through the sciences. Together with Cord-Friedrich Berghahn, Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Braunschweig Scientific Society
  2. ^ Lessing Academy Wolfenbüttel
  3. ^ Jury for the award of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize
personal data
SURNAME Stauf, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1949