Ruth Florack
Ruth Florack (* 1960 ) is a German literary scholar and university professor .
Live and act
Ruth Florack studied German , Romance languages and education at the Universities of Münster and Toulouse . She then taught German as a foreign language in France from 1987 to 1988 in Arcachon and from 1989 to 1993 as a DAAD lecturer at the University of Rouen, German language , literature and cultural studies .
In 1994 she was at the University of Stuttgart with a thesis drama Lulu by Frank Wedekind to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1995 to 1998 she was a research assistant for the project “The foreign and the own. Problems and possibilities of intercultural understanding ”of the Volkswagen Foundation . The research results formed the basis for her later habilitation .
From 1998 to 2004 she was a research assistant to Horst Thomé at the Institute for Literary Studies at the University of Stuttgart . Her research work was funded from 1998 to 2001 by the Margarete von Wrangell habilitation program of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art of the State of Baden-Württemberg . In 2004 she qualified as a professor in Modern German Literature and Comparative Literature . In 2005 she was appointed professor for German Philology and Modern German Literature at the University of Göttingen . She was visiting professor at the Universities of Nanjing , Paris , Geneva and Tartu .
From 2008 she was Vice Dean of the University of Göttingen and then until 2010 Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. From 2011 to 2012 she was an Associate Fellow at the Lichtenberg College of the University of Göttingen. In 2013 she was elected by the Senate for two years as part-time Vice President of the University of Göttingen for teaching and studies. From 2017 to 2019 she was a voting member of the Senate.
Her main research interests are the literature of the 18th century, literary stereotype research , cultural transfer between France and Germany, gallant literature and gallant poetry , the sexual discourse in literature around 1900 and literature and the Holocaust . A special focus of her work is Frank Wedekind .
Awards
- 1998: Robert Minder Prize of the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation, Basel, for her work in the field of Franco-German imagology , awarded by the International Board of Trustees of the Jacob Burckhardt Prize
Fonts
- Wedekind's "Lulu". Caricature of sensuality. Dissertation. University of Stuttgart 1994. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 978-3-484-32076-5 .
- Profound Germans, frivolous French. National stereotypes in German and French literature. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2001, ISBN 978-3-476-01855-7 .
- Known strangers. On the origin and function of national stereotypes in literature. Habilitation thesis. University of Stuttgart 2004. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-484-35114-1 .
- Frank Wedekind: Spring Awakening. Reclam interpretations. Reclam, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-950029-4 .
Editing
- Frank Wedekind. Collection of articles. Edition Text and Criticism, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-88377-539-5 .
- Nation as a stereotype. Foreign perception and identity in German and French literature. Conference brochure. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 978-3-484-35076-2 .
- with Rüdiger Singer: The art of gallantry. Facets of a behavioral model in early modern literature. Conference brochure. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027879-8 .
- with Wolfgang Adam, Jean Mondot: Gallotropism - components of a civilization model and the forms of articulation / Gallotropisme - les composantes d'un modèle civilizationnel et les formes de ses manifestations. Conference brochure. Winter, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8253-6573-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ruth Florack in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Ruth Florack in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Ruth Florack on the website of the University of Göttingen (with picture)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Ruth Florack at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nina Birkner: Typically French !? Typical German!? on literaturkritik.de
- ^ Thomas Richter: Senate of the University of Göttingen elects new Vice President. Press release from July 4, 2013 on the website of the University of Göttingen.
- ↑ Author entry in Leslie Brückner, Christopher Meid, Christine Rühling (ed.): Literary trips to Germany after 1989. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-034695-4 , p. 257 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
- ↑ Awards, honors in the Stuttgart unikurier No. 80, November 1998
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Florack, Ruth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |