Sandra Richter

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Sandra Richter , b. Pott (born September 18, 1973 in Kassel ) is a German German philologist and literary scholar . She has headed the German Literature Archive Marbach (DLA) since 2019 .

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Sandra Richter grew up in a family of craftsmen in a village near Kassel. She finished her studies in political science, German, philosophy and art history at the University of Hamburg with a diploma in political science and German in 1997. In December 1998 she completed her doctorate with a thesis on the moral doctrine of the Huguenots and German literature from Jean Barbeyrac to Christoph Martin Wieland at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen , where she also worked from 1997 to 1999 at a graduate school of the German Research Foundation for Classicism and Romanticism in Europe Context and worked from 1998 to 2001 in the DFG project Secularization of Science (s): Conditions, Patterns of Argumentation and Typed Phases of Scientific Secularization . Until 2003 she was Visiting Fellow at the University of London and Professor Invité at the Center national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. Sandra Richter completed her habilitation in July 2003 with a thesis in the field of language, literature and media studies with the title Poetiken. Poetological lyricism, poetics and aesthetics from Novalis to Rilke.

From 2003 to 2008 she led a junior research group on poetological reflection in Hamburg . Historical investigations with a systematic intention: Poetics and poetological lyric in the context of aesthetic theory as part of the Emmy Noether Program of the DFG, which she transferred to King's College London with her appointment as Reader of German , where she finally became Professor of German with a focus on Comparative Literature and Intellectual History.

After rejecting an offer as W3 professor for Modern German Literature / General and Comparative Literature at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in June 2007 , Sandra Richter took over a professorship at the University of Stuttgart in autumn 2008 and has been her successor there ever since of Heinz Schlaffer the department of Modern German literature I.

Her research focus is on German literature from 1650 to the present day. She is interested in literary theory, the connection between the history of ideas and literature, the relationship between internationalization and nationalization or globalization and regionalization in literature, the relationship between literary studies and linguistics, and the concepts of humanities and cultural studies.

From 2001 to 2007, Sandra Richter was an external expert in the DFG Research Group on Narratology at the University of Hamburg. From 2006 to 2008 she was a member of the Program Committee of the Euroscience Open Forum 2008 and in 2006 she was also a member of Think Tank 30 of the Club of Rome. She is currently a member of the expert committee of the Bavarian Elite Network, of the Baroque Working Group of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, of the Research Center for Historical Epistemology and Hermeneutics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, of the Working Group for the History of German Studies in the German Literature Archive in Marbach , and an associated member of the Think Tank 30 of the Club of Rome. For a while she was a member of the German Research Council. She has been a member of the Council for Information Infrastructures since November 2018 .

After the approval of the Board of Trustees of the German Literature Archive on October 12, 2017, Richter took over the position of Director of the Literature Archive on January 1, 2019 after Ulrich Raulff left.

Richter is married and has two daughters.

Awards

Sandra Richter received the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Foundation and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research in 2005 . In 2007 she received the Philip Leverhulme Prize from the Leverhulme Trust and a return award from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation .

Monographs

  • Reformed moral teachings and German literature from Jean Barbeyrac to Christoph Martin Wieland . Tübingen: Niemeyer 2002 (Early Modern Age 75) at the same time dissertation at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. ISBN 978-3-484-36575-9 .
  • Secularization in the sciences since the early modern period. Vol. 1: Medicine, medical ethics and beautiful literature. Studies on secularization processes from the early 17th to the early 19th century. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2002. ISBN 978-3-11-017266-9 .
  • Poetics. Poetological lyricism, poetics and aesthetics from Novalis to Rilke . Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2004 also habilitation thesis at the University of Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-11-017760-2 .
  • Praise to optimism. History of an art of living . Munich: CH Beck (BsR), 2009. ISBN 978-3-406-59114-3 .
  • A History of Poetics. German Aesthetics and Poetics in European Context , 1800–1960. With Bibliographies by Anja Hill-Zenk, Jasmin Azazmah, Eva Jost and Sandra Richter, manuscript, 265 p. + 150 p. Bibliography. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, February 2010.
  • A world history of German-language literature . Munich: C. Bertelsmann, 2017. ISBN 978-3-570-10151-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Literature Archive Marbach, press release 56/2017 of October 12, 2017: Sandra Richter new director in Marbach , accessed on October 12, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Sandra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pott, Sandra (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 18th September 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel