Silke Horstkotte

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Silke Horstkotte (* 1972 in Hamburg ) is a German literary scholar and Germanist .

Life

Horstkotte studied German, English and musicology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , the University of Leipzig and at Trinity College Dublin . In 2002 she received her doctorate from the University of Leipzig with a thesis on androgyny in the work of Clemens Brentano . After a one-year research stay at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis ( Universiteit van Amsterdam ), she led the project Historical Forms of Perception in Image and Text at the University of Leipzig from 2004 to 2007 together with Karin Leonhard . In 2008 she completed her habilitation with the thesis Afterimages: Photography and Memory in Contemporary German Literature .

In 2009 Horstkotte worked as a Diefenbaker Prize winner together with Nancy Pedri, professor at the English Department, on a narrative-theoretical research project on the concept of focus under the title "Visual Narratology and Focalization" at the Memorial University of Newfoundland . a. at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and the University of Cologne . From 2016 to 2018 she was a Marie-Curie-Sklodowska Research Fellow at the University of Warwick ; since 2018 she has been teaching at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Leipzig.

Horstkotte is married to Olaf Jürgen Schmidt .

research

Horstkotte's research focuses on contemporary German-language literature and, in particular, on the interdisciplinary fields of literature and religion as well as literature and media . Further research focuses: photo-text intermediality , literary visuality , narratology , comic research .

Two current research projects deal with focussing in comics and graphic novels as well as with post-secular poetics in contemporary literature.

Awards

For her work on comic narratology with Nancy Pedri , Horstkotte received the John G. Diefenbaker Award in 2009. Her research was funded by the German Academic Exchange Service , the Volkswagen Foundation , the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the EU .

Publications

  • With Leonhard Herrmann: Contemporary literature: An introduction. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2016.
  • Afterimages: Photography and Memory in Contemporary German Literature . Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau, 2009.
  • Androgynous Authorship: Poetry and Gender in Clemens Brentanos' prose work . Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2004. (also dissertation University of Leipzig 2002)
As editor and author
  • with Karin Leonhard: Reading is like seeing: Intermedial quotations in images and text. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau 2006
  • with Nancy Pedri: Photography in Fiction . Special issue Poetics Today , March 2008. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2007-015
  • with Leonhard Herrmann: Poetics of the Present: German-Language Novels after 2000 . Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ idw-online.de
  2. ↑ warwick.ac.uk
  3. ↑ Olaf Jürgen Schmidt: "Callots fantastically caricatured sheets", Intermedial staging and romantic art theory in the work of ETA Hoffmann, Erich Schmidt Verlag , 2003, ISBN 978-3-503-06182-2 , thanks, p. 5 [1]
personal data
SURNAME Horstkotte, Silke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg