Stefanie von Schnurbein
Stefanie von Schnurbein (born June 24, 1961 in Augsburg ; full name Stefanie Anna Hildegard Freiin von Schnurbein ) is a German literary scholar with a focus on Scandinavia and New Germanic paganism . Since 2000 she has been Professor of Modern Scandinavian Literatures at the Northern Europe Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin .
life and work
Schnurbein completed a traineeship at Augsburger Allgemeine from 1981 to 1983, after which she studied Nordic philology , economic and social history and modern German literature from 1984 to 1989 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Here she obtained the Magister Artium . In 1992 she was given a dissertation on religion as a cultural critic. New Germanic paganism in the 20th century at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From 1991 to 1995 she worked in the Scandinavian Studies department at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . With a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation , she completed her habilitation in 1999 on the topic of crises in masculinity. Writing and gender discourse in Scandinavian first-person novels since the turn of the century at the Scandinavian Seminar in Göttingen. This was followed by a guest stay as Associate Professor for Norwegian Studies at the University of Chicago . In 2000, she took the call on to the Northern European Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Publications (selection)
- Religion as a criticism of culture. New Germanic paganism in the 20th century , Heidelberg 1992
- Divine comfort in times of change. New Germanic paganism between New Age and right-wing radicalism , Munich 1993
- Crises of masculinity. Writing and gender discourse in Scandinavian novels since 1890 , Göttingen 2001
- Norse Revival. Transformations of Germanic Neopaganism , Leiden 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 2002, p. 15 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefanie von Schnurbein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Profile at the Humboldt University of Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schnurbein, Stefanie von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |