Susanne Kramarz-Bein

Susanne Kramarz-Bein (born Susanne Kramarz on February 4, 1959 in Siegen ) is a German Scandinavian scholar and university professor.

Career and activity

From 1978 to 1985 she studied Catholic theology , German and Scandinavian studies at the Universities of Bonn , Bergen and Oslo as a scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . In 1990 she submitted her dissertation at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn under the supervision of Heiko Uecker . 1997 followed the habilitation at Heinrich Beck's chair , also in Bonn . In the same year she accepted a position at the Ruhr University in Bochum , but the following year she switched to the Institute for Nordic Philology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , of which she is now the managing director. In 2006 she was made a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences . It is as a peer among others, the DAAD , the studienstiftung worked as well as several professional journals and acts on DFG - Collaborative Research Center 496 as a supervisor and consultant. She is co-editor of the series "Scandinavian Studies. Language - Literature - Culture".

Focus of work

Kramarz-Bein researches and teaches both in the field of modern Scandinavian literary studies and in Scandinavian medieval studies . Her research focuses on the romantic era and the Scandinavian modern breakthrough of the 19th century, as well as continental-Scandinavian literary relationships in the Middle Ages and court literature in the Norwegian Middle Ages. Other focal points are the history of childhood in modern Scandinavian literature, the Old Norse Dietrich- and Arthurian epic as well as research into network phenomena in the literatures of Scandinavia and Europe. Kramarz-Bein is internationally recognized as one of the best connoisseurs of the old Norwegian Þiðreks saga .

Private

She is married to the Aachen German studies specialist Thomas Bein . The couple has a son.

Works (selection)

• Eyolf. Children and children's fates in Henrik Ibsen's work . Frankfurt / Main u. a. 1990 (= texts and studies on German and Scandinavian studies 24).
• The Þiðreks saga in the context of old Norwegian literature . Tübingen, Basel 2002 (= BNP 33).
• (Ed.): Hanseatic literary relations. The example of the Þiðreks saga and related literature . Berlin, New York 1996 (= supplementary volumes to RGA 14).
• (Ed.): New approaches in medieval philology / Nye veier i middelalderfilorien. Files of the Scandinavian workshop in Münster from 24.-26. October 2002 . Frankfurt / Main u. a. 2005 (= texts and studies on German and Scandinavian studies 55).
• (Ed. Together with Karin Hoff et al.): Poetics and Memory. Festschrift for Heiko Uecker on his 65th birthday . Frankfurt / Main u. a. 2004 (= contributions to Scandinavian Studies 17).
• (Ed. Together with Jürg Glauser): Rittersagas. Translation - Tradition - Transmission . Tübingen, Basel 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Susanne Kramarz-Bein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Susanne Kramarz-Bein on the website of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster