Susanne Zantop

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Susanne Zantop , b. Korsukéwitz (born August 12, 1945 in Bad Kissingen ; † January 27, 2001 in Etna near Hanover (New Hampshire) ) was a German-American political scientist and German scholar.

Life

Susanne Zantop was the daughter of a brickworks entrepreneur and studied political science at the Free University of Berlin and at Stanford University , where she obtained her Master of Arts in 1968 . In Stanford she met the geologist Half Zantop know, traveled with him to Argentina in 1969 and married him in 1970. The couple had two daughters.

From 1969 to 1975 they lived in various countries in South America, Africa and Spain, where Half Zantop worked as a geologist for various mining companies. In 1975 Half Zantop came with his family to study at Heidelberg University for a year . After her husband was subsequently appointed professor at Dartmouth College , Susanne Zantop began studying comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts , which she continued after completing her master's degree at Harvard University and graduating in 1984 with a doctorate.

She has been teaching at Dartmouth College since 1982 and became a professor of German and Comparative Literature in 1996. At the same time, she was also a visiting professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela . Her research focused on Heinrich Heine and his reception, gender issues and cultural studies issues. In 1998 she received the Award for Outstanding Book in German Studies for her study Colonial fantasies . She was the editor of the Women in German Yearbook . In 1999 Susanne Zantop was together with Colin Calloway and Gerd Gemünden the organizer of the scientific conference Germans and Indians – Indians and Germans .

On January 27, 2001, the Zantop couple were attacked and murdered in their home in Etna by two young people with robbery intent. The case caused quite a stir. On the campus of Dartmouth College, the Zantop Garden in front of Richardson Hall has been a reminder of the two university teachers since 2009.

Outside Dartmouth College, Susanne Zantop was a member of Amnesty International .

Fonts

  • History and literature with Heinrich Heine and Mariano José de Larra , Bouvier, Bonn 1988 (= dissertation Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1984)
  • Paintings on the move - Heinrich Heine and the visual arts , University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln u. a. 1989
  • Epilogue . In: Friederike Helene Unger : Confessions of a beautiful soul . Reprint. Olms, Hildesheim [u. a.] 1991, pp. 385-416.
  • Colonial fantasies in pre-colonial Germany (1770–1870) , Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 1999 (= Colonial fantasies - conquest, family, and nation in precolonial Germany (1770–1870) , Duke University Press, Durham [among others] 1997)
  • with Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox: The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy. University of Michigan Press 1998 ISBN 9780472066827
  • with Gerd Gemünden, Colin G. Calloway (eds.): Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE 2002, ISBN 978-0803264205

literature

  • Sara Lennox, Robert Holub, Martha Wallach and Gisela Brinker-Gabler : In Memoriam: Susanne Zantop 1945-2001. In: The German Quarterly 74 (2001), pp. 197-200, JSTOR 3072845
  • Angela Rosenthal, Adrian WB Randolph: Susanne Zantop (1945–2001), in memoriam in Eighteenth-Century Studies , Volume 34, Issue 3 (2001), pp. V ff. (Digitized version)
  • Reid Coggins: The Zantop memorial scrapbook: presented to the family by the students and student assembly of Dartmouth College , Dartmouth College Student Assembly, [2001]
  • Dick Lehr, Mitchell Zuckoff: Judgment Ridge: The True Story behind the Dartmouth Murders. HarperCollins, New York 2003 ISBN 0-06-000844-X .
  • Eric Francis: The Dartmouth Murders. St. Martin's True Crime, New York 2005 ISBN 0-312-98231-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Steinecke : Obituary for Susanne Zantop. In: Renate Schlesier ; Ulrike Zellmann (Ed.): Traveling across borders: contact and confrontation. Masquerade and mimicry. Edited on behalf of the DFG Graduate School on Travel Literature and Cultural Anthropology (University of Paderborn), Münster; New York; Munich; Berlin: Waxmann 2003 ISBN 3-8309-1314-1 , pp. 179f.
  2. ↑ See: en: 2001 Dartmouth College murders
  3. ↑ Doppelmord: A University in Shock , Der Tagesspiegel of January 30, 2001 ; FBI takes part in an investigation in: Main-Post from February 8, 2001
  4. ↑ Avril Maddrell, James D. Sidaway: Deathscapes: Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance , Ashgate Publishing, 2012, p. 190
personal data
SURNAME Zantop, Susanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Korsukéwitz, Susanne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American political scientist and German studies specialist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kissingen
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2001
Place of death Etna near Hanover, New Hampshire