Thomas Mohnike

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Thomas Mohnike (2019)

Thomas Mohnike (born August 9, 1974 in East Berlin ) is a literary and cultural scientist and professor of Scandinavian studies at the Université de Strasbourg .

Life

Mohnike grew up in Magdeburg and graduated from high school there. Since 1993 he has studied art history , German , Scandinavian and cultural studies in Charleston (South Carolina) , Kiel , Uppsala and Berlin . In 2001 he completed his master's degree at the Northern Europe Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin . The topic of his master’s thesis was “Empty spaces of baroque representation. The paratext in the editions of Georg Stiernhielms Hercules and its influence on the interpretation ”. In 2006 Mohnike received her doctorate from the University of Freiburg. His dissertation deals with “Imagined Geographies. The Swedish travelogue of the 1980s and 1990s and the end of the cold war. ”In 2015 he completed his habilitation with a paper (in French) on“ Identités narratives & géographies d'appartenance. Eléments pour une théorie des formes narratives de savoir social en circulation culturelle ”(unpublished).

Research and Teaching

Mohnike worked as a research assistant at the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (2001–2007) and the Etudes scandinaves department at the University of Strasbourg (2007–2008). As a guest researcher he stayed at the Universities of Copenhagen (2004) and Gothenburg (2013) and the Center Marc Bloch in Berlin (2016–2017).

Mohnike took over the management of the Scandinavian Studies department at the University of Strasbourg in 2008, and was appointed professor there in 2017. His main areas of work within Scandinavian literary and cultural studies are the research history of his own subject, Scandinavian identity history and imagined geography. He has also researched contemporary Swedish and baroque literature .

He is co-editor (together with Thomas Beaufils) of the magazine Deshima: Revue d'histoire global des Pays du Nord (since 2009), the series Globalizing Fiction (together with Charlotte Krauss and Urs Urban) at Lit Verlag (since 2012) and ( together with Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur) of the Samica series at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (since 2014). Mohnike has been the founding president of the Association pour les études nordiques , the French professional association for Northern European studies, since 2013 .

In addition to his teaching and theoretical research, Mohnike works as a translator from Swedish and writes popular science articles for blogs and magazines. Together with Heide Henschel, he published a children's book on Kookbooks in 2004. And he is the author of a patient brochure for Ullrich-Turner syndrome .

Publications (selection)

science

Monographs
  • 2007 Imagined Geographies. The Swedish-language travelogue of the 1980s and 1990s and the end of the Cold War. Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag (dissertation)
Editions
  • 2007 Fascination of the illegitimate: Alterity in the constructions of genealogy, origins and originality in Scandinavian literatures since 1800. Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag (with Constanze Gestrich)
  • 2011 In Search of the Lost Epic: A Popular Genre of 19th Century European Literature. Münster: Lit Verlag (with Charlotte Krauss)
  • 2017 Geographies of Knowledge and Imagination in 19th Century Philological Research on Northern Europe. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (with Joachim Grage )
items
  • 2006 Double strangeness: On the entanglement and constitution of poetic and cultural alterity in Alejandro Leiva Wenger's “Till vår ära” and its reception , in: Sven Hakon Rossel (ed.): The North Abroad - The Abroad in the North: Forming and Transformation of Concepts and images of the other from the Middle Ages to today. Vienna: Praesens Verlag , pp. 150–158
  • 2006 “Education and the constitution of alterity in the latest Swedish migrant literature”, in: Behschnitt, Wolfgang; Barz, Christiane (ed.) Education and others: Alterity in educational courses in Scandinavian literatures. Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag , pp. 201–229 (with Wolfgang Behschnitt)
  • 2010 Grands courants, grands hommes, grands récits: Structures de la geographie des nations dans l'œuvre de Georg Brandes , in: Annie Bourguignon, Konrad Harrer, Jørgen Stender Claussen (eds.) Grands courants d'échanges intellectuels: Georg Brandes et la France, l'Allemagne et l'Angleterre. Bern: Peter Lang , 2010, pp. 37–50
  • 2010 Science anchored in space? Aspects of a history of the “Department of German Studies and Scandinavian Studies” at the University of Strasbourg , in: NORDEUROPAforum 1–2 / 2010, pp. 63–86
  • 2012 Géographies du savoir historique: Paul-Henri Mallet entre rêves gothiques, germaniques et celtiques , in: Eric Schnakenbourg (ed.) Figures du Nord: Scandinavie, Groenland et Sibérie: Perceptions et représentations des espaces septentrionaux du Moyen Age au XVIIIe siècle. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 215–226
  • 2013 Frédéric-Guillaume / Friedrich-Wilhelm Bergmann and the birth of Scandinavian studies in France from the spirit of comparative philology , in: Karin Hoff , Udo Schönling, Per Øhrgaard (eds.) Cultural triangular relationships: Aspects of cultural mediation between France, Germany and Denmark in the first half of the 19th century. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann , pp. 277–297

Children's book

Web links

Commons : Thomas Mohnike  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Mohnike, Professeur d'Études scandinaves , accessed on June 12, 2020
  2. ↑ Deshima. Revue d'histoire global des Pays du Nord , accessed on June 12, 2020
  3. ↑ Globalizing Fiction. Transdisciplinary perspectives on arts & letters as objects of cultural practice , accessed on June 12, 2020
  4. ↑ Samica, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , accessed on June 12, 2020
  5. ^ Association pour les Etudes Nordiques , accessed June 12, 2020
  6. ↑ See Thomas Mohnike's page in the French directory of Germanists , accessed on June 12, 2020
  7. ↑ A Life with Ullrich Turner Syndrome , accessed June 12, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Mohnike, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Scandinavian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin