Trude Ehlert

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Trude Ehlert (* 1946) is a German German studies scholar and professor emeritus at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . The focus of her research activities with regard to the German literature of the Middle Ages are literature sociological , cultural and mentality-historical issues and questions of gender -construction; Mainly treated genres: Minnesang , Alexanderepik , specialist literature (here especially editions and studies of high and late medieval handwritten cookbooks ).

Life

Ehlert studied German, Romance studies and comparative literature in Hamburg, Freiburg, Grenoble and Bonn and received her doctorate in German studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1976 (she received a university award for her dissertation). From 1973 to 1985 she was a research assistant at the University of Bonn. In 1984 she completed her habilitation in the subject of older German literature and language at the University of Bonn. In 1984/85 she was a professor at the University of Mannheim . In 1985 she was appointed professor at the University of Bonn, and in 1990 she was appointed adjunct professor there. In 1991 she was visiting professor of the DAAD at the University of Leipzig . From 1991 to 1994 she was a professor at the University of Karlsruhe . From 1994 to 2009 she worked as a professor for Germanic Philology, in particular the history of literature in the early and high Middle Ages at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg; she has been retired since April 1, 2009. From 2000 to 2007 she was the dean of the Philosophical Faculty II at the University of Würzburg, and from 2001 to 2003 she was also the faculty's women's representative. She was a founding member of the Medievalist Association , on whose scientific advisory board she was active from 1989 to 1999. With her editions of high and late medieval cooking recipe literature, she attracted new attention to this area of ​​specialist literature.

Publications (selection)

  • Convention - Variation - Innovation. A structural comparison of songs from “Des Minnesangs Frühling” and from Walther von der Vogelweide. Berlin (Erich Schmidt Verlag) 1980 (= Philological Studies and Sources 99).
  • The woman as medicine. In: Journal for German Philology, Volume 105, 1986, pp. 42–62.
  • German-language Alexander poetry of the Middle Ages. On the relationship between literature and history. Bern, Frankfurt / M. (Peter Lang Verlag) 1989 (= European university publications. Series I, German language and literature, vol. 1174).
  • The cookbook of the Middle Ages. Recipes from old times, introduced, explained and tried out by Trude Ehlert. Artemis-Verlag, Zurich / Munich 1990. 2nd edition 1990. 3rd edition 1991. 4th edition 1995. 5th edition Albatros-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2000. 6th edition, Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-411 -14563-8 ; Italian translation: Cucina medioevale. Trans. V. Giorgio V. Franco u. Floriana J. Scalvini. Milan (Guido Tommasi Editore) 2003.
  • Knowledge transfer in German-language specialist literature from the Middle Ages - or: How did dietetics get into cookbooks? In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 8, 1990, pp. 137-159.
  • On the change in the function of the cookbook genre in Germany. In: A. Werlacher (Hrsg.): Kulturthema Essen. Views and problem areas. Berlin 1993 (= Kulturthema Essen. Volume 1), pp. 319–341.
  • Master Hanns, the von Wirtenberg cook. (Facsimile of the manuscript ANV 12 of the University Library of Basel). Transcription, translation, glossary and cultural-historical commentary by Trude Ehlert. Donauwörth 1996.
  • The legend of St. Hedwig. According to the Wroclaw Codex cod. IV F 192 of the University Library of Wrocaw / Breslau. Editing and German translation by Trude Ehlert. Scientific collaboration Wojciech Mrozowicz. Polish translation Jerzy Łukosz. Wroclaw 2000.
  • Chef de cuisine. Edition, translation and commentary of two cookbook manuscripts from the 15th century (Solothurn S 490 and Cologne Historical Archive GB 4º 27). With a reprographic reprint of the Cologne manuscript. Frankfurt a. M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna 2010 (= Culture - Science - Literature, Contributions to Medieval Research, edited by Thomas Bein, Vol. 21).
  • as an editor and with contributions in: Households and Families in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times (lectures at an interdisciplinary symposium from June 6th to 9th, 1990 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn). Sigmaringen 1991.

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SURNAME Ehlert, Trude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1946