Ulrike Sprenger (Romance Studies)

Ulrike Sprenger (* 1965 ) is a German Romanist .

Life

From 1985 to 1990 she studied Romance languages, German and English at the LMU Munich and the University of Bologna , receiving a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . After completing the first state examination in December 1990 in German and French at the LMU Munich , she was a research assistant from 1991 to 2002 , later an assistant at the Institute for French Literature at the LMU Munich. Since 1994 she has been an author and interview partner for Alexander Kluge's TV culture magazine on literary and socio-political topics. After receiving his doctorate in February 1995 as Dr. phil. at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with the dissertation “Voice and Writing. Staged orality in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu ”, the doctoral thesis was awarded the Max Weber Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in December 1997. After completing her habilitation thesis on the subject of standing and walking - on processional culture and the formation of legends in Seville des Siglo de Oro in August 2004 , she accepted the chair for Romance literatures and general literary studies at the University of Konstanz in October 2005 .

Her research interests are narrative theory and narrative methods in French narrative literature of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, Spanish literature of the siglo de oro, religious literature and popular religious culture in Romania, and urban history in early modern Spain.

Fonts (selection)

• Voice and writing. Staged orality in Proust's 'À la recherche du temps perdu' . Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-8233-4787-X .
• Proust ABC . Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-379-01601-2 .
• Standing and walking. Processional culture and narrative performance in the Seville des Siglo de Oro ' . Constance 2013, ISBN 978-3-86253-037-3 .
• as editor with Barbara Vinken : Marcel Proust and the women . Berlin 2019, ISBN 3-458-17799-X .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Ulrike Sprenger