Research team
Expertise
My expertise lies in the research areas of Modern German Literature and Jewish Studies. I research literary and aesthetic constellations in the period from the Enlightenment to the present day. In my dissertation, I analyzed discourses of remembrance of the Shoah in literature and audiovisual media. I dedicated my habilitation to the significance of friendship for German-language literary history. Accordingly, my methodological expertise lies in the areas of discourse analysis and the study of literature in relation to cultural as well as to sociological contexts. My research also focuses on German-Jewish literary history, the relationship between literature and migration, intersectionality and gender research. Authors that I have worked on intensely include G. E. Lessing, M. Mendelssohn, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Clemens Brentano, Heinrich Heine, Fanny Lewald, Therese von Bacheracht, Louise Aston, Berthold Auerbach, Gustav Freytag, Karl Wolfskehl, Stefan George, Walter Benjamin, Gertrud Kolmar, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Alfred Andersch, Hannah Arendt, Jean Améry, Imre Kertész, Primo Levi, Ruth Klüger, Robert Schindel, Doron Rabinovici, Esther Dischereit, Katja Petrowska, Olga Grjasnowa and Sasha Marianna Salzmann.