Cornelia Ilbrig is a researcher at the Goethe Dictionary of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. She studied German, Philosophy and Psychology at the Universities of Leipzig and Zurich and received her PhD from the University of Paderborn in 2006 with a study of literarized scepticism in Johann Karl Wezel. Since then she has contributed to numerous editions and exhibitions. Her research interests include
  • Late Enlightenment literature
  • media and cultural studies perspectives on early Romanticism
  • Forms of nationalism and colonialism in the Middle and Late Romantic periods
  • Literary and journalistic scandals between 1789 and 1848, the rhetoric of scandal
  • Heinrich Heine as an ambivalent Romantic
  • Genre innovations by women authors: Karoline von Günderrode, Rahel Levin-Varnhagen, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Gisela von Arnim-Grimm
  • Else Lasker-Schüler's poetic writings on flight, persecution and war
  • Language change in times of crisis
  • The no longer fine arts: satire, caricature and the grotesque
  • Literary exhibitions: Diversity and participation in the literary museum, sociomuseology
  • Dictionaries

Ukrainian literature and culture in German-speaking countries

An interview with Maria Ivanytska and Claudia Dathe
Very few people in Germany know about Ukrainian literature and culture. In this discussion, Maria Ivanytska, Professor at the Chair of Germanic Philology and Translation at Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, now MSCA4Ukraine fellow at the University of Tübingen, and Claudia Dathe, one of...
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The narrative of our changing times

A critical analysis of its implications, challenges, and opportunities
In his parliamentary address of February 27, 2022, Chancellor Scholz developed the narrative of a historical turning point. This article explores what potential this narrative could unfold if it is taken seriously and kept up to date in terms of its semantic content and its historical roots.
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