Teaching

2020/21

  • Lecture: Law and Literature (together with Thomas Gutmann).
  • [Reduction of teaching workload as dean].

2020

  • Doctoral colloquium in the CRC 1385 'Law and Literature' (together with Thomas Gutmann).
  • [Reduction of teaching workload as dean].

2019/20

  • Introductory Lecture – Literary Studies (together with Bruno Quast).
  • [Reduction of teaching workload as dean].

2019

  • Lecture: What does 'interpret' mean?
  • Seminar: Faust II.
  • [Reduction of teaching workload as dean].

2018/19

  • Lecture: Literature and Secret Knowledge. On the history and function of esoteric communication.
  • MA seminar: Faust.
  • [Reduction of teaching workload as dean].

2018

  • Lecture: On the presentation of war in early modern times and modern times.
  • [Reduction of teaching workload as dean].

2017/18

  • Lecture: Literary journalism from the early modern period to the present.
  • MA seminar: Hamann's 'Aesthetica in nuce'.

2017

  • Lecture: History and theory of the picaresque novel.
  • MA seminar: Rhetoric tradition in East and West (together with Thomas Bauer).
  • MA seminar: Model Research and Literary Studies (together with Matthias Erdbeer).
  • [Reduction of teaching workload as dean].

2016/17

  • [research sabbatical]

2016

  • Lecture: The wild, the strange, the race. On the representation of the primitive in literature.
  • MA seminar: The stranger in the early modern period (together with Bruno Quast).
  • [Reduction of the teaching workload due to the Vice Deanship].

2015/16

  • Lecture: Literature and Opera.
  • MA seminar: Literature and Opera in the 18th Century.
  • MA seminar: Aristotle's Poetics (together with Kurt Bayertz)

2015

  • Lecture: History and theory of the novel.
  • MA seminar: Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz.
  • MA seminar: Heimito von Doderer.

2014/15

  • Lecture: The Enlightenment. Questions and problems of an epoch theory.
  • MA seminar: Robinsonades.

2014

  • Lecture: Literary crime. On the representation of criminality, court practice and penalsystem in the literature.
  • MA seminar: Gottfried Keller's ʻMartin Salanderʼ.
  • MA seminar: Depiction of crime in the 18th century.
  • BA seminar: Poetry analysis - Rainer Maria Rilke.
  •  BA exercise: to this.

2013/14

  • Lecture: Theory and history of rhetoric.
  • MA seminar: Schiller's ʻWallensteinʼ.
  • MA seminar: Gryphius' comedies.
  • BA seminar: Wieland's ʻHistory of the Abderites’.

2013

  • Lecture: The History of the Wonderful.
  • MA seminar: Büchner's ʻWoyzeckʼ.
  • BA seminar: Kleist's stories.
  • BA exercise: to this.
  • Colloquium of the Graduate School 'Practices of Literature' (together with Lars Korten)

2012/13

  • Lecture: Grimmelshausen - life and work.
  • MA seminar: Grimmelshausen's satirical writings.
  • BA seminar: Grimmelshausen's ʻCourascheʼ.
  • BA exercise: to this.

2012

  • Lecture: On the history and theory of autobiography.
  • MA seminar: German autobiographies of the 18th century.
  • MA seminar: Goethe's 'Poetry and Truth'.

2011/12

  • Visiting Lecturer at the University of Washington, Seattle.
  • [Research sabbatical.]

2011

  • Lecture: Lessing in the European context.
  • MA seminar: Lessing's Laocoon.
  • MA seminar: Analysis of drama using the example of Lessing's theatre.

2010/2011

  • Lecture: Theories of Literature.
  • Introductory Lecture – Literary Studies (together with Bruno Quast).
  • OS/MA seminar: Taste (block seminar in Rothenberge).

2010

  • Lecture: Literature and natural sciences in the early modern period.
  • OS/MA Seminar: Power and Aesthetics in the 18th Century.
  • Examination colloquium/reflection on academic practice: methods of literary historiography.
  • Colloquium of the Graduate School 'Practices of Literature' (together with Mark Stein).

2009/2010

  • Lecture: style, style. On the history of style concepts
  • OS: Literariness (block seminar in Rothenberge).
  • HS: Asianism and Atticism, Mannerism and Classicism.

2009

  • Exercise: Forms of sensual storytelling using Sister Monika as an example
  • Lecture: History of erotic literature from the early modern period to the 20th century
  • HS: The poems Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau
  • OS: Literature and Morality

2008/2009

  • Lecture: 1766/1767.
  • OS: Genius and originality.
  • OS: Aesthetics from Baumgarten to Hegel (block seminar in Rothenberge, together with Detlef Kremer).

2008

  • Lecture: Forms and history of the poem (1620-1750).
  • HS: Andreas Gryphius. Poems.
  • Exercise: Poetry analysis.
  • OS: What does 'rhythm of language' mean?.
  • Exam colloquium.

2007/2008

  • Lecture: On the relationship between image and text. History and theory.
  • HS: Metaphor, Symbol, Allegory in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Period (together with Tomas Tomasek).
  • Exercise: Picture stories.
  • OS: Sign Theory.
  • Exam colloquium.

2007

  • Lecture: Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Life and work.
  • HS: Goethes 'Meister' novels.
  • Exercise/HS: Goethe's 'Roman Elegies'.
  • OS: Goethe and the development of the aesthetics of autonomy.

2006/2007

  • Lecture: History of concepts of modernity.
  • Introductory lecture on literature (together with Nine Miedema).
  • HS: Gottsched as a reformer.
  • OS: Dialogicity (together with Moritz Baßler and Edda Weigand).
  • Exercise/HS: Extreme forms of storytelling.

2006

  • [Research sabbatical.]

2005/2006

  • Lecture: Mimesis and Fiction.
  • HS: Narrated crime in the early modern period (together with Hania Siebenpfeiffer).
  • Exercise: classics of structuralism.
  • PS: E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'Tomcat Murr'.

2005

  • Lecture: Cultural theories of the 20th century.
  • Introduction to the analysis and interpretation of literary texts: Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus.
  • HS: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer.
  • HS: The literary reportage.
  • OS: Cultural studies and its methods.

2004/2005

  • Lecture: The theater of the 17th century.
  • Introduction to the study of modern German literature.
  • PS: Schiller's 'The Ghost Seer'.
  • HS: Unflat. On the Function of the Indecent in 16th Century Literature.

2004

  • Lecture: The man of the 17th century. Foundations of modern anthropology.
  • Introduction to the analysis and interpretation of literary texts: The baroque sonnet.
  • PS: Pop lyrics. Basics of Metrics.
  • HS: Theater in the Theater in the Baroque Age.
  • HS: Don Quichotte et le Quichottisme.

2002/2003

  • Lecture: Poetics IV (Weimar classics to post-Hegel aesthetics). OS: Aesthetics of Autonomy.

2002

  • Lecture: Poetics III (Poetics and Aesthetics from Gottsched to Kant).
  • PS II: Karl May's 'Ardistan and Djinnistan'.
  • HS: Novalis.

2001/2002

  • Lecture: Poetics II (Vernacular Poetics up to Bodmer/Breitinger).
  • PS I: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.
  • OS: Language Philosophy in the 18th Century.

2001

  • Lecture: Poetics I (from Aristotle to Scaliger).
  • HS: Author and Author's Rights 1750-1820.

2000

  • Propaedeutic of Modern German Literature; introductory course.
  • PS I: Goethe's 'Hermann and Dorothea'.

1999

  • Propaedeutic of Modern German Literature; introductory course.
  • PS II: Melancholy and Enlightenment.
  • PS I: Introduction to literary studies.

1998

  • Colloquium: Goethe in Rome (together with Wolfgang Proß).
  • PS II: Karl Philipp Moritz and the 'experiential psychology'.
  • Excursion: Goethe in Rome (together with Wolfgang Proß).

1997

  • Colloquium: The problem of mimesis.
  • PS II: Goethe's 'Poetry and Truth'

1996

  • PS I: Unica Zürn.
  • PS II: Johann Fischart.

1995

  • PS I: Gustav Freytag.
  • PS II: Text and music in the early modern period using Heinrich Schütz as an example.

1994

  • PS I: Christian Weise.
  • PS II: Wilhelm Busch.

1993

  • PS I: Heimito von Doderer.
  • PS II: Metrics and Politics in the 17th and 18th Centuries.

1992

  • PS I: Lessing‘s 'Laocoon'.
  • PS II: Influence of the 'Gothic Novel' on the German gothic novel of the early 19th century.

1991

  • PS I: Christoph Martin Wieland.
  • PS II: Daniel Casper von Lohenstein.