Sigrid Weigel#
| Email: | litera 'at' zfl.gwz-berlin.de |
| Membership Number: | 2468 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Username: | sweigel |
Present and Previous Positions
- Director of the Zentrum fiirLiteratur1orschung (Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin)
- Professor at the Literature Department of TU Berlin
- 1992-1998 Professor at German Studies at the University of Zürich
- 1984-1990 Professor at Literary Studies at the University of Hamburg
- 1978-1982- Habilit. at Literary Studies at the University of Hamburg
- 1977- Dr.phil at University of Hamburg
Fields of Scholarship
- Literary Criticism and Cultural History
- Cultural-philological epistemology of Sciences
- German Literatur (18th — 20m century)
- Post-holocaust discourse, Concepts and cultures of memory,Jewish·German Literature
- Philosophy, and Kulturwissenschall (Heine, Warburg, Freud, Benjamin, Scholem, Arendt etc.)
- Dialectics of Secularisation, Cultural History of Martyrdom
- Genealogy and the Cultural History of Lifesciences
- Interdisciplinary history ofthe concept of ‘gerieration’
- Images and Texts in Art and Sciences
Honours and Awards
- Member of Academia Europaea (2007)
- Honorary member ofthe MLA (Modern Languages Ass. USA)
- Reimers Price ofthe Warburg House Hamburg
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