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Philosophische FakultätInstitut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur I

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1951
Born in Frankfurt/M. 

1977-1978     
Research Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Bayreuth

1979-1983
Research Assistant, Department of German, University of Erlangen

1983
PhD on ‘Melancholy and the Theory of the Novel’ (summa cum laude), University of Erlangen

1984-1990
Assistant Professor, Department of German, University of Erlangen

1990
Habilitation (post-doctoral thesis) on ‘Theories of Inspiration’, University of Erlangen

1990-1992
Associate Professor (C 2), Department of German, University of Erlangen

1992-1995
Full Professor (C 3), Department of German, University of Kassel

1994-1995
Director Center for Advanced Studies: Cultural Analysis, Media Studies, Psychoanalysis (Wissenschaftszentrum II), University of Kassel

1999-2004
Head DFG-Projects ‘Archeology of Media Theory’ and ‘Loudspeakers: Discourses and Practices of Media 1933-1945’ at SFB/FK 204 ‘Media  and Cultural Communication’

2011
Head of the Organization Committee of the National Kleist-Bicentenary  2011 and Curator of the Memorial Exhibition for Kleist in Berlin

Since 1995
Full Professor (C 4), Department of German, University of Cologne

Since 1996
President of the International Heinrich-von-Kleist-Society and Speaker of the Kleist-Prize, one of Germany’s most prominent awards for fiction

Since 1996
Co-Editor Kölner Germanistische Studien (Germanic Studies Cologne)

Since 1998
Principal Editor International Kleist-Yearbook

Since 2010
Member of the German-Chinese-Research-Cooperation ‘Literaturstraße’

Since 2009
Director of the Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Center for Advanced   Study in the Humanities (founded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research), University of Cologne; Co-Editor Morphomata Studies; Co-Organizer Poetica (Cologne Festival of World Literature)

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