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Julia Blandfort, " Il était une fois les bohémiens... " - Die Narrativik der Roma Frankreichs. Diaspora - Gedächtnis - oraliture (2013); Die Literatur der Roma Frankreichs (Mimesis series, vol. 60). Berlin: De Gruyter publishing house, 2015.
Prix Germaine de Staël of the Franco-Romanist Association and the French Embassy Berlin.

Jonas Hock, "Bekenntnis und Ambiguität - Pierre Klossowski's La vocation suspendue zwischen Renouveau Catholique und Nouveau romance" (2017).
Confession and ambiguity - Pierre Klossowski's early work. Heidelberg, Carl Winter Verlag: 2018.

Dominik Bohmann, Französisches Leben im Lager Regensburg im Licht der Gefangenenzeitung Le Pour et le Contre (1916/17) (2019).

Jana Nürnberger, " Au cœur de l'ephémère " - Ephemerality and performativity in contemporary French-language poetry from Québec: Rosalie Lessard, François Rioux, Maggie Roussel (2020). (external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window)
Prix d'excellence du Gouvernement du Canada 2020.

Regina Schuhbauer, La Résistance muséalisée: The emergence, functions and narratives of French resistance museums (2020).

Katharina Gröber, Femmes d'Alger dans leur Appartement by Assia Djebar: Speaking and Silence. Literary analysis and didactic mediation options for foreign language teaching (2022) (external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window)

Nicole Cucit, "Domando la parola!": la baracca come oggetto e spazio di narrazione nell'internamento di civili italiani e italiane a Katzenau durante la Prima guerra mondiale (1915-1918) (2023)
 

Habilitations and habilitation procedures

Kai Nonnenmacher (University of Regensburg), Objective Religion. Catholicism and Literary Modernism in France and Italy (second opinion), 2012

Magdalena Mancas (University of Passau), Gewalt und Gewaltdarstellung bei Matteo Bandello (Mentorat), 2022

Aurore Peyroles (University of Regensburg), Voyages en banlieue. Représentations romanesques de la banlieue parisienne (1820-1950), 2023

Jonas Hock (University of Regensburg) - ongoing
 

Dissertations

Lisa Finn-Hampel, Strategies of Confrontation: Narrativics and Intellectual Interventions by Luce d'Eramo - Fascist, Anti-Fascist, Feminist (ongoing)

Carina Ehrnsperger, Créer, s'engager, écrire - Resilience functions of the camp newspapers L'Exilé, L'Écho du Camp de Rennbahn, In Ruhleben Camp and The Ruhleben Camp Magazine (1914-1918) (ongoing)
 

Supervised theses

Literature and history: war, civil war, persecution, resistance

Julia Tamara Obermaier, The representation of repression and resilience in the memoirs of the Flossenbürg concentration camp Mission en Thuringe by Paul Beschet and Zebra by Hugo Walleitner, 2022

Sandra Eckert, Structure and Architecture of the Concentration Camp - Parallels and Differences to the Idea and Tradition of the Village (B.A. German-French Studies), 2020

Greta Pralle, Authenticity markers in Hugo Walleitner's witness report zebra on imprisonment in Flossenbürg concentration camp - a symbolic and spatial-analogue investigation (B.A. German-French studies), 2020

Jonathan Zeitler, Narrative instance and moral judgement in Renata Viganò's L'Agnese va a moriré and Italo Calvion's Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (B.A. Italian language and literature), 2020

Carina Ehrnsperger, Motives for the publication of French trench and camp newspapers of the First World War (State Examination), 2020

Lisa-Finn Hampel, An analysis of stereotypical images of Italy in Beppe Severgnini's La testa degli italiani (2005) and Sabine Thiesler's Basta, Amore! (2014) (Master intercultural european studies)

Vanessa Scheid, Room for manoeuvre in concentration camp imprisonment - an investigation based on the reports of Carl Schrade and Louis Pourtrain (B.A., German-French studies), 2019

Marie Sedlmair, Die schwierige Legitimation eines Zeitzeugenberichts: Wissensweitergaben und Vergangenheitsdarstellung in Carl Schrade's Le Vétéran (B.A., German-French Studies), 2019

Melanie Mitlacher, Le Tirailleur. French colonial history and its emotional-cognitive reception using the example of the narrative form comic (State Examination), 2017

Catherine Schilling, "Quelque chose qui restera." The testimony of Shoah survivor Odette Spingarn. Approaches to a landscape of memory (Master East-West Studies), 2017

Nadine Bartos, Resistance in the Concentration Camps: Ombre parmi les ombres by E. Jeannin-Garreau and J'ai sauté du train by Odette Spingarn (State Examination), 2017

Katharina Galic, Sexualised violence and ethnoreligious conflicts in the Omarska camp - Intersectional analyses with consideration of S. de Beauvoir, P. Bourdieu and P. Hill Collins (Master's criminology), 2016

Nina-Marie Schlembach, Identity, Alterity and Exclusion in Giorgio Bassani's Il giardino di Finzi-Contini, Gli occhiali d'oro and "Una lapide in via Mazzini" (State Examination), 2016

Caroline Gabler, Jewish Life and Suffering in Paris and Berlin during the Persecution of the Jews 1933-1945 (State Examination), 2016

Ines Wollenteit, The role of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz in the ethical context of the Shoah: Primo Levi, Filip Müller, Rudolf Höß (M.A. Criminology), 2016

Marie Pflüger, Lettres privées non-censurées d'un prisonnier francais de la première guerre mondiale. Transcription et commentaire de documents inédits des archives de la Stadtbibliothek Amberg (B.A. Deutsch-französische Studien), 2015

Dominik Bohmann, The Carnet trouvé in the prisoners' newspaper Le Pour et le Contre (State Examination), 2015

Christiane Lang, The International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust as a Day of Remembrance and Reparation - a new form of remembrance in Europe? (B.A.), 2014

Sonja Straßer, The idea of pan-Africanism in Tels des astres éteints by Léonora Miano (B.A.), 2014

Catherine Schilling, Erzähltes Lager Flossenbürg: Eine Analyse der Erinnerungstexte von Carl Schrade und Leon Calembert, (B.A. German-French Studies), 2014

Regina Schuhbauer, French clergymen in the Flossenbürg concentration camp system - Paul Beschet's Mission en Thuringe

Paul Beschet's Mission en Thuringe, Raymond Crétin's Carnets de déportation and Louis Poutrain's La déportation au cœur d'une vie in comparison (State Examination), 2013

Juliette Boccoz, L'Espèce humaine de Robert Antelme et Le Vétéran - Onze ans dans les camps de concentration de Carl Schrade (B.A. German-french studies), 2013

Julie Delaporte, Irony as a means of distancing in Le Vétéran - Onze ans dans les camps de concentration (2011) by Carl Schrade (B.A. German-French studies), 2013

Claudia Frank, The " collaboration amoureuse " in Suite française by Irène Némirovsky (State Examination), 2013

Fabian Hirschmann, Audiovisual Representations of the Past: The Nazi era in French documentary film (M.A. Intercultural studies of Europe Clermont-Ferrand), 2013

Michael Poguntke, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Marcel Callo - Commemorating the German and French Christian Resistance in Flossenbürg (B.A. German-French Studies), 2013

Velia Kreienbring, Religion, church and Christian ritual as themes of the French prisoner magazine Le Pour et le Contre (1916-17) (B.A.), 2013

Laura Schertel, Vittore Bocchetta's Quinquennio infame: Remembering the history of the "little cogs" - when memory becomes a duty (State Examination), 2012

Marlene Weiß, The Representation of Hutu and Tutsi in Genocide Literature on Rwanda - The Meaning of Departure, Journey and Return in Tierno Monénembo's L'aîné des orphelins, Véronique Tadjo's L'ombre d'Imana and Koulsy Lamko's La Phalène des collines (State Examination), 2012

Anja Mandl, The processing of the Resistenza in film and literature of Neorealismo (B.A.), 2012

Hartmut Duppel, Französische Gedichte und Textskizzen aus dem Konzentrationslager Buchenwald im Vergleich (State Examination), 2011 (Graduation Prize of the University of Regensburg, awarded by the association ESdUR)
 

Gender Studies

Eleonore Krisa, Legitimacy Construction of Patriarchy in Public Discourse: A Comparison of German and Italian Talk Shows (Master intercultural european studies Ferrara), 2025

Hannah Nickl, Liberté égalité - but please not within the framework of fraternité: Feminism in the Théatre politique on Olympe de Gouges (Z.A.), 2024

Graf, Nele, Medienwissenschaft/Lets talk about Porn: Eine medienwissenschaftliche Untersuchung zur feministischen Pornografie am Beispiel zweier deutschen Filmproduktionen, 2023

Jennifer, Held, Women's images of right-wing parties in France, Germany and Spain: A country-specific classification of the Front National (Rassemblement National), the AfD and the Vox party in the context of historical, cultural and political criteria (Master's, area studies: romance cultures), 2021

Anna-Theresa Wolferstetter, Männlichkeit und Weiblichkeit im Dienst fürs Vaterland - Zu Darstellung und Zweck von Geschlechterbildern in Kinderbüchern des Ersten Weltkriegs am Beispiel von Bécassine pendant la Grande Guerre und Der Kriegs-Struwwelpeter, 2018

Cora Wegemund, Bildung, Körper, Erziehung - feministische Theoriebildung in Frankreich und Deutschland von 1949 bis in die Gegenwart (B.A. DFS), 2017

Janina Sarsky, Sexualised violence in public debates in France and Germany (Master's degree), 2017

Sarah Hackenberg, The Interpretation of the Marquise de Merteuil from an Evolutionary Biology and Evolutionary Psychology Perspective (Z.A.), 2015

Denica Georgieva, The self-image of Madame de Tourvel in her letters in Les Liaisons dangereuses, 2014

Sarah-Elisa Rothermel, Alice Schwarzer and the German women's movement - French-German cultural transfer, ways of further development, critical reception (Master), 2013

Clara Kopfermann, Telling the Silence - Writing the Silence. On the problem of violence and trauma in Assia Djebar (B.A.), 2013

Liljan Halfen, Political Commitment: A Comparison of Simone de Beauvoir and Alice Schwarzer (B.A.), 2012

Justine Bafflemberg, L'image de la mère active en Allemagne et en France (B.A.), 2011

Manuela Dettenkofer, The figure of the femme fatale and Orientalism in Les Diaboliques by Barbey d'Aurevilly (State Examination), 2010

Martina Mauerer, The femme fatale in the interplay of media: "Hauteclaire" from Les diaboliques in literature and comics, 2010
 

French cultural studies, Franco-German relations

Marie Colombier, Antisemitism in "The Gardens of the Finzi-Contini" and "A Memorial Stone in the Via Mazzini" by Giorgio Bassani. An analysis from a criminological perspective (B.A.), 2024

Marina Ramahefarivo, Le cinéma européen au croisement des politiques culturelles et de la construction européenne (Master), 2024

Marie Colomier, La transimission de l'apparenance à l'Union européenne au lycée en Allemagne et en France (B.A.), 2024

Leonie Berger, Intercultural comparison of the French chanson and the German political song with special attention to "Göttingen" by the composer and singer Barbara (B.A.), 2023

Jessica Stanke, Germany as a (re)united nation from the perspective of German and French presidents - political speeches from 1990 and 2015, (B.A.), 2018

Marie-Claire Wunderatsch, Everyday and professional experiences in a Franco-German comparison, (B.A.), 2017

Felicitas Behr, The German and French understanding of integration in the school sector (B.A. DFS), 2017: Everyday and professional experiences in a Franco-German comparison (B.A. DFS), 2017

Martin Kratzel, Trust in Politics Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle and the Franco-German Reconciliation after the Second World War (Z.A.), 2016

Theresa Bleibrunner, Gender and right-wing extremism - A study on the underestimation of female propensity to violence in Germany and France (Master's degree), 2016

Alice Janke, Staging gender roles in relationship shows in Germany and France (Master's degree), 2016

Claire Agathe Duhamel, Veil and burqa in a German-French comparison (B.A.), 2014

Lara Clausing, Innovation against steel, republic against monarchy. Jules Verne and France's self-image as a nation (B.A.), 2014

Alice Bourcigaux, Le développement des structures touristiques écologiques en milieu forestier en Allemagne et en France - La Bavière et la Boulogne en comparaison (B.A.), 2012

Claudia Wagner, How is a bank holiday created? Commemoration days and canonisation as mechanisms of national institutionalisation in the 19th century (Master), 2011

Oliver Berger, The conception of immigration in French political speeches and rap texts (State Examination), 2011

Caroline Roth, The cultural identity of France and its realisation in the European Union (B.A.), 2011

Lisa Hartsch, Migration in French film - the example of Marseille (B.A.), 2011

Margot Koenig, The cultural identity of Lorraine (1871-1940) between France and Germany, 2011

France Le Bozec-Goutard, Germany and France in the Bologna Process (B.A.), 2010

Till Monet, La langue allemande dans les institutions de l'Union Européenne - Importance et caractéristiques féderatrices (B.A.), 2010
 

French literary history

Annabelle Neu, " Et les grands ciels qui font rêver d'éternité " Analysis of temporal structures in Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal in the context of 19th century cultural-historical processes of change (State Examination), 2023

Silvia Prokoph, Chretien's Enide and her initiatory journey (B.A. French), 2017

Mathilde Chanfreau, La place du sujet dans la littérature des camps. Les témoignages de Léon Calembert et d'Odette Spingarn (B.A.), 2015

Doriane Fanio, L'image de Leonardo da Vinci et de la Renaissance dans La demande de Michèle Desbordes, 2013

Manuel Mulzer, The confrontation with religion, church and faith in the poetry of Clément Marot (1496 - 1544) (Master), 2013

Stefan Weber, Pierre de Ronsard's love poem "Plus estroit que la vigne" - interpretation, contextualisation and imitatio of literary models (State Examination), 2012

Manuel Mulzer, The " Dialogue du deuxième degré " in Pelléas et Mélisande (B.A.), 2011

Maria Bürle, Valmont: Winner or loser of his own libertinage? Libertinage in the Enlightenment novel and the paradoxical construct of a libertin in Les Liasions dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos (Z.A.), 2015
 

French-Maghreb literature and culture

Laeticia Sibalo, La représentation des rapports femmes-hommes en poésie autour des années 1970 en Kabylie dans Piège ou Le combat d'une femme algérienne - Essai d'anthropologie de la souffrance de Tassadit Yacine, 2024

Alysse Boisneau, Les Misérables, de Ladj Ly: "démystifier la banlieue, réorienter la discussion sur l'immigration et réhabiliter les minorités dans l'imaginaire.", 2021

Franziska Müller, Les discours argumentatifs dans El Watan et Le Monde concernant le Rapport sur les questions mémorielles portant sur la colonisation et la guerre d'Algérie de Benjamin Sora de janvier 2021, 2021

Sarah Afchar, Albert Memmi dans La Statue de sel et Gisèle Halimi dans Le Lait del'oranger et La Cause des femmes: une comparaison d'écrits autobiographiques (Master Intercultural european studies), 2021

Cheyma Arfaoui, Juifs de Tunisie entre Orient et Occident: Chronique d'une rupture ou la colonisation d'après Albert Memmi (Master intercultural european studies Clermont-Ferrand), 2019

Katharina Gröber, Assia Djebar's Novellas - Literary Analysis and Didactic Perspective (State Examination), 2013

Laura Zapf, The Representation of Algeria in Nedjma by Kateb Yacine (State Examination), 2011

Andrea Schober, Algeria under French Colonial Rule: Representation of Societal Tensions in Kateb Yacine's Nedjma (State Examination), 2011
 

Italian literary history

Jacopo Dentice, L'epilessia come caratteristica sostanziale della Fi-gura di Useppe nel romanzo La Storia (1974) di Elsa Morante (B.A.), 2025

Helga Nusser, The Canto XXVI in Dante's Inferno and its reception in Primo Levi's Se questo è un uomo (B.A.), 2019

Nicole Cucit, The Reception of Italian Literature in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1945 and 1988: The Case of Giorgio Bassani (Master intercultural european studies Ferrara), 2019

Miriam Wulf, The symbolism of the garden in Giorgio Bassani's Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (B.A. German-italian studies), 2019

Nina-Marie Schlembach, Identity, Alterity and Exclusion in Giorgio Bassani's Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Gli occhiali d'oro and "Una lapide in via Mazzini" (Z.A.), 2016

Alexandra Sitzberger, Kleider machen Leute - Du bist, was du isst - Ausdruck von Identität durch Kleidung und Ernährung in Natascha Wodin's Einmal lebt ich and Gabriella Ghermandi's Regina di fiori e di perle (Z.A.), 2016

Silvio Bussolera, Il giallo responsabile - The Italian contemporary crime thriller as a literary representation of grievances in Italian society, 2014

Yasmin Schneider, Pinocchio e il Risorgimento - Uno sguardo oltre il libro per l'infanzia, 2013

Jasmin Hübner, The Sicilian Crime Novel: La forma dell'acqua and Il cane di terracotta by Andrea Camilleri (B.A.), 2012

Veronika Groß, Il Grand Male in La Storia (Magister), 2011

Elisabeth Kreutterer: Accidenti, juter Jott : che di cittá, così, ne hai fatti due - Das geteilte Berlin in der zeitgenössischen italienischen Erzählliteratur (Magister), 2010

Johannes Zenger: The canzone d'autore in the foreign language classroom (State Examination), 2010

Christiane Reitlinger, Pirandello's Sicily: An Analysis of Selected Pirandellian Novellas (State Examination), 2010
 

Cultural studies of violence and conflict research

Aloisia Mohr, Antisemitism in "Die Gärten der Finzi-Contini" and "Ein Gedenkstein in der Via Mazzini" by Giorgio Bassani. An analysis from a criminological perspective (Master Crim.), 2024

Jonathan Zeitler, First-person documents of Italian prisoners in the Flossenbürg concentration camp complex - analysis of letters and reflections on their integration into thematic special exhibitions (Master intercultural european studies Ferrara), 2024

Aloisia Mohr, The Fascist Race Laws in Italy in Narrative Literature by Giorgio Bassani (Master Crim.), 2024

Anna Sperber, 'Professional Criminals' in National Socialist Concentration Camps - The Representations of Camp Imprisonment in Carl Schrade's and Kurt Scharnack's Memoirs (Master Crim.), 2020

Munkhbuyant Tsogt-Erdene, "The victim almost always has a life sentence"?
Analysis of autobiographical writings by victims of sexualised violence against children from Germany and France (Master Crim.), 2017: DAAD Prize of the University of Regensburg, 2017

Anja-Maria Geiger, Analysing the literary dream element in post-1945 clear-cut literature from a psychoanalytical perspective using the example of the radio play
Example of the radio play "Träume" by Günter Eich (Master Crim.), 2017

Paulina Lutz, The Gezi Protests in Istanbul 2013 - An Analysis Based on Qualitative Interviews (Master Crim.), 2017

Anna Mayer, Aspects of arrival and departure in autobiographical narrative reports by Russian-German ethnic German repatriates (B.A. DFS), 2017
 

Italian cultural studies

Leonie Facius, The Topoi "Versailles" and "Soldier Death" as Elements of Fascist Argumentation - a German-Italian Comparison (B.A.), 2022

Maria Emilia Munoz, La rilevanza dell'ambientazione isolana ne Il deserto rossoe in Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto (B.A.), 2021

Margaryta Iastrebna, "Sonetti giudaico-romaneschi di Crescenzo del Monte: letteratura, ebraismo e interculturalità" (Master intercultural european studies Ferrara), 2021

Lisa Finn-Hampel, Typically Italian? An analysis of stereotypical images of Italy in Beppe Servigni's La testa degli italiani (2005) and Sabine Thiesler's Basta, Amore! (2014) (Master intercultural european studies Ferrara), 2019

Julia Stefik: Typical woman, typical man? An analysis of the images of women and men portrayed by the male and female main characters in Federico Fellini's La dolce vita and La strada (Z.A.), 2016

Susanne-Ricarda Reber, Falso e finzione, identità e illusione - Identity in family and society in Giuseppe Tornatore's cinematic work using the example of Stanno tutti bene and La sconosciuta (Master), 2016

Catharina-Sophie Wirsching, Home or Stranger? A comparative study on the problem of integration in migration literature using the example of Franco Biondi's novella Abschied der zerschellten Jahre and Nora Moll's story La palestra (B.A.), 2011

Annabell Bennert: Fact and Fiction in the Historical Romance: Walter Scott, Alessandro Manzoni, Anna Banti (State Examination), 2010

Silke Jäger: Discourses of law and justice in Italian literature - Le avventure di Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (Magister), 2010

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