Research projects

In the midst of war

• "In the middle of the war. The Regensburg prison camp during the First World War" www.mitten-im-krieg-1914-18.net
• Literature and culture in the context of deportation, concentration camp detention and forced labour: seminar and excursion to Flossenbürg, podcast project "French prisoners in the Flossenbürg concentration camp".

From 24 to 25 January 2019, an excursion to the Flossenbürg concentration camp memorial site took place, with an overnight stay in Neustadt an der Waldnaab, together with students from the University of Siegen and Prof. Dr Bärbel Kuhn and Dr Matthias Weipert (History Didactics). Students from a main seminar on French literature and cultural studies at the University of Regensburg and students from a seminar on history didactics at the University of Siegen worked together in workshops, individual lectures and discussions on the topics of "Remembering needs knowledge", "French poetry in foreign language lessons", "Didactisation of memorial literature using the example of C. Schrade" and the conception of pupils' excursions. The excursion is also linked to the development of podcasts on "French prisoners in Flossenbürg concentration camp" by Romance studies students at the University of Regensburg under the direction of Prof. Dr I. v. Treskow and Thomas Muggenthaler (Bayerischer Rundfunk).

Enfance, Violence, Exile - Cooperation with the Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand and the Université de Picardie (Projet Agence nationale de la Recherche, France, 2009-2015) Programmes de recherche - EVE : Enfance Violence Exil (Programme, projet) (external link, opens in a new window)

The Second World War in the Italian romance - aesthetics and historical meaning (DFG project, 2004-2007)

• Dissertation project Dominik Bohmann: Dr Dominik Bohmann - University of Regensburg
• Dissertation project Jana Nürnberger: Fugacity in the contemporary French poetry of Québec (2000-2018)
• Dissertation project Jonas Hock: Confession and Ambiguity. Pierre Klossowski's early work (completed)

• Dissertation project Julia Blandfort: Literatures of the Roma in Romania (completed)

"In the midst of war. The Regensburg prisoner of war camp during the First World War"

www.mitten-im-krieg-1914-18.net (external link, opens in a new window)

Research cooperation between the University of Regensburg, Chair of French language and literature I (Prof. von Treskow), and the Regensburg State Library on the Regensburg prisoner of war camp and the journal Le Pour et le Contre, written by French prisoners of war between July 1916 and April 1917. The research includes other newspapers in Germany and France, in Bavaria for example Baracke ! Journal - de Prisonniers de France from Amberg.

Financial support (third-party funding) by the City of Regensburg, Department of Culture Co-operation with the Institut français, Munich

Conference "Internment in the First World War in Germany, France and Great Britain/British Empire: Transculturality - Cultures croisées -Entangled History as international cultural heritage today"

Ateliers de doctorants "La littérature de I'internement des années 1914 à 1918, 7 mai 2018, Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-Ouzou

Final theses in this research area

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 (B.A.), 2019

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.), 2015

Dominik Bohmann, The Carnet trouvé in the prisoners' newspaper Le Pour et le Contre (term paper), 2014

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

Further information on the project

Conference at the University of Regensburg
Date: 7-8 July 2015
Title: Resistance in concentration camps - forms, requirements, possibilities and processing from a literary and socio-psychological perspective
Patronage: Prof. Dr Isabella von Treskow / Dr Jörg Skriebeleit
Responsible persons: Hartmut Duppel / David Urschler

Panel discussion on 8 July 2015
Topic: 70th anniversary celebrations of liberation - critical assessment and open questions
Participants:

• Joachim Wolbergs, Lord Mayor of the City of Regensburg
• Dr Jörg Skriebeleit, Director of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial Site
• Jean-Claude Brunet, Consul General of the French Republic in Munich
• Dr Leon Weintraub, contemporary witness, Sweden
  Moderation: Dr Franziska Brüning, SZ

Workshop in Regensburg
Date: 24-25 January 2014
Title: Colloque Du Camp au Mémorial: Nouveaux défis de la recherche et le devoir pédagogique
Podcast project Flossenbürg - University of Regensburg (external link, opens in a new window) - Awarded the Prix de l'Académie de Berlin (external link, opens in a new window)2021

Publications:

• von Treskow, Isabella, Persecution of Jews in Italy (1938-1945) in romances by Marta Ottolenghi Minerbi, Giorgio Bassani, Franceso Burdin and Elsa Morante. Fact, fiction, projection. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (Jewish culture. Studies in intellectual history, religion and literature; 25), 2013.
• von Treskow, Isabella (ed.), The Flossenbürg Concentration Camp - History and Literature. Materials and suggestions for French and history lessons; with download area. St. Ingbert: Röhrig publishing house, 2019.
• von Treskow, Isabella (Ed.), Du camp au mémorial, de la littérature à l'Histoire. Section. Romance Studies 2, 2015. http://www.romanischestudien.de/index.php/rst/issue/view/3
• Segler-Meßner, Silke/von Treskow, Isabella (Ed.), Génocide, enfance et adolescence dans la littérature, le dessin et au cinéma. Francfort-sur-Main : Peter Lang (Civilisation & History/Civilisation & Histoire), 2014.
• von Treskow, Isabella, La lettera privata oggetto di esposizione, in: Kertesz-Vial, Elisabeth/von Treskow, Isabella (eds.), Punti di incrocio, di attenzione, di briga e d'affetto. Lettere ai tempi di conflitti e di guerre nel Novecento . Firenze: Franco Cesati (Collana Civiltà italiana), 2020, 111-122.
• von Treskow, Isabella, Giorgio Bassani, Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini e la "condizione ebraica" nella letteratura critica, in: Giulio Ferroni/Clizia Gurreri (eds.): Giorgio Bassani 1916 - 2016, Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2019, 309-323.
• von Treskow, Isabella, 'Una tragediaʻ - 'un destino dolorosoʻ. Giudizi ambivalenti sul Giardino dei Finzi-Contini di Giorgio Bassani, in: Marmiroli, Lorenzo/Nagy, Jozsef/Martore, Vanessa (eds.), Guerre, conflitte, violenza: la cultura dell'odio dal Novecento fino all'11 settembre. Firenze: Franco Cesati, (Collana Civiltà italiana) 2018, 15-25.
• von Treskow, Isabella, Foreword, in: von Treskow, Isabella (ed.), Das Konzentrationslager Flossenbürg - Geschichte und Literatur. Materials and suggestions for history and French lessons. St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2019, 9-10.
• von Treskow, Isabella/Duppel, Hartmut, Das KZ Flossenbürg im Spiegel der Literatur: Erinnerungsberichte, Briefe, Lyrik, Romanance, Predigt, in: von Treskow, Isabella (ed.), Das Konzentrationslager Flossenbürg - Geschichte und Literatur. Materials and suggestions for history and French lessons. St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2019, 27-32.
• von Treskow, Isabella, Das Thema im Lehrplan - Fach Geschichte in Thüringen, Das Thema im Lehrplan - Fach Geschichte in Sachsen, in: von Treskow, Isabella (ed.), Das Konzentrationslager Flossenbürg - Geschichte und Literatur. Materials and suggestions for history and French lessons. St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2019, 39-40.
• von Treskow, Isabella, Teaching materials - text-based approaches: memoirs, in: von Treskow, Isabella (ed.), Das Konzentrationslager Flossenbürg - Geschichte und Literatur. Materials and suggestions for history and French lessons. St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2019, 53-72.
• von Treskow, Isabella, Les récits mémoriels français du réseau concentrationnaire de Flossenbürg : écritures et évolutions, in: von Treskow, Isabella (ed.), Du camp au mémorial, de la littérature à l'Histoire. Section. Romance Studies 2, 2015, 43-79. http://www.romanischestudien.de/index.php/rst/article/view/80
• von Treskow, Isabella, The concentration camp - the completely different? Historical image, perception processes and the literature of survivors, in: Blick in die Wissenschaft 31 (2015). Eds. Inga Neumann, Henning M. Müller, Isabella von Treskow, 41-45.
• von Treskow, Isabella, Ne te retourne pas - Récits d'enfants juifs persécutés en France, in: Segler-Meßner, Silke/von Treskow, Isabella (eds.), Génocide, enfance et adolescence dans la littérature, le dessin et au cinéma. Francfort-sur-Main : Peter Lang (Civilisations & Histoire; 26), 2014, 183-208.
• von Treskow, Isabella, Zeuge/Zeitzeuge (with the collaboration of Hartmut Duppel), in: Lexikon Moderner Mythen. Edited by Stephanie Wodianka, Juliane Ebert. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014, 395-398.
• von Treskow, Isabella, The Dilemma of Resistance. Dealing with Resistenza Violence in Italian Literature and the Public Sphere, in: Nickel, Claudia/ Segler-Meßner, Silke (eds.), Von Tätern und Opfern. On the media representation of politically and ethnically motivated violence in the 20th/21st century. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013, 115-133.
• von Treskow, Isabella, 'She does not find peace'. References to the Old Testament lament in the literature on the Italian persecution of Jews in the 20th century, in: Behrens, Rudolf/Stillers, Rainer (eds.), Inquietudini. Gestalt, Funktion und Darstellung eines affektiven Musters in der italienischen Literatur, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 2010, 159-185.
• von Treskow, Isabella, L'organisation onirique des Nuits plus blanches que nature, in: Kuon, Peter (ed.), "Les mots sont aussi des demeures": Poétiques de Jean Cayrol. Bordeaux: PUB (Eidôlon; 87), 2010, 129-143.
• von Treskow, Isabella, Techniques of the aestheticisation of intra-societal violence. Italian-Italian Enmity in Elio Vittorini, Italo Calvino and Beppe Fenoglio, in: Bandau, Anja/Buschmann, Albrecht/von Treskow, Isabella (eds.), Literaturen des Bürgerkriegs. Berlin: Trafo, 2008, 159-184.
• von Treskow, Isabella/Bandau, Anja/Buschmann, Albrecht, Literaturen des Bürgerkriegs - Überlegungen zu ihren soziohistorischen und ästhetischen Konfigurationen, in: Bandau, Anja/Buschmann, Albrecht/von Treskow, Isabella (eds.), Literaturen des Bürgerkriegs. Berlin: Trafo, 2008, 7-18.
• von Treskow, Isabella, Violence and Proximity. On research into the civil war - the example of Italian memoir literature on the guerra civile (1943-1945), in: von Treskow, Isabella/Buschmann, Albrecht/Bandau, Anja (eds.), Bürgerkrieg - Erfahrung und Repräsentation. Berlin: Trafo, 2005, 21-54.

• von Treskow, Isabella, NS-Verbrechen im Romanie: Geschichtsbild und Erzähltechnik in Ferdinando Camon's La vita eterna, in: Grenzgänge. Contributions to Modern Romance Studies 19.10 (2003), 166-183;

  ital. Version: von Treskow, Isabella, I crimini nazisti nel romanzo - la rappresentazione della storia nella Vita eterna di Ferdinando Camon, in: Studi italiani XVI,2-XVII,1 (2004/05), 145-160.

• von Treskow, Isabella, Die Deutschen, die Besatzung, der Tod. A conversation with the writer Ferdinando Camon, in: Grenzgänge 20,10 (2003), 123-134.

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Excursions to Flossenbürg:

9.7.2010, 6.11.2012, 4.12.2013, 24.1.2014, 7.7.2015, 5.2.2016, 22.5.2018, 24./25.1.2019, 4.11.22, 25.7.25

Excursions with students and staff to the Nittenau City Museum:

16.6.2015

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FINAL THESES

Bachelor's theses

• Catherine Schilling, 2014, Narrated Camp Flossenbürg - An analysis of the memoir texts by Carl Schrade and Leon Calembert
• Juliette Boccoz, 2013, L'Espèce humaine de Robert Antelme et Le Vétéran - Onze ans dans les camps de concentration de Carl Schrade
• Julie Delaporte, 2013, Irony as a means of distancing in Le Vétéran - Onze ans dans les camps de concentration by Carl Schrade
• Michael Poguntke, 2013, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Marcel Callo - Commemoration of the German and French Christian Resistance in Flossenbürg

State Examination

• Regina Schuhbauer, 2013, French clergymen in the Flossenbürg concentration camp system - a comparison of Paul Beschet's Mission en Thuringe, Raymond Crétin's Carnets de déportation and Louis Poutrain's La déportation au cœur d'une vie
• Laura Schertel, 2012, Vittore Bocchetta's Quinquennio infame. Remembering the history of small cogs - when memory becomes a duty

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DISSERTATION

• Regina Schuhbauer, The (self-)staging of local resistance groups in the Resistance museums in Limoges, Lyon, Nice and Toulouse

Conference Infanzia Violenza Esilio e Migrazione Italiana
20-22 juin 2012

Colloque Enfance, Violence, Exile
19-22 novembre 2013


PARTNERS OF THE PROJECT

• Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand, CELIS
• Porteur du projet EVE: Catherine Milkovitch-Rioux, MCF à l'UBP, CELIS (" Littératures 20-21 "), Responsable du programme " Écritures de guerre ".
• Responsable scientifique du programme " Brauner ": Rose Duroux, CELIS, UBP, PR émérite (espagnol), commissaire scientifique de l'exposition sur les " dessins d'enfants évacués dans les foyers " de la Bibliothèque Nationale Espagnole (2006) et de l'exposition du Centre Culturel de la Province de Guadalajara (fonds Brauner, dessins relatifs à la guerre d'Espagne, 2006).
• Université de Picardie, Centre d'Histoire des Sociétés
  Responsable du projet: Manon Pignot, MCF à l'Université de Picardie, Membre du comité scientifique de l'Historial de la Grande Guerre, Commissaire scientifique de l'exposition Les enfants dans la Grande Guerre à l'Historial de la Grande Guerre de Péronne.
• University of Regensburg
  Isabella von Treskow, Chaire de Littérature et culture française / Littérature et culture italienne

further information:
Programmes de recherche - EVE : Enfance Violence Exil (Programme, projet) (external link, opens in a new window)
Réfugier - Enfance Violence Exil - OpenEdition (external link, opens in a new window)
Réfugier Enfance Violence Exil (external link, opens in a new window)

DFG research project 2004-2007 (project funded in kind)

GEPRIS Project description (external link, opens in a new window)

The project is concerned with the representation and processing of the Second World War in Italian romances from 1944 to 1995 and examines the aesthetic, in particular genre-typological and discursive treatment of the historical events of 1940 to 1945 in fascist and post-fascist Italy and on military fronts. The representation of history will be systematically researched in the areas of "Military campaigns in Europe and Africa", "Anti-fascism, Resistenza and civil war", "The experience of the civilian population" and "Italian Jewish policy and persecution of the Jews", thereby placing it in a close relationship to contemporary historiography. The aim is to determine the specific contribution of novel literature to the formation of historical meaning in Italy in the fifty years following the end of the war, both synchronously and diachronically.

Successful guest lectureship in the Neustart. Culture programme of the Federal Government.

One of a total of twenty guest lectureships endowed with €10,000 from the German Translators' Fund (DÜF) has been acquired for the 2021/22 winter semester with the lectureship of Katharina W. Boll in the Federal Government's Neustart.culture programme. The translator from French, together with translator Ursula Keller, organised the final presentation with students on 3 May 2022 at the University Library, which was very well received.

The event was a joint initiative with Prof Dr Sabine Koller (Institute of Slavic Languages and Literature / Slavic-Jewish Studies).

Dipl. phil. Julia Blandfort