Team

from October 2025: KIT - Inst. f. German Language and Literature - Institute and staff - Dr phil. Nicole Wagner (external link, opens in a new window)

2018 - 09/2025 Assistant professor at the Chair of Older German Literature (Feistner)

10/2023-09/2025 Member of the steering committee for German language and literature as elected mid-level representative

2024 Doctorate in German language and literature at the University of Regensburg

2017-2018 Research assistant at the Chair of Ancient German Literature (Feistner)

2016-2017 Student assistant at the Chair of Ancient German Literature (Feistner)

2017 First State Examination for the teaching degree at grammar schools

2011-2017 Studied German language and literature, history and social studies for the teaching degree at grammar schools at the University of Regensburg

Doctoral project

Charlemagne as literary fiction. The narrative staging of late medieval historiography in Ulrich Fuetrer's 'Bavarian Chronicle'. Münster 2025 (= Regensburger Studien zur Literatur und Kultur des Mittelalters 7).

The study is dedicated to the image of Charlemagne that Ulrich Fuetrer creates in his 'Bavarian Chronicle' and uses this example to illuminate the dimensions of chronicle narration in the late Middle Ages. It examines Ulrich Fuetrer's historiographical style and the functionalisation of the Charlemagne narrative and compares the results with other historiographical and epic works of the late Middle Ages. The focus is on the question: How does Ulrich Fuetrer develop a narrative tradition around Charlemagne and how does it unfold its effect in late medieval Bavaria?

Main areas of research

• Literature of the high and late Middle Ages
• Vernacular chronistics
• Historical narratology
• Narratology and fictionality

Publications

• Charlemagne as literary fiction. The narrative staging of late medieval historiography in Ulrich Fuetrer's 'Bayerische Chronik'. Münster 2025 (= Regensburger Studien zur Literatur und Kultur des Mittelalters 7).
• Between fictionality and factuality. Potentials of forest representation in chronicle narration using the example of Ulrich Fuetrer's Bavarian Chronicle. In: Philological Studies and Sources [in review].
• alls in ain summ zu pringen und zu erklären. Ulrich Fuetrer's understanding of historiography using the example of the Berta and Karlsgeschichte of his Bayerische Chornik. In: Breaks - Upheavals - New Beginnings. German-language literature between 1450 and 1520. ed. by Bernd Bastert and Ingrid Bennewitz. Wiesbaden 2023 (= Yearbook of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society 24), pp. 259-274.

Lectures

• Manuscripts, versions, edits - terminological considerations on the so-called 'Weihenstephan Chronicle' (lecture at the XII. Karlsruhe Medieval Colloquium, April 2025).
• Participation in the junior researcher workshop "Ars dictaminis im Spannungsfeld von Rhetorik und Poetik. Wissensspeicher und ihre kreative Verwendung" as part of the annual conference of the Wolfram von Eschenbach Society (University of Göttingen, September 2024).
• Ettal and the Narratology of the Beginning. Composition and mediation of a monastery foundation (lecture at the XI Karlsruhe Medieval Colloquium, April 2024).
• Ettal in the making. Typology, systematisation and mediation of a monastery foundation (lecture together with Dr. Verena Ebermeier at the scientific colloquium "Klostergründungserzählungen" in Weingarten, March 2024).
• Sinner, saint, ruler: The motif of (mortal) sin and its configurations in the context of medieval depictions of Charlemagne (lecture at the X. Karlsruhe Medieval Colloquium, March 2023).
• "von diesem kaiser wär vil zu schreiben und zu sagen" - Eine narratologische Untersuchung der Karlsgeschichte aus Ulrich Fuetrers Bayerischer Chronik (lecture at the research colloquium "ÄdL: Spektrum und Wege der Forschung" at RWTH Aachen University, January 2023).
• Charlemagne in the Bavarian Chronicle of Ulrich Fuetrer (lecture at the workshop "Chronistik: Erzählen von Geschichte" in Regensburg, July 2022).
• Geschichtsschreibung im Spätmittelalter zwischen Auf- und Abbruch - Die Darstellung Karls des Charlemagne in Ulrich Füetrers Bayerischer Chronik (lecture at the conference of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society in Brixen, June 2022).
• Between Fictionality and Factuality. Potentials of forest representation in chronicles using the example of Ulrich Füetrer's Bavarian Chronicle (lecture as part of the two-part workshop "Der Wald in der Literatur des Mittelalters. Konzepte - Funktionen - Deutungen" at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universiät Bonn, March & October 2021).
• Participation in the 6th Schola (Autumn School) of the Working Group on Antiquity and the Middle Ages at JLU Giessen: "In principio... Beginnings and Beginnings in Antiquity and the Middle Ages" (October 2019).

Michael Veeh - Institute for German language and literature - LMU Munich (external link, opens in a new window)

Born on 27 October 1980 in Nuremberg; 2000 Abitur at Neues Gymnasium Nuremberg; studied German language and literature, history and Romance studies at the universities of Regensburg, Erlangen-Nuremberg and Freiburg i.Br.; 2006 state examination in Freiburg i.Br.; 2012 doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Fribourg/Switzerland (supervised by Prof. Dr Martina Backes).

since 2009 secondary school teacher at Johannes-Scharrer-Gymnasium Nuremberg and lecturer at the University of Regensburg (Chair of Prof. Dr Feistner); further teaching assignments at the Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Freiburg i.Br.lecturer in the Freiburg network "Medieval Literature and Schools"; 2015-2017 part-time secondment as an assistant at the University of Regensburg; 2017-2020 foreign service teacher at the German School Lisbon, head of Pedagogy Quality Management (PQM) there; since 2022 part-time secondment at the University of Munich (German didactics/DaZ).

Monographs:

Travelling through the narrative worlds of high court culture. Rituals of staging courtly and political perfection in the 'Wigalois' of Wirnt von Grafenberg, Berlin 2013.

Article:

Approaches to a 'film to read': Autorrolle und Selbstreflexion in Dürrenmatts 'Midas oder Die schwarze Leinwand', in: Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel (ed.): Summer Academy 2004: Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Online publication [first in 2005](http://www.bundesmuseen.ch/cdn/00129/00220/index.html?lang=en(https://vpn-ur.uni-regensburg.de/proxy/50d7a494/http/www.bundesmuseen.ch/cdn/00129/00220/ (external link, opens in a new window)

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gymnasiasten treffen Flüchtlingsklassen [together with Doris Weber], in: Gesa Büchert and Hannes Burkhardt (eds.): Migrationsgeschichte. Collecting, sorting and showing. Nuremberg 2014, pp. 187-192.

The Religious in 'Poor Henry' by Hartmann von Aue, the Brothers Grimm, Gustav Schwab and Adelbert von Chamisso. On the secularisation and national patriotic rediscovery of a medieval narrative text in the spirit of Romanticism, in: Lu Jiang and Michael Neecke (eds.): Historisches Verstehen als Reminiszenz und Vision. Berlin 2015 (= Schriftstücke. Jahrbuch für Philosophie und Literaturwissenschaft 1), pp. 106-135.

Devil's pact and the Gretchen question as a means of diagnosing the present. Goethe's 'Faust I' in Flix's new comic production, in: Goethe-Jahrbuch 133 (2016), pp. 116-139.

Reinventing the old: Sigismund Meisterlin's 'Nuremberg Chronicle', in: Mitteilungen des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg 108 (2021), pp. 93-106.

The city as a literary artefact. Hans Rosenplüt's 'Lobspruch auf Nürnberg' and the anonymous 'Sag von Nürnberg', in: Rainer Barbey, Jan Kerkmann and Michael Neecke (eds.): Kunst - Technik - techne. Berlin 2021 (= Schriftstücke. Jahrbuch für Philosophie und Literaturwissenschaft 4), pp. 7-20.

The 'Song of the Nibelungs' as rhapsody. Creative re-appropriation of a classic of world literature, in: Praxis Deutsch 293 (2022), pp. 25-33.

Technology and progress as a theme and problem of the New Objectivity. Kästner's Die Entwicklung der Menschheit in contrast to contemporary fantasies of the future from the advertising world, in: Praxis Deutsch 295 (2022), pp. 21-27.

Retelling medieval material. The 'Song of the Nibelungs' as a starting point for literary writing in German lessons, in: Karla Müller and Andrea Sieber (eds.): Faszination Nibelungen. Presence and mediation of a multimedia myth. Berlin et al. 2022, in print.

Sweet and Salty Popcorn, Billy Idol and the Big Questions of Life. Finding identity in Benedict Wells' 'Hard Land', in: Praxis Deutsch 297 (2023), pp. 28-33.

[together with Johannes Veeh] Gerhard Polt's 'Torture Chamber Tour' and a special school tour. Developing satirical texts based on a literary model, in: Praxis Deutsch 299 (2023), pp. 26-31.

Teaching with Deeper Learning. An explorative study of German lessons in upper secondary schools, in: Douglas Yacek and Julia Lipkina (eds.): Unterricht jenseits der Kompetenzorientierung. Teaching and learning approaches for more education. Stuttgart 2024, in print.

Michael Kumpfmüller's 'The Splendour of Life'. A romance about Kafka's last love affair as class reading, in: Praxis Deutsch 305 (2024), in print.

Essays, catalogue contributions, miscellanies etc.:

[Catalogue contributions to] Petrarca in Deutschland. Exhibition on the occasion of the 700th birthday (20 July 2004) at the Goethe-Museum Düsseldorf in cooperation with the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg 18 July to 12 September 2004. Catalogue by Achim Aurnhammer. Heidelberg 2004, pp. 44-45, pp. 57-59, pp. 113-114.

[together with Edith Feistner] Specialised orientation, in: Iwein Löwenritter. Online publication 2016(http://www.gymnasium-beilngries.de/p_seminare/iwein_fachliche_orientierung.pdf(https://vpn-ur.uni-regensburg.de/proxy/50d7a494/http/www.gymnasium-beilngries.de/p_seminare/iwein_fachliche_orientierung.pdf)) (external link, opens in a new window).

[Catalogue contributions to] Transit Space Lisbon. Remembering for the present. Transit - Abrigo Lisboa. Relembrar para o Presente. Catalogue by Michael Veeh, Conrad Schwarzrock and Alicia Fuster for the German School Lisbon. Lisbon 2020, pp. 13-17, pp. 22-43 [together with Hans-Joachim Cornelissen], pp. 127-128 [together with Conrad Schwarzrock], p. 167.

[together with Lisa Marie Groos, Hans-Jochen Schiewer and Stefan Seeber] Panel description for the Germanists' Day 2022] 'Nibelungenlied' und Nibelungenstoff. Medieval literature and its necessary ambiguity in school and university, in: MDGV 68,4 (2021), p. 388.

Goethe's 'Faust' multimedia. A digital examination format for upper secondary level, in: digital unterrichten DEUTSCH 2022 (Issue 4), pp. 10-11.

"Weapons transform people". Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war narrative 'The Enemy', in: Praxis Deutsch 300 (2023), in print.

"Mr Schmied, you are my favourite teacher". The (almost) normal school day as a poetry slam contribution, in: Praxis Deutsch 301 (2023), in print.

Biographical writing as a craft: Excerpts from Martin Suter's romance 'Einer von euch' in the literature classroom, in: Praxis Deutsch 305 (2024), in print.

Identifying, reflecting on and overcoming toxic language patterns: Offerings on the site stopantisemitismus.de, in: Praxis Deutsch 304 (2024), in press.

Reviews:

Jana Piper: Goethe and Schiller in the cinematic culture of remembrance. Würzburg 2019, in: Goethe Yearbook 137 (2020), pp. 299-300.

Barbara Kindermann: Faust. After Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Götz von Berlichingen. After Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Berlin 2021, in: Goethe Yearbook 138 (2021), pp. 265-267.

Sophie Picard: Celebrations of the classics. Permanence and Polyfunctionality of Beethoven, Goethe and Victor Hugo in the 20th Century. Bielefeld 2022, in: Goethe Jahrbuch 140 (2023), in print.

Handouts:

[together with Daniel Lemmer and Johannes Veeh] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I. Braunschweig 2016 (= Schroedel Module und Materialien für den Literaturunterricht).

[with Daniel Lemmer] Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis and Letter to the Father. Braunschweig 2018 (= Schroedel Module und Materialien für den Literaturunterricht).

Born in 1986, studied German language and literature and history at the University of Regensburg, funded by the German National Academic Foundation and the Max Weber Programme of the Elite Network of the Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern). State Examination for teaching degree at grammar schools 2012.

July 2012 to September 2013 research assistant at the Chair of German language and literature/Germanic medieval studies at the University of Regensburg, October 2013 to September 2018 assistant professor there. Doctoral student with Prof Dr Edith Feistner since 2012.

Doctoral project

Topic of the dissertation: Origin - Identity - Legitimacy. Narrative schemes in urban origin narratives of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period

The dissertation attempts to systematically analyse the hitherto little-noticed textual field of urban origin narratives in terms of (their) structure and (their) narrative style by combining approaches from German language and literature studies with those from history and cultural studies, and to examine the individual texts and their components in terms of their contribution to the construction of urban identity and - by extension - legitimacy.

(More detailed abstract of the dissertation (opens in a new window))

Publications and lectures

[Together with Edith Feistner] Ab urbe condita: Reflections on the systematics of urban origin narratives of the pre-modern era. In: Variations 24 (2016). S.105-116.

• Origin - Identity - Legitimacy. Narrative strategies in urban origin narratives of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. (Paper presented at the Second Conference of the Doctoral Programme of the Faculties of Philosophy at the University of Regensburg, summer semester 2013).
• Literary and historical studies. Reflections on the relationship between methods and approaches. (Guest lecture as part of the exercise 'Mittelalterwerkstatt' by Prof. Dr Edith Feistner in the summer semester 2016).
• Origin - Identity - Legitimacy. Narrative structures in urban origin narratives of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. (Guest lecture as part of the exercise 'Geschichtsschreibung im Mittelalter'
  by Dr Sabine Reichert in the summer semester 2016).
• Between 'auctoritas' and 'source criticism'. The phenomenon of retelling in urban origin narratives of the German-speaking world. (Lecture at the 25th German Studies Conference as part of the panel 'Retextualisation: Phenomena and effects of retelling, retelling and retelling in the Middle Ages and beyond' (panel chair Dr nadine Hufnagel) on 26 September 2016).
• Between 'res ficta' and 'res facta'. Narration in urban origin narratives - questions and problems. (Lecture at the doctoral colloquium of the international annual conference 'Stadtgeschichte(n). Erinnerungskulturen der vormodernen Stadt", organised by the Forum Mittelalter der Universität Regensburg in cooperation with the research cluster "Urbane Zentren und europäische Kultur in der Vormoderne" on 10 November 2016).

Memberships

German Association of Germanists (DGV)

Association of Medievalists e.V.

German Organisation of Non-Commercial Supporters of Loud Donaldism (D.O.N.A.L.D.)