Dr. Merk
- E-mail address: simone.merk(at)ur.de (opens your email program)
- Tel: 499419433489 (starts a telephone call, if your device allows this)
- Location: Philosophie/Theologie, 3.2.31
- Important information: Office hours during the lecture period:
Thu, 2:15-3:15 p.m., in person, but also via Zoom
Consultation hours during the lecture-free period:
Wed 5 Aug, 2–4 pm
Tue 25 Aug, 2–4 pm
Mon 10 Aug, 12 noon–2 pm
Wed 9 Sept, 11 am–1 pm
Personal registration by e-mail required
Also available via Zoom meeting by arrangement
Publications
"On the benefits and drawbacks of history for life". Time, history and contemporary history in Sven Regener's post-pop romance Herr Lehmann, in: Andrea Bartl (ed.), Verbalträume. Contributions to German-language contemporary literature. Interviews with Friederike Mayröcker, Kerstin Hensel, Martin Walser, Bastian Böttcher and Tom Schulz, Augsburg 2005 (= German language and literature: Volume 1. Edited by Andrea Bartl), pp. 127-161.
Why the theatre? Because science can learn to play from theatre, in: Blick in die Wissenschaft (Research Magazine of the University of Regensburg), issue 19, 16th year 2007, pp. 48-58.
The post-apocalyptic genesis. Linear and cyclical (end-)time concepts in Rose Ausländer's poems. Frankfurt am Main/Berlin/Bern/Brussels/New York/Oxford/Vienna 2011 (= REGENSBURGER BEITRÄGE ZUR DEUTSCHEN SPRACH- UND LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT. Edited by Ursula Regener, Jürgen Daiber and Achim Geisenhanslüke. Series B/Investigations. Volume 97)
Teaching
Summer term 2026
Seminar: Lessing and the theatre
Seminar: Nazis on Stage? The theme of 'National Socialism' and the transformation of dramatic form
Exercise: UR Stage Club / Germanist theatre
Exercise: Scenic Play
Exercise: Scenic Play (parallel event)
WS 2025/26
Seminar: Modern classics: Brecht's "great" plays
Seminar: "Uns kommt nur die Komödie bei": Friedrich Dürrenmatt and the theatre
Exercise: UR Stage Club / Germanist Theatre
Exercise: Stage play
Exercise: Stage play (parallel event)
Summer term 2025
Seminar: "Poetry: that can mean a change of breath": Paul Celan and writing after Auschwitz
Seminar: "The irredeemable self": Drama and modernity
Exercise: UR Stage Club / Germanist Theatre
Exercise: Stage play
Exercise: Scenic Play (parallel event)
Events from WS 2004/05 to WS 2024/25 (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)