Dr. Simone 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: Sprechstunde während der Vorlesungszeit:
Donnerstag, 14:15-15:15 Uhr, persönlich, aber auch gerne per ZOOM.
Consultation hours during the lecture-free period:
Tue, 24 Feb, 2pm - 3pm / Wed, 25 Feb, 1pm - 2pm / Tue, 10 Mar, 1pm - 3pm
Wed, 11 March, 11 am - 1 pm / Wed, 18 March, 12 pm - 2 pm
Personal registration by e-mail (opens your email program) required
Also possible 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)