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You can find examples (since 2015) of our international network here:

Visiting lectureships by German studies academics from Regensburg


Belgium

  • University of Antwerp: Prof. Dr Marcus Hahn (2019)
  • Ghent University: Prof. Dr Marcus Hahn (2019, 2022, 2024), Dr Christian Steltz (2019, 2024)

Finland

  • University of Helsinki: Prof. Dr Thomas Martinec (2011, 2012, 2016–2019)
  • University of Oulu: Dr Sonja Emmerling (2023, 2025), Dr Anna Saller (2022), Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2024)

Greece

  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2024)

United Kingdom

  • Durham University: Prof. Dr Thomas Martinec (2015–2019)
  • University of Warwick: Prof. Dr Thomas Martinec (2019, 2020)

Italy

  • University of Ferrara: Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2024)
  • University of Pisa: Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2019)
  • University of Roma 3: Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2019)

Japan

  • Gakushuin University, Tokyo: Prof. Dr Paul Rössler (2017)

Croatia

  • University of Rijeka: Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2018)
  • University of Zagreb: Prof. Dr Thomas Martinec (2023), Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2018)

Austria

  • University of Graz: Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2019)

Poland

  • Jagiellonian University, Kraków: Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2023)

Romania

  • Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca: Prof. Dr Thomas Martinec (2018)
  • University of Bucharest: Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2017)
  • University of Łódź: Prof. Dr Paul Rössler (2017)

Slovakia

  • Comenius University, Bratislava: Prof. Dr Thomas Martinec (2016–2022)

Slovenia

  • University of Ljubljana: Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2015), Prof. Dr Paul Rössler (2019), Prof. Dr Thomas Martinec (2023)

Spain

  • University of Barcelona: Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2023)

Czech Republic

  • Charles University, Prague: Prof. Dr Paul Rössler (2012–2024), Dr Anna Saller (2025)
  • Masaryk University, Brno: Prof. Dr Paul Rössler (2011, 2016), Prof. Dr Marcus Hahn (2017), Dr Christian Steltz (2018, 2023)
  • University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice: Dr Anna Saller (2024)
  • University of Plzeň: Prof. Dr Paul Rössler (2018)

Turkey

  • Marmara University, Istanbul: Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2015)

Hungary

  • ELTE University, Budapest: Prof. Dr Thomas Martinec (2018, 2019), Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2018, 2023, 2024)
  • University of Szeged: Prof. Dr Paul Rössler (2018), Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair (2018, 2023, 2024)
  • Pannonius University of Pécs: Prof. Dr Paul Rössler (2014)

International visiting lecturers in Regensburg


Finland

  • Dr Christian Rink, University of Helsinki (2019)

France

  • Prof. Dr Patrick del Duca, Université Clermont Auvergne (2024)

Greece

  • Assistant Professor Dr Ioana Karvela, University of Athens (2016, 2024)

United Kingdom

  • Prof. Dr Nils Langer, University of Bristol (2015)
  • Prof. Claudia Nitschke, Durham University (2017)

Italy

  • Prof. Dr Rita Franceschini, Free University of Bolzano (2014)
  • Dr Patrizio Malloggi, University of Pisa (2023)

Poland

  • Prof. Dr. hab. Beata Grzeszczakowska-Pawlikowska (2022, 2023, 2024), Prof. Dr. hab. Jacek Makowski (2022), both from the University of Łódź

Slovakia

  • Dr. habil. Jozef Tancer, Comenius University, Bratislava (2018)

South Africa

  • Prof. Dr Ana Deumert, University of Cape Town (2023)

Czech Republic

  • Mgr. Martin Šemelik, University of Prague (2018)

Hungary

  • Assistant Professor Dr Attila Petéri, ELTE University of Budapest (2015, 2018, 2024)
  • Dr Bernadette Modrian-Horvath, University of Szeged (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024)

USA

Prof. Davide Stimilli, University of Colorado at Boulder (2016)

International lectures by lecturers from Regensburg


Australia

  • PD Dr Thomas Petraschka: Landsknechts and Dinkum Diggers. The (de)construction of national identity in German and Australian war novels. Conference: Cultures of Remembrance: The First World War in Australia and Germany, Monash University, Melbourne (2021)

Belgium

  • Prof. Dr Marcus Hahn: ‘Rückenlage’. On the origins of Gottfried Benn’s drug literature during the Second World War. Department of German Language and Literature, Ghent University (2019)
  • Dr Christian Steltz: The Burden of Creativity. René Pollesch’s globalised view of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Literary Studies Workshop, Ghent University (2019)
  • Dr Christian Steltz: The Afternoon Talk Show. On the intermedia reception of a TV format, Department of German Language and Literature, Ghent University (2019)
  • Dr Christian Steltz: “A boat full of people, can’t you see it?” Repression as a survival strategy of the globalised subject in Roland Schimmelpfennig’s *Der goldene Drache* (2009) and Aki Kaurismäki’s *Le Havre* (2011), Department of German Language and Literature, Ghent University (2019)
  • Dr Christian Steltz: Black activism. Notes on the history of interconnections in Black German literature, Department of German Language and Literature, Ghent University (2023)
  • Dr Christian Steltz: “The Same in Green.” An intermedial reading of Dea Lohers’ post-9/11 drama *Das letzte Feuer*, Department of German Language and Literature, Ghent University (2023)
  • Dr Elena Fabietti: From Hyperphysique to Metapsychique: A Project for the Knowledge of all Things in Victor Segalen’s Archival Notes. Conference: Undoing Knowledge. Stories of Knowledge Formation in the Long Nineteenth Century. KU Leuven (2023)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair: German as a Language of Science: Linguistic, Didactic and Language Policy Perspectives. University of Sarajevo (2017)
  • Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair: German as a Language of Science: Linguistic, Didactic and Language Policy Aspects. University of Mostar (2017)
  • Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair: German in Bosnia and Herzegovina – German in the World. Sarajevo (2018)

Denmark

  • Dr Elena Fabietti: Skin of Glass. History of a Fiction. Conference: Skin Manuscripts. Copenhagen (2024)

Finland

  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: Language History as Economic History. Plenary lecture, International Finnish German Studies Conference ‘German Studies in Transition’, University of Oulu (2022)
  • Dr Anna Saller: The influence of intralinguistic and extralinguistic factors on the ‘tun’ periphrasis in extraterritorial varieties of German, International Finnish Conference on German Studies, University of Oulu (2022)
  • Dr Sonja Emmerling: When is a man a man? A cultural-historical journey to the Middle Ages and back. Lecture for the Aue Foundation, Helsinki (2023)
  • Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair: Word order in German and its teaching. Workshop: Implementing self-study resources in online grammar courses, Helsinki (2024)

France

  • Prof. Dr Marcus Hahn: Drug literature as a ‘body technique’ in world literature. La littérature mondiale et le (très) long XIXe siècle: globalisation, universalisation, anthropologisation de la littérature? University of Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle III (2017)
  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: How Luther Sets the Tone. Punctuation in the Reformation. Journée d’études germaniques, Sorbonne University, Paris (2018)
  • Prof. Dr Marcus Hahn: ‘From the darkness like a meteor’. On Herbert Kühn’s anthropology of art in *Die Malerei der Eiszeit* (1922). The Science of the Arts – The Artistic Challenge to Science, University of Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle III (2018)
  • Dr Elena Fabietti: Hermetic Bodies. Gustav Meyrink’s naturalisation of literary practice. Conference: Naturaliser les arts? Anthropologie et esthétique (1850–today). Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle (2022)
  • Prof. Dr Marcus Hahn: ‘Race with Style’. Hippolyte Taine’s *Philosophie de l’art en Grèce* (1869) and Gottfried Benn’s *The Doric World: An Investigation into the Relationship between Art and Power* (1934). Naturalising the Arts? Anthropology and Aesthetics (1850 to the present day) / *Naturaliser les arts? Anthropologie et esthétique* (1850–today), University of Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle III (2022)
  • Dr Elena Fabietti: Haunted Images: Vernon Lee’s Queer Rewriting of Italy Beyond the Grand Tour. Conference: Imagining Italy: Space, Gender and Discourse in Women’s Writing 1789–1914. University of Lorraine, Nancy (2024)
  • Dr Elena Fabietti: Vertiginous Visions: Gustav Meyrink’s Literary Writing between Bodily Practices and Esoteric Beliefs. Le jeu: Gambling, Gaming and Play in Literature. The 10th Congress of the European Society of Comparative Literature. Paris, Sorbonne University (2024)

United Kingdom

  • Prof. Dr Thomas Martinec: ‘Wolle die Wandlung’ – Covered Poetry in the Rilke Project. Rilke in a Global Context: Conference of the International Rilke Society, London (2015)
  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: Comma and Prefield. What does German orthography tell us about the relationship between norm, system and language use?, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol (2015)
  • Prof. Dr Thomas Martinec: “Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu”. Poetic meaning as a musical device in avant-garde sound poems. University of Warwick (2019)
  • Prof. Dr Thomas Martinec: Canon and contemporary relevance as issues in university teaching, using Lessing as an example. ‘Teaching Enlightenment’. Panel of the English Goethe Society. Annual Conference of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS), Swansea (2021)
  • PD Dr Thomas Petraschka: “I would like to acknowledge how much I have learnt from Lipps’s relentless but not undeserved criticism” – Vernon Lee and the German Aesthetics of Einfühlung. Conference: Vernon Lee, Aesthetics, and Empathy, Churchill College, University of Cambridge (2022)
  • Dr Elena Fabietti: Posthuman Fantasies in the Age of Enlightenment: A Man with a Window on the Heart in Christian Heinrich Spieß’s *Biographien der Wahnsinnigen* (1796). The Posthuman Conference. Senate House, London (2023)

Italy

  • Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair: Travel Guides: Variations on a Text Type. Guide turistiche – la mediazione orale e scritta. Sassari (2015)
  • Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair: Attribution: Text-type-specific features and mediation in various contexts and texts. Colloquium on Attribution and Bracket Structures in Grammar Writing. Pisa (2019)
  • PD Dr Nicole Eller-Wildfeuer with Sebastian Franz: Linguistic (Re-)Vitalisation: Impulses and Challenges using the example of the northern Italian settlement of Sappada / Plodn. Regional Conference on the Protection of German-Speaking Minorities in Friuli-Venezia Giulia (2021)
  • PD Dr Thomas Petraschka: How early 20th-century art and literature reacted to theories about empathy. Workshop: Empathy and the Aesthetics of Language, University of Parma (2023)

Canada

  • Dr Elena Fabietti: The Room within: On Early Modern Representations of Interiority. ACLA, Montreal (2021)

Norway

  • Prof. Dr Anita Schilcher: Domain-specific reading and writing programme in Bavaria, FiLBY and FiSBY, National Reading Centre, Stavanger (2024)

Austria

  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: In a Nutshell. Changes in Punctuation in Literary Texts, 3rd Annual Conference of the Society for the History of the German Language, University of Vienna (2011)
  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: From ‘Hochwohlgeborener Herr’ to ‘hb.’: On the history of congratulatory texts. Academic symposium, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (2013)
  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: Language ‘from above’. On the use of dialect in Alpine literature, 12th Bavarian–Austrian Dialectology Conference, Vienna (2013)
  • Prof. Dr Marcus Hahn: Response to Paul Ziche (Utrecht University): Horizontal logics: Integrative models in the philosophy of nature (and literature) around 1900. From the diversity of cultures to the construction of artificial worlds, Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck (2015)
  • Prof. Dr Marcus Hahn: Goethe’s ‘Wandrers Sturmlied’ and the self-demonisation of modernity. The aesthetics of heteronomy in modernity. Beyond literary autonomy, International Research Centre for Cultural Studies, Vienna (2016)
  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: Text type, information, writing. The Regensburg account books from a historical linguistic perspective, 34th Annual Conference of the International Working Group on Historical Urban Language Research, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (2016)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: Otfrid of Weißenburg’s Gospel Harmony. Grammatical and text-linguistic considerations. University of Graz (2017)
  • PD Dr Nicole Eller-Wildfeuer: German-Bohemian Settlements Overseas. International Symposium to mark the 45th anniversary of the Sprachinselverein Wien (2018)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: From the (Regensburg) workshop of a historical dictionary of verbs. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (2018)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: Between academia and the public sphere: The ‘Namenbuch’ or ‘From the Namenbuch to a Wikipedia entry’. Symposium on Onomastics, Stifter-Haus, Linz (2018)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: From the Requiem to the memorial card. On the language of Christian funeral culture. University of Graz (2019)
  • Prof. Dr Marcus Hahn: Hitler’s ‘American Dream’. Karl May’s Wild West novels and the Nazis’ plans for the period following the ‘final victory’. ‘Popularisation of Literature – Popularisation through Literature’ organised by the Research Centre ‘Dimensions of Literary Transfer’, Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck (2019)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: Aspects of noun government. University of Innsbruck (2022)
  • Dr Anna Saller: The ‘tun’ periphrasis in Barossa German (Australia): Diachronic development into a tense-aspect marker shortly before the language’s extinction?, 7th Conference of the International Society for German Dialectology (IGDD), Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg (2022)
  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: ‘heutig sein’. On the development of a domain-specific predicative. Conference ‘Variability and Change. Language at the Intersection of System and Use’, University of Graz (2023)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: Names – in the context of migration, popularisation and digitalisation. An attempt at an assessment of the current situation. Stifter-Haus, Linz (2023)
  • Stefan Semmelmann: Standard and Standardisation in the (Alpine) Minority Language Context. 12th Workshop of the network ‘Linguistics PhD Students in Viennese German Studies and Friends’, Hofburg, Vienna (2023)
  • Stefan Semmelmann: Variation in the codification of the Zahrar language and its acceptance, as part of the presentation of the Zahrar grammar *Learn de zahrar sproche/Grammatica della lingua saurana* by the Vienna Language Island Association, University of Vienna (2023)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: Opening lecture, XVth IVG Congress, University of Graz (2025)

Poland

  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: Optimising Text Comprehensibility. SPECLANG International Conference on Specialised Languages, University of Łódź (2017)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: The Chancellery of St Catherine’s Hospital in Regensburg. Linguistic Practices in a Small Administrative Chancellery in the Late Middle Ages. 10th Conference of the IAK, Warsaw (2019)

Switzerland

  • PD Dr Thomas Petraschka: The Explicitisation of the Implicit. On a fundamental praxeological problem using the example of the interpretation of Droste-Hülshoff’s ‘Der Knabe im Moor’. Annual Conference of the ‘Hermeneutics and Interpretation Theory’ Network: Doing Interpretation. Perspectives on Praxeological Hermeneutics, University of Zurich (2017) [in collaboration with Stefan Descher]
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: On the toponymy of the civitas Helvetiorum. Onomastic investigations, University of Zurich (2022)

Slovakia

  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: Verb scenes and their changes. On the ‘Historical Syntactic Verb Dictionary (HSVW)’ project. Slovak Academy of Sciences. Bratislava (2023)
  • Prof. Dr Marcus Hahn: Trans-imperial German literature and Robert Menasse’s EU novel ‘Die Hauptstadt’ (2017). Department of German, Dutch and Scandinavian Studies, Comenius University in Bratislava (2023)

Slovenia

  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: The parenthesis from the perspective of text grammar. University of Ljubljana (2015)
  • Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair: Modal particles, sentence modes and constructions. Colloquium on Particles. Ljubljana (2015)

Czech Republic

  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: Deviations. International workshop ‘Social Science Foundations of the Methodology of Standard Varieties Research’, Charles University, Prague (2012)
  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: Language management at the macro level: norm and usage, taking punctuation as an example, Colloquium on (De-)Standardisation / Standard Language & Standardisation Processes as Sociolinguistic Phenomena, Charles University, Prague (2013)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: Northern Bavarian during the Hussite period. University of West Bohemia, Pilsen (2015)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: The Bavarian-West Bohemian border region as reflected in place names, University of West Bohemia, Plzeň (2016)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: Preliminary reflections on a history of textual cultivation. University of Olomouc (2016)
  • Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair: Names: Grammar, Pragmatics and Cultural Specificity. University of Plzeň (2016)
  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: A ‘no-go area’ for High German? The Upper Palatinate in the discourse on written language reform around 1750, Lecture series by visiting scholars, University of Pilsen/Plzeň (2016)
  • Dr Rainer Barbey: Literature and Knowledge in the Work of Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Masaryk University, Brno (2017)
  • Prof. Dr Marcus Hahn: Other States. On ethnological and psychiatric knowledge in the works of Robert Musil. Masaryk University, Brno (2017)
  • Dr Rainer Barbey: Hugo Ball and Anarchism. Masaryk University, Brno (2018)
  • Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair: When Orality and Literacy Intermingle …; Spaces for Experimentation. Conference of the Association of Germanists of the Czech Republic, Plzeň (2018)
  • Dr Christian Steltz: ‘He couldn’t quite pull it off, our sophistical, neurasthenic, fucked-up gaze’. The creative individual and their collective audience in Judith Hermann’s stories ‘Bali-Frau’ and ‘Sommerhaus, später’, Masaryk University, Brno (2018)
  • Dr Christian Steltz: The Afternoon Talk Show. On the intermedia reception of a TV format, Masaryk University, Brno (2018)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: The role of textual grammar in Bavarian schools in theory and practice. University of West Bohemia, Plzeň (2019)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: The late medieval documentary language of Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria under the microscope of textual grammar. 11th Conference of the IAK. Ostrava (2022)
  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: New Forms of Address in German. Examples of Gender Discourse in the Context of Language Standardisation. Charles University, Prague (2022)
  • PD Dr Nicole Eller-Wildfeuer: Internal and external multilingualism in Klostermann’s narratives. Guest lecture at the University of West Bohemia, Plzeň (2023)
  • Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair: Spoken Language in Grammar and in Teaching German as a Foreign Language. University of Prague (2023)
  • Dr Christian Steltz: Friedrich Hebbel. A 19th-century ‘pop literature’ DJ? Masaryk University, Brno (2023)
  • Dr Christian Steltz: “Woe betide those who have only their own country”. Notes on the perspectives of Turkish-German literature, Masaryk University, Brno (2023)
  • Dr Anna Saller: German in Europe and the World. Lecture at the Goethe-Zentrum Budweis (2024)

Hungary

  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: Affiliated organisations and their limitations, ‘Contrasts and (Con)Texts’ conference, Pannonius University of Pécs (2011)
  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: Which standard are we talking about? Codex and usage norms in German punctuation, Pannonius University of Pécs (2014)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Greule: The Bible – Prayer – Hymns. Textual-grammatical structures in sacred texts. Language and sacred communication in the spirit of ecumenism, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest (2023)
  • Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair: Regionalisms in press language. Workshop: Discursive coverage of crises over the last 50 years in Germany and Hungary, ELTE University, Budapest (2023)

USA

  • Dr Elena Fabietti: A Body of Glass: the Strange Case of the Licenciado Vidriera. Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle (2015)
  • Dr Elena Fabietti: Seeing through the body. On the political uses of an anatomical model. The Image Conference, University of California, Berkeley (2015)
  • Nicole Eller-Wildfeuer: Code-switching among heritage speakers of German-based minority languages in the USA and Brazil. German Abroad 2 conference at the University of Texas at Austin (2016)
  • Prof. Dr Paul Rössler: Comma and Prefield. Ling-Lunch, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cambridge, MA (Boston) (2022)

International guest lectures in Regensburg


Australia

  • Prof. Dr Axel Fliethmann, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia: The Concept of Imagination and Visual Techniques in Medicine and Literature (2016)

Belgium

  • Prof. Dr Benjamin Biebuyck, Ghent University: Representations of Europe in interwar literature (Mann, Kolb, Canetti) (2016)
  • Dr Thorsten Ries, Ghent University: Digital forensics and text genesis: Thomas Kling’s *Gesang von der Bronchoskopie* (2016)

Greece

  • Prof. Dr Ioana Karvela, University of Athens: Proverbs in the Bible (2021, via Zoom)

United Kingdom

  • Dr Charlie Louth, University of Oxford: In Search of Language. Rilke’s Turn to French (2016)
  • Prof. Dr Carolin Duttlinger, University of Oxford: From Jazz to the String Quartet. Adorno, Hanslick and the Preservation of Concentration (2017)
  • Prof. Dr Carolin Duttlinger, University of Oxford: Prague – Paris – New York: Franz Kafka’s Urban Landscapes (2018)
  • Prof. Dr Robert Vilain, University of Bristol: Rilke’s Russian God (2018)

Poland

  • Prof. Dr. hab. Paweł Bąk, University of Rzeszów: Pleonasm and Tautology in Contemporary German (2017)

Switzerland

  • Dr Christian Jany, ETH Zurich: In the Limbo of Procrastination, or (Post-)Apocalyptic Scenes (2022)

Ukraine

  • Prof. Dr Peter Rychlo, University of Chernivtsi: ‘They called themselves Light and Dark’: Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann as lovers (2017)

USA

  • Prof. Dr Meike Werner, Vanderbilt University: Publishing World Literature. Competing Modernisms at S. Fischer Verlag in Berlin, Eugen Diederichs Verlag in Jena and Kurt Wolff Verlag in Leipzig (2015)
  • Prof. Dr Steve Graham, Prof. Dr Karin Harris, University of Arizona: Writing Strategies (2018)
  • Prof. Dr Nikolaus Wegmann, Princeton University, USA: Setting a Precedent: On German Literature (2018)
  • Prof. Dr Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona: Globalised German Studies in North America – A Plea for the Socially Relevant Reading of Medieval Texts (2019)

International conferences and workshops


Australia

  • Silvan Kufner, Thomas Petraschka, Anna Saller with Christiane Weller, Andreas Dorrer (Monash University, Melbourne): The First World War: Cultures of Remembrance in Germany and Australia. International online conference (2021)

Denmark

  • Anita Schilcher: Representative of the National IGLU Consortium at the international PIRLS 2026 meeting in Copenhagen (2024)

Germany

  • Michael Szurawitzki, Ines A. Busch-Lauer, Paul Rössler: German as an Academic Language. International conference, University of Regensburg (2014)
  • Thomas Martinec: Rilke’s Musicality. International conference at the Institute of German Studies, University of Regensburg, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (2017)
  • Paul Rössler, Peter Besl, Anna Saller: International Punctuation. System – Standard – Practice. International conference, University of Regensburg, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (2019)
  • Thomas Petraschka: Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art. International conference, Duisburg-Essen, funded by the DFG (2022)
  • Paul Rössler, Peter Besl, Anna Saller: Comparative Punctuation Worldwide. University of Regensburg (2023)

Germany/USA

  • Thomas Martinec with Hannes Kerber (Boston College): Lessing Workshop. International online forum for discussing current Lessing research on behalf of the Lessing Academy and the Lessing Society (monthly since 2023)

France

  • Elena Fabietti with Anna Seidel (Berlin): Panel “More than just Playing: Ilinx, Vertigo, and Intoxication in the Practice of Modern Literature”. Le jeu: Gambling, Gaming and Play in Literature. The 10th Congress of the European Society of Comparative Literature. Paris, Sorbonne University (2024)

Canada

  • Elena Fabietti with Alice Christensen: Panel “Rooms and Thoughts”. ACLA, Montreal (2021)

Norway

  • Anita Schilcher: Collaboration on the implementation of the FiLBY programme in selected Norwegian schools (2024)

Sweden

  • Albrecht Greule: Names in Context. Uppsala (2024)

Taiwan

  • Anita Schilcher: Representative of the National IGLU Consortium at the International PIRLS 2021 Meeting, Taipei (2018)
  • Thomas Petraschka: Empathy, the Appreciation of Art, and Understanding. International conference, funded by the DFG (2019)

Czech Republic

  • Paul Rössler, Vít Dovalil: International Colloquium ‘Language Management & Orthography’, Charles University, Prague, funded by the DAAD (2015)
  • Christian Steltz: ‘Institutions between the literary world and the public sphere: The Fritz Hüser Institute in Dortmund and the Sulzbach-Rosenberg Literary Archive’. Workshop in cooperation with Masaryk University, Brno, funded by the Bavarian-Czech University Agency (2020)
  • Christian Steltz: ‘Literature and the Market, 5–8 October 2021’. Workshop in collaboration with Masaryk University, Brno, the Fritz Hüser Institute, Dortmund, and the Sulzbach-Rosenberg Literary Archive, funded by the Bavarian-Czech University Agency (2020/21)
  • Christian Steltz: ‘Autofiction as a Strategy of Self-Presentation’. Workshop in collaboration with Masaryk University, Brno, the Fritz Hüser Institute, Dortmund, and the Sulzbach-Rosenberg Literary Archive, funded by the Bavarian-Czech University Agency (2022)
  • Christian Steltz: “Current Research Perspectives between German Studies in Germany and Abroad”. International networking conference as part of the cooperation with Masaryk University in Brno and Ghent University, funded by the Bavarian-Czech University Agency (2023)
  • Christian Steltz: ‘Languages of Connection and Vulnerability’. Workshop and conference as part of the collaboration with Masaryk University, Brno, and the Fritz Hüser Institute, Dortmund, funded by the Bavarian-Czech Higher Education Agency (2024)

Articles in international publications


Belgium

  • Elena Fabietti: The Knowledge of All Things: from ‘Hyperphysique’ to ‘Metapsychique’ in Victor Segalen’s Archival Notes. In: Intérferences Littéraires (30), 2025.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Maria Thurmair: German in the World – German in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In: Mešić, Sanela / Scheuringer, Hermann (eds.): German in Bosnia and Herzegovina. University of Sarajevo, 2019, pp. 13–29.

Germany

France

  • Paul Rössler (in collaboration with Franziska Gürtler): On the Marking of the Margins in Luther’s Printed Works. In: Nouveaux Cahiers d’Allemand, 36th year (2018), no. 4, pp. 355–367.
  • Elena Fabietti: Hermetic Bodies. Gustav Meyrink’s Literary Practice. In: Recherches Germaniques, 19 (2024). pp. 67–85.

United Kingdom

  • Paul Rössler, Hanna Rutkowska: Orthographic Variables. In: Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre (eds.): The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2012. pp. 213–236.
  • Elena Fabietti: Entries on ‘Giuseppe Ungaretti’, ‘Eugenio Montale’ and ‘Parole in libertà’ for the Online Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, 2016.
  • Thomas Martinec: ‘Kafka and Music’, in: Carolin Duttlinger (ed.): *Kafka in Context*. Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 128–136.
  • Thomas Petraschka: ‘We have to realise that we are born into a landscape of ice and fire.’ Ernst Jünger’s intellectual response to the First World War, 1915–1932. In: Sarah Posman, Cedric van Dijck and Marysa Demoor (eds.): The Intellectual Response to the First World War. How the Conflict Impacted on Ideas, Methods, and Fields of Inquiry. Brighton 2017, pp. 82–95.
  • Thomas Petraschka with Eva-Maria Konrad and Christiana Werner: Are emotional reactions necessary for an adequate understanding of literary texts? In: Debates in Aesthetics: Art & The Emotions. Debating the Work of Jenefer Robinson, 14 (1), 2019. Open access: http://www.debatesinaesthetics.org
  • Thomas Petraschka: ‘How empathy with fictional characters differs from empathy with real persons’. In: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79.2 (2021), pp. 227–232.
  • Thomas Martinec: Canonical dramas of the Enlightenment and their relevance today as a didactic challenge. In: Publications of the English Goethe Society 91 (2022), pp. 91–109.
  • Thomas Martinec: Drama. In: Charlotte Lee (ed.): Goethe in Context. Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 86–94.
  • Thomas Petraschka: ‘Quite artificial, awkward, and unnecessarily neologistic’. Early Phenomenology and Psychology Arguing about the Fundamentals of Aesthetics. In: Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 10.2 (2024), pp. 127–141. https://doi.org/10.1080/20539320.2023.2267913

Japan

  • Paul Rössler, Theresa Froschmayer: How the virgule disappeared from texts in the 18th century – a devariation. In: Germanische Beiträge der Gakushuin Universität 23 (2019). Tokyo, pp. 101–120.

Italy

  • Elena Fabietti: The Art of the Body. Writing and bodily revolution in Goliarda Sapienza’s *L’arte della gioia*. In: *Costellazioni* (30), 2025.

Netherlands

  • Kraus, E., Wild, J., Schilcher, A. & Hilbert, S.: Exploring the Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of the COVID-19 School Closures on Reading Fluency in Southern Germany: A Longitudinal Causal Effects Analysis. *Learning and Instruction* (expected 2025).

Austria

  • Paul Rössler: ‘Diachronic Canon: On the Periodisation of German Linguistic History’. In: Jürgen Struger (ed.): *The Canon – Perspectives, Expansions and Revisions*. Conference of Austrian and Czech Germanists, Olomouc, 20–23 September 2007 – Vienna 2008. pp. 421–433. (= Stimulus 2007)

Switzerland

  • Maria Thurmair: Travel Guides: Variations on a Text Type. In: Baumann, Tania (ed.): Travel Guides – Language and Cultural Mediation in Tourism. Le guide turistiche – mediazione linguistica e culturale in ambito turistico. Bern et al. 2018, pp. 19–42.
  • Lindl, A.; Krauss, S.; Schilcher, A. & Hilbert, S.: Statistical Methods in Transdisciplinary Educational Research. Frontiers in Education 5 (97), 2020. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2020.00097.
  • Anita Schilcher et al.: FALKE: Experiences from Transdisciplinary Educational Research across Fourteen Disciplines. Frontiers in Education 5 (2021), pp. 1–14. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2020.579982.

Slovenia

  • Maria Thurmair: Modal particles, sentence mode and constructions. In: Bračič, Stojan / Petrovčič, Mateja (eds.): Particles Everywhere: German – Slovenian – Chinese. Ljubljana, 2017, pp. 9–25.

Czech Republic

  • Maria Thurmair: When Spoken and Written Language Intermingle… In: Menclová, Hana / Voltrová, Michaela (eds.): Experimental Spaces in German Linguistics, University of West Bohemia, Plzeň, 2019, pp. 3–20.

USA

  • Elena Fabietti: A body of glass: The case of El licenciado Vidriera. In: Symplokē, 23, Nos. 1–2 (2015).
  • Elena Fabietti: ‘Le menome cose’: On the function of details in Leopardi’s *Zibaldone*. In: Eds. E. Brodgen, C. Frey (Eds.): *Milieus of Minutiae. Contextualising the Small in Science, Philosophy and Literature*, Virginia UP, Charlottesville, VA 2024, pp. 71–93.
  • Thomas Petraschka: How Early 20th-Century Literature and Film Reacted to Contemporary Theories of Empathy. The Case of Rilke and Eisenstein. In: *Texas Studies in Literature and Language* (expected 2025)
  • Thomas Petraschka: “Theirs is the future way of studying aesthetics” – Vernon Lee and the German Aesthetics of Einfühlung. In: Thomas Petraschka, Christiana Werner (eds.): Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art. New York, London 2024. pp. 296–314. Open Access: doi.org/10.4324/9781003333739
  • Thomas Petraschka and Christiana Werner: Empathic Understanding. Historical and Recent Perspectives on Empathy’s Role in Social Cognition and Aesthetics. In: Thomas Petraschka, Christiana Werner (eds.): The Role of Empathy in Understanding Persons, Literature and Art. New York, London 2024, pp. 1–22. Open access: doi.org/10.4324/9781003333739
  • Thomas Petraschka: What is Aesthetic Empathy and How Does it Work? A Historic-Systematic Approach. In: Katerina Bantinaki, Efi Kyprianidou, Fotini Vassiliou (eds.): Empathy and the Aesthetic Mind: Perspectives on Fiction and Beyond. London, New York, expected 2025.

International (co-)editorships

 

  • Rainer Barbey, Lu Jiang, Jan Kerkmann, Michael Neecke (eds.): Schriftstücke. Essays on Philosophy and Literary Studies. Berlin: Parodos 2015–2025.
  • Christian Fandrych, Marina Foschi Albert, Marianne Hepp, Maria Thurmair (eds.): Attribution in Text, Grammar and Language Teaching. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2021.
  • Thomas Martinec (ed.): Review section in the Lessing Yearbook (2021–2025)
  • Paul Rössler, Peter Besl, Anna Saller (eds.): Comparative Punctuation. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2022 (= Linguistics – Impulses & Trends, Vol. 96).
  • Andreas Dorrer, Thomas Petraschka (eds.): The First World War: Cultures of Remembrance in Germany and Australia. The First World War: Cultures of Remembrance in Germany and Australia (= Formen der Erinnerung). Göttingen: V&R (Brill), 2023.
  • Thomas Petraschka, Christiana Werner (eds.): Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art. New York, London: Routledge, 2024. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003333739
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