Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Gender as a Category of Knowledge

PhD Project:

»… A Mix of Sensitivity and Humor …«: Ironic Production of Gender in Heinrich Heine’s  Lutezia

Description of the Project

Heinrich Heine’s »Lutezia« has only recently come back into focus among literary scholars. The examination of irony in Heine’s texts, however, represents longer research tradition. But what is the function of irony in Heine’s production of gender ? And which relationships to the (scientific) discourse on gender in the first half of the 19th century did Heine’s writing establish ? This project looks at these questions and makes the category gender for »Lutezia« productive.

Particulars

2002 – 2007 Anne Stähr studied at Universität Potsdam. She worked on her PhD at Humboldt University, Berlin from 2007-2010 and became affiliated with the Graduiertenkolleg in 2008. From July 2009 to February 2010 she conducted research at the der Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Her dissertation was published in 2012. Since 2011 she has been a teacher at various college preparatory high schools in Berlin, most recently at the Willi-Graf-Gymnasium.

Selected Publications

»… eine Mischung von Sinnlichkeit und Witz …«. Ironische Inszenierung der Geschlechter in Heinrich Heines Lutezia, Bielefeld 2012.

zus. m. Sophia Könemann (Hg.): Das Geschlecht der Anderen. Figuren der Alterität: Kriminologie, Psychiatrie, Ethnologie und Zoologie, Bielefeld 2011.

»Seine Nerven werden krankhaft überreitzt.« Zum Diskurs über den effeminierten Juden in Heinrich Heines »Lutezia«. In: Heine-Jahrbuch 49, Düsseldorf 2010. S. 50 – 62.

»… wie eine Apfelsine unter den Kartoffeln«. Auf der Suche nach dem ›Weiblichen‹ in Heines Lutezia. In: Zu Heinrich Heines Spätwerk »Lutezia«. Kunstcharakter und europäischer Kontext, hg. v. Arnold Pistiak u. Julia Rintz, Berlin 2007. S. 197 – 208.

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