Sigrid Weigel#
| Membership Number: | 2468 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.zfl.gwz-berlin.de/mitarbeiter/mitarbeiter/_/1 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Director of the Zentrum fiirLiteratur1orschung (Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin)
- Professor at the Literature Department of TU Berlin
- 1992 - 1998 Professor at German Studies at the University of Zürich
- 1984 - 1990 Professor at Literary Studies at the University of Hamburg
- 1978 - 1982 Habilit. at Literary Studies at the University of Hamburg
- 1977 Dr.phil at University of Hamburg
Fields of Scholarship
- Literary criticism and cultural history
- Cultural-philological epistemology of sciences
- German Literatur (18th — 20m century)
- Post-holocaust discourse
- Concepts and cultures of memory
- Jewish-German Literature
- Philosophy, and Kulturwissenschall (Heine, Warburg, Freud, Benjamin, Scholem, Arendt etc.)
- Dialectics of secularisation, cultural history of martyrdom
- Genealogy and the cultural history of lifesciences
- Interdisciplinary history ofthe concept of ‘gerieration’
- Images and texts in art and sciences
Honours and Awards
- Member of Academia Europaea (2007)
- Honorary member ofthe MLA (Modern Languages Ass. USA)
- Reimers Price ofthe Warburg House Hamburg
