Courses

WiSe 22/23
Literature of Empfindsamkeit in the 18th Century 
Born 401 years ago: the baroque lyricist Sibylla Schwarz
To Italy! Travel guides and reports up to Goethe
Censorship: theory and documentation

SoSe 22
Introduction to Literary Studies (lecture) 
History of Poetry III: The 19th Century -
from Romanticism to Naturalism 

WiSe 21/22
Friedrich Schiller's Sturm und Drang      
Master Colloquium
Heidi, Stineli, Cornelli, Toni etc.: Johanna Spyri's Swiss
Narratives (digital)
READ! The 17th Century (lecture, digital).

SoSe 21
READ! The 18th Century (digital)            
History of Poetry I: Baroque (digital)
Poetry of the Early Enlightenment: Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann (digital)
Kassel Women Writers in the 19th Century (digital)
Summer Writing Week (digital) 
History of Poetry II: The 18th Century -
from the Early Enlightenment to the Classical Period

WiSe 20/21
Censorship and Literary Persecution in the 19th Century (digital)                    
Gotthelf Wilhelm Christoph Starke (1762-1830), Narrator, Lyricist,
Teacher and Preacher (Lecture, digital)
Literature of the 17th Century (Lecture, digital). Jahrhundert (Lecture, digital)
German-language Garda literature from the 18th to the     
20th century (digital)
Writing Week (digital) 

SoSe 20
Knowledge Media in the 18th Century (lecture, digital)                      
Machine, Literature, and Theater in the 17th and 18th Centuries
(lecture, digital)  
16th Century Narratives (lecture, digital)
Master's Colloquium (digital)

SoSe 19
Garden Policy in the 18th Century

WiSe 2018/19
Master Colloquium
Literature and Persecution - Anti-Semitism in the Past and Present

SoSe 18
The Enlightenment and Censorship
Kassel Women Authors and the First German Women's Movement
Reading Series on Kassel Literature - Project Seminar for
Small Kassel Literature Encyclopedia. Female and male authors

WiSe 2017/18
Jacob Michael Reinhold Lenz
Italian Travels from Goethe to the 21st Century  

SoSe 17
Book Censorship in the 16th and 17th Centuries  
Master Colloquium
Introductory Lecture in Literary Studies   

WiSe 2016/17
Forbidden Books of the 17th and 18th Centuries
The Church, the State, and the Poets.

SoSe 2016
Introduction to Modern German Literary Studies (lecture)
Early Schiller: drama, epic, lyric, theory
READ! The 18th Century

WiSe 2015/16
READ! The 17th Century
Master Colloquium
Enlightenment Knowledge and its Media (Lecture)

SoSe 2015
Lust und Nutz. Narrative Literature in the 16th Century (Lecture)
Giant Dwarfs. Evil, Devilish, Uncanny Children in Modern Literature
"Stories for Children and Those Who Love Children." The Phenomenon of Johanna Spyri

WiSe 2014/15
Master Colloquium
READ! The 17th century

SoSe 2014
Introduction to Modern German Literary Studies (lecture)
Knowledge and Literature (theory seminar)

WiSe 2013/14
Italian Travels II
Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann
Master Colloquium

SoSe 2013
The 17th Century - Age of the Baroque (Lecture)
Italian Travels I
Making Literature in Kassel Audible and Visible II (Project Seminar for the City Jubilee 2013)

WiSe 2012/13 +++ Research Semester +++
Making Literature in Kassel Audible and Visible I (Project Seminar on the City Jubilee 2013)

SoSe 2012
Schiller and Goethe in Weimar
Gardens in the 18th Century: Literature, Art, Knowledge
Intimate Theater at the Turn of the Century

WiSe 2011/12
The Star before Goethe: Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
Literature and Culture of Sensibility

SoSe 2011
Viennese Modernism
Introduction to Modern German Literary Studies (Lecture)
Jacob Michael Reinhold Lenz
Theater and Knowledge in the Early Modern Period

SoSe 2001
Academic Writing. Workshop from 6th sem.
Scholarly Writing. Workshop until 5. Sem.
Women authors of the 90s: Alexa Hennig von Lange, Judith Hermann, Dagmar Leupold and Alissa Walser

WiSe 2000/01
Better Texts in the Sciences
Arthur Schnitzler's Dramas

Summer term 2000
Empfindsamkeit

WiSe1999/2000
Literary Gardens from the 18th to the 20th Century

Summer semester 1999
Goethe Year 1999
Christoph Hein

WiSe1998/99
The bourgeois tragedy

Summer Term 1998
Literature after 1945: Marie Luise Kaschnitz

Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Brescia
(Erasmus Lecturer Mobility)

SoSe 2012
Goethe's Gardens. Literature and culture of the garden in the 18th century.

SoSe 2015
Lyric gardens of the 19th and 20th century
German children's literature: Paul Maar

TU Darmstadt

WiSe 2009/10
Baroque (proseminar)
Wieland (main project seminar at Wielandgut Oßmannstedt)

SoSe 2009
German Book Prize 2009 (advanced seminar)
Machine and Literature in the 17th Century (advanced seminar)

WiSe2008/09
Cultural Discourses around 1900: Viennese Modernity (Proseminar) Knowledge Media of the 18th Century (Lecture)

WiSe2007/08
Knowledge Organization in the 17th Century (advanced seminar)
Jena Romanticism (proseminar)

Summer Term 2007
Women - Knowledge - Popularization in the 18th Century (advanced seminar)
Poetry, Short Prose, Autobiography after 1945: for example Marie Luise Kaschnitz (proseminar)
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert: Literature, Morality, Scholarship around 1750 (advanced seminar)

SoSe 2006
Theater of the turn of the millennium (advanced seminar)

WiSe 2004/05
Schlaraffia - a utopia in the history of literature and culture (Proseminar)

SoSe 2003
Latest Poetry - Literary March 2003 in Darmstadt (Proseminar)
Basic Course in Literary Studies II

WiSe 2002/03
Empfindsamkeit (Proseminar)
Basic Course in Literary Studies I

Summer Term 2002
Beginnings of the Modern Theater (Proseminar)

Leibniz University

SoSe 2008
Romantic Women (BA-Seminar)
Literary and Cultural History of the Land of Cockaigne from the 13th to the 19th Century (BA-Seminar)
Theater Theory and Theater Programmatics in the 20th Century (MA-Seminar)
Theater of Knowledge in the 17th Century (MA-Seminar)

University of Cologne

WiSe 2001/02
The Garden in the Discourse of Literary and Cultural History (Proseminar)

Philipps University

SoSe 2000
German Literature in the Mirror of European Cultural Processes
(Summer University Course)