Publications

(1) "Every child a Christ child, every child a murderer". Child and childhood motifs in the work of Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Tübingen: Francke 1999 [dissertation].

(2) "The fabric is satanically fine." Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe as a text of violence. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 2001. Downloads: Contents - Conclusion

(3) Theater about theater. Parody and Modernism 1870-1914. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2006 [habilitation thesis]. Downloads: Contents - Introduction - Corpus

(4) The bad woman. Knowledge poetics and gender in the early modern period. Sulzbach/Ts.: Helmer 2009. Downloads: Contents -Chapter 1

(5) Poiesis of the machine. Baroque Configurations of Technology, Literature and Theater. Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2013. Download: Reading sample -S. 16

(6) Research, medium and gender in the 18th century. Frauenzimmer-Studien zu Lexikographie, Lehrdichtung und Zeitschrift. Hamburg: Lang 2015. Download: Contents - Introduction

(7) Lust and utility. Historical, spiritual, mathematical and poetic refreshment lessons in the early modern period. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015. Downloads: Contents -Introduction

(8) Attention, censorship! On freedom of expression and its limits. Berlin: Ullstein 2018.

(9) Gotthelf Wilhelm Christoph Starke (1762-1830). Discovery of a great unknown. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2023.

(1) Encounters: Stage and professions in the cultural history of the theater. Ed. with Ariane Martin. Tübingen: Francke 2005.

(2) Dimensionen der Theatrum-Metapher in der Frühen Neuzeit. Ordnung und Repräsentation von Wissen. / Dimensions of the Early Modern Theatrum-Metaphor. Order and Representation of Knowledge. Edited with Flemming Schock, Oswald Bauer, Ariane Koller, metaphorik.de. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2008.

(3) "soon delicate flowers - soon food for the mind". Readings on Sophie von La Roche. Ed. with Monika Lippke, Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2008. Download: Preliminary remarks

(4) Metaphor and ecology. Linguistic-ecological and ecolinguistic dimensions of metaphor. Edited by metaphorik.de and Wilhelm Trampe. Münster: LIT 2009.

(5) World and Research on the Stage. The Theatrum literature of the early modern period. Repertory. Edited with Thomas Stäcker in collaboration with Flemming Schock, Constanze Baum, Imke Harjes and Sabine Kalff. Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek 2011.

(6) The Theatrum Europaeum. Knowledge architecture of a century chronicle. Edited with Flemming Schock, Constanze Baum in collaboration with Désirée Müller. Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Library 2012.

(7) The Theatricality of Research in the Early Modern Period. Edited with Constanze Baum. Wolfenbüttel: Duke August Library 2013.

(8) Locating - Negotiating - Embodying. Interdisciplinary analyses of space and gender. Edited by Silke Förschler, Rebekka Habermas and Nikola Roßbach. Bielefeld: transcript 2014.

(9) Destination Italy. Modern constructions of cultural knowledge in literature - language - film. Edited with Alessandra Lombardi, Lucia Mor. Frankfurt a.M. [et al.]: Lang 2014.

(10) Understanding literature - why actually? 55 answers. Edited by Nikola Roßbach. Hamburg: Igel 2015.

(11) Lake Garda and the Germans. / I Tedeschi e il Garda. Literature - Art - Communication. Letteratura - Arte - Coomunicazione. Ed. with Alessandra Lombardi, Lucia Mor. Frankfurt a.M. [and others]: Lang 2016.

(12) Paul Maar: Studies on the literary work of children. Edited by Andreas Wicke and Nikola Roßbach. Nuremberg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017.

(13) Small Kassel literary encyclopedia. Female and male authors. Edited by Nikola Roßbach. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2017.

(14) Censorship from the 16th to the 18th century: Terms, Discourses, Practices. Special volume of the Zeitschrift für Internationale Germanistik. Ed. with Florian Gassner. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2020.

(15) No end to the rumor. Antisemitism in Culture and Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Ed. with Stefan Greif, Turgay Kurultay. Kassel: kup 2020.

(16) Repetition and Variation in Medieval and Early Modern Conversation. Edited with Angela Schrott. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2023.

(17) Censorship. Handbook for scholarship and study. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2024.

(1) Arthur Schnitzler and Richard Schaukal: Correspondences. In: Eros Thanatos. Yearbook of the Richard von Schaukal Society 3/4 (1999/2000), pp. 27-50.

(2) "Violence is the best eloquence". Language and violence in Schiller's early dramas. In: Der Deutschunterricht 52 (2000), H. 6, pp. 20-30.

(3) "Tormented by fantasy". Autobiographical drafts of childhood in Marie Luise Kaschnitz. In: Dirk Göttsche (ed.): "Für eine aufmerksamere und nachdenklichere Welt". Contributions to Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2001, pp. 49-64.

(4) Sleepy, strange, dead gardens. A lyrical topos after 1945. In: Der Deutschunterricht 53 (2001), H. 5, pp. 51-61.

(5) The end of events: Arthur Schnitzler's "Therese". In: Proceedings of the X. International Congress of Germanists in Vienna 2000. ed. by Peter Wiesinger with the collaboration of Hans Derkits. Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt a.M., New York, Oxford, Vienna: Peter Lang 2002, vol. 6 (= Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Reihe A, vol. 58), pp. 405-412.

(6) Franz Hohler's reversed worlds - taken at their word. In: Günter Helmes, Ariane Martin, Birgit Nübel, Georg-Michael Schulz (eds.): Literatur und Leben. Anthropological Aspects in the Culture of Modernity. Festschrift for Helmut Scheuer on his 60th birthday. Tübingen: Narr 2002, pp. 293-303.

(7) "Mein Immernochda": I-forms in the poetry of Marie Luise Kaschnitz. In: Jan Badewien, Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann (eds.): Marie Luise Kaschnitz. A sensitive contemporary. Contributions to a conference of the Evangelische Akademie Baden with the Literarische Gesellschaft Karlsruhe on the 100th birthday of Marie Luise Kaschnitz from March 2-4, 2001 in Bad Herrenalb. Karlsruhe: Evangelische Akademie Baden 2002, pp. 47-71.

(8) Salvation through literature? Reality emptied of meaning and linguistic reflection in Marie Luise Kaschnitz's lyrical cycles and essays 1945-1948. In: Christiane Caemmerer, Walter Delabar, Elke Ramm, Marion Schulz (eds.): Erfahrung nach dem Krieg. Women authors in the literary scene 1945-1950: FRG, GDR, Austria, Switzerland. Proceedings of the 3rd Bremen Conference on Questions of Literary Lexicography, October 5-7, 2000 in Bremen. Frankfurt a.M., Berlin, Bern, Brussels, New York, Oxford, Vienna: Peter Lang 2002, pp. 69-80.

(9) "Wir sind aus Papier": Selbstreflexivität und Intertextualität in Dagmar Leupold's novels Edmond: Geschichte einer Sehnsucht, Federgewicht und Ende der Saison. In: Ilse Nagelschmidt, Alexandra Hanke, Lea Müller-Dannhausen, Melani Schröter (eds.): Zwischen Trivialität und Postmoderne. Literature by women in the 90s. Frankfurt a.M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna: Peter Lang 2002, pp. 167-183.

(10) "C'est une femme qui parle." The literary portrait as a site of feminine self-presentation in the 'Grand Siècle'. In: Petra Leutner, Ulrike Erichsen (eds.): Das verortete Geschlecht. Literary spaces of sexual and cultural difference. Tübingen: Attempto 2003, pp. 155-174.

(11) Pais de fées and KartoffelAker. Gardens with Johann Heinrich Merck. In: Ulrike Leuschner, Matthias Luserke-Jaqui (eds.): Netzwerk der Aufklärung. New readings on Johann Heinrich Merck. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2003, pp. 21-39.

(12) Bildwandlerinnen. The poets Tanja Dückers, Sabine Scho and Silke Scheuermann. In: Christiane Caemmerer, Walter Delabar, Helga Meise (eds.): Fräuleinwunder literarisch. Literature by women at the beginning of the 21st century. Frankfurt a.M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna: Peter Lang 2005, 191-212.

(13) The Conspiracy of Fiesco at Genoa. A republican tragedy (1783). In: Matthias Luserke-Jaqui (ed.): Schiller-Handbuch. With the collaboration of Grit Dommes. Stuttgart: Metzler 2005, pp. 53-65.

(14) Sensation between nature and art. On processes of dynamization in theater and cultural history in the 18th century using the example of Lessing's Miss Sara Sampson. In: Lenz-Jahrbuch. Sturm-und-Drang-Studien 12 (2002) 2005, pp. 155-171.

(15) Theatrical metaphor in science and philosophy of science around 1700: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. In: Ariane Martin, Nikola Roßbach (eds.): Encounters: Stage and Professions in the Cultural History of Theater. Tübingen: Francke 2005, pp. 15-29.

(16) Glass. On the aesthetics of Paul Scheerbart. In: Musil-Forum. Studien zur Literatur der klassischen Moderne 29 (2005/2006), pp. 172-189.

(17) Aesthetic coping with landlessness. Schlaraffian perspectives in Marco Polo's and Christopher Columbus' travelogues. In: Carsten Jakobi (ed.): Landlessness. Exterritoriality in German-language literature. Munich: Martin Meidenbauer 2006, pp. 15-48.

(18) Schlaraffische Texte und Welten. Reflections on the possibilities and limits of a cultural studies approach to literature. In: Daphnis 35 (2006), pp. 495-514.

(19) Have the honor! Theatrical parody in fin de siècle Vienna. In: Nestroyana 27 (2007), H. 1-2, pp. 70-84.

(20) "Stimmgemenge". New definitions of theater, text and genre in Helmut Krausser. In: Hans-Peter Bayerdörfert (ed.): Vom Drama zum Theatertext? On the situation of drama in Central European countries. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2007, pp. 165-172.

(21) Security is nowhere. Arthur Schnitzler's monologue stories Leutnant Gustl (1900) and Fräulein Else (1924). In: Matthias Luserke-Jaqui (ed.): Deutschsprachige Romane der klassischen Moderne. With the collaboration of Monika Lippke. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2008, pp. 19-46.

(22) "Mosi's World". Narratives in the mass media using the example of the BILD newspaper articles on the Moshammer murder. In: Achim Barsch, Helmut Scheuer, Georg-Michael Schulz (eds.): Literature - Art - Media. Festschrift for Peter Seibert on his 60th birthday. Munich: Meidenbauer 2008, pp. 443-457.

(23) Marie Luise Kaschnitz' literary periods. The example of Munich. In: Simone Hirmer, Marcel Schellong (eds.): Reading Munich. Observations of a narrated city. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2008, pp. 167-177.

(24) Gynaeceum, sive theatrum mulierum. Modeling femininity in encyclopedic theaters of knowledge. In: Oswald Bauer, Ariane Koller, Flemming Schock, metaphorik.de (eds.): Order and Representation of Research. Dimensions of the Theatrum Metaphor in the Early Modern Period. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2008, pp. 151-176 [online: metaphorik.de 14 (2008), http://www.metaphorik.de/14/Rossbach.pdf.

(25) Picking flowers. Images and education in Sophie von La Roche's women's magazine Pomona. Notes on knowledge and gender in the 18th century. In: Monika Lippke, Matthias Luserke-Jaqui, Nikola Roßbach (eds.): "bald zierliche Blumen - bald Nahrung des Verstands". Readings on Sophie von La Roche. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2008, pp. 105-121.

(26) Mediocrity and mediality. Women's magazines of the late 18th century - the example of Frauenzimmerbibliothek (1785). In: Lenz-Jahrbuch. Literature - Culture - Media 1750-1800 15 (2008), pp. 143-165.

(27) Knowledge transfer - lexicography - gender: Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus' Nutzbares, galantes und curieuses Frauenzimmer-Lexicon (1715, 1739, 1773). In: Sibylle Schönborn, Vera Viehöver (eds.): Gellert und die empfindsame Aufklärung. Knowledge and cultural transfer around 1750. Berlin: Erich Schmidt 2009, pp. 175-188.

(28) "A German Fontenelle"? Reflections on Franco-German cultural transfer based on the translations of Bernard de Fontenelle's Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1686). In: literatur für leser 32 (2009), H. 1, pp. 14-30.

(29) The woman, the man. Gender shifts in the Malus Mulier texts of the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Gaby Pailer, Franziska Schößler (eds.): GeschlechterSpiel-Räume: Dramatik, Theater, Performance und Gender. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi 2011, pp. 283-296.

(30) The academic lecture. Dimensions of Theatricality and Research. [Revised and slightly updated version of the inaugural lecture at the University of Kassel, held on 8.6.2011]

(31) "Towards a better understanding of all matters". Knowledge organization and communication by Georg Andreas Böckler, Architect & Engineer. In: Flemming Schock (ed.): Polyhistorismus und Buntschriftstellerei. Popular forms of knowledge and knowledge culture in the early modern period. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter 2012, pp. 149-167.

(32) "die selbst-eigene Erfahrung zuhülffe nehmen": Der Maschinenbauer Jacob Leupold und die epistemische Zäsur um 1700, in: Frauke Berndt, Daniel Fulda (eds.): Die Sachen der Aufklärung. Contributions to the DGEJ Annual Conference 2010 in Halle an der Saale. Hamburg: Felix Meiner 2012, pp. 448-456.

(33) "They never come here ... Because this is the 'Intimate Stage'!" The audience of the Intimate Theater around 1900. In: Hermann Korte, Hans-Joachim Jakob (eds.): "Das Theater glich ein Irrenhause". The audience in 19th and 20th century theater. Siegen Symposium on Theater Audience Research. Heidelberg: Winter 2012, pp. 281-295.

(34) "Out of 50 Gatt. Salad is the best, the one from Versailles [...]". The garden as image, narrative space and knowledge in Sophie von La Roche's Pomona. In: Helga Meise (ed.): Sophie von La Roche et Le savoir de son temps. Reims 2014, pp. 75-94.

(35) "I want, I must be a miner." Constellations of space and gender in the 18th century - using the example of Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann's exploration of the Ilmenau mine. In: Lenz-Jahrbuch. Literature - Culture - Media 1750-1800 20 (2013), pp. 101-123.

(36) The golden key. Answer to the 2013 Magus Prize question: "If the reader can't do magic ... " What is the attraction and what is the point of trying to understand difficult texts? (Shortlist). Published in: Nikola Roßbach (ed.): Understanding literature - what's the point? 55 answers. Hamburg: Igel 2015, pp. 247-259.

(37) "And how can I turn half a life into a whole one?" Letter, book, library. On the basis of scholarly history(ies) in the 18th century. In: Claudia Brinker-von der Heyde, Annekatrin Inder, Marie Isabelle Vogel, Jürgen Wolf (eds.): Frühneuzeitliche Bibliotheken als Zentren des europäischen Kulturtransfers. Stuttgart: Hirzel 2014, pp. 249-262.

(38) Machine rooms. Technology and theater in the early modern period. In: Karin Friedrich (ed.): The development of space. Construction, Imagination and Representation of Spaces and Boundaries in the Baroque Age. Congress at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 26-29.8.2009. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2014, pp. 281-296.

(39) "in less than an hour I felt like a friend": appropriation of foreign things in Goethe's Italian Journey. In: Claudia Brinker-von der Heyde, Nina Kalwa, Nina-Maria Klug, Paul Reszke (eds.): Eigentlichkeit. On the relationship between language, speakers and the world. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter 2015, pp. 523-540.

(40) Psalm, poetry, sermon in the Baroque: Poetic refreshment lessons and the Bible. In: Ilse Müllner, Paul-Gerhard Klumbies (eds.): Bibel und Kultur. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2016, pp. 139-166.

(41) Work of art, water fairy tale, homeland: Lake Garda in 19th century German literature. In: Alessandra Lombardi, Lucia Mor, Nikola Roßbach (eds.): I tedeschi e il Garda: lingua, arte, comunicazione / Der Gardasee und die Deutschen. Literature - Art - Communication. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang 2016, pp. 43-60.

(42) Paul Maar's Potato Beetle Times and Realism. Reflections on the author's workshop documents. In: Paul Maar: Studien zum kinderliterarischen Werk (working title). Edited by Andreas Wicke and Nikola Roßbach. Nuremberg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017, pp. 107-120.

(43) Virtuoso delays: Literarische (Un)Zeiten bei Schiller, in: Lenz-Jahrbuch. Literature - Culture - Media 1750-1800 24 (2017), pp. 159-174.

(44) Lorenz Westenrieder: "Why does all writing often avail so little, so nothing?" (1782). Edition with remarks on a shocking Enlightenment philosopher, in: Lenz-Jahrbuch. Literature - Culture - Media 1750-1800 24 (2017), pp. 77-96.

(45) Occasional gender discourses in the early modern period. The wedding poems of Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann, in: Joachim Harst, Christian Meierhofer (eds.): Ehestand und Ehesachen. Literary appropriations of an early modern institution. Leaps in time. Research on the Early Modern Period 22 (2018), H. 1/2, pp. 180-201.

(46) The incomprehensibility of the similar. German-language Italian literature between intercultural understanding and transcultural networking, in: KulturPoetik 18 (2018), H. 2, pp. 137-157.

(47) The perfect crime. Meisterdiebe von Straparola über die Brüder Grimm bis zum Hollywood-Blockbuster, in: Holger Ehrhardt, Johann Friedrich Lange, Marie-Louise Lange, Christopher F. Schütz (eds.): Über Nachtfliegen, Zaunkönige und Meisterdiebe. New contributions to Grimm and fairy tale research. Kassel: kassel university press 2019, pp. 55-84 (with Matthias Ott).

(48) Deer are the better people. Felix Salten's Bambi zwischen Weltflucht und Kulturkritik, in: Barbara Beßlich, Cristina Fossaluzza (eds.): Kulturkritik der Wiener Moderne (1890-1938). Heidelberg: Winter 2019, pp. 297-312.

(49) Censorship powers the future. Reflections on the ruler's will to plan in the early modern period, in: Florian Gassner, Nikola Roßbach (eds.): Zensur vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert: Concepts, Discourses, Practices. Special volume of the Zeitschrift für Internationale Germanistik. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2020, pp. 83-107.

(50) Dynamics of antisemitism and censorship. Old Politics of Repression, New Debates on Sagacity, in: Stefan Greif, Turgay Kurultay, Nikola Roßbach (eds.): No End to the Rumor. Antisemitism in culture and literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. Kassel 2020, pp. 217-248.

(51) The hero and censorship. An unequal struggle in Vormärz journalism, in: Martina Bender, Susanne Schütz, Peter Grüttner (eds.): Nonconformism and Subversion. Festschrift in honor of Thomas Bremer. Wettin-Löbejün 2020, pp. 479-496.

(52) Staring men. Male gaze and female images in 18th century novels and their illustrations: Wieland's Agathon, Goethe's Werther and Schiller's Geisterseher, in: Lenz-Jahrbuch. Literature - Culture - Media 1750-1800 27 (2020), pp. 99-130.

(53) Violence against texts. Interventions and encroachments of censorship, in: Mandy Dröscher-Teille, Till Nitschmann (eds.): Gewaltformen / Gewalt formen. Literature - visual arts - cultural performance. Paderborn: Fink 2021, pp. 29-47.

(54) "[...] the mists of twilight enveloped sick Paris like white sheets [...]". Heinrich Heine's cholera report from 1832, in: Angela Oster, Jan-Henrik Witthaus (eds.): Von der Pandemie zur Literatur. Berlin: mandelbaum 2021, pp. 43-56.

(55) How free is children's and young adult literature? Formal and informal discourse standardizations, in: JuLit 22 (2022), H. 1, pp. 7-13.

(56) ... and yet it moves. The machine of the 17th century as an exhibition model between functioning and failure, in: Bettine Menke, Wolfgang Struck (eds.): Theatermaschinen - Maschinentheater. Of mechanics, machinations and spectacles. Bielefeld: transcript 2022, pp. 307-331.

(57) "Pictures for domestic rooms and not works of art for admired galleries". Gotthelf Wilhelm Christoph Starke and his paintings in the context of 18th-century debates on poetry theory, in: Lenz-Jahrbuch. Literature - Culture - Media 1750-1800 28 (2022), pp. 165-194.

(58) "As good as done"? Reflections on censorship, literary processes and defamation through literary fiction, in: Eric Achermann, Daniel Arjomand, Nursan Celik (eds.): Lizensur. What is fictional literature allowed to do? Stuttgart: Metzler 2023, pp. 193-204.

(59) "According to their own words". Wiederholung als Verkehrung in Dyl Ulenspiegel, in: Nikola Roßbach, Angela Schrott (eds.): Wiederholung und Variation. Repetitive Patterns in Early Modern Conversations. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2023, pp. 303-315.

(60) Loimologia. Literatur der Krise am Beispiel von Magdeburger Pestschriften von 1681/82, in: Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf (ed.): Lesen (in) der Epidemie (=Themenheft literatur für leser:innen 1/23), pp. 25-42.

(61) Censorship: Terms and definitions, in: Nikola Roßbach (ed.): Zensur. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2024, pp. 13-29.

(62) Australia, in: Nikola Roßbach (ed.): Zensur. Handbook for science and studies. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2024, pp. 427-440.

(1) Ibsen parodies in early modernism. Edited by Nikola Roßbach. Munich: Martin Meidenbauer 2005 (context 1). Downloads: Contents - Rudolf Bernauer: Nora

(2) The myth of Oedipus. Texts from Homer to Pasolini. Edited by Nikola Roßbach. Leipzig: Reclam 2005. Downloads: Contents - Afterword

(3) Caspar Gottschling: The State of Cockaigne. Edited with commentary, afterword and bibliography by Nikola Roßbach. Hanover-Laatzen: Wehrhahn 2007 (= Fundstücke 15). Download: Excerpt

(4) Vienna parodied. Theater texts around 1900, edited by Nikola Roßbach. Vienna: Praesens 2007.

(5) reflexA. Literary mirror scenes of women. Scientific database as part of the DaSinD Texte online project (Stiftung Frauen-Literatur-Forschung, University of Bremen), dasind.zait.uni-bremen.de/dasind2/recherche/index. php?action =reflexa [accessed on 6.10.2008].

(6) The lake went up with its blue, blue, oh, so lovely blue waves. Literature on Lake Garda from three centuries. Edited by Nikola Roßbach. Vienna: Praesens 2014.

(7) Julia Virginia Scheuermann: Storm and Star [1905]. New edition, with an afterword. Hamburg: Igel 2017 (Women writers around 1900).

(8) Friederike Henkel: The Lady of Ibichstein. New edition, with an epilogue. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2017.

(9) Hans Eisenträger: The husband of his wife. New edition, with an epilogue. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2018.

(10) Ferdinande von Brackel: Nicht wie alle Andern.New edition, with an epilogue. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2019.

(11) Friedrich Wilhelm Held: Censuriana oder Geheimnisse der Censur. New ed. and with an afterword. Kassel: kassel university press 2019, https://www.uni-kassel.de/upress/online/OpenAccess/978-3-7376-0704-9.OpenAccess.pdf.

(12) Gotthelf Wilhelm Christoph Starke: Paintings and other texts. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2023.

(1) Arthur Schnitzler and Richard Schaukal: Correspondences. Lecture at the symposium "Richard von Schaukal (1874-1942)" at the University of Kassel, April 28/29, 2000.

(2) The end of events: Arthur Schnitzler's "Therese". Lecture at the X. International Congress of Germanists "Zeitenwende - Die Germanistik auf dem Weg vom 20. ins 21. Jahrhundert", Vienna, 10-16.9.2000.

(3) Salvation through literature? Reality emptied of meaning and linguistic reflection in Marie Luise Kaschnitz' lyrical cycles and essays 1945-1948. Lecture at the third Bremen Autumn Conference "Erfahrung nach dem Krieg. Autorinnen im Literaturbetrieb 1945-1950. Bundesrepublik - DDR - Österreich - Schweiz" at the University of Bremen, October 5-7, 2000.

(4) "Tormented by fantasy". Autobiographical drafts of childhood in Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Lecture at the conference "Für eine aufmerksamere und nachdenklichere Welt. Contributions to Marie Luise Kaschnitz", organized by the Institute for German Philology II of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and the Catholic Social Academy Franz-Hitze-Haus, Münster, 2-4 February 2001.

(5) Angel or Demon. The child in prose texts by Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Lecture at the conference "Lange Schatten. On the 100th birthday of Marie Luise Kaschnitz", organized by the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing and the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach a.N., Marbach a.N., 16-17.2.2001.

(6) "Mein Immernochda": Ich-Formen in der Lyrik von Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Lecture at the conference "Keine Fußspur im Sande. Kein Zweig geknickt", organized by the Evangelische Akademie Baden and the Literarische Gesellschaft Karlsruhe, Bad Herrenalb, 2-4.3.2001.

(7) Goethe and the art of gardening. Lecture to the Aachen Goethe Society, 21.6.2001.

(8) "C'est une femme qui parle." The literary portrait as a site of feminine self-presentation in the 'Grand Siècle'. Guest lecture as part of the seminar "Gender-Aspekte in Literatur und Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit" (Prof. Dr. Burkhard Dohm) at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, 5.2.2003.

(9) Schlaraffische Texte und Welten. On the possibilities and limits of a cultural studies approach to literature. Habilitation lecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt, 13.7.2005.

(10) "Stimmgemenge". New definitions of theater, text and genre in Helmut Krausser. Lecture at the conference "Vom Drama zum Theatertext? - Zur Situation der Dramatik in Mitteleuropa seit Ende der 1990er Jahre" at the LMU Munich, 3-7.10.2005.

(11) Glass. On the aesthetics of Paul Scheerbart. Inaugural lecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt, 20.4.2006.

(12) Have the honor! Theatrical Parody in Fin de Siècle Vienna. Lecture at the 32nd International Nestroy Talks 2006 "Ah, das dalkete Dencken, is wircklich was Dumms". Raimund and Nestroy in the context of international laughter culture", organized by the International Nestroy Centre Schwechat and the International Nestroy Society, Schwechat, 1-5.7.2006.

(13) Gynaeceum, sive theatrum mulierum. Modeling femininity in encyclopedic theaters of knowledge of the early modern period. Paper presented at the conference "Ordnung und Repräsentation von Wissen - Dimensionen der Theatrum-Metapher in der Frühen Neuzeit", University of Augsburg, 14-16.3.2007.

(14) Knowledge Transfer - Lexicography - Gender: Siegmund Gottlieb Corvinus' Nutzbares, galantes und curieuses Frauenzimmer-Lexicon (1715, 1739, 1773). Lecture at the conference "Gellert und die empfindsame Aufklärung. Research and cultural transfer around 1750", Gleimhaus Halberstadt, July 4-7, 2007.

(15) Picking flowers. Images and education in Sophie von La Roche's women's magazine Pomona. Notes on knowledge and gender in the 18th century. Lecture at the Sophie-von-La-Roche conference at the Technical University of Darmstadt, 19-20.7.2007.

(16) "Faust fin de siècle." Goethe parodies in early modernism. Lecture to the Kassel Goethe Society, 30.8.2007.

(17) The implicit reader? Research and gender in women's information media of the 18th and 19th centuries. Guest lecture at the University of Hamburg, 22.1.2008.

(18) The woman, the man. Gender shifts in the Theatrum Malorum Mulierum (1700) and other 'Malus Mulier' texts of the 17th and 18th centuries. Lecture at the international conference of the association FriedeL "Geschlechter Spiel Räume: Dramatik, Theater, Performance und Gender" at the University of Bremen, 6-9.11.2008.

(19) The Siemann and other monsters. On the Dissolution of Gender Boundaries in the Early Modern Period. Lecture at the Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium Gender Studies "Representations of Difference" at the Leibniz University of Hanover, December 15, 2008.

(20) Literature and Research in the Early Modern Period. Lecture at the research colloquium "Medizin und Religion in Literatur und Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit" by Prof. Dr. Burkhard Dohm at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, 25.6.2009.

(21) Machine Rooms. Technology and theater in the early modern period. Lecture at the congress "Die Erschließung des Raumes. Construction, Imagination and Representation of Spaces and Boundaries in the Baroque Era" at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 26-29.8.2009.

(22) Parody as literary criticism at the beginning of the 20th century. Lecture as part of the seminar "Literaturkritik im frühen 20. Jahrhundert" by Prof. Dr. Ariane Martin at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 16.12.2009.

(23) World and Knowledge on Stage. Workshop discussion at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 25.2.2010 (together with Dr. Thomas Stäcker, Deputy Director of the Herzog August Bibliothek).

(24) Lies of life, happiness and truth. Foyer talk 6 on the occasion of the "Werkschau: Ibsen" of the Erlangen Markgrafentheater, Erlangen, 2.5.2010 (further participants: Katja Ott, Prof. Dr. Michael von Engelhart, Prof. Dr. Hubert Seelow).

(25) Poietic Machines. On the staging of communicative spaces in the Baroque era. Lecture at the XII. Congress of the International Association for German Studies, Warsaw, 30.7.-7.8.2010.

(26) "die selbst-eigene Erfahrung zuhülffe nehmen": Der Maschinenbauer Jacob Leupold und die epistemische Zäsur um 1700. Lecture at the DGEJ annual conference "Die Sachen der Aufklärung", Halle, 30.9.-3.10.2010.

(27) The art-loving reader. Reception models of early modern knowledge literature. Evening lecture at the interdisciplinary workshop "Repräsentation, Wissen und Öffentlichkeit. Bibliotheken zwischen Barock und Aufklärung" of the DFG project "Die Fürstenbibliothek Arolsen als Kultur- und Wissensraum vom 16. bis zum frühen 19. Jahrhundert und ihre Einflüsse auf Genese, Formung und Identität des Fürstenstaats", Arolsen, 29-30.9.2010.

(28) "Mit herzlicher Verträglichkeit" - Zur Utopie religiöser Toleranz im 18. Jahrhundert. Lecture at the spring conference "Gehört der Islam zu Deutschland?" of the Political Club of the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, Tutzing, March 18-20, 2011.

(29) "They never come here... Because this is the 'Intimate Stage'!" The Audience of the Intimate Theater around 1900. Lecture at the Siegen Symposium on Theater Audience Research "Das Theater glich ein Irrenhause. The audience in the theater of the 18th and 19th centuries", Siegen, 7-9.4.2011.

(30) Leibniz' theatrum naturae et artis - the theatricality of Research in the early modern period. Lecture at the lecture series "Leibniz und die Aufklärungskultur", University of Hanover, 11.5.2011.

(31) "comic song and dance". On the theatricality of the scientific lecture. Inaugural lecture at the University of Kassel, 8.6.2011.

(32) Frühneuzeitliche Hausbesetzerinnen und andere Ungeheuer - zu Konstellationen von Geschlecht und Raum in Ehetexten des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Lecture at the DFG Research Training Group 1599 "Dynamics of Space and Gender" at the University of Göttingen, 5.12.2011.

(33) "And how can I turn half a life into a whole one?" Letter, book, library. On the basis of scholarly history(ies) in the 18th century. Lecture at the conference "Frühneuzeitliche Bibliotheken als Zentren des europäischen Kulturtransfers" of the DFG project "Die Fürstenbibliothek Arolsen als Kultur- und Wissensraum vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert und ihre Einflüsse auf Genese, Formung und Identität des Fürstenstaats", University of Kassel, 16.-18.2.2012.

(34) Nothing new in the East. Marco Polo discovers Cuccagna. Lecture at the Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Brescia, 2.5.2012.

(35) "Of 50 Gatt. Lettuce is the best, that of Versailles [...]". The garden as image, narrative space and knowledge in Sophie von La Roche's Pomona. Lecture at the colloquium "Sophie von La Roche et Le savoir de son temps", Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 9-10.11.2012.

(36) Possibilities and structures of networked Research. Lecture at the thematic colloquium of the Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association, 13-15.2.2013.

(37) Mutter-Mahle: weibliche Versehen in der lexikographischen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts. Lecture at the conference "Kulturelle Konzepte pränataler Prägung von der Frühen Neuzeit zur Moderne", Philipps-Universität Marburg, 10-11.10.2013.

(38) Space and gender in 18th century literature: Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann and Sophie von La Roche. Lecture at the DFG Research Training Group 1599 "Dynamics of Space and Gender" at the University of Kassel, 18.11.2013. (together with Helga Meise).

(39) Pure pleasure? Pills, sugar and early modern entertainment literature. Lecture at the workshop "Männiglichen zur Erlustigung und erlaubeter Ergetzlichkeit. Knowledge organization and knowledge transfer in early modern popular literature", LMU Munich, 28-29.3.2014.

(40) Work of art, water fairy tale, homeland: Lake Garda in German literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. Lecture at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Brescia, 28.4.2014.

(41) "nach Tisch/ in Lustgärten/ vber Feldt/ auf Rollwägen/ oder in Schiffen". Reading spaces for refreshment in the 16th century. Lecture at the colloquium "artes populares - Medien, Genres, Räume. Literary entertainment in the early modern period", University of Cologne, Schloss Wahn, 10/11.9.2014.

(42) Psalm, poetry, sermon in the Baroque. Poetic hours of refreshment and the Bible. Lecture as part of the lecture series "Bible and Culture" at the University of Kassel, 3.12.2014.

(43) The lake went up with its blue, blue, oh, so lovely blue waves. Literature on Lake Garda from three centuries. Lecture at the Ateneo di Salò (cooperation with the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Brescia), 30.3.2015.

(44) More or less Europe. European practices and discourses in the 17th century. Lecture in the series "Zur Europäischen Kultur(en)gemeinschaft: Europa in den Perspektiven seiner Länder" of the FB 2 of the University of Kassel, 22.4.2015.

(45) Lake Garda is a compendium of Italy for the German. Literary images of Italy from the 18th century to the present day. Lecture at the 1st Italy Day of the University of Kassel, 1.7.2015.

(46) Schiller's delays. Lecture at the conference "Schillers Zeitbegriffe" in Leipzig, 9-11 June 2016.

(47) The perfect crime. Master thieves from Straparola to the Brothers Grimm to the Hollywood blockbuster. Lecture as part of the lecture series "Gegenwärtige Tendenzen der Grimmforschung" of the FB 2 of the University of Kassel, 14.6.2016 (with Matthias Ott).

(48) "Die gantze Machine ist ebenfals gantz schlecht". Early modern knowledge transfer from Italian to German machine books using the example of the Ramelli reception of the 17th and 18th centuries. Lecture at the 2nd Italy Day of the University of Kassel: Sciences and Arts from Italy. Cultural transfer from South to North from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century, 23.6.2016.

(49) fREADom. Perspectives on banned literature. Panel discussion of the literary center Göttingen, 8.6.2017 (with Murad Erdemir, Sascha Feuchert, Frank Schäfer).

(50) What do we care about the truth? Science between postfacts, bullshit and fake news. Kassel positions from biology, literary studies, philosophy, linguistics and water management. Lecture as part of the lecture series "Hochschulbildung - Die Universität in Wirklichkeit und Fiktion" of the FB 2 of the University of Kassel, 31.5.2017 (with Friedrich W. Herberg, Angela Schrott, Dirk Stederoth, Stephan Theobald).

(51) Censorship. New theses on an old topic. Lecture as part of the MWW network, Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 21.11.2018.

(52) Behind the words. Freedom of expression and freedom of the press in conversation - freedom of expression online. Panel discussion of the Hessian Literature Council and the Literaturhaus Nordhessen, Kassel, 15.5.2018 (with Jens Nähler, Maria Grüning).

(53) Is the #metoo debate changing our media culture? - Reporting between accusation and presumption of innocence. Panel discussion of the Presseclub Kassel e.V., Kassel, 13.6.2018 (with Andrea Boesken, Bascha Mika).

(54) Deer are the better people. Felix Salten's Bambi between escape from the world and cultural criticism. Lecture at the conference "Kulturkritik der Wiener Moderne (1890-1938)" at the University of Venice, 24.-28.9.2018.

(55) "Literature meets Politics" - panel discussion. Graf & Graf Agency, Berlin, August 2018 (with Maria Cecilia Barbetta).

(56) "Attention censorship". Panel discussion. Literaturhaus Berlin, 18.9.2018 (with Harald Asel).

(57) Panel discussion on the topic of "Censorship". FREE ART #FREE OPINION #FREE EUROPE. Kulturempfang der Sozialdemokratie, Berlin, 24.9.2018 (with Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel, Chairman of the SPD Cultural Forum).

(58) Italy is different. Really? Questions for German-language Italian literature. Lecture at the 5th Italy Day of the University of Kassel: Gefälschtes Italien. Phantasms and Fakes in Art, Literature, Philosophy and History, Kassel, 24.6.2019.

(59) Censorship today: analog and digital. Lecture at the globale - Festival for cross-border literature, Bremen, 20.10.2020.

(60) "As good as done"? Reflections on censorship, literary processes and defamation through literary fiction. Lecture at the conference "Lizensur fiktionaler Literatur. Modalities of epistemic, ethical and aesthetic authorization processes" of the CRC 1385 "Law and Literature" at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 30.6-2.7.2021.

(61) SAID and Yamen Hussein: A Dialogue between Unknowns. Lecture at the conference "'Eins und doppelt: literarische Kooperationen'. Colloquium in honor of the 100th birthday of Christine Brückner and Otto Heinrich Kühner - and as part of the 50th anniversary of the University of Kassel", Goethes PostamD in Kassel, 10/11.9.2021.

(62) "according to Üweren's own words". Repetition as reversal in Dyl Ulenspiegel. Lecture at the conference "Wiederholung und Variation. Repetitive Patterns in Early Modern Conversations", University of Kassel, 11-14.10.2021.

(63) Panel discussion with Matthias Lorenz on the topic "Bedrohung der Demokratie durch Zensur und Cancel Culture - heiße Luft oder echte Gefahr?", Bielefeld, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, 25.10.2021 (Transcript: literaturkritik.de/bedrohen-zensur-und-cancel-culture-unsere-demokratie,29110.html).

(64) Panel discussion on "Verstehen und Deuten: Necessity and Power' at the Frankfurt Debate on Language 'Verstehen und Übersetzen: Aneignung fremder Identität?", organized by the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Frankfurt, 18.11.2021.

(65) Breathlessness - on old and new unfreedoms of speech. Lecture at the conference "Neu, Atem, neu" of the Kultum Graz, 12.11.2021.

(66) How free is children's and youth literature? Formal and informal discourse standardizations. Lecture at the conference "Cancel Literature. Old and new limits of the representable" of the Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur, Siegburg, 19.-21.11.2021.

(67) "Only the great, the wild, the shining pleases me." Women in the Romantic period. Lecture with reading at Flechtdorf Monastery (readers: Marcus Angebauer, Heiko Schimmelpfeng), 9.9.2022 (Flechtdorf Monastery) and 23.11.2022 (Kassel City Library).

(68) Theory and history of censorship - a global perspective. Lecture at the conference "Verbotene Bücher. On the history of censorship since the Papal Index Librorum Prohibitorum of 1559", Catholic Academy in Bavaria, Munich, 24.3.2023.

(69) Is there censorship in Germany again? Lecture at the 42nd Konstanz Symposium "Meinungsfreiheit im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Grundrecht und gesellschaftlicher Realität", organized by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Justice, Konstanz, 27/28.4.2023.

(70) Gotthelf Wilhelm Christoph Starke (1762-1830): Discovery of a great unknown. Lecture and reading at the Evangelische Erwachsenenbildung der Landeskirche Anhalt, the Stadtarchiv Dessau and the Verein für Anhaltische Landeskunde, Ortsgruppe Dessau, Dessau, 22.9.2023.

(71) Introductory words. Lecture at the Literaturhaus München for the opening of the exhibition "Verbotene Bücher", Munich, 27.10.2023.

(72) "A woman without moral support and spiritual drive": Johanna von Wallenrodt, the literary market and literary history. Lecture at the conference "Wer schreibt/liest/vermittelt? Gender and canonization in the 18th century", Braunschweig, 10/11/2023.

(73) Gotthelf Wilhelm Christoph Starke (1762-1830): Discovery of a great unknown. Lecture and reading in the Schlosskirche Ballenstedt at the invitation of the town of Ballenstedt, 25.11.2023.

(74) An unknown poet, translator and theologian of Goethe's time: Gotthelf Wilhelm Christoph Starke. Digital lecture at the Institute of German Philology of the IvanFranko National University of Lviv, 22.3.2024.

(75) On classicists, arch-rationalists and family friendships: Gotthelf Wilhelm Christoph Starke. Lecture at the Family Day of the von Kügelgen Family Association, Höhnscheid Castle, 27.4.2024.

(76) Is that censorship? Lunch talk at the Uni:Lokal of the University of Kassel, 28.5.2024.

(77) Gotthelf Wilhelm Christoph Starke (1762-1830). A German poet, teacher and pastor - also in Rieder. Lecture in the church of St. Beatae Mariae Virginis in Rieder, 21.9.2024.

(78) "den Feuerfax hab ich brennender"... Bürgerliche Blütenträume um 1800. Lecture in the panel "Writing the Garden & Gardening the World" of the section "Naturen/Kulturen" of the annual conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, Wittenberg, 11.10.2024.

(79) "A democracy without books is no democracy" (Marta Minujín). On censorship, book bans and the Kassel List. Lecture in the Kirchditmold library, 12.10.2024.

(80) The Anthropologization of the Economy. The concept of domesticity in the late Enlightenment. Lecture at the conference "Gattungen des Ökonomischen in der Frühen Neuzeit. Compilation - Diffusion - Circulation" of the Fugger Center Augsburg, 14-16.11.2024.

(1) 2001-2008: metaphorik.de. The online journal on metaphor in language, literature and media. Bonn 2001ff. Since July 2007 zugl. Hannover: Wehrhahn. Co-ed.: Hildegard Clarenz-Löhnert, Martin Döring, Klaus Gabriel, Katrin Mutz, Dietmar Osthus, Claudia Polzin-Haumann, Judith Visser.

(2) 2008-2024 Lenz Yearbook. Literature - Culture - Media 1750-1800. St. Ingbert: Röhrig 1991-2018, Hanover: Wehrhahn 2019ff. Co-ed. 2008-2012: Matthias Luserke-Jaqui, Ariane Martin, 2013-2024: Ariane Martin, Georg-Michael Schulz.

(3) Meteors. Hanover 2009ff. co-edited by Alexander Košenina, Franziska Schößler. Series of biobibliographical author books.

(4) Dynamics of space and gender. Bielefeld 2014-2024 co-edited by Rebekka Habermas. series.

(1) Gewalt in Literatur und Lebenswelt: eine Auswahlbibliografie. In: Der Deutschunterricht 52 (2000), H. 6, pp. 88-91.

(2) Robert Musil: Bibliography 1994-2001. In: Musil-Forum. Studies in the Literature of Classical Modernism 27 (2001/2002), pp. 289-330.

(together with Catherine Janssen and Johanna May).

(3) Sophie von La Roche: Bibliography 1992-2007. In: Monika Lippke, Matthias Luserke-Jaqui, Nikola Roßbach (eds.): "bald zierliche Blumen - bald Nahrung des Verstands". Readings on Sophie von La Roche. Hannover: Wehrhahn 2008, pp. 169-192.

(4) Robert Musil Bibliography 2002-2008. in: Musil-Forum. Studies in the Literature of Classical Modernism 30 (2007/2008), pp. 257-293.

(5) Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Bibliography 2005-2010. In: Lenz-Jahrbuch. Literature - Culture - Media 1750-1800 17 (2010), pp. 135-148.

World and Knowledge on Stage. Theatrum literature of the early modern period. Repertory. Edited by Nikola Roßbach and Thomas Stäcker. Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek 2011.

(1) A.C.M.: Schauplatz Einer vollständigen und leicht begreiffenden Frantzösischen Sprachkunst.

(2) Amman, Jost: Gynaeceum, sive Theatrum mulierum

(3) Anonymous: War Theatrum in Italy

(4) Anonymous: Newly published Complementir- and Liebes-Theatrum

(5) Anonymous: Newly-performed Show-Play Or warhaffte Love-Story

(6) Anonymous: Pomeranian War-Theatrum

(7) Anonymous: Showplace of all things

(8) Anonymous: Theatrum Malorum Mulierum

(9)  Besson, Jacques: Theatrum Instrumentorum Et Machinarum

(10) Böckler, Georg Andreas: Theatrum Machinarum Novum

(11) Ceumern, Caspar von: Theatridium Livonicum

(12) Collin, Friedrich Eberhard: Miracle-full scene of The Holy Martyrs

(13)  Dahlmann, Peter: The Scene of the Masquist and Demasquist Scholars

(14) Dieussart, Charles Philippe: Theatrum Architecturae Civilis

(15)  Eißlingen, Christoph: Breviarium Itineris Italiae

(16) Hertel, Hans Georg: Newly opened Geometrical Schaw- and Mässe Square

(17)  Hueber, Ivo: Theatrum Annuum Historico-Morale Heroinarum

(18) Justi, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von: Showplace of the Arts and Crafts

(19) Kramer, Matthias: Allgemeiner Schau-Platz/ auf welchem [...] vorgestellet wird die Teutsche und Italiänische Benennung aller Haupt-Dinge der Welt

(20) Kunze, Carl Sebastian Heinrich: Showplace of the most useful machines

(21) Leupold, Jacob/Joachim Ernst Scheffler: Theatri Machinarum Supplementum

(22) Leupold, Jacob: Theatrum Machinarum Hydraulicarum

(23) Leupold, Jacob: Theatrum Staticum

(24) Liger, Louis: Nouveau Theatre D'Agriculture Et Menage Des Champs

(25) Meuschen, Johann Gerhard: Courieuse Schau-Bühne Durchläuchtigst-Gelahrter Dames

(26) Misson, Maximilian: Holy Show-Place Of The Countryside Cevennes

(27)  Mollet, Claude: Theatre Des Plans Et Iardinages

(28) Pirckheimer, Willibald: Theatrvm Virtvtis & Honoris

(29) Polus, Timotheus: Lustiger Schauplatz/ Da allerley Personen/ Aempter/ Stände/ Künste/ Händel/ Gewerbe vnd Handwercke/ Wie auch derselben Anfänger/ Erfinder vnd Vermehrer beyeinander sind

(30) Reyher, Andreas: Theatrum Latino-Germanico-Graecum

(31) Saur, Abraham: Theatrum De Veneficis

(32) Schmid, J.F. (Mercurius): Showplace of the Dantzenden

(33) Schmidt, Christian Heinrich: Kleiner Schauplatz des bürgerlichen Gewerbfleißes (Small Showplace of the Civic Crafts)

(34) Schmolck, Benjamin: Holy Show-Place of Love

(35) Serres, Olivier de: Theatre D'Agricvltvre Et Mesnage Des Champs

(36) Stridbeck, Johann: Curioses Staats und Kriegs Theatrvm Dermahliger Begebenheiten im Tyrol

(37) Stridbeck, Johann: Curioses Staats und Kriegs Theatrvm Dermahliger Begebenheiten in Bayern

(38) Stridbeck, Johann: Curioses Staats und Kriegs Theatrvm Dermahliger Begebenheiten in Francken und Schwaben

(39) Stridbeck, Johann: Theatrum Der Vornehmsten Kirchen Clöster Pallæst u: Gebeude in Chur F. Residentz City of Munich

(40) Thomae, Johannes: Trawriger Schawplatz Des im Jahre 1642. belagerten Leipzigs

(41) Van der Horst, Tileman /Jacob Polley: Theatrum Machinarum Universale; Of Keurige Verzameling van verscheide grote en zeer fraaie Waterwerken

(42) Van der Horst, Tileman: Theatrum Machinarum Universale; Of Nieuwe Algemeene Bouwkunde

(43) Zeising, Heinrich/Hieronymus Megiser: Theatrum Machinarum

(44) Zencker, Johann Samuel: Frantzösischer Soldaten-Teufel/ Described: und Auff den Schauplatz Teutschlandes auffgeführet

(45)  Zinner, Mathias Ignatius: The General Curriculum Vitae and Showplace of this World

(46)  Zonca, Vittorio: Novo Teatro Di Machine Et Edificii

(47)  Zyl, Jan van: Theatrum Machinarum Universale; Of Groot Algemeen Moolen-Boek

(1) Afterword, in: Nikola Roßbach (ed.): Ibsen-Parodien in der frühen Moderne. Munich: Martin Meidenbauer 2005 (Kontext 1), pp. 233-239.

(2) Epilogue. On the history of the Oedipus myth. On the selection of texts, in: Nikola Roßbach (ed.): Mythos Ödipus. Texts from Homer to Pasolini. Leipzig: Reclam 2005, pp. 163-170.

(3) Afterword, in: Caspar Gottschling:Der Staat von Schlaraffenland. With commentary, afterword and bibliography edited by Nikola Roßbach. Hanover-Laatzen: Wehrhahn 2007 (= Fundstücke 15), pp. 65-99.

(4) Afterword, in: Nikola Roßbach (ed.): Wien parodiert. Theatertexte um 1900. with epilogue and appendix. Vienna: Praesens 2007, pp. 312-316.

(5) Ladies' philosophy. In: Wikipedia. The free encyclopedia [discontinued August 2007].

(6) Dagmar Leupold. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (ed.): Killy Literaturlexikon. Authors and works of the German-speaking cultural area. 2nd, completely revised ed. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2010, vol. 7, p. 378f.

(7) August Wilhelm Iffland: Frauenstand. In: Mark-Georg Dehrmann, Alexander Košenina (eds.): Iffland's dramas. An encyclopedia. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2009, pp. 91-93.

(8) August von Kotzebue: The Judgement of Paris. A heroic comedy. In: Johannes Birgfeld, Julia Bohnengel, Alexander Košenina (eds.): Werklexikon. Dramas by August von Kotzebue. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2011, p. 228f.

(9) August von Kotzebue: Sultan Bimbambum or the Triumph of Truth. A moral Heroi-Tragi-Comödia. In: Johannes Birgfeld, Julia Bohnengel, Alexander Košenina (eds.): Werklexikon. Dramas by August von Kotzebue. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2011, pp. 208-211.

(10) Germanistik als Möglichkeitswissenschaft, in: 40 Jahre University of Kassel. Nature, technology, culture, society. Ed. by the Presidential Board of the University of Kassel. Kassel 2011, p. 140ff.

(11) Pippi Longstocking, in: Stephanie Wodianka, Juliane Ebert (eds.): Metzler Lexikon moderner Mythen. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2014, pp. 294-297.

(12) The compendium of Italy for the German. Der Gardasee in der deutschen Literatur, in: Nikola Roßbach (ed.): Der See ging hoch mit seinen blauen, blauen, ach, so reizend blauen Wellen. Literature on Lake Garda from three centuries. Vienna: Praesens 2014, pp. 473-477.

(13) Introduction, in: Alessandra Lombardi, Lucia Mor, Nikola Roßbach (eds.): Destination Italy. Modern constructions of cultural knowledge in literature - language - film. Frankfurt a.M. [et al:] Lang 2014, pp. 11-20 (with Alessandra Lombardi, Lucia Mor).

(14) Introduction, in: Alessandra Lombardi, Lucia Mor, Nikola Roßbach (eds.): Lake Garda and the Germans. Literature - Art - Communication / I Tedeschi e il Garda. Letteratura - Arte - Comunicazione. Frankfurt a.M. [et al:] Lang 2016., pp. 7-27 (with Alessandra Lombardi, Lucia Mor).

(15) "All my powers are at their zenith!" Julia Virginia Scheuermann and her poetry collection Sturm und Stern, in: Julia Virginia Scheuermann: Sturm und Stern [1905]. New edition, with an afterword edited by Nikola Roßbach. Hamburg: Igel 2017, pp. 125-137.

(16) Justus Möser, in: Matthias Luserke-Jaqui (ed.): Handbuch Sturm und Drang. Berlin: Academy 2017, pp. 161-165.

(17) Justus Möser: Patriotische Phantasien, in: Matthias Luserke-Jaqui (ed.): Handbuch Sturm und Drang. Berlin: Academy 2017, pp. 543-548.

(18) Justus Möser: On the German language and literature. Schreiben an einen Freund, in: Matthias Luserke-Jaqui (ed.): Handbuch Sturm und Drang. Berlin: Academy 2017, pp. 605-608.

(19) "Yes, if nature had made me a man! [...] How independently I wanted to shape my existence!" Friederike Henkel and The Lady of Ibichstein. Afterword, in: Friederike Henkel: Die Herrin von Ibichstein. New edition, with an afterword edited by Nikola Roßbach. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2017, pp. 281-293.

(20) Luise! In: Susanne Bach (ed.): Affen im Hörsaal. 95 wahnwitzige Uni-Geschichten. Würzburg: Gemma 2017, p. 46f.

(21) Enlightenment, in: Julia Freytag, Inge Stephan, Hans-Gerd Winter (eds.): J.M.R. Lenz Handbuch. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2017, pp. 307-314.

(22) For the introduction, in: Kleines Kasseler Literatur-Lexikon. Female and male authors. Edited by Nikola Roßbach. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2018, pp. 5-9.

(23) A look into the yawning abyss. Afterword, in: Hans Eisenträger: Der Mann seiner Frau. New edition, with an afterword edited by Nikola Roßbach. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2018, pp. 55-65.

(24)The university as a safe space? An essay on freedom of expression and censorship, in: publik. Magazine of the University of Kassel 41 (18.12.2018), p. 18f.

(25) "Alien among his peers, alien in his own field, incomprehensible to so many": Struggling for female identity in Ferdinande von Brackel's prose. Afterword, in: Ferdinande von Brackel: Nicht wie alle Andern. New edition, with an afterword edited by Nikola Roßbach. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2019, pp. 151-164.

(26) There is no censorship. Or is there? New challenges to Article 5 of the Basic Law, in: Politik & Kultur. Thematic issue: 70 years of the Basic Law, 4/2019, p. 18.

(27) "O this censorship! this God-forsaken, hopeless, despotic, dishonorable, criminal, stupid censorship!" Friedrich Wilhelm Held's censorship documentation Censuriana (1844), in: Friedrich Wilhelm Held: Censuriana oder Geheimnisse der Censur. Newly edited and with an afterword by Nikola Roßbach, Kassel: kassel university press 2019, pp. 274-285.

(28) Introduction, in: Florian Gassner, Nikola Roßbach (eds.): Censorship from the 16th to the 18th century: Begriffe, Diskurse, Praktiken. Special volume of the Zeitschrift für Internationale Germanistik. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang 2019, pp. 5-12 (with Florian Gassner).

(29) Introduction, in: Stefan Greif, Turgay Kurultay, Nikola Roßbach (eds.): No end to the rumor. Antisemitism in Culture and Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Edited with Stefan Greif, Turgay Kurultay. Kassel: kup 2020 pp. 7-19 (with Stefan Greif and Turgay Kurultay).

(30) Freedom in Breathlessness, in: Censored! The History of Freedom of Expression from the Middle Ages to Today. ZEIT Magazine History 2021, H. 2, pp. 14-19.

(31) Gottschling, Caspar, in: Early Modern Times in Germany 1620-1720. Literary Encyclopaedia of Authors. Edited by Stefanie Arend et al. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter 2021, vol. 3, pp. 460-471.

(32) Hold your breath. On new unfreedoms of speech. An essay, in: Kultum. Center for the Present, Art and Religion, 2021.

(33) Censorship in democracies. A conversation, in: Do not read! Journal for the History of Ideas XVI, Spring 2022, H. 1, pp. 11-22.

(34) Abendbetrachtungen eines Nachtwächters, in: Hendrikje Schauer, Marcel Lepper (eds.): Night Shift. A dictionary at midnight. Munich, Weimar 2022, pp. 10-12 [on Gotthelf Wilhelm Christoph Starke].

(35) Die Maschine und die Ästhetik im Barock, in: Oper und Tanz. Zeitschrift für Musiktheater und Bühnentanz (2022), H. 4/5, pp. 19-21 [partial reprint of "Poeisis der Maschine"].

(36) Paul Maar, in: Lothar Bluhm, Stefan Neuhaus (eds.): Handbuch Märchen. Stuttgart 2023, pp. 349-351.

(37) Wiederholung und Variation im Gespräch des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Einleitende Überlegungen, in: Nikola Roßbach, Angela Schrott (eds.): Wiederholung und Variation im Gespräch des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Berlin, New York 2023, pp. 3-19 (with Angela Schrott).

Small Kassel Encyclopedia of Literature. Authors. Ed. by Nikola Roßbach. Hannover: Wehrhahn 2018.

Articles on the following authors were written by me for the encyclopedia:

(1)               Aderholdt, August Eduard (1828-1890)

(2)               Albrecht, Hans (1873-1944)

(3)               Albrecht, Richard (1864-?)

(4)               Altmüller, Hans (1865-1932)

(5)               Altmüller, Karl (1833-1880)

(6)               Appelius, Wilhelm (1773[78]-1842)

(7)               Artzt, Meta (c. 1900)

(8)               Ausfeld, Karl (1845-1907)

(9)               Bacheracht, Therese von (1804-1852)

(10)           Baum, Caspar (d. 1702)

(11)           Bechtel, Helene(1866-? [after 1909])

(12)           Beelitz, Ilse (1870- after 1919)

(13)           Bender, Georg (1669-1728)

(14)           Bennecke, Wilhelm (1846-1906)

(15)           Berend-Groa, Ilse; Fogarasi Bélané (1885-1972)

(16)           Berlepsch, Karl Freiherr von (1882-1955)

(17)           Bertelmann, Heinrich (1866-1920)

(18)           Biernatzki, Karl Johann Christoph (1849-1935)

(19)           Biernatzki, Karl Leonhard (1815-1899)

(20)           Bode, Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf (1856-1932)

(21)           Bodenhausen, Hermann Bodo Freiherr von (1856- c. 1934)

(22)           Böttger, Christoph Heinrich (1737-1781)

(23)           Brackel, Engelbert von (1830-1903)

(24)           Brackel, Ferdinande Freiin von (1835-1905)

(25)           Brackel, Franz Karl Freiherr von (1875-?)

(26)           Bramer, Jeanette (1845-1922)

(27)           Brandis, Christoph (1600-1668)

(28)           Brauer, Emma (1841-1919)

(29)           Braun, Hans (1869-1941)

(30)           Braun, Julius Wilhelm (1843-1895)

(31)           Braun, Luise (Ps. W. Urban)(1848-1902)

(32)           Braun, Otto (1824-1900)

(33)           Brauns, Carl Eduard (1793-1846)

(34)           Brede, Philipp Ferdinand (1781-1807)

(35)           Brentano, Fritz (1840-1914)

(36)           Brenzel, Josephine (before 1854/55-1927/28?)

(37)           Buch, Johannes (1515-1599)

(38)           Buchmann, Gottfried (1884-1972)

(39)           Büstorff, Gertrud, pseud. Georg Mengs (1861-1936)

(40)           Cagnel, François (1686-? [after 1748])

(41)           Calenberg, Philippine Sophie von (1765-1848)

(42)           Cauer, Luise (1826-1894)

(43)           Coester, Berta Sophie (1849-1908)

(44)           Cohn, Else (1881-1988)

(45)           Cramer, Friedrich Gottfried Matthias (1779-1836)

(46)           Crocius, Johannes (1590-1659)

(47)           Cruciger, Georg (1575-1637)

(48)           Crug, Johann Daniel (1625-1704)

(49)           Curtius, Sebastian (1620-1684)

(50)           Darmstädter, August (1732-? [after 1773])

(51)           Demandowski, Axel von (1867-1929)

(52)           Dick, Johann Tobias (1746-1786)

(53)           Diede, Charlotte née Hildebrand (1769-1846)

(54)           Diederich, Ernestine (1843-1906)

(55)           Dietz, Paul (1875- after 1920)

(56)           Drigalski, Liesbet von (1877-1962)

(57)           DuFais, Henri (1874-?)

(58)           Egloffstein, Heinrich .A. Ch. von (1790- after 1830)

(59)           Eisenträger, Hans (1861-1933)

(60)           Ende, Heinrich von (1847-1879)

(61)           Engelbrunner, Wynandine Gertrud (Nina)

     d'Aubigny von (1770-1847)         

(62)           Engelhard, Karl (1879-1914)

(63)           Engelhard, Wilhelm (1886-)

(64)           Engelhardt, Ewald (1879-1976)

(65)           Essen, Dorothea von (1880- after 1937)

(66)           Falckenheiner, Wilhelm (1821-1892)

(67)           Feldmann, Karl Anthon Matthias (1822-1853)

(68)           Finck, Karl (1814-1890)

(69)           Fisher, Theodor Gideon (1867-1939)

(70)           Fliedner, Lina (1878- after 1937)

(71)           Flöthe, Justus (1854- after 1910)

(72)           Franke, Eduard (c. 1806- after 1864)

(73)           Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf, Friedrich Elliot von (1889-1950)

(74)           Frederking, Hugo (1846-1908)

(75)           Frehse, Ernst (1876-after 1924)

(76)           Fritzsche, Anna, Ps. A. Mercator (1866-after 1913)

(77)           Fuchs, Thomas (b. 1964)

(78)           Gammius, Olga (1881-1965)

(79)           Gelling, Hans (1858-1911)

(80)           Goldscheider, Paul (1854- after 1913)

(81)           Gonnermann, Ella (1879-1930[?])

(82)           Gräfe, Heinrich (1802-1868)

(83)           Gräfe, Julius (1852-1897)

(84)           Grebe, Eduard Rudolf (1843-1927)

(85)           Groschuf, Friedrich (1701-1784)

(86)           Großmann, Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm (1746-1796)

(87)           Gutekunst, Karl Otto Wilhelm (1868-1955)

(88)           Haase, Hermann (1845- after 1909)

(89)           Haendler, Otto (1851-1929)

(90)           Hartmann, Julius (1821-1892)

(91)           Henkel, Friederike (1827-1910)

(92)           Hieronymus, Karl Ernst Wilhelm (1856-?)

(93)           Hinnius, Anna (1848-1911)

(94)           Hoester, Christoph Philipp (1721-1749?)

(95)           Hoffbauer, Jochen (1923-2006)

(96)           Holzschuher, Hanns (1874-1912)

(97)           Horstig, Susanna (1768-1845)

(98)           Hünerbein, Charlotte von (1855-1925)

(99)           Ihring, Henrich Nicolaus (1663-1718)

(100)     Ihringk, Nikolaus Wilhelm (1699-1757)

(101)     Iseke, Hermann (1856-1907)

(102)     Ising, Wilhelm von (1821-1892)

(103)     Jacob, Bruno (1881-1954)

(104)     Jacobi, Emil (1868-1915)

(105)     Janke, Gustav Theodor Erich (1878-1940 [?])

(106)     Jerusalem, Peter (1877-1954)

(107)     Jochem, Adam (1875- after 1922)

(108)     Joeckel, Alfred (1882- after 1934)

(109)     Jordan, Sylvester (1792-1861)

(110)     Juncker von Ober-Conreut, Elisabeth (1870-1940/48)

(111)     Kattner, Emma (1844-1899)

(112)     Katzenstein, Louis (1824-1907)

(113)     Keiter, Therese (1859-1925)

(114)     Kellner Georg Christoph (1765-1808)

(115)     Kern, Irmgard (1870-1963)

(116)     Kette, Hermann (1828-1908)

(117)     Kläger, Friedrich Wilhelm (1817-1875)

(118)     Kophamel, Luise (1869- after 1930)

(119)     Kranz, Johann Heinrich (1866-1931)

(120)     Kreiß, Gottlob Karl Johann (1866-1945)

(121)       Kressner, Adolf (1853-1907)

(122)     Kumar, Anant (b. 1969)

(123)     Kunz, Hermann (1846-1935/37)

(124)     Lampmann, Conrad (1868-after 1905)

(125)     Laufs, Anna (d. 1921/22)

(126)     Laufs, Carl (1858-1900)

(127)     Leiningen-Westerburg, Josephine zu (1835-1917)

(128)     Lepel-Remmer, Caroline Freifrau von (1849-1919)

(129)     Lewalter, Christian (1825 [?]-1876)

(130)     Lewalter, Johann (1862-1935)

(131)     Löbbecke, Elsa von (1886-1915)

(132)     Löwe, Feodor (1816-1890)

(133)     Lyncker, Karl (1823-1855)

(134)     Lyncker, Wilhelm (1831-1862)

(135)     Malsburg, Ernst von der (1786-1824)

(136)     Manger, Adelheid (1894- after 1948)

(137)     Martin, Marie (1856-1926)

(138)     Matsko, Johann Matthias (1721-1796)

(139)     Merkel, Salomon Friedrich (1760-1823)

(140)     Metthingh, Philippine von (1788-1862)

(141)     Meyer von Waldeck, Clemens Friedrich (1824-1899)

(142)     Mohr, Georg (1870-1928)

(143)     Mohr, Ludwig (1833-1900)

(144)     Moriton, Arthur (1878-after 1939/before1949)

(145)     Moriton-von Mellenthin, Bath (1874-1914)

(146)     Müller, Christoph (1859-1932)

(147)     Müller, Friedrich Wilhelm (1801-1889)

(148)     Müller, Friedrich (1833-1900)

(149)     Müller, Max (1863-1920)

(150)     Müller-München (formerly: Müller-Cassala),

      Gustav Adolf (1872-1933)     

(151)     Münchhausen, Marie Luise Eleonore Freiin von (1782-1828)

(152)     Nerciat, André-Robert Andréa de (1739-1800)

(153)     Neumeister, Georg (1872-after 1909)

(154)     Neurath, Karl (1883-1950)

(155)     Niemann, Stefanie (1869-?)

(156)     Niemeyer, Gottlieb Anton Christian (1783-1864)

(157)     Paar, Elisabeth (1852-1901)

(158)     Paar, Mathilde (1849-1899)

(159)     Pohl, Emil (1824-1901)

(160)     Preser, Karl (1829-1910)

(161)     Presler-Flohr, Johanna (1862-1925)

(162)     Rembe, Anatole (1861- after 1931)

(163)     Riemenschneider, Wolfgang (1594-1632)

(164)     Ripcke, Leopold (1871- after 1937)

(165)     Ritter, Anna (1865-1921)

(166)     Rühle, Karl (1848-1927)

(167)     Ruhl, Ludwig Sigismund (1794-1887)

(168)     Schefer, Therese (1861-1907)

(169)     Scheuermann, Julia Virginia (1878-1942)

(170)     Schmahlfeldt, Ludwig (1860-1914)

(171)     Schmitt, Karl (1828-1855)

(172)     Schnezler, Ferdinand Alexander August (1809-1853)

(173)     Schüler, Karl (1867-1939)

(174)     Schuriem, Jean (2nd half 19th c.)

(175)     Schwarzkopf, Karl (1843-1907)

(176)     Schwiening, Georg (1856-1918)

(177)     Sichel, Frieda (1889-1976)

(178)     Siebert, Eduard (1865-?)

(179)     Skraup, Karl (1851-1905)

(180)     Steckhan, Clara (1894-1943)

(181)     Steil, Ferdinand (1872-1936)

(182)     Stein, Ludwig (1868-1934)

(183)     Steinecke, Adolf (1852-1918)

(184)     Stirn-Nivière, Anna (1843-1912)

(185)     Stolte, Ferdinand Ludwig (1809-1874)

(186)     Storck, Frida (1850-1897)

(187)     Strack, Maximilian (1865-?)

(188)     Strüfing, Ernst (1866-1929/30)

(189)     Thielmann, Else (1892-?)

(190)     Thorbecke, Karl (1786 [1785?]-1837)

(191)     Tietz, Gunther (1961-1993)

(192)     Torge, Else (1887- after 1943)

(193)     Trömner, Richard (1851-1914)

(194)     Völkel, Ludwig Johann (1762-1829)

(195)     Wagner, Heinrich (1747-1814)

(196)     Wagner, Richard (1868-1927)

(197)     Wehlau, Anna von (1868- after 1926)

(198)     Weichardt, Helene (1851-1880)

(199)     Weidenmüller, Anna (1854-1934)

(200)     Wendt, Hans (1878-1922)

(201)     Wepler, Emilie (1818-1893)

(202)     Wigand, Karl Samuel (1744-1805)

(203)     Wigand, Curt (1865-1913)

(204)     Wigand, Johanna Elisabeth (1833-1894)

(205)     Wigand, Paul (1786-1866)

(206)     Wildungen, Ludwig von (1754-1822)

(207)     Winckler-Tannenberg, Ernst Eduard Julius Arthur (1852-1923)

(208)     Wiß, Andreas (1788-1815)

(209)     Wolff, Louis (1846-1919)

(210)     Wolff, Wilhelm Martin (1856-1886)

(211)     Zachariae, Blanka (1853-1919)

(212)     Zimmerli, Gottlob Wilhelm (1876-1918)

(213)     Zöllner, Ernst (d. 1919/20)