Dr. Karin Krauthausen
Alfried Krupp Junior Fellow
(April 2020 - September 2020)
- Study of General and Comparative Literature, Art History and Italian Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich, the Università degli Studi di Firenze, and the Freie Universität in Berlin. Magister degree in General and Comparative Literature, Art History, and Italian Literature at Freie Universität in Berlin. Ph.D. in Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on 'drawing and seeing' in Paul Valéry's works.
- Research associate in the research group Das Leben schreiben: Medientechnologie und die Wissenschaften vom Leben 1800–1900 (Bauhaus Universität Weimar), postdoctoral fellow in the research initiative Knowledge in the Making: Drawing and Writing as Research Techniques (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Italy), coordinator of the Ph.D.-network Das Wissen der Literatur (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), co-leader of the priority area Active Matter at the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge ›Gestaltung‹ (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), and since 2019 co-leader of the research project Weaving at the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Fellow project: „Conditional Reality: Strategies of Speech in the Work of Kathrin Röggla“
This project explores the ›subjunctive narrative‹ (konjunktivisches Erzählen) in Kathrin Röggla's literary work and the crucial role played here by ambivalent character speech, i.e. the deliberate indecision between direct and indirect speech, first and third person, assertion of reality and marks of fiction. The grammatical peculiarity and advanced narrative-theoretical significance of this character speech can only be fully explained through recourse to the structuralist and formalist renegotiation of language and speech in the 20th century, in particular in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, Valentin Voloshinov and Gilles Deleuze / Félix Guattari. Röggla's poetology with its declared ›strategic realism‹ is symptomatic of a ›structural realism‹ in the literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.