Henrike Lähnemann

Henrike Lähnemann ( born 1968 in Münster) is a professor of German studies and German Studies at Newcastle University.

Biography

Henrike Lähnemann is the daughter of the theologian John Lähnemann and the granddaughter of Eleanor Dörner medievalist and archaeologist Friedrich Karl Dörner. She grew up in Lüneburg and Nuremberg and studied German literature, art history and theology at the Universities of Bamberg, Edinburgh, Berlin and Göttingen. After receiving her doctorate on late medieval German poetry teaching at the University of Bamberg, she worked at the University of Tübingen, where she qualified as a study on the Book of Judith in German literature of the Middle Ages. Lähnemann spent a year as a Feodor Lynen Fellow at the University of Oxford and a semester as a visiting professor at the University of Zurich. Since 2006 she has held the chair of German at Newcastle University and head of the Department of the German School of Modern Languages ​​at Newcastle University.

Lähnemanns current research deals with devotional texts from northern Germany, in particular with manuscripts from the monastery Medingen. In 2010 she was nominated by the DFG for inclusion in the portal AcademiaNet, a database with profiles of leading scientists. She is also chair of the organization Women in German Studies.

Research Projects

  • Medingen manuscripts
  • Sword of Judith Project
  • Renner of Hugo von Trimberg
  • Younger Sigenot

Publications

  • Medinger nuns as writers between Reform and Reformation. In: B.-J. Kruse et al: rosaries and soul gardens. Education and piety in the Lower Saxon convents. Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, 2013, ISBN 978-3-447-06813-0, pp. 37-42, 319-320.
  • Text and textile. The parchments described in the Figurenornaten In: C. Clack Eitzen, W. Haase, T. Weiss Count: Holy Skirts. Dresses for sculptures in Wienhausen. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2701-6, pp. 71-78 ( 79-173 ).
  • So do you ok. Devotion instructions in the Medinger manuscripts In: E. Bruggen, F.-J. Wood Nagel, S. Coxon, A. Suerbaum: Text and normativity in the German Middle Ages. de Gruyter, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028004-3, pp. 437-453.
  • The Risen Christ in dialogue with the women. The appearances of Christ in the prayer books of the monastery Medingen In: LM Koldau: Passion and Easter in the Lüneburg monasteries. Publisher monastery Ebstorf Ebstorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-926655-11-0, pp. 105-134.
  • The Sword of Judith. Judith Studies Across the Disciplines. Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, UK 2010, ISBN 978-1-906924-15-7.
  • Per organa. Musical instruction in manuscripts of the monasteries in Lüneburg: H. Lähnemann, S. Linden: Poetry and Didaxe. Exemplary teaching speaking in German literature of the Middle Ages. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-021898-5, pp. 397-412.
  • Seal and Didaxe. Exemplary teaching speaking in German literature of the Middle Ages. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-021899-2.
  • Hystoria Judith: Judith German seals from the 12th to the 16th century. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-019011-3.
  • ' At its wil ik bom stighen. ' Iconography of Wichmann Burger antependium in the context of Medinger manuscripts. In: Oxford German Studies 2005 ISSN 1745-9214 (electronic ), Volume 34, pp. 19-46.
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