Aleida Assmann

Aleida Assmann ( born March 22, 1947 in Gadderbaum, today Bielefeld ) is a German Anglistin, Egyptologist and literary and cultural studies scholar.

Life

Aleida Assmann is the daughter of the eminent New Testament scholar Günther Bornkamm. She studied from 1966 to 1972 English and Egyptology at Heidelberg and Tübingen. In 1977, she received a doctorate in English literature in Heidelberg over the legitimacy of fiction. The minor examination in Egyptology, she passed in Tübingen since her husband Jan Assmann meantime had been appointed to the Chair of Egyptology at Heidelberg.

In 1992 she qualified as a professor at the Faculty of Modern Languages ​​, University of Heidelberg, 1993, she accepted an appointment to the chair of English and Literary Studies at the University of Konstanz. In 2001, she took advantage of a Max Kade Visiting Professor at Princeton University in New Jersey. Further guest professorships led them to the Rice University, Houston, Yale University, New Haven [ 2002, 2003, 2005 ] and the University of Chicago. In the summer semester of 2005, she held the " Peter Ustinov visiting professor " at the University of Vienna.

Assmann has published numerous works on English literature and archeology of literary communication. Since the 1990s, her research focuses on cultural anthropology, in particular the issues of cultural memory, remembering and forgetting.

Aleida Assmann is married to Egyptologist Jan Assmann, with whom she has five children.

Awards

Memberships

• Member of the humanities class of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences since 1998
• Corresponding Member of the philological- historical class of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen since 1999
• Corresponding Member of the philosophical- historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2001
• Member of the cultural studies section of the German Academy of Natural Scientists " Leopoldina " Hall since 2004

Works

• The legitimacy of fiction. A contribution to the history of literary communication. ( Theory and History of Literature and the Fine Arts 55). Fink, Munich 1980
• Work on the national memory. A brief history of German education idea. Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt am Main [ et al ] 1993
• Time and tradition. Cultural strategies of the time. Contributions to the Historical Culture 15 Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1999
• Ute Frevert: forgetting of history - history obsession. Dealing with German pasts after 1945. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1999
• Memory spaces. Forms and transformations of cultural memory. C. H. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-50961-4. ( Review: Ijoma Mangold. Berliner Zeitung March 20, 1999 )
• The cultural memory of the Millennium threshold. Crisis and the future of education. , UGC, Konstanz 2004
• The indispensability of cultural studies with a subsequent exchange of letters. Hildesheim University speeches. New Series No. 2, University Press, Hildesheim 2004
• Generation identities and structures of prejudice in the new German memoirs. Vienna Lectures at City Hall, Volume 117, Hubert Christian Ehalt (ed.), Picus Verlag, Vienna 2006
• Introduction to Cultural Studies. Basic concepts, topics, issues. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2006
• The long shadow of the past. Memory culture and the politics of history. CH Beck, Munich 2006 ( review: Martin C. Forest in: Journal of History, 55 (2007 ), pp. 389-391 )
• History in mind. From individual experience to public staging. C. H. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56202-0
• As Issuer: perfection ( Archaeology of literary communication 10), Munich: Fink, 2010.
• The Future of Memory and the Holocaust ( with Geoffrey Hartman ) (Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2012).
• If the time is out of joint? The Rise and Fall of the time regimes of modernity, Hanser, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24342-2.
• The new discomfort at the culture of remembrance. An intervention (Beck `sche series: bsr band 6098 ), C. H. Beck, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65210-3.