Stefanie von Schnurbein

Stefanie string of leg (* June 24, 1961 in Augsburg) is a German literary scholar with a focus on Scandinavia and neugermanisches paganism. Since 2000 she has been Professor of Modern Scandinavian Literatures at Northern European Studies at Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin.

Life and work

Schnurbein graduated from 1981 to 1983 as an intern at the Augsburger Allgemeine, after she studied from 1984 to 1989 Nordic Philology, Economic and Social History and German Literature at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University in Munich. Here she received the Master of Arts. In 1992, she was with a dissertation on the subject of religion as a cultural critique. Neugermanisches paganism doctorate in the 20th century at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. From 1991 to 1995 she worked at the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen. With a postdoctoral fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, she completed her habilitation in 1999 on the topic of crises of masculinity. Writing and gender discourse in Scandinavian I - novels since the turn of the century the Scandinavian seminar in Göttingen from. There was a guest stay as an Associate Professor for Norwegian Studies at the University of Chicago. In 2000, she accepted an appointment to the North European Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Publications (selection )

• Religion as a cultural critique. Neugermanisches paganism in the 20th century, Heidelberg 1992
• Gods comfort in turning times. Neugermanisches Paganism between New Age and right-wing radicalism, Munich 1993
• Crises of masculinity. Writing and gender discourse in Scandinavian novels since 1890, Göttingen 2001