Curriculum Vitae (English) 

1960-1972

Primary and High School (Gymnasium) Bielefeld, Germany (Abitur 1972)

1972-1973

University of Münster (German Literature, History, Philosophy)

1973-1977

University of Bielefeld (German Literature, History)

1977

First Staatsexamen (University of Bielefeld) German Literature, History

1980

Promotion (PhD), Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, University of Bielefeld; Dissertation: „Abenteuer und Bürgertum. Zur Geschichte der deutschen Robinsonaden im 18. Jahrhundert“ (published 1980)

1988

Habilitation, Faculty of Linguistics und Literature, University of Bielefeld; Title: „Das Projekt der deutschen Literaturgeschichte. Entstehung und Scheitern einer nationalen Poesiegeschichtsschreibung zwischen Humanismus und Deutschem Kaiserreich“ (published 1989)

1977-1978

Examined Research Assistant („Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft“), Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, University of Bielefeld

1979-1985

Assistant Professor, Center of interdisciplinary Research and Faculty of Lingustics and Literature, University of Bielefeld

1985-1987

Grant (‚Habilitation‘), German Research Council

1988-1991

Werner Heisenberg-Grant, German Research Council

1991/92-2021

Full Professor of German Literature and Theory of Literature, University of Bonn

1992-1993

Chair of the Institute of German, University of Bonn

2004-2005

Chair of the Institute of German, Cultural and Comparative Studies, University of Bonn

2017-2018

Chair of the Institute of German, Cultural and Comparative Studies, University of Bonn

1999-2004

Co-Director of the Aachen-Bonn-Cologne Research Center „Media and Cultural Communication“

2006-2008

Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Bonn

2009-2015

President of the University of Bonn

2004

Full Professorship, University of Munich (rejected)

2004

Full Professorship, University of Zurich (rejected)

2008

Full Professorship and Director „Lichtenberg Kolleg“, University of Göttingen (Institute for Advanced Studies, Excellence Initiative) (rejected)

1991

Visiting Professor, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

1995

Visiting Professor Waseda-University, Tokyo, Japan

1996/97

Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

1998

Max-Kade-Professor, University of Bloomington, Indiana, USA

2001

Visiting Professor, Budapest (Hungarian Academy of Arts and Sciences and Soros Foundation), Hungary

2005

Visiting Professor, Monash-University, Melbourne, Australia

• Australia
• Austria
• Brasil
• Canada

• Chile
• Denmark,
• Ecuador,
• Finland,

• France,
• Hungary,
• Italy,
• Israel

• Japan,
• Korea,
• Luxembourg,
• Norway,

• Poland,
• Switzerland,
• Rumania,
• USA

1985-1989

German Research Council, Funding for the Project „Wissenschafts-geschichte der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft“ (4 Years, Funding of 3.5 Postdoc-Positions, annually)

1999-2004

Co-Director of the Aachen-Bonn-Cologne Research Center „Media and Cultural Communication“. Personal Investigator and Director of the Projects: „Wissenskulturen im Medienwandel“, „Medientheorien im Vergleich“, „Personalität und Performativität“ (Funding of 3,5 Postdoc-Positions, annually).

1999-2002

Funding for the Project: „Politische Theologie der Weimarer Republik“ German Research Council/Collaborative Research Group „Judentum und Christentum“ (Funding for 1,5 Postdoc-Positions, annually).

2007-2010

German Research Council, Funding for the Project „Von der ‚Aufklärung’ zur ‚Unterhaltung’: Literarische und mediale Transformationen in Deutschland zwischen 1780 und 1840“ (Funding for 2,5 Postdoc-Positions, annually).

1997

„Deutscher Germanistentag“

2000

„Zerstreute Öffentlichkeiten“

Organisation of 19 Conferences and Workshops
(funded by German Research Council, Volkswagen-Foundation, Federal Ministry of Research and Education, German Academic Exchange Service, Fritz Thyssen-Foundation etc.)

2000-2013

Chair of the Advisory Board „The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center“ („Franz Rosenzweig Forschungszentrum für deutsch-jüdische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte“), Jerusalem, Israel

2004-2018

Chair of the Advisory Bord „Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung“, Berlin

2016-2023

Chair of the Board of the „Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences”, Jerusalem, Israel

1995-2005

Member „Feodor-Lynen-Committee“, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation

1999-2007

Member and Chair „Transcoop-Committee“, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation

1996-2001

Member of „Fachgutachterausschuss“, German Academic Exchange Service

1998-2001

Member of „Beirat Germanistik“, German Academic Exchange Service

1999-2005

Member of „Senats- und Bewilligungsausschuss für Graduiertenkollegs“ German Research Council

2005

Member of the „Scientific Committee for the Humanities“ of the Federal Ministry for Research and Education

2006-2007

Member of the Wissenschaftsrat-Committee for the Evaluation of Media Studies in Germany

2006

Member of the „Committee for a Program-Evaluation“ of the Volkswagen-Foundation

2007-2009

Appointment as „National Expert“ (Social Sciences and Humanities),7. Program of the European Union, Bruxelles

2017-2018

Chair of the Evaluation Committee (Federal Ministry for Research and Education) for the „Research-Network Marbach-Weimar-Wolfenbüttel“

1994-1997

President of the German Association of German Studies (Deutscher Germanistenverband)

Göttingen 2018.

Göttingen 2022.