Publications

• "Uninterested World Interest. On the Formation of an Aesthetic (Thinking) Attitude in the Work of Hannah Arendt. Paderborn: Fink 2015.

Magazines

• Postcolonialism. Der Deutschunterricht (5) 2022 (together with Magdalena Kißling)
• Europe. Der Deutschunterricht (3) 2021 (together with Ivo Theele)
• Flight and expulsion in German-language literature. Der Deutschunterricht (1) 2018 (together with Nike Thurn)

Anthologies

• Aesthetics of the Other. Minoritarian perspectives in literature, theater and (new) media. Bielefeld: transcript 2024 (= Interculturality. Studies on Language, Literature and Society). (together with Amelie Bendheim) [In preparation]
• 'Europe' in the literature classroom. Didactic, academic, school and curricular perspectives. Metzler 2024 (= German didactics). (together with Paul Bräutigam and Ivo Theele) [In preparation]
• Ästhetisches Verstehen und Nicht-Verstehen in Literatur- und Mediendidaktik. Bielefeld: transcript 2022 (= Literaturdidaktik und literarische Bildung Bd.2). (together with Hendrick Heimböckel)
• Fake News. Facts and fictions in interdisciplinary discourse. Bielefeld: transcript 2022 (= Lettre). (together with Amelie Bendheim)
• Adolescence and Alterity. Current Perspectives in Intercultural Literary Studies and Literary Didactics. Bielefeld: transcript 2022. (= Interculturality. Studies on Language, Literature and Society) (together with Julian Osthues and Stefanie Jakobi)
• Health as a metaphor. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2021. (= Supplement to the Yearbook Literature and Medicine vol.9). (together with Amelie Bendheim)
• Media Studies and Media Didactics in Dialogue. On the status quo of media education in German lessons. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag 2021 (together with Till Dembeck)
• Figurations of diseases. Opportunities and limits of aestheticization. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2019. (= Supplement to the Yearbook Literature and Medicine Vol.6). (together with Amelie Bendheim)

• Literature and Philosophy. Freiburg i. Br.: Alber Verlag 2020ff. (together with René Torkler).

• Astonishment. In: Stefanie Jaokobi, Tobias Kurwinkel (eds.): Lexikon Motive der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Stuttgart: Metzler 2025 [in preparation]

• 'Europe' in the literature classroom. Reflections on the opportunities and challenges of an interdisciplinary field of research. In: Paul Bräutigam, Dies, Ivo Theele, (ed.): 'Europa' im Literaturunterricht. Didactic, academic, school and curricular perspectives. Metzler 2024 (= German didactics) [in preparation]

• Aesthetic tolerance of ambiguity. Literary learning between understanding and non-understanding using the example of Wazn Teez? by Carson Ellis. In: Reading Rooms (10) 2024 [in preparation].

• On the trail of "true" crimes:  Fictionality and factuality signals in Merle Kröger's Grenzfall and the podcast ZEIT Verbrechen. In: Der Deutschunterricht (3) 2024 [in preparation].

• Learning to marvel. Elias Canetti's travel story The Voices of Marrakech
  in intercultural literature lessons. In: Jörn Bockmann, Margot Brink, Isabelle Leitloff, Iulia-Karin Patrut (eds.): Transnationale und interkulturelle Literaturwissenschaft und Literaturdidaktik. Conceptual and digital transformations. Bielefeld: transcript 2023 (= Literaturdidaktik und literarische Bildung) [forthcoming]

• The desire to become someone else. Reflections on the intercultural adolescent novel. In: Jianhua Zhu, Jin Zhao, Michael Szurawitzki (eds.): Akten des XIV. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Palermo 2021: Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive. Vol. 11. Berlin: Lang 2023, pp.473-487. (together with Julian Osthues)
• Fake News. Facts and Fictions in Literature and Media. In: This. and Amelie Bendheim (eds.): Fake News. Facts and Fictions in Interdisciplinary Discourse. Bielefeld: transcript 2022. (= Lettre), pp. 7-19. (together with Amelie Benheim)
• Adolescence and Alterity. Reflections on a field of research  in intercultural literary studies and literary didactics. In: This. and Julian Osthues: Adolescence and Alterity. Current perspectives in intercultural literary studies and literary didactics. Bielefeld: transcript 2022. (= Interculturality. Studies on Language, Literature and Society vol. 22), pp. 15-22. (together with Julian Osthues)
• "Staunen" als literar-ästhetische Praxis zwischen Verstehen und Nicht-Verstehen. In: This. and Hendrick Heimböckel (eds.): Ästhetisches Verstehen und Nicht-Verstehen in Literatur- und Mediendidaktik. Bielefeld: transcript 2022 (= Literaturdidaktik und literarische Bildung Bd. 2), pp. 101-120.
• Aesthetic understanding and non-understanding. Positions and intersections of the literary didactic discourse In: This. and Hendrick Heimböckel (eds.): Verstehen und Nicht-Verstehen. Current approaches in literature and media didactics. Bielefeld: transcript 2022 (= Literaturdidaktik und literarische Bildung Bd.2), pp. 9-30. (together with Hendrick Heimböckel)
• Public Spaces as Spaces of Aesthetic Practice. On the political aesthetics of Hannah Arendt. In: Urs Büttner and Sarah Michaelis (eds.): Öffentlichkeiten. Theory and History of Aesthetic-Political Practices. Frankfurt: Campus 2021, pp. 99-114.
• The alienation of the animal laborans, its search for consumable happiness and the resistance of the aesthetic. In: Julian Osthues and Jan Gerstner (eds.): Stories of exhaustion. Reverse sides and counterpoints of modernity. Paderborn: Fink 2021, pp. 101-116.
• Kafka, media forms and us - Perspectives on media-reflective literature teaching. In:  Dies. and Till Dembeck (eds.): Medienwissenschaften und Mediendidaktiken im Dialog. On the status quo of media education in German lessons. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag 2021, pp. 65-77.
• Introduction. In: This. and Till Dembeck (eds.): Medienwissenschaften und Mediendidaktiken im Dialog. On the status quo of media education in German lessons. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag 2020, pp. 7-13 (together with Till Dembeck)
• "Don't get angry, just wonder". On the potential of literary dementia narratives for value-oriented literature lessons. On Arno Geiger's The Old King in his Exile. In: Jan Standke and Dieter Wrobel (eds.): Narrating illness. Texts of contemporary literature and perspectives for teaching literature. Trier: WVT 2019, pp. 191-200.
• Introduction. In: This. and Amelie Bendheim (eds.): Figurationen von Krankheiten. Opportunities and limits of aestheticization. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2019. (= Supplement to the Yearbook Literature and Medicine vol. 6), pp. 4-15. (together with Amelie Bendheim)
• "guoter, lieber wân" Aesthetic varieties of love in Minnesang then and now. In: Florian Steger and Katharina Fürholzer (eds.): Lyrik und Medizin. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2019, p. 19-39. (together with Amelie Bendheim)
• Education without railings. Reflections on genre and educational theory in Wolfgang Herrndorf's novel Tschick. In: Matthias N. Lorenz (ed.): "Germanistenscheiß". On the politics of Wolfgang Herrndorf's work. Berlin: Frank & Timme 2018, pp. 259-277.
• What does it mean to be a 'refugee'? The 'naked life' in the work of Hannah Arendt. In: Migration, integration, flight. Ethics and Education (2) 2018, pp. 34-38 (= peer reviewed)
• Introduction. In: Flight and expulsion in German-language literature. Der Deutschunterricht (1) 2018, pp. 3-5 (together with Nike Thurn)
• What does it mean to live a good life? Aristotle and the Geissens in a fictional dialog. In: Happiness and the good life. Ethics and teaching (2) 2017, pp. 43-47 (= peer reviewed)
• Strolling collecting. Movements of thought with Hannah Arendt. In: Daniela Hahn, Ansgar Mohnkern and Rolf Parr (eds.): Kulturelle Anatomien: Walking. Heidelberg: Synchron 2017, pp. 47-61.
• "Who am I and if so, how many?" Identity and alterity constructs in Wolfgang Herrndorf's novel Tschick. In: Der Deutschunterricht (2) 2016, pp. 44-53 (= peer reviewed)
• Hannah Arendt: Culture and Politics. An introduction. In: Journal for Intercultural German Studies (1) 2014, pp. 141-158. (= peer reviewed)
• Standardization through (pro-)theses. The power of language and the 'nevertheless' of art. In: Dieter Heimböckel (ed.): Kleist. On writing in the modern age. Bielefeld: aisthesis 2013, pp. 49-68.
• Mediocre failure. Wilhelm Genazino and the attempt to love possible failure. In: Hans-Christoph Koller and Markus Rieger-Ladich (eds.): Vom Scheitern. Pedagogical readings of contemporary novels III. Bielefeld: transcript 2012, pp. 197-206.
• "In thinking-on, the strangeness remains". Uninterrupted Dialogues: Alterity in the Work of Hannah Arendt. In: Journal for Intercultural German Studies (2) 2011, pp. 77-92. (= double blind peer reviewed)
• "Conversation" In: Kleist Handbook: Life - Work - Impact. Edited by Ingo Breuer. Stuttgart/ Weimar: Metzler 2009, pp. 321-323.
• "Schneider/ Schwerte" In: Lexikon der 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung' in Deutschland. Debate and Discourse History of National Socialism after 1945. ed. by Torben Fischer and Matthias N. Lorenz. Bielefeld: transcript 2007, pp. 293-295.

• "The Dream of the 'Goddess Europe'. Exploring the Borders of Europe with the Drama Nach Europa. Teaching series for secondary level I. Available online at: www.eukid.de/materialien/ [In preparation] (with Ivo Theele).
• "The Future is Europe. Reflecting on Europe with Robert Menasse's work The Capital. Series of lessons for secondary level II. Available online at: www.eukid.de/materialien/ [In preparation].
• Development of digital teaching materials for teaching in Luxembourg schools (primary, lower secondary and upper secondary) on behalf of Friedrich Verlag.

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