Conferences & Lectures

Conferences, lecture series & Co. (organization); Interviews & Talks

Kassel Grimm Poetry Professorship

Summer semester 2026
Grimm Poetry Professorship at the University of Kassel with Lutz Seiler as the prizewinner

SoSe 2025
Grimm Poetry Professorship at the University of Kassel with Judith Hermann as prizewinner

SoSe 2024
Grimm Poetry Professorship at the University of Kassel with Johannes Schmid as prizewinner

SoSe 2023
Grimm Poetry Professorship at the University of Kassel with Feridun Zaimoglu as prizewinner

Summer semester 2022
Grimm Poetry Professorship at the University of Kassel with Doris Dörrie as prizewinner

SoSe 2021
Grimm Poetry Professorship at the University of Kassel with Terézia Mora as prizewinner

Summer semester 2019
Grimm Poetry Professorship at the University of Kassel with Felicitas Hoppe as prizewinner

WiSe 2018/19
Grimm Poetry Professorship at the University of Kassel with Klaus Hoffer as prizewinner

Lecture series

WiSe 2017/18
Lecture series on "Classics of Austrian Literature" (3rd part) at the University of Kassel

WiSe 2016/17
Lecture series on "Classics of Austrian Literature" (2nd part) in cooperation with the 'Arbeitsstelle für Österreichische Literatur & Kultur' (AfÖLK) at Saarland University

Winter semester 2015/16
Lecture series on "Classics of Austrian Literature" (1st part) in cooperation with the 'Arbeitsstelle für Österreichische Literatur & Kultur' (AfÖLK) at Saarland University

Summer semester 2014
Lecture "Film ab! Zeitdimensionen des Films" with public guest lectures at Saarland University (second part of the research and publication project on 'Time and Film')

WiSe 2013/14
Research colloquium with external speakers on the topic "FilmZeit - Zeit im Film" thematically accompanying the DFG priority program "Ästhetische Eigenzeiten" at Leibniz Universität Hannover (first part of the research and publication project on 'Zeit und Film')

WiSe 2009/10
Conception and organization of an interdisciplinary lecture series on the topic "Experiments in the Arts. Literature, Film, Theater, Music and Visual Arts" at the Leibniz University of Hanover

Conferences & workshops

July 2015
[together with PD Dr. Uwe Durst] interdisciplinary conference on "'Das Wunderbare'. Dimensions of a Phenomenon in Art and Culture" at Saarland University

February 2015
film studies workshop on "FilmZeit - Zeitdimensionen des Films" at Saarland University and cooperation with the cinema Achteinhalb
(third part of the research and publication project on 'Time and Film')

February 2005
[together with Maren Bonacker] Organization of the conference "Von Mittelerde bis in die Weiten des Alls. Fantasy and Science Fiction in Literature and Film", which was organized by Section 10 "Fantastic Worlds" of the Giessen Graduate Centre for Cultural Studies (GGK) in cooperation with the Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar.

June 2003
Co-organization of the conference "Zum Zeitvertreib" of the Graduiertenkolleg "Zeiterfahrung und ästhetische Wahrnehmung" at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main

(Radio) talks and interviews

March 2025
hr info - Der Tag: Wovon träumst Du eigentlich nachts? About life - (broadcast date March 20, 2025)

August 2016
CitiyScienceTalk in the SalzburgKulisse on the topic of "The Power of Dreams" as part of the 2016 Salzburg Festival; moderator: Elisabeth Nöstlinger, other guests: Michael Volle (opera singer), Helga Rabl-Stadler (President of the Salzburg Festival, Michael Schredl (psychologist) - (broadcast date Aug. 10, 2016, from 21:01 on Ö1 - oe1.orf.at/salzburgernachtstudio)

April 2009
(Radio) interview for NDR 1 on the subject of "literary adaptations" in the program "Kulturspiegel/Bücherwelt" (broadcast date April 7, 2009, from 21:03)

Lectures (invitations)

October 2023
Lecture at the workshop "Zeitanomalien in audiovisuellen Medien" as part of the LabsWidersprücheerzählenderinterdisciplinary research platform Worlds of Contradiction (WoC) at the University of Bremen; lecture title: "Zerfließende Zeit(en) in Christian Petzolds Undine (D/F 2020)"

September 2023
Lecture at the conference "Traum und Emotionen" at Saarland University on the occasion of Manfred Engel's 70th birthday; lecture title: "Traum und Emotionen im Film: Disco Boy (F/I/P/B 2023) und Körper und Seele (H 2017)"

June 2023
Lecture at the conference "Gattung und Gegenwart" of the DFG Research Training Group "Gegenwart/Literatur" at the University of Bonn; lecture title "Filmische 'Authentizitätsfiktionen': Present(ness) in (feature) film?"

December 2022
Lecture at the Collegium generale of the University of Bern as part of the lecture series "What is consciousness?" (winter semester 2022); lecture title: "'Tomorrow was another day': Dream, simulation and/or waking consciousness in SF films"

September 2022
Lecture as part of the Wetzlarer Tage der Phantastik 2022 "Melancholie, Manie und Mord - Phantastik und Wahnsinn in Literatur, Kunst und Film"; lecture title: "Dichter(wahn) und Jenseits(welt) kinematografisch gespiegelt: Jean Cocteau's Orphée (F 1950)"

May 2022
Lecture at the conference "Zwischen Psychoanalyse, virtuellem Experiment und Schlaflabor. Dream Knowledge and Dream Art after the 'Century of Psychology' 1950-2022 | Between Psychoanalysis, Virtual Experiment, and the Sleep Laboratory. Dream Knowledge and Dream Art after the Century of Psychology 1950-2021" in the section "Rêve et virtualité / Dream and virtuality" at the Humboldt University in Berlin;
Lecture title: "Dream - Film - Immersion: Mulholland Dr. (USA/F 2001)"

April 2019
Lecture at the conference "Der Autor als Filmfigur" at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens-Stiftung in Munich, organized by Prof. Dres. Torsten Hoffmann (Stuttgart) and Doren Wohlleben (Marburg);
Lecture title: "Ein Autor auf der Schwelle - Steven Soderberghs Kafka (USA/GB/F 1992) zwischen Fiktionalität und Faktualität, Text- und Filmwelt, Film Noir und Science Fiction ..."

October 2018
Guest lecture as part of the seminar "Aktuelle literaturwissenschaftliche Dissertationsprojekte" at the University of Vienna; lecture title: "'Time never dies.' - Filmische Achronien"

November 2017
Lecture as part of the lecture series "Klassiker österreichischer Literatur" (3rd part) at the University of Kassel; lecture title: "Klaus Hoffer's novel Bei den Bieresch (1979/83)"

October 2017
Lecture invitation as part of the international double conference "Erotik!" at the University of Kassel on the topic of "Erotik in Literatur und Theater";
Lecture title: "Obszön, skandalös, pervers? On the perverted eroticism in Elfriede Jelinek's novel Die Klavierspielerin (1983) and Michael Haneke's film adaptation (D/F/A/PL 2001)"

June 2017
Lecture as part of the DFG network "Echtzeit im Film" at the University of Münster; lecture title: "Filmische Authentizitätsfiktionen und Echtzeit - David Holzman's Diary (USA 1967), The Blair Witch Project (USA 1999), Keine Lieder über Liebe (D 2005)"

January 2017
Lecture invitation as part of the Hannover Research Colloquium in winter semester 2016/17 on multi-perspectivity at Leibniz University; lecture title: "On the filmic game with double perspectives"

December 2016
Lecture as part of the lecture series "Classics of Austrian Literature" (2nd part) at the UdS; lecture title: "Marlen Haushofer's novel Die Wand (1963)"

November 2016
Lecture at the conference "Rêve et visualités, 1900-1930 | Dream and visualities 1900-1930" of the DFG network "The Nocturnal Self" in Lausanne; lecture topic: "Cinematic Representations of Dreams in the Course of Changing Cinematographic Means (1895-1950)"

January 2016
Lecture at the conference "Yasujirô Ozu und die Ästhetik seiner Zeit", conference at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in the context of the DFG project "Yasujirô Ozu und der westliche Film" by Dr. Andreas Becker; lecture title: "Einfach(es) Essen im Film? - Edwards' Breakfast at Tiffany's (USA 1961) and Ozu's The Taste of Green Tea over Rice (J 1952)"

January 2016
Lecture as part of the lecture series "Classics of Austrian Literature" (1st part) at the UdS; lecture title: "Ilse Aichinger's Spiegelgeschichte (1949)"

October 2015
Lecture as part of the DFG research network "Echtzeit im Film" at the University of Münster; lecture title: "Filmische Achronie als/versus Echtzeit?"

July 2015
Lecture as part of the interdisciplinary conference on "'Das Wunderbare'. Dimensions of a Phenomenon in Art and Culture" at Saarland University; lecture title: "'Realism in the unreal is a trap at every moment'. - Jean Cocteau's Orphée (F 1950)"

June 2015
Lecture as part of the "Saarbrücker literaturwissenschaftliche Ringvorlesungen" in the summer semester 2015 on the topic "Goethe und ...";
Lecture title: "Goethe und Spiegel(ungen) und Murnaus Faust (D 1926)"

May 2015
Lecture as part of the lecture series of the RTG "European Dream Cultures" on the topic "Interdisciplinary Dream Thinking. Theories and Methods";
Lecture title: "Dreaming and Dream Representations in the Arts"

February 2015
Lecture as part of the film studies workshop on "FilmZeit - Zeitdimensionen des Films" at Saarland University;
Lecture title: "'Time never dies.' - Filmische Achronien"

January 2015
Lecture invitation as part of a lecture series on Jim Jarmusch at Saarland University in cooperation with the Saarbrücken 'Kino achteinhalb';
Lecture title: "Zeit(lichkeit) und Zeitdarstellung in Filmen Jim Jarmuschs"

September 2014
Invitation to lecture at the 15th Congress of the Latin American Germanists Association in Curitiba (Brazil); lecture title: "Christian Petzold's Films - Realistic History(ies) or Cinematographic Subjectivity?"

July 2014
Introductory lectures at Saarbrücken's 'Kino achteinhalb' on Georg Wilhelm Pabst's Geheimnisse einer Seele (D 1926) and Westfront 1918 (D 1930)

June 2014
Lecture at the international film studies conference "Filmische Ironie - Die Ironie des Film" at the University of Zurich; lecture title: "'Je ne suis pas dans le jeu'. Constructions of the ironic in Max Ophüls La Ronde (F 1950)"

May 2014
Lecture as part of the Saarbrücken lecture series "Traumwelten. Texts, Images and Cinematographic Visions" in the summer semester 2014;
Lecture title: "Narrated Dream Knowledge in Literature and Film"

September 2013
Lecture at the international and interdisciplinary conference "Destination Italy. Modern Constructions of Cultural Knowledge in Literature - Language - Film" at the University of Kassel; lecture title: "Düsseldorf - Palermo - Heaven: Italiendarstellungen in Filmen Wim Wenders' und Tom Tykwers".

January 2013
Opening lecture at the XIII Scenography Colloquium on the topic of "Prospects - on the opening of the unexpected" at DASA in Dortmund; lecture title: "Reflections as illusionary prospects of the unexpected in visual art, literature and film"

December 2012
Lecture at the film studies conference "Bewegtbilder 2012. Film als multimodales Phänomen und Synkretismus" in Kiel; lecture title: "Filmische Selbstreflexion als gespiegelter Filmtraum: Ingmar Bergmans Persona (S 1966)"

November 2012
Lecture together with Professor Dr. Birgit Nübel as part of the "Nacht, die Wissen schafft" at Leibniz University in Hanover; lecture title: "'Morgen war Weihnachten' - Zeiten (in) der Literatur"

November 2012
Academic lecture as part of the habilitation colloquium "Arthur Schnitzler's Frühlingsnacht im Seziersaal (Entst. 1880). Perspectives on an early text"

September 2012
Lecture at the 'Dritte Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GfF)' on the topic "Übergänge und Entgrenzungen in der Fantastik / Transitions and Dissolving Boundaries in the Fantastic" at the University of Zurich; lecture title: "Traumhafte Übergänge oder Entgrenzungen zwischen Träumen und Wachen: Thomas Mann's The Wardrobe (1903) and Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Ploy (Thailand 2008)"

September 2012
Impulse lecture as part of the exhibition opening "Hans Op de Beeck - 'visual fictions'" at the Kunstverein Hannover; lecture title: "'Ach, wÿ oft sich jch grosse kunst vnd gut ding jm schloff, des gleichen mir wachent nit für kumt.' - Dream and art or dream as art?"

June 2012
Lecture as part of the research colloquium "Erzählen & Wissen/Nicht-Wissen" initiated by Prof. Dr. Michael Gamper at Leibniz Universität Hannover;
Lecture title: "Erzähltes Traumwissen in Literatur und Film" (Narrated dream knowledge in literature and film)

May 2012
Lecture together with Professor Dr. Birgit Nübel as part of the interdisciplinary lecture series "Blicke auf die Zeit" at Leibniz Universität Hannover; lecture title: "'Morgen war Weihnachten' - Zeit (in) der Literatur"

November 2011
Lecture at the '4th Conference of the Southeast European Germanists' Association' (SOEGV) on the topic "Emotional Worlds - Discourses of Emotion" in Bled (Slovenia);
Lecture title: "Traumhafte Emotionen? (Missing) feelings in fictional (dream) texts"

October 2011
Lecture at the 'Second Annual Conference of the Society for Fantasy Research (GfF)' on the topic "EUROFAN: New Directions in European Fantasy after the Cold War" at the University of Salzburg; lecture title: "Constellations of a Postmodern Fantasy"

October 2010
Lecture at the "Nacht, die Wissen schafft" at the Leibniz University in Hanover; lecture title: "Tieck's Blonder Eckbert and Lynch's Mulholland Dr."

August 2010
Lecture in the 47th section "Literature - Media - Culture in a Germanic Context" at the "VII Congress of the IVG" in Warsaw;
Lecture title: "Traumhaftigkeit und Wahnsinn als narratorische Strategie. Tieck's The Blonde Eckbert (1797/1812) and Lynch's Mulholland Drive (USA/F 2001)"

January 2010
Lecture as part of the interdisciplinary lecture series "Authentizität zwischen Materialität und Konstruktion" at Leibniz University in Hanover; lecture title: "Künstl(er)i(s)che Strategien von Authentizitätskonstruktion - Beispiele aus Literatur, Film und bildender Kunst"

December 2009
Lecture as part of the interdisciplinary lecture series "Experiments in the arts. Literature, Film, Theater, Visual Arts, Music" at Leibniz University in Hanover;
Lecture title: "Memento (USA 2000, Director: Christopher Nolan) - Narrative Experiment between Cinematic Representation and Pathological Findings"

July 2009
Lecture at the "Sydney German Studies Symposium 2009" on the subject of "Collective Creativity"; Lecture title: "Intertextuality as Mandatory Collective Creativity? Textual Interconnection in Klaus Hoffer's Novel Bei den Bieresch"

December 2008
Two lectures in the series "Mühlenberger Vorträge für Abiturienten. Academic lectures on topics of the subject German in the Central Abitur 2009" in cooperation with the Goethe-Gesellschaft Hannover on the topic "Art fairy tales and fantasy in Romanticism. Tieck's Der blonde Eckbert and Eichendorff's Das Marmorbild"

December 2007
Lecture at the KCTOS conference "Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies" in the section "Representation of Transformation Processes in Contemporary Literature" in Vienna;
Lecture title: "Schwirrende Bergeinsamkeit und flimmernde Computerwelt. Zum Kontrast der erzählten Welten in Christoph Ransmayrs Roman Der fliegende Berg (2006)"

March 2007
Lecture at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University as part of the conference "Kybernetische Ordnung und Kontingenz in den Künsten";
Lecture title: "Traum(hafte Zu)Fluchten in Science-Fiction-Filmen: Terry Gilliam's Bazil (GB 1985) and Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (USA 2004)"

September 2006
Lecture at the lecture series "Die Suche nach einem Phantom: Patrick Süskind" at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal as part of "Eine Stadt liest ein Buch";
Lecture title: "Vom genieästhetischen Duften und postmodernen Verduften der Texte, Figuren und Autoren. Intertextuelle Referenzen in Süskinds Das Parfum"

December 2005
Lecture at the INST conference "Innovationen und Reproduktionen in Kulturen und Gesellschaften" in the section "WIEDERHOLUNG ALS ERNEUERUNG: Innovationsstrategien der Wiederholung in der Gegenwartsliteratur" in Vienna;
Lecture title: "Intertextuelle Auto(r)-Tötung und Wiederbelebung. Hoffer's Bei den Bieresch, Ransmayr's Die letzte Welt and Süskind's Das Parfum"

April 2005
Lecture at the conference "Metaisierung in der Literatur und anderen Medien: Gattungstheorie, Poetik und Funktionen", a cooperative event of the International Doctoral Programme (IPP) and the Giessen Graduate Centre for Cultural Studies (GGK) at Justus Liebig University;
Lecture title: "'Märchenhafte Metatexte'. Märchenelementeen in Literatur und Film"

February 2005
Lecture at the conference "Von Mittelerde bis in die Weiten des Alls. Fantasy und Science Fiction in Literatur und Film", a cooperation between Section 10 "Fantastic Worlds" of the GGK and the Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar;
Lecture title: "Big Fish - ein postmodern-ironisches Spiel mit wunderbaren Welten"

July 2003
Lecture at the second Interkollegialen "Affekte: Production - Reception - Medium" of the Frankfurt Research Training Group "Psychic Energies of Visual Art";
Lecture title: "Sechs Zehen, drei Füße und zwei zitternde Hände des Einarmigen ... Narratorische Irritationen in Klaus Hoffers Roman Bei den Bieresch"

June 2003
Lecture at the conference "Zum Zeitvertreib" of the Graduiertenkolleg "Zeiterfahrung und ästhetische Wahrnehmung" at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main;
Lecture title "Die durchwanderte Zeit in den Foto-Text-Arbeiten Hamish Fultons"