Prof. Dr. Petra Ahrweiler
Social and behavioural sciences, Simulation of innovation processes in complex social systems
PD Dr. Sabine Koller
Nominated by
- National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- AcademiaNet member since 28.06.2010
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Employed by
- Universität Regensburg
Academic Discipline/Fields
- Social sciences, journalism and information
Field
Arts, Social and behavioural sciences, Languages
Area of specialisation
Slavic studies and Yiddish studies
Research interests
Literary and cultural theories; intermediality; intertextuality; Russian and Yiddish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries; literature and paintings by the Jews of eastern Europe; intertextual relationships among the (eastern-European Jewish) literatures in Russian, Polish and Yiddish; cities as texts (research concentration: Russian literature)
Distinctions and Awards
Professor Joseph Engert Prize from the City of Regensburg, Germany, 2009
Inducted into the Junge Akademie (academy of young scientists), 2007
e-on Culture Prize of eastern Bavaria for outstanding scholarship, 2003
Interested in
- Lectures, Refereeing
Languages
English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish
Doctorate
- 2002: Das Gedächtnis des Theaters. Stanislavskij, Mejerchol'd und das russische Gegenwartstheater Lev Dodins und Anatolij Vasil'evs ("The memory of the theatre. Stanislavskij, Mejerchol'd and the contemporary Russian theatre of Lev Dodin and Anatolij Vasil'ev ")
PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation
- 2011: Chagall intermedial, Chagall jiddisch: Malerei, mame-loshn und Literatur im Dialog ("Intermedial Chagall, Yiddish Chagall: Painting, mame-loshn and literature in dialogue ")
Short CV/Education and training
- 1991 – 1998Studied Romance studies and Slavic studies in Regensburg, Germany; Grenoble, France; and St. Petersburg, Russia
- 1999 – 2002PhD in Slavic studies
- 2001Conferment of teaching authorisation in the field of Slavic studies
- 2003 – 2006Lecturer in the Slavic Department (Literary and Cultural Studies)
- 2006 – 2012Dilthey fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation ("Eastern-European Jews in literature and painting: Marc Chagall")
- 2007 – 2012Member "Die Junge Akademie"
- 2012Akademische Rätin, University Regensburg
- Since 2013Professor for Slavic-Jewish Studies, University Regensburg (Institute for Slavistic/Literature and Cultural Studies)
Selected publications
Koller, S./Estraikh, G./Krutikov, M. (Hg.). Joseph Opatoshu. A Yiddish Writer between Europe and America. Oxford: Legenda 2013.
Koller, S.: Marc Chagall. Grenzgänge zwischen Literatur und Malerei. Köln Weimar Wien: Böhlau 2012. (zugleich Habilitationsschrift an der Fakultät für Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften der Universität Regensburg. )
Koller, S.: Das Gedächtnis des Theaters. Stanislavskij, Mejerchol'd und das russische Gegenwartstheater Lev Dodins und Anatolij Vasil'evs. In: Mainzer Forschungen zu Drama und Theater 31, 2005, Tübingen.
Klatt, M., Koller, S. (Hg.): Die Lehrfibel – Ein Projekt der Jungen Akademie. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus Verlag 2012.
Koller, S. (Hg.): Ein Tag im jüdischen Regensburg mit Joseph Opatoshu und Marc Chagall. Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung vom 15. Februar bis 14. Juni 2009 im Historischen Museum der Stadt Regensburg, 2009.
Koller, S.: "The Air Outside is Bloody": Leyb Kvitko and His Pogrom Cycle 1919. In: Estraikh, G., Krutikov, M. (Hg.): Yiddish in Weimar Berlin. London, 2010. S. 198-224. (Studies in Yiddish, 8)
Koller, S.: Gewalt und Vertreibung in Text und Bild – Marc Chagall illustriert David Hofshteyns Gedichtzyklus Troyer (Trauer). In: Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 64, 2009. S. 34-73.
Koller, S.: Bibel, Bild und Text – Die Bindung Isaaks bei Marc Chagall, Yehoyesh und Itsik Manger. In: Klanska, M., Zarychta, P., Kita-Huber, J. (Hg.): Der Heiligen Schrift auf der Spur. Beiträge zur biblischen Intertextualität in der Literatur. Dresden/Wroclaw, 2009. S. 235-252.
Koller, S.: Civil servants in a cercle – Chagall's "poshlust" reading the Dead Souls. In: Birzer, S., Finkelstein, M., Mendoza, I. (Hg.): Proceedings of the Second International "Perspectives on Slavistics" Conference 2006. Otto Sagner, München, 2009. S. 260-269. (Sammelbände – Sborniki; Bd. 36)
Selected projects
"Marc Chagall and Vitebsk: Yesterday and today" (an exhibition co-produced with Walter Koschmal / Slavic studies, and Hans-Christoph Dittscheid / art history; University of Regensburg, Germany), July 2011
"A day in Jewish Regensburg with Joseph Opatoshu and Marc Chagall" (an exhibition organised in collaboration with the Cultural Department of the City of Regensburg), February through June 2009
"A day in Regensburg" by Joseph Opatoshu (a book presentation, the first translation from the Yiddish), November 2008
Soft Skills/Other activities and achievements
Other activities and achievements/family
Married, two children
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