Dr. Anke Bennholdt Thomsen

Biography

Anke Bennholdt-Thomsen is a renowned scholar in modern German literature, with an academic career spanning several decades. After studying German Studies and Greek at various universities including Tübingen, Cologne, Zurich, Göttingen, and Free University of Berlin, she earned her doctorate in 1965 and completed her habilitation in 1972. She has served as a scientific assistant at Free University of Berlin and has been a professor there since 1972, notably working in the Department of Modern German Literature. Her research interests focus on literary theory, literary studies, and psychoanalysis, particularly the history and theory of letters, as well as lyric poetry with a specific emphasis on Hölderlin. She has published several critical works, edited collective volumes, and her editorial role includes contributions to the journal 'Ergebnisse der Frauenforschung der FU Berlin'. Bennholdt-Thomsen has also directed a research project examining the epistolary as a communicative and literary phenomenon from an interdisciplinary viewpoint, particularly for female authors and correspondents.

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