Welcome of New Member

We are pleased to welcome our new member Moritz Strohschneider who is a research assistant at the Institute of German Philology at LMU Munich.

Moritz Strohschneider received his PhD in Tübingen in 2018 with the study Neue Religion in Friedrich Hölderlins später Lyrik (Berlin / Boston 2019). His research interests include cultural criticism in early 20th century literature: Currently he is preparing a book entitled Genealogie der Unordnung. Antireformatorische Kulturkritik im 20. Jahrhundert. It deals with the critique of modernity, which authors such as Stefan Zweig and Rudolf Borchardt described as a late consequence of the Reformation. In his habilitation thesis, Verabschiedung der Gegenwart, he deals with the often religiously motivated utopian concepts of the ‘Reich’ in the German literature between 1918 and 1939. In addition, he is working on the European psalm song in the early modern period. Together with Prof. Dr. J. Robert (Tübingen), he is editing Martin Opitz’s Die Palmen Davids (1637/38). Recent publications: „Mythen der deutschen Nation in Friedrich Hölderlins Germanien (1801/1802) und Heinrich von Kleists Germania an ihre Kinder (1809)“, in: Philipp Anton Knittel (ed.): „Seit ein Gespräch wir sind.“ Friedrich Hölderlin und Heinrich von Kleist im Dialog, Bielefeld 2023, S. 137–162; „Legendarisches Erzählen und die Poetik literarischer Sachlichkeit in Joseph Roths Roman Tarabas. Ein Gast auf dieser Erde (1934)“, in: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 62/2021, S. 265–289.