Liliane Weissberg

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Weissberg has curated exhibitions at the Slought Gallery at Penn, Jewish Museum Frankfurt, [9] [10] the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, and the German Historical Museum in Berlin. [11] She has served on numerous institutional boards,is currently a member of the board of the German Historical Museum in Berlin [12] and the advisory board of the Leo Baeck Institute London, [13] and the Center for Jewish Studies, Graz. She was one of the founding members of the Research Center Sanssouci for the Study of the Enlightenment (RECS), a collaboration between the University of Potsdam and the Public Castles and Gardens Sanssouci, [14] and served on the advisory board of the Moses Mendelssohn Center in Potsdam. Weissberg has also been a guest speaker on several radio shows, including BBC World Service, CBC Toronto, Deutschlandfunk, Hessischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, NPR and the MLA radio service. [15] [16]

Research

With her books and more than 200 academic articles, Weissberg's research has covered German and American literature from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries, cultural studies, literary and psychoanalytic theory, aesthetics and material culture. [17] [18] She has contributed to the rediscovery of German-Jewish literary and cultural traditions and has researched the German-Jewish Enlightenment (Haskala), Romanticism in America and Europe, German realism, and visual studies. Weissberg has also studied issues concerning the Holocaust. [19] [20] She has extensively dealt with figures like Edgar Allan Poe, Rahel Varnhagen, Hannah Arendt, Dorothea Schlegel, Henriette Herz, Johann Gottfried Herder, Moses Mendelssohn, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich von Kleist. [21] [22] [23] [24]

Awards

Bibliography

Monographs

  • Geistersprache. Philosophischer und literarischer Diskurs im späten achtzehnten Jahrhundert. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1990, ISBN 3-88479-480-9.
  • Edgar Allan Poe (= Sammlung Metzler. Band 204). Metzler, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-476-10204-1.
  • Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin and the Hidden Jewish Tradition(= Vorlesungen des Centrums für Jüdische Studien. Band 1). Leykam, Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-7011-0165-8.
  • Über Haschisch und Kabbala. Gershom Scholem, Siegfried Unseld und das Werk von Walter Benjamin (= Marbacher Magazin. 140). Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar 2012, ISBN 978-3-937384-94-8.
  • Münzen, Hände, Noten, Finger: Berliner Hofjuden und die Erfindung einer deutschen Musikkultur (= Vorlesungen des Centrums für Jüdische Studien Graz. 12). Clio Verlag, Graz 2018, ISBN 978-3-902542-71-7.

Editions

  • Weiblichkeit als Maskerade. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-11850-6.
  • Hannah Arendt: Rahel Varnhagen. The Life of a Jewess. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8018-6335-X.
  • Kennedy J. Gerald and Liliane Weissberg. 2001. Romancing the Shadow : Poe and Race. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513710-8.
  • Affinität wider Willen? Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno und die Frankfurter Schule (= Jahrbuch zur Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust. 2011). Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39490-9.
  • Beckman, Karen, and Liliane Weissberg, eds. On Writing with Photography. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.978-0-8166-8885-2.
  • (with Andreas Kilcher) Nachträglich, grundlegend: Der Kommentar als Denkform in der jüdischen Moderne von Hermann Cohen bis Jacques Derrida.ISBN 978-3-8353-3369-7.
  • Benjamin Veitel Ephraim: Kaufmann, Schriftsteller, Geheimagent. 2021, ISBN 978-3-11-072240-6.
  • Psychoanalysis, Fatherhood, and the Modern Family. 2021, ISBN 978-3-03082123-4.

Articles (selection)

  • „Der Jude als Paria: Stationen in der Geschichte einer Idee im Diskurs der Assimilation“. In: Christina von Braun (Hrsg.): Was war das deutsche Judentum? (= Europäisch-jüdische Studien. Beiträge 24). Oldenbourg De Gruyter, 2015, p. 117–133.
  • Rückkehr im Widerstand. In: Katharine Rauschenberger (Hrsg.): Rückkehr in Feindesland? Fritz Bauer in der deutsch-jüdischen Nachkriegsgeschichte. (= Jahrbuch des Fritz Bauer-Instituts. 2013). Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 15–37.
  • Sehnsucht nach Goethe. Sigmund Freud und der Sommer 1931. In: Stephan Braese, Daniel Weidner (Hrsg.): Deutsche *Sprachkultur von Juden und die Geisteswissenschaften. Kadmos Verlag, Berlin 2015, p. 201–214.
  • Das Unbewußte der Bundesrepublik: Alexander Mitscherlich popularisiert die Psychoanalyse. In: Zeitschrift für Geistes- und Ideengeschichte. V 3, 2011, p. 45–64.
  • Karl Löwiths Weltreise. In: Monika Boll, Raphael Gross (Hrsg.): „Ich staune, dass Sie in dieser Luft atmen können“. *Jüdische Intellektuelle in Deutschland nach 1945. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 126–170.
  • Postcards from the Avant-Garde. In: MLN. Band 132, Nr. 3: Else Lasker-Schüler and the Avantgarde. 2017, p. 575–601.

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