Henrike Lähnemann
Henrike Lähnemann (born 1968 in Münster) is a German medievalist who currently works at Newcastle University. From 2015 she will hold the Chair of Medieval German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.[1] She is a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[2]
Career
Lähnemann is the daughter of the theologian Johannes Lähnemann, and the granddaughter of the German medievalist Eleonore Dörner (née Benary) and the archeologist Friedrich Karl Dörner; she grew up in Lüneburg and Nuremberg, Germany. She studied German literature, History of Art and Theology at the Universität Bamberg, the University of Edinburgh, Freie Universität Berlin and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. After a PhD at the Universität Bamberg on late medieval didactic literature, Lähnemann worked at the Universität Tübingen, where she gained her Venia legendi in German Philology with a study of the Book of Judith in German medieval literature. She spent a year as a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow[3] at the University of Oxford and a semester as Visiting Professor at the Universität Zürich. Since 2006, she has held the Chair of German Studies at Newcastle University, and she is also Head of the German Section in Newcastle's School of Modern Languages. From 2015 she will hold the Chair of Medieval German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.[1]
Lähnemann's current research focuses on devotional writing from northern Germany, especially the manuscripts of the convent of Medingen. In 2010, the German Research Foundation nominated her for AcademiaNet,[4] the database of profiles of leading women scientists;[5][6] she also chairs Women in German Studies.
Research Projects
- Medingen Manuscripts
- Sword of Judith Project
- The Renner of Hugo von Trimberg
- Jüngerer Sigenot
Selected Publications
- Lähnemann H. Medinger Nonnen als Schreiberinnen zwischen Reform und Reformation. In: B-J Kruse, ed. Rosenkränze und Seelengärten. Bildung und Frömmigkeit in niedersächsischen Frauenklöstern. Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek, 2013, pp. 37–42, 319-320.
- Lähnemann H. Text und Textil. Die beschriebenen Pergamente in den Figurenornaten. In: Klack-Eitzen, C., Haase, W., Weissgraf, T., ed. Heilige Röcke. Kleider für Skulpturen in Kloster Wienhausen. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2013, pp. 71–78 (79-173).
- Lähnemann H. Also do du ok. Andachtsanweisungen in den Medinger Handschriften. In: Brüggen, E; Holznagel, F-J; Coxon, S; Suerbaum, A, ed. Text und Normativität im deutschen Mittelalter. Tübingen: de Gruyter, 2012, pp. 437–453.
- Lähnemann H. Der Auferstandene im Dialog mit den Frauen. Die Erscheinungen Christi in den Andachtsbüchern des Klosters Medingen. In: Koldau, L.M, ed. Passion und Ostern in den Lüneburger Klöstern. Ebstorf: Verlag Kloster Ebstorf, 2010, pp. 105–134.
- Brine K, Ciletti E, Lähnemann H, ed. The Sword of Judith. Judith Studies Across the Disciplines. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2010.
- Lähnemann H. Per organa. Musikalische Unterweisung in Handschriften der Lüneburger Klöster. In: Lähnemann, H., Linden, S, ed. Dichtung und Didaxe. Lehrhaftes Sprechen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters. Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009, pp. 397–412.
- Lähnemann H., Linden S, ed. Dichtung und Didaxe. Lehrhaftes Sprechen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 2009.
- Lähnemann H. Hystoria Judith: Deutsche Judithdichtungen vom 12. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2006.
- Lähnemann H. 'An dessen bom wil ik stighen.' Die Ikonographie des Wichmannsburger Antependiums im Kontext der Medinger Handschriften. Oxford German Studies 2005, 34(1), 19-46.
References
- ^ a b "SML Chair of German Studies appointed to Chair in Oxford". Newcastle University. 2014-07-13. Retrieved 2014-10-12.
- ^ "Visitor, Principal and Fellows". St Edmund Hall, Oxford. 2014-07-13. Retrieved 2014-10-12.
- ^ Details of the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford
- ^ See also the AcademiaNet website; click on English in the top left-hand corner for a description of the initiative.
- ^ An AcademiaNet interview with Henrike Lähnemann (in German): 'Eine spannende Umbruchssituation'
- ^ An AcademiaNet interview with Henrike Lähnemann: 'A Voice for Medieval and Modern German'