Christiane Sch枚nfeld, MRIA
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Christiane Sch枚nfeld studied Germanic Languages & Literatures and Art History in Freiburg, Bonn, Paris and at The Pennsylvania State University, where she completed her PhD in 1994. After lecturing at Middlebury College, Vermont (USA), the University of Wales, Lampeter (GB) and the University of Galway, she was appointed Head of the Department of German Studies at 91制片厂 in 2009. An advocate of an inclusive culture and multilingualism, she teaches German language and intercultural skills, literature and film. Much of her teaching, but also her interdisciplinary research underscores the important role of literature and film in society. Narratives and representations of inequality and marginalisation, for example, have long served to communicate the vital benefits of EDII (equality, diversity, inclusion and interculturalism) to mass audiences and to trigger debates in the public sphere. In addition, in Germany and Austria, many creative individuals were eliminated not only from society but from the literary canon during the Nazi era and subsequently forgotten. Much of her research is devoted to highlighting the significance of these representations and individuals. Among her publications are a book on the representation of the prostitute in German Expressionism (Dialektik und Utopie, 1996), edited and co-edited volumes such as Commodities of Desire (2000), Practicing Modernity: Female Creativity in the Weimar Republic (2006), Processes of Transposition: German Literature and Film (2007), the works of Ernst Toller (2015), and articles on expressionism, autobiography, creative women of the 19th and 20th century, German film and, especially, film adaptations (for more info please see below). Her most recent book is (Bloomsbury, 2023). She has supervised and examined MAs and PhDs on different aspects of 20th and 21st century German literature and film, and co-directs a PhD in Franco-German Relations. She served as co-editor of Germanistik in Ireland, on the committees of the Association for German Studies in Britain and Ireland, Women in German Studies, One Voice for Languages, and initiated and co-directed the Irish Centre for Transnational Studies. She currently serves on the committee of the , the Steering Committee, and on a number of advisory boards. She was appointed to membership in the in 2024.
If you are interested in pursuing postgraduate work, in gaining experience in Teaching German, or if you have any other queries, please contact Christiane via email.
If you are interested in doing your PhD in the context of cultural (socio-political/historical) relations between France and Germany under interdisciplinary supervision, please contact Christiane Sch枚nfeld (christiane.schonfeld@mic.ul.ie) and the Head of French Studies, Dr. Lo茂c Guyon (loic.guyon@mic.ul.ie).
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For a short essay (in German) on Ernst Toller's connection to Ireland and his planned visit to Dublin in 1935, click .
For her 'rte brainstorm' article (in English) about anti-Nazi political activist Sophie Scholl (1921-1943), click .
For a selection of research articles, see 91制片厂's Research Repository .
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Publications - BOOKS
Monographs (including work in progress)
Deutschsprachige Literatur im Kino. Von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart. Stuttgart: Metzler
Deutschsprachige Literatur im Kino. Von den Anf盲ngen bis 1945. Stuttgart: Metzler
New York: Bloomsbury, 2023
Dialektik und Utopie. Die Prostituierte im deutschen Expressionismus, W眉rzburg: K枚nigshausen & Neumann, 1996
Critical Edition
Ernst Toller. S盲mtliche Werke. Kritische Ausgabe, 6 vols., critical edition of Ernst Toller鈥檚 collected works; edited in collaboration with D. Distl, M. Gerstenbr盲un, T. Hoffmann, J. Jordan, S. Lamb, P. Langemeyer, K. Leydecker, S. Neuhaus, M. Pilz, K. Reimers, G. Scholz, R. Selbmann, Th. Unger, I. Zanol. G枚ttingen: Wallstein, 2015
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Translation
, translated from the original German by Eoin and Eva Bourke, edited and introduced with Lisa Marie Anderson. Peterborough: Broadview, 2024.
Journals/Yearbooks
German Life and Letters 75.2 (2022) 鈥 a special number on Ernst Toller in Exile; introduced and co-edited with Lisa Marie Anderson;
Germanistik in Ireland 12 (2017), edited with Gillian Pye. Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre (270 pp)
Germanistik in Ireland 11 (2016), edited with Gillian Pye, thematic section on Transit or Transformation? Border Crossings in Language and Literature ed. by guest editors W. Bonner, S. Egger, E.W.B. Hess-L眉ttich. Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre (170 pp)
Edited and Co-Edited Books
Representing the 鈥楪ood German鈥 in Literature and Culture after 1945: Altruism and Moral Ambiguity, edited and introduced with P贸l 脫 Dochartaigh. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013 (250 pp)
Processes of Transposition: German Literature and Film, ed. (in collaboration with Hermann Rasche) and intro. Amsterdamer Beitr盲ge zur neueren Germanistik 64, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007 (380 pp)
Practicing Modernity: Female Creativity in the Weimar Republic, ed. (in collaboration with Carmel Finnan) and intro. W眉rzburg: K枚nigshausen & Neumann, 2006 (350 pp)
Denkbilder: Festschrift f眉r Eoin Bourke, ed. with Hermann Rasche. W眉rzburg: K枚nigshausen & Neumann, 2004 (490 pp)
Commodities of Desire: The Prostitute in Modern German Literature, ed. and intro. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 2000 (270 pp)
Publications - ARTICLES
Selected Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
鈥淪tefan Ruzowitzky鈥榮 Narziss & Goldmund: Hesse on Film in the 21st Century鈥, in: Hermann Hesse鈥榮 Global Impact: Past, Present, Future, eds. Ingo Cornils and Neale Cunningham, Rochester: Camden House, 2024, pp. 178-97.
鈥淒as Cabinet des Dr. Caligari鈥, Kleiner Kanon gro脽er Filme, eds. Michael Braun and Stefan Neuhaus, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2024, pp. 9-20.
鈥淜ulturelles Erbe und Arbeit im Exil: Die deutschsprachige Literatur und der internationale Film (1933-45)鈥, Oxford German Studies 52.3 (2023): 350-65. [pdf]
鈥淔ilm: Drehb眉cher, Adaptionen, Remakes鈥, Erich K盲stner, ed. Stefan Neuhaus, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2023, pp. 263-85.
"Ernst Toller's Film Projects", German Life and Letters 75.2 (2022): 250-265.
鈥淲omen within the City (Berlin 1900-1933)鈥 in: Jeremy Tambling, ed., Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies, London: Palgrave, online 2021, print 2022.
鈥淏erlin Alexanderplatz鈥, in: Jeremy Tambling, ed., Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies, London: Palgrave, online & print 2022.
鈥淟otte Reiniger and Female Creativity in the Weimar Republic鈥, co-author: Aneka Meier, in Rada Bieberstein, ed., Beyond Prince Achmed: New Perspectives on Animation Pioneer Lotte Reiniger, Marburg: Sch眉ren, 2022, pp. 31-69.
鈥淧ariser Exilromane im Film: Transnationale Neucodierungen von Erinnerungskultur鈥, Feuchtwanger und die Erinnerungskultur in Frankreich / Feuchtwanger et la culture m茅morielle en France, ed. by Daniel Azu茅los, Andrea Chartier-Bunzel, Fr茅d茅ric Teinturier, London: Lang, Feuchtwanger-Studien 8 (2020): 229-246.
鈥淐ollaborative Art with Political Intent: The 1933 Adaptation of Theodor Storm鈥檚 Der Schimmelreiter / The Rider on the White Horse (1888)鈥, in: Bernadette Cronin, Rachel MagShamhr谩in, Nikolai Preuschoff, eds. Process and Practice: Adaptation Considered As a Collaborative Art, London: Palgrave, 2020, 169-192.
鈥淰别谤蹿颈濒尘耻苍驳别苍鈥, Metzler Handbuch: Fontanes Effi Briest, ed. Stefan Neuhaus, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2019, 131-149.
鈥淓rnst Toller und das Kino鈥, text+kritik 223 (2019): 47-57.
鈥淏uddenbrooks im Stummfilm鈥, Metzler Handbuch: Thomas Manns Buddenbrooks, eds. Stefan Neuhaus and Nicole Mattern, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2018, pp. 58-63.
鈥淰on einer 脛sthetik des H盲sslichen zu einer Ethik des 脛hnlichen: Prostituierte in Kunst, Literatur und Film鈥, in: Komparative 脛sthetiken, eds. Meher Bhoot, Vibha Surana, Ernest Hess- L眉ttich, Mumbai: University of Mumbai Press, 2018, pp. 275-289.
鈥淧rostitution im Kino der Weimarer Republik鈥, in: K枚rper kaufen? Prostitution in Literatur und Medien, ed. Simone Sauer-Kretschmer. Berlin: Bachmann, 2016, pp. 68-87.
鈥淢emories of World War II in German Film after 1945鈥, in: The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War, 1936-2016, eds. Manuel Braganca and Peter Tame. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, pp. 200-218.
鈥淏ridging Gaps; Building Bridges: Figures of Speech, Symbolic Expression, and Pedagogy鈥 (with Ulf Strohmayer), in Spatiality and Symbolic Expression: On the Links between Place and Culture, ed. Bill Richardson. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 59-86.
鈥溾橝lle Qual vom Herzen Schreiben.鈥 Performative 脛sthetik von Lust und Schmerz in Margarete B枚hmes Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1905) und Dida Ibsens Geschichte (1907) in Text und Film鈥, in: Schmerz, Lust, Weiblichkeit und Avantgarde in Deutschland, eds. Lorella Bosco and Anke Gilleir. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2015, pp. 51-78.
鈥淒ie blinde G枚ttin - Nachwort鈥, in: Ernst Toller, S盲mtliche Werke, vol. 2, eds. Kirsten Reimers, Christiane Sch枚nfeld, Thorsten Unger, et al. G枚ttingen: Wallstein, 2015, pp. 749-772.
鈥淣ie wieder Friede! - Nachwort鈥, in: Ernst Toller, S盲mtliche Werke, vol. 2, eds. Kirsten Reimers, Christiane Sch枚nfeld, Thorsten Unger, et al. G枚ttingen: Wallstein, 2015, pp. 772-794.
鈥淏eing Human: Good Germans in Postwar German Film鈥, in: Representing the 鈥楪ood German鈥, ed. Christiane Sch枚nfeld and P贸l 脫 Dochartaigh. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013, pp. 111-37.
鈥淔ritz Kortner鈥檚 Return to Germany and the Figure of the Returning Exile in Kortner鈥檚 The Mission and Josef v. B谩ky鈥檚 Der Ruf鈥, Feuchtwanger-Studien 3 (2013): 475-94.
鈥淓rfolg und Misserfolg von Verfilmungen: Manfred Gregors Die Br眉cke und die Nahaufnahmen des Krieges in Kino und Fernsehen鈥, Germanistik in Ireland 7 (2012): 81-102.
鈥淒ie verdinglichte Frau als Heimat im deutschen Film: Rolf Thieles Das M盲dchen Rosemarie鈥, in: Post/Nationale Vorstellungen von 鈥欻eimat鈥 in deutschen, europ盲ischen und globalen Kontexten, eds. F. Eigler, J. Golec and L. 呕yli艅ski, Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2012, pp. 133-138.
鈥淯nder Construction: Gender and the Representation of the Prostitute in German Expressionism鈥, in: Expressionism and Gender, ed. Frank Krause, G枚ttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2010, pp. 117-132.
鈥淔别耻肠丑迟飞补苍驳别谤, Jud S眉脽 and the Nazis鈥, in: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern German Culture, eds. Brigid Haines, Steven Parker, Colin Riordan, London: Lang, 2010, pp. 39-52.
鈥淢alwida von Meysenbug鈥檚 Journey into Nachm盲rz: Political and Personal Emancipation in Eine Reise nach Ostende (1849)鈥, in: Jahrbuch Forum Vorm盲rzforschung, Reiseliteratur im Vorm盲rz, ed. Christina Ujma, Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2009, pp. 93-104.
鈥淔euchtwanger and the Propaganda Ministry: The Transposition of Jud S眉脽 from Novel to Nazi Film鈥, in: Feuchtwanger and Film, ed. Ian Wallace, Feuchtwanger-Studien 1, London: Lang, 2009, pp. 125-151.
鈥淩epresenting Pain in Literature and Film: Reflections on Die Br眉cke (The Bridge) by Manfred Gregor and Bernhard Wicki鈥, Comunica莽茫o & Cultura 5 (2008): pp. 45-62.
鈥淓ine Begegnung mit Neil Jordans Film The Crying Game鈥, in: Irish-German Encounters/Deutsch-irische Begegnungen, eds. Gisela Holfter and Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Irish-German Studies 2 (2007): pp. 98-106.
鈥Triumph des Genies (1940): Schiller in Third Reich Cinema鈥, in: Schiller 鈥 On the Threshold of Modernity, eds. Florian Krobb and Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Germanistik in Ireland 1 (2006): pp. 75-88.
鈥淐reative Women of the Weimar Republic: Borrowed Spaces and Modern Cultural Practices鈥, in: Practicing Modernity: Female Creativity in the Weimar Republic, W眉rzburg: K枚nigshausen & Neumann, 2006, pp. xi-xviii.
鈥淟otte Reiniger and the Art of Animation鈥, in: Practicing Modernity: Female Creativity in the Weimar Republic, W眉rzburg: K枚nigshausen & Neumann, 2006, pp. 169-85.
鈥淭丑别 Femme Fatale on Film鈥, in: Women Emerging. A Decade of Irish Feminist Scholarship, Galway: Women鈥檚 Studies Centre, 2005, pp. 131-33.
鈥淧andora and the Construction of Memory in Film鈥, in: Landscapes of Memory/Paisagens da Mem贸ria, eds. Isabel Capeloa Gil, Richard Trewinnard and Maria Laura Pires, Lisbon: Universidade Cat贸lica Editora, 2004, pp. 35-47.
鈥溍渂er die Eisenbahnfahrt ins politische Schreiben. Malwida von Meysenbugs Eine Reise nach Ostende (1849)鈥, in: Malwida von Meysenbug (1816-1903): Durch lauter Zauberg盲rten der Armida, ed. Karl-Heinz Nickel, Kassel: Wenderoth, 2004, pp. 34-62.
鈥淲omen on screen: A short history of the femme fatale鈥, in: Women鈥檚 Studies Review 8 (2002), pp. 29-46.
鈥淢odern Identities in Early German Film鈥, in: Engaging Film: Geographies of Mobility and Identity, eds. Debra Dixon and Tim Cresswell, New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, pp. 174-190.
鈥淪treetwalking the Metropolis: The Prostitute in Expressionism鈥, in: Commodities of Desire: The Prostitute in Modern German Literature, Columbia, SC: Camden House, 2000, pp. 110-30.
鈥淩epresenting 1848: Autobiography and Fiction in Fanny Lewald鈥, Colloquia Germanica 33.3 (2000), pp. 239-254. (co-authors: Deborah Pinfold and Ruth Whittle)
鈥淐onfessional Narrative/Fragmented Identity. Emmy Hennings鈥檚 Das Brandmal. Ein Tagebuch鈥, in: Autobiography by Women in German, eds. Mererid Puw Davies, Beth Linklater, and Gisela Shaw, Bern: Peter Lang, 2000, pp. 163-179.
鈥淐onstructing the Subject? Emmy Hennings鈥檚 Autobiographical Works鈥, in: Representing Lives, eds. Pauline Polkey-Taylor and Alison Donnel, Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000, pp. 187-195.
"The Urbanization of the Body: Prostitutes, Dialectics and Utopia in German Expressionism", The German Studies Review 20.1 (1997), pp. 49-63.
Short Essays for Encyclopedias
鈥淕眉nther Eich鈥, 鈥淟ion Feuchtwanger鈥, 鈥淲olfgang Koeppen鈥, 鈥淭homas Mann鈥, 鈥淣elly Sachs鈥 in Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture, ed. John Sandford, London: Routledge, 1999, pp. 181, 242, 382, 484, 567.
鈥淒adaism鈥, 鈥淓rotic Literature鈥, 鈥淓xpressionism鈥, 鈥淲hore鈥, in The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature, ed. Susanne Kord, Westport, London: Greenwood Press, 1997, pp. 83-84, 123-124, 137-138, 559-561.
