Maxim Braun
Maxim Braun
Image: Maxim BraunImaginationsprozesse im Zusammenspiel aus Bild und Text in europäischen
Märchensammlungen des 19. Jahrhunderts ("Imagination Processes in the Interplay of Image and Text in European Fairy Tale Collections of the 19th Century") (working title)
Literary and cultural scholar Ruth B. Bottigheimer, who has made significant contributions to fairy tale research, points out in her essay „Fairy Tale Illustrations and Real World Gender“ (2010)External link that numerous illustrations in 19th-century children's books sought little to no connection with the texts they accompany. From her considerations, one can conclude, among other things, that fairy tale illustrations not only interact with fairy tale texts in diverse and different ways but also open up a space in which social ideas are both embodied and conveyed.
Within the framework of the Junior Research Group „Kulturtechnik Imagination“ ("Cultural Technique Imagination"), which deals with the practices and dynamics of social imagining in the 19th century, the project will investigate how a concept of fairy tale imagination condensed from different cultural practices and discourses throughout this century and what it consists of. In this sense, the collections under consideration should be understood as compositions of image and text, in order to examine their role in a process of social imagining. Special emphasis will be placed on the fact that an imagination of the fairy-tale-like is not established within individual fairy tale collections, but that all texts and illustrations are to be viewed within a common cultural-historical frame of reference.
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Curriculum Vitae
since 2024
Research Associate in the Junior Research Group „Kulturtechnik Imagination“ ("Cultural Technique Imagination") led by Dr. Adriana Markantonatos at the Institute of Art and Cultural Studies at Friedrich Schiller University Jena2023-2024
Research Assistant at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar (Project Goethe Live 3D / Cross-divisional Directorate Digital Transformation/Innovation Management)2023
Academic Assistant (Tutor) at the Faculty of Philosophy at Friedrich Schiller University Jena2022-2023
Academic Assistant at the Institute for German Literary Studies at Friedrich Schiller University Jena under Prof. Dr. Nina Birkner2016-2024
Studies in German Studies, Philosophy, and General and Comparative Literature, Art, and Cultural Studies at Julius Maximilian University Würzburg, Catholic University of Leuven, and Friedrich Schiller University Jena -
Research Focus
- European Fairy Tale Collections of the 18th & 19th Centuries
- Fairy Tale Imagination in the Cooperation and Opposition of Image & Text
- Literary Space Configurations and Liminality
- Foreignness and Alienation as Literary Motifs
- Suppressed Female Literary History
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Academic Works
- 2024. Master's Thesis at Friedrich Schiller University Jena: „Wahrheiten, die sich nicht gerne ohne Schleier zeigen“ – Integration von Wunderbarem und Wirklichkeit in deutschsprachigen Märchensammlungen des 18. Jahrhunderts. ("'Truths That Don't Like to Show Themselves Without a Veil' – Integration of the Wonderful and Reality in German-language Fairy Tale Collections of the 18th Century") (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Matuschek)
- 2021. Bachelor's Thesis at Julius Maximilian University Würzburg: Die ambivalenten Funktionen von Grenzen und deren Beitrag zu Entfremdungsprozessen im Werk von Marlen Haushofer. ("The Ambivalent Functions of Boundaries and Their Contribution to Processes of Alienation in the Work of Marlen Haushofer.") (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Julian Schröter)
The thesis has been made available on marlenhaushofer.chExternal link and can be read online: ...External link
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