Fischer, Conrad
Congratulations on passing the colloquium on 19 December 2023.
Dissertation topic:
"Ghosts and spectres in Andreas Gryphius' dramas."
Doctoral scholarship from the Studiensiftung des deutschen Volkes (1 October 2019 - 31 March 2023)
Finalising scholarship from the Stiftung Bildung und Wissenschaft (1 April 2023 - 30 September 2023)
Additionally funded
by the Marianne Plehn Programme of the Elitenetzwerk Bayern.
Contact address at the University of Würzburg:
Institute of German Philology
Professorship of Modern German Literature
Am Hubland
D-97074 Würzburg
First supervisor: Prof. Dr Stephan Kraft
Second supervisors:
Prof. Dr Maximilian Bergengruen
Prof. Dr Isabel Karremann (Univ. Zurich)
Class in the Graduate School: " Philosophy, Languages, Arts"
Doctorate in the Graduate School from WS 2018/2019.
Abstract:
The dissertation project deals with the diverse ghost and spectre phenomena in Andreas Gryphius' dramas in the context of the ghost discourse within the 17th century as well as the poetic models of Gryphius' ghost phenomena. The project is based on the assumption that the author Andreas Gryphius reinterpreted the scientific-theological belief in ghosts, which was already fading in the middle of the 17th century, and aims to trace this poetic reinterpretation within the drama corpus by means of a source-orientated approach based on the history of knowledge.
