Germanistisches Seminar Paula Odenheimer
contact
Department of German Studies
Heidelberg University
Hauptstr. 207–209
D – 69117 Heidelberg
Office: PB 031
E-Mail: paula.odenheimer@gs.uni-heidelberg.de
Office Hours: By appointment
Personal
Research Interests
- Dissertation project: Blicke in ein »unsichtbares Universum«. Transkulturelle und literatursoziologische Konstellationen in Früh- und Spätwerk von Nelly Sachs (AT)
- German-Jewish Literature, Exile and Migration
- Literature and literary history from the post-war period to the present
- German-Swedish literary relations
Academic CV
- Since October 2023: PhD candidate at the Department of German Studies, Heidelberg University
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2021–2022: Master's degree in Modern Languages (German), University of Oxford
- 2021–2024: Tutor at the Oxford Prospects and Global Development Institute, University of Oxford
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2017–2021: Bachelor's degree in German Studies and English Studies, Heidelberg University
- 2020–2021: Tutor and student assistant at the Department of German Studies, Heidelberg University
- 2019–2021: Student assistant at Goethe University Frankfurt in the project "Die Briefwechsel des Späthumanisten Nicodemus Frischlin"
- 2019–2021: Student assistant at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in the project "Theologenbriefwechsel im Südwesten des Reichs in der Frühen Neuzeit (1550–1620)"
Scholarships and awards
- August 2024–exp. 2027: PhD scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
- April–May 2024: C. H. Beck Scholarship for Literature and the Humanities for a research stay at the German Literature Archive in Marbach (DLA Marbach)
- October 2023–March 2024: Initial funding from the heiDocs program of the Faculty of Modern Languages, Heidelberg University
- August & November 2022: German MSt Dissertation Prize from the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Worcester College Prize, University of Oxford
- October 2021–August 2022: Erasmus scholarship for the Master's program at the University of Oxford
other Activities
- Faculty Council of the Faculty of Modern Languages
- Editorial Head Feuilleton
Publications
Articles
- »Wie viele Heimatländer«? Emotionen und Sprachbilder in Nelly Sachs’ Heimatfigurationen. In: Exilforschung: Exil und Emotionen, ed. by Esther Kilchmann and Sebastian Schirrmeister, Berlin/Boston 2025, 173–189.
Reviews and short articles
- [Invited review of] Sandra Narloch: Zwischen Weltbürgertum und Neuem Kosmopolitismus. Verhandlungen übernationaler Gemeinschaft und Zugehörigkeit in der Exilliteratur. In: Germanistik [vsl. 2025]
- »Ausbruch aus dem Privaten ins Universum!« Zur gendersensiblen Rezeption bei Nelly Sachs am Beispiel des Meridians. In: Exilograph 30 (2023): Flucht und Gender. Geschlechtsspezifische Perspektiven auf Exilgeschichten, ed. by Walter A. Berendsohn Forschungsstelle für deutsche Exilliteratur, 7–8.
Conference papers
- »Cross-cultural echoes: Lagerlöf’s German reception and the literary formation of Nelly Sachs’ early Legenden«. Presentation at the international conference The Modernisms. Scandinavian-German literary connections, 1870-1930, DLA Marbach 19.–21.02.2025
- Speaker at the Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network Conference, 31.01.2025 & 06.06.2025
- »Reception and Influence of Kafka in Swedish Post-War Poetry«. Presentation at the international conference Kafka Transformed, Oxford 18.–20.09.2024
- »›ihr ganzes Werk fortgelassen, das vor 1940 in Deutschland entstanden ist‹. Zum unbekannten Frühwerk von Nelly Sachs«. Presentation at the Graduate Summer Colloquium, Saarbrücken 12.–14.07.2024
- »Maxim Biller's Radical Poetics«. Presentation at the international conference Postmigrant Reconfigurations, London 5.–7.07.2023