since 2018

Research Assistant at the Institute for German as a Foreign Language at Heidelberg University

since 2017

Research Associate at the research center “Correspondence Among Theologians in the Southwest of the Empire in the Early Modern Period, 1550–1620” at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

10.2016

Ph.D. in German Philology at Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg (“Literary Dimensions of Human Dignity: Exemplary Analyses of the Significance of the Concept of Human Dignity in German-Language Literature since Early Enlightenment”; advisors: Prof. Dr. Karin Tebben, Prof. Dr. Helmuth Kiesel)

Funding provided by an AFR grant from the Fonds National de Recherche Luxembourg

05.2015

Collaboration on a contract basis for the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities special project Academy of Sciences and Humanities Charters and Regulations from the Reformation Era (Basel, Zeitz)”

02.2015

Student assistant, later certified assistant, at the Bucer Research Center of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities at the Theological Seminary of Heidelberg University (Chair of Prof. Dr. Christoph Strohm)

07.2012

Master’s degree in German and English Language and Literature at Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg (German and English Language and Literature); Jan. 2009–Mar. 2011: Scholarship recipient of the German National Academic Foundation

06.2006

High School Graduation Exam at the Lycée classique de Diekirch (Luxembourg) (Section A – Languages)

Monograph

• Literary Dimensions of Human Dignity. Exemplary Analyses of the Significance of the Concept of Human Dignity in German-Language Literature since Early Enlightenment. Tübingen: A. Francke, 2017.

Review in: Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte/Journal for Human Rights 13.1 (2019), pp. 193–197.

essays

• Parts of a Whole: The Interplay of Form and Content in Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock: A Confession. In: Contributions to the Study of Language, Literature, and Culture. Working Papers of the Department of English Studies, Heidelberg. Special Issue 2011:2. Edited by Eva Hänßgen. Heidelberg 2011. pp. 23–33 (www.as.uni-heidelberg.de/ejournal/).
• “An unresolved, insurmountable remnant.” On Gerhard Selb’s Coming to Terms with His Past in Bernhard Schlink’s Selb Trilogy. In: Limbaj şi context / Speech and Context III.1. (2011). pp. 83–96 (www.usb.md/limbaj_context/volcop/5/art/graff.pdf).
• Correspondence Among Theologians in the 16th and 17th Centuries: On the Process of Collecting and Cataloging It. In: Philipp Melanchthon in the Epistolary Culture of the 16th Century. Conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Melanchthon Research Center. Edited by Christine Mundhenk. Heidelberg 2015. pp. 51–70 (with Thomas Wilhelmi).
• Legal Texts from Zeitz in the 16th Century. In: Saale-Unstrut Yearbook. Yearbook for Cultural History and Natural History of the Saale-Unstrut Region 21 (2016), pp. 36–43 (in collaboration with Thomas Wilhelmi).
• The Zeitz “Pot of Happiness.” A single-sheet print from the early 16th century. In: Saale-Unstrut Yearbook. Yearbook of Cultural History and Natural History of the Saale-Unstrut Region 22 (2017), pp. 22–31 (with the collaboration of Thomas Wilhelmi).
• Introduction. In: Today We’ll Sing a Full Volume of Drinking Songs from Oswald to Goethe. Edited by M. G. and Thomas Wilhelmi. Sandersdorf-Brehna 2017, pp. I–XXI.
• Introduction. In: “Only the brave drinker finds refreshment in the Heidelberg barrel.” Heidelberg Drinking Poetry from Four Centuries. Edited by M. G. and Thomas Wilhelmi. Heidelberg 2017, pp. 1–52.
• Case Collections and Human Dignity. Programmatic Prefaces by Moritz, Pitaval, Schiller, and Müchler. Collecting Cases: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Visions of Social (Ab)normality. Edited by J. De Doncker, C. Kanz, and E. Amann. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. (in press).
• Human Dignity in the Digital Age: The Body, Data Protection, and the Concept of Humanity in the Work of Juli Zeh. In: Colloquia Germanica 49.4 (2016), pp. 391–421 (published in 2019).
• The Dignity of Illness: Thomas Mann’s Essay Goethe and Tolstoy, Schiller, and Human Dignity. In: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, N. F. 59 (2018), pp. 229–255.
• World War and Revolution as Turning Points in History? Observations on the Paratexts of German-Language Poetry Anthologies from Around 1920. In: Literaturstraße. Chinese-German Journal of Linguistics and Literary Studies 20.1 (2019), pp. 43–60.
• Moods, Tensions, Visions. Observations on Wilhelm Klemms’ War Poetry. In: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, New Series 60 (2019), pp. 339–372.
• On the (Un)Reality of War: Observations on Forms of Reference to Reality in War Poetry. In: Unrealities. On the Problem of Reality in Modernity. The Symposium. Edited by Hans-Günther Schwarz, Dagmar Hirschfelder, and Frieder Hepp. Munich 2020 (Publications of the Institute for German as a Foreign Language 19), pp. 191–215.
• Afterword. In: August von Kotzebue: He and She. Four Romantic Poems (1781). Edited by M. G. with an afterword. Hannover 2020, pp. 83–97.
• Drinking and Alcoholism as Reflected in Early Modern Sources. In: Signa Ivris 18 (2021), pp. 211–239.
• “Kotzebue’s first—and indeed very licentious—work.” Afterword. In: August von Kotzebue: *Ich, eine Geschichte in Fragmenten* (1781). Edited by M. G. with an afterword. Hannover 2021 (Edition Wehrhahn 31), pp. 85–102.
• “The Nameless Suffering of Love.” Kotzebue’s Early “Romantic Poems” He and She. In: Julia Bohnengel / Thomas Wortmann (eds.): “German Freedom Stabbed!” The Life, Work, and Death of August von Kotzebue. Hanover 2022 (in press).
• A fire as a bad omen. Victorinus Strigel on the Heidelberg Castle fire in 1569. In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 169 (2021), pp. 223–231 (published in 2022).
• Georg Lukács’s Outline of a History of Modern German Literature in the Context of the Discourse on Human Dignity in the Immediate Postwar Period, in: Amalia Kerekes/Anna Zsellér/Michael Haase (eds.): Parallels, Correspondences, and Aftereffects. Essays on the Reception History of Georg Lukács’s Work, Bielefeld 2022 (Lukács Studies) (available from the editors).
• War Poetry—An Introduction to a Poetic Genre. In: Maria Elena Muscan, Sabine Pleșu and Gertrud Maria Rösch (eds.): What’s Happening? What Remains? What’s Next? Teaching and Research in Post-Pandemic Times. Proceedings of the conference organized by GIP Heidelberg and five Romanian universities (October 1–2, 2021), Munich 2022 (in press).
• Refugee Experience, Language, and Reflection on Language in the Work of Abbas Khider. In: Sandro M. Moraldo, M. G., and William Franke (eds.): Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Germanists, Palermo 2021: The Language of Migration. The Migration of Language. Linguistic Identities and Transcultural Literature in the Age of Globalization (Special Issue of the Yearbook for International German Studies) (in press).

Editions

• The Zeitz City Book: 16th-Century Legal Texts from Zeitz. Edited and annotated by Max Graff and Thomas Wilhelmi, with the assistance of Raphael Schwendele. Giessen 2016 (Giessen Electronic Library, Language, Literature, Communication—Past and Present 7) (available at: http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2016/11843/pdf/SLK_GG_07_Graff_Wilhelmi.pdf).
• Today wölet’s all sing Drinking Songs from Oswald to Goethe. Edited by M. G. and Thomas Wilhelmi. Sandersdorf-Brehna 2017.
• “Only brave drinkers find refreshment in the Heidelberg barrel.” Heidelberg Drinking Poetry from Four Centuries. Edited by Max Graff and Thomas Wilhelmi. Heidelberg 2017.
• Correspondence Among Theologians in the Southwest of the Empire in the Early Modern Period (1550–1620). Edited by Christoph Strohm on behalf of the Heidelberg Academy. Vol. 1: Württemberg I (1548–1570). Gütersloh 2020 (Sources and Research on the History of the Reformation), here nos. 57, 65, 70, 72, 80, 86, 88, 90, 91, 97, 105, 108, 110, 113, 118, 120, and 121.
• August von Kotzebue: He and She. Four Romantic Poems (1781). Edited by M. G. with an afterword. Hanover, 2020.
• August von Kotzebue: I, a Story in Fragments (1781). With an afterword, ed. by M. G. Hanover 2021 (Edition Wehrhahn 31). Reviewed in: Kotzebue International, May 30, 2021, https://kotzebue.hypotheses.org/597.

Ongoing Publication Projects

• Theodor Pressel: The Life and Work of Dr. Jakob Andreae, Chancellor of Tübingen. Based on contemporary unpublished and published sources (Edition of the previously unpublished Andreae biography from Pressel’s estate) (with Judith Steiniger and Stefan Aderhold).
• Ludwig Tieck: The Monster and the Enchanted Forest. A Musical Fairy Tale in Four Acts (1800) (scheduled for publication in 2021 by Wehrhahn Verlag/Hanover) (with Friederike Mayer-Lindenberg).

Presentations

• Human Dignity as an Aesthetic Problem. Lecture delivered at the graduation ceremony of the Department of German Studies at Heidelberg University on June 15, 2013.
• Correspondence Among Theologians in the 16th and 17th Centuries: Approaches to Its Collection and Cataloging. Lecture presented at the conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Melanchthon Research Center: “Philipp Melanchthon in the Epistolary Culture of the 16th Century,” September 19–21, 2013 (with Th. Wilhelmi).
• Dimensions of Human Dignity in Büchner. Lecture at the annual conference of the Georg Büchner Society on October 30, 2015, in Marburg.
• Karl Philipp Moritz and the Concept of Human Dignity. Presentation at the workshop “Collecting Cases: Eighteenth- and nineteenth‐century visions of society” on May 27, 2016, at Ghent University (Belgium).
• Literary Dimensions of Human Dignity in the Works of Georg Büchner. Lecture presented at the Section for German Philology during the General Assembly of the Görres Society on September 19, 2016, in Hildesheim.
• World War I and the Russian Revolution as Turning Points in History? Observations on Paratexts in German-Language Poetry Anthologies from Around 1920. Presentation at the 2018 International Literaturstraße Symposium “Weltminute und Konstellation – Literarische Epochenkonstruktion im interkulturellen Vergleich” (World Minute and Constellation – The Construction of Literary Epochs in an Intercultural Comparison), held October 3–6, 2018, in Tübingen.
• War Poetry: Theory, History, and Manifestations of a Poetic Genre. Lecture at the symposium “Unrealities: On the Problem of Reality in Modernity.” Lecture at the accompanying symposium for the exhibition at the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg: “Unrealities: The Imaginary in Art from Caspar David Friedrich to Picasso,” held December 8–9 in Heidelberg.
• Georg Lukács and World War I. Lecture presented at the workshop “Lukács – Mannheim – Bloch: Correspondences, Connections, and Aftereffects” on March 20, 2019, in Budapest (Hungary).
• “The Nameless Suffering of Love.” Kotzebue’s Early “Romantic Poems” He and She. Lecture delivered at the conference “‘German Freedom Stabbed!’—A Conference on the Life, Work, and Death of August von Kotzebue on the 200th Anniversary of His Assassination” in Mannheim, March 21–23, 2019.
• Regulations against drinking games and drinking songs of the 16th and 17th centuries. Evening lecture at the conference “Municipal Law and the Reformation of Municipal Law” hosted by the Research Center for the German Legal Dictionary at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Heidelberg on April 3, 2019 (with Thomas Wilhelmi).

Reviews

• [Review of: Elsa Plath-Langheinrich (ed.): Goethe’s Flirtation with Schleswig-Holstein. Letters to Augusta Louise zu Stolberg-Stolberg from the Uetersen Monastery in Holstein. Introduction by Frank Trende. Heide 2018], in: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, New Series 60 (2019), pp. 409–410.
• [Review of: Christoph Deupmann, *The Lost Generation: Returnees from World War I in German-Language Literature* (Heidelberg, 2019)], in: *Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch*, New Series 61 (2020), pp. 367–371.

• [Review of: Jesko Reiling, *Folk Poetry versus Art Poetry: The Historical Impact of a Conceptual Framework in 19th-Century Literature*. Heidelberg 2019 (Supplement to *Euphorion* 107)], in: *Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch*, New Series 61 (2020), pp. 350–353.

• [Review of: Doerte Bischoff / Susanne Komfort-Hein (eds.): Handbook of Literature & Transnationality. Berlin / Boston 2019 (Handbooks in Cultural Studies Philology 7)]. In: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, New Series 62 (2021), pp. 490–492.

• About 30 reviews for the book supplement of the *Tageblatt Lëtzebuerg*, including, among others,
  • Bob Dylan and World Literature. Heinrich Detering outlines the poetics of Dylan’s later work. In: Tageblatt Lëtzebuerg, Book Supplement (September 2016) [Review of: Heinrich Detering, *Die Stimmen aus der Unterwelt. Bob Dylans Mysterienspiele* (The Voices from the Underworld: Bob Dylan’s Mystery Plays). Munich, 2016].
  • German-Language Literature in the “Global Conversation.” Sandra Richter Examines the History of Its Reception and Impact. In: Tageblatt Lëtzebuerg, Book Supplement (March 2018) [Review of: Sandra Richter, *A World History of German Literature*. Munich 2017].
  • The Cult of Beauty and Wars of Interpretation. Karl-Heinz Ott on Friedrich Hölderlin’s Work and Influence. In: Tageblatt Lëtzebuerg, Book Supplement (May 2019) [Review of: Karl-Heinz Ott, Hölderlins Geister. Munich 2019].
  • “We Drift Apart.” The Correspondence Between Sarah Kirsch and Christa Wolf. In: Tageblatt Lëtzebuerg, Book Supplement (July 2019) [Review of: Sarah Kirsch / Christa Wolf: “We’ve Really Got Used to All Sorts of Things.” The Correspondence. Edited by Sabine Wolf in collaboration with Heiner Wolf. Berlin 2019].
  • Encounters with Paul Celan. Klaus Reichert’s Memories of a Great Poet. In: Tageblatt Lëtzebuerg, Book Supplement (September 2019) [Review of: Klaus Reichert, *Paul Celan: Memories and Letters*. Berlin 2020].

Conference Proceedings

• Probleme digitaler Erfassung und Edition von Briefwechseln. Theologenbriefwechsel im Südwesten des Reichs in der Frühen Neuzeit (1550-1620). Arbeitsgespräch in Heidelberg (22. und 23. März 2017). In: H-Soz-Kult, 24.05.2017, <www.hsozkult.de/conferencere-port/id/tagungsberichte-7185>.
• On the Interpretive Function of Literary Studies (International Colloquium in Heidelberg on June 14 and 15, 2018). In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik, N. F. 29.1 (2019), pp. 153–156.
• “Paths in German Studies from Transcultural Perspectives.” XIVth Congress of the International Association for German Studies in Palermo, July 26–31, 2021 [Section B1: The Language of Migration. The Migration of Language. Linguistic Identities and Transcultural Literature in the Age of Globalization]. In: Aussiger Beiträge 15 (2021), pp. 348–352.

German-Language Literature of the 18th–21st Centuries

German-Language War Poetry of the 16th–20th Centuries

Expressionist Literature

Literature on Nazism and the Holocaust

Georg Büchner, August von Kotzebue

German Language, Literature, and Culture of the Early Modern Period

History of Protestantism (1550–1620)

Edition