Dr. Stephan Krause

Stephan Krause was born in Berlin. From 1995 to 2003, he studied German and French at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB). From 2001 to 2002, he was a German teacher in Guingamp, Brittany. From 2001 to 2004/2012, he studied Hungarian (Master’s Degree) at the HUB . From 2004 to 2006, he held teaching assignments at the Universities of Pécs and Budapest (ELTE). From 2006 to 2011, he was DAAD-lecturer in German studies at the University of Szczecin,Poland. In 2008, he received his doctorate under the supervision of Frank Hörnigk from the HU Berlin with a dissertation entitled »Topographies of the Unachieved. Franz Fühmann’s Writing and the Mine« [»Topographien des Unvollendbaren. Franz Fühmanns Schreiben und das Bergwerk«].

From 2011 to 2012, Stephan Krause held a DAAD-scholarship at the GWZO in the research project »Playgrounds of Insubordination« [»Spielplätze der Verweigerung«]. He was then researcher at GWZO within that same project group. From 2014 onwards, he was a researcher in the project »Cultural Icons of East-Central Europe« [»Kulturelle Ikonen Ostmitteleuropas«]. Since 2017 he has been a researcher in the department »Culture and Imagination«.

• Literary aesthetics
• Literature and intermediality
• Literary theory
• Literatures of East-Central Europe in East-West and global contexts
• Poetics and politics
• Reception theory
• Literature and other arts
• Cinema and film of East-Central Europe
• Hungarian, German, Polish and French contemporary literatures

• Vice-president of the Nemzetközi Magyarságtudomány Társaság [International Society of Hungarian Studies]
• Member of the Általános Irodalomtudományi Kutatócsoport (ÁITK), Budapest [Research Group in Literature Studies]
• Member of the German Association of Romance Languages Scholars [Deutscher Romanistenverband]

• Editor of Mitropa
• Member of the editorial board of Hungarian Studies (Editor in Chief Andrea Seidler, Vienna)
• Member of the editorial board of Convivium – Jahrbuch der polnischen Germanistik (Ed. by Gudrun Heidemann, Joanna Jabłkowska, Łódź, and Beata Mikołajczyk, Poznań)
• Member of the editorial board of Central European Cultures (Editors in Chief Farkas Gábor Kiss and Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó, Budapest)

2010 Award of the Head of the University of Szczecin [Nagroda indywidualna stopnia II] for his dissertation thesis

Stephan Krause teaches courses at the University of Leipzig, HU Berlin, University of Szczecin, University of Pécs and ELTE Budapest.