Prof. Dr. Klaus Ridder

Curriculum Vitae

2005

declined offer of a professorship at the University of Paderborn

2004

vice-dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages

2002

Chair for German Medieval Studies, Tübingen University

2000

Chair for German Philology, Regensburg University

1999-2000

substitution for the professorial chair, Regensburg University

1997-2000

university lecturer at the University of Bielefeld

1996-1997

substitution for the Academic Council, University of Bielefeld

1996

Habilitation, Paderborn University

Habilitation research grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG); Postdoctoral research grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

1989

Ph.D., Marburg University

1984

M.A., University of Marburg

research assistant at the University of Marburg and Paderborn

studies in German, History and Education, University of Paderborn and Marburg

Work in scientific societies / committees

  • Vice President of the German Section of the International Arthurian Society
  • Managing Director of the Wolfram von Eschenbach Society (till 2012)
  • Member of the Advisory Council of the TUSTEP-Consortium
  • Member of the executive board of the SFB 923 „Bedrohte Ordnungen“

Research focus

  • early medieval literature: questions of translating and lexicography
  • courtly literature, especially Courtly Romance: intertextuality and fictionality, awareness of authorship and artist's work, literary forms of laughter and humour, representation of the body and conceptions of mind, emotionality and violence
  • late medieval literature (encyclopedic literature, travel literature, drama): editing and the history of literary tradition, questions concerning the foreign and the familiar, and more