Prof. Dr. Georg Braungart

Vita

1955
born in Schwäbisch Gmünd; married, three children
1974-1982Study of Germanics, History and Philosophy in Freiburg i.Br., Göttingen and Tübingen
1986Promotion in Tübingen
1993Habilitation in Tübingen
1998Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Department of Germanics at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
1985-1993

Research Assistent at the Department of German, University of Tübingen

1994-2003Professor for German Philology/Modern German Literature at the University of Regensburg

since

10/2003

Professor for Modern German Literature at the University of Tübingen

Funktions

seit 10/2011Honorary director of the bischöflichen Studienförderung Cusanuswerk
seit 2/2004Member in the scientific counsel of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
1994-2011Member of the selection committee of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2005-2008Elected member for German Philology/Modern German Literature at the DFG-Fachkollegium 105
2000-2004Elected expert for German Philology at the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
2000-2006Member in sub-committe 'Digitalisierung' / 'Kulturelle Überlieferung' der DFG
bis 2003 und ab 2008

Trustee of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (from 2003 in Regensburg [lastly, in charge]; since 2008 in Tübingen)

seit 1994Member in the selection committee of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
bis 2003 Expert for key qualifications at the Bavarian Virtual University
Advising Member in Hölderlin-Gesellschaft and the Mörike-Geselllschaft
Co-editor of 'Studien zur deutschen Literatur' (De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin)
Co-editor of the 'Jahrbuchs für Computerphilologie' (ab Bd.2/2000; Mentis-Verlag, Paderborn)
Co-editor of 'Jahrbuchs Literaturstraße'. Chinesisch-deutsches Jahrbuch für Sprache, Literatur und Kultur (2006-2016)
Co-editor of 'Reallexikons der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft' (Neuauflage des 'Merker/Stammler'; Walter de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin; ab Bd. 2)
Coordinator for the Staatsexamensklausuren in Bavarian (10/2000-3/2003)
Lecturer at the Bavarian EliteAcademy, module 'Elite und Stil'; (1999-2006)