In/Securities: Queer Life Narratives of Early Modern Times

Daniela Fuhrmann received her PhD in Medieval Studies in 2015 with a thesis on late medieval revelation-literature of religious women, and recently completed a postdoctoral thesis (Habilitationsschrift) on the picaresque novel of the 17th century. She currently holds a position at the University of Zurich and is the managing director of the Centre for Historical Mediology. Her research focuses on pre-modern narrative literature – both spiritual and secular – and on questions of narratology, poetology and mediality. Gaby Pailer received her PhD in Modern German and Comparative Literature from the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in 1992, where she held a position of Assistant Professor (equivalent) until accepting an offer at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, in 2001. At UBC she directed the Departments of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies as well as of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, from 2011-15. Her main research focus lies on gender, transculturality and performance studies in cultural historical perspective.

Introduction - Does War Bring out the Devil in You? Demonization in Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus Teutsch (1668　/　1669) - Clothes make the man": Fashion/ing Grimmelshausen’s Picaros - Courasche and the Queer Life of Objects - Naming in Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus Teutsch - Agrippina’s Queer After/Life: Consequences of the Thirty Years’ War and the Breslau School Stage (Lohenstein’s Agrippina; 1665/1666) - Self-editing, Allegory, Parody – The Life-Writing of Johanna Eleonora Petersen - Chimerical Selves: Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus and Kehlmann’s Tyll - Perpetual Escape. The Impossibility of Containment in Angela Steidele’s Rosenstengel - Life as a Balancing Act: Angela Steidele’sRosenstengel and Daniel Kehlmann’s Tyll