Dr. Franziska Thun-Hohenstein

Senior Fellow, editor of the Varlam Shalamov Edition

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studied Russian Language and Literature at Lomonossow University Moscow (1969-1973)
research associate at the Central Institute for Literary History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (Berlin)
completed doctoral thesis 1981 in Berlin
1996-September 2001 research associate at the ZfL
1 Oct. 2001-31 Dec. 2002: research associate at the University of Bremen
Jan. 2003-present: research associate at the ZfL in various research projects
2007-present: edition of the works of the Russian writer Varlam Shalamov
2008-2015: head of the department Europe’s Plural Cultures at the ZfL
2008-2010: head of the project Aporias of Forced Modernization: Figurations of the National in the Soviet Empire
spring 2010: Visiting Scholar at the German Department (Stanford University)
2012-2015: research associate for the project The Cultural Semantics of Georgia between Caucasus and the Black Sea
2014-2016 research associate for the project Cultural Semantics of the Black Sea Region
Jan. 2016-2018: head of the research project Batumi, Odessa, Trabzon. The Cultural Semantics of the Black Sea from the Perspective of Eastern Port Cities
Apr. 2016-2020: head of the research project Writing Life. Varlam Shalamov: Biography and Poetics

history of russian literature and culture (18.-21. century)
national memory cultures and narratives
cultural memory and autobiographical writing (writing after Auschwitz and GULAG)
cultural topographies
Varlam Shalamov Edition

English publications only. For publications in German and other languages see the German entry

Am Kältepol. Warlam Schalamow seziert den Lagermenschen, in: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 18.1 (2024), 25-32
“Document of the Soul:” Varlam Shalamov’s Documentary Writing in a Contemporary Context, in: Clemens Günther, Matthias Schwartz (eds.): Documentary Aesthetics in the Long 1960s in Eastern Europe and Beyond (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, vol. 67). Leiden: Brill 2024, 31-51
“A Grudge-holding Body:” Body and Memory in the Works of Varlam Shalamov, in: Fabian Heffermehl and Irina Karlsohn (eds.): The Gulag in Writings of Aleksandr Solzenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov: Memory, History, Testimony. Leiden/Boston: Brill Publishing 2021, 142–176