Dr. Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
Senior Fellow, editor of the Varlam Shalamov Edition
CV
- 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-present: head of the research project Writing Life. Varlam Shalamov: Biography and Poetics
Research Interests
- 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
Publications
English publications only. For publications in German and other languages see the German entry
“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