Katrin Dettmer
Katrin Dettmer
Graduate Student, German Studies
Katrin_Dettmer@brown.edu
Entered Brown Fall 2006, ABD.
Before coming to Brown, Katrin studied English and German literature at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Humboldt University Berlin, where she received her M.A. in English literature. Her research interests include German literatures after World War II and the Holocaust, which deal with issues of memory and remembrance, and in particular the works of W. G. Sebald, Walter Kempowski, and Alexander Kluge; British and German Modernist Fiction, especially the literature of Neue Sachlichkeit; Media Studies (film, photography, radio, and new media) and the interrelation of literature with other media; the Hermeneutics/Aesthetics debate. Katrin’s research now focuses on GDR literature and intellectual life as well as (postdramatic) theater and Performance Studies.
Katrin is currently working on her dissertation, which investigates history and performance in the plays of Heiner Müller.
Degrees
2005 M.A. in English Literature, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
Thesis Title: The Negotiation of History in Evelyn Waugh’s Early Novels
Conference Papers
2006 “No place in reality: The autonomy of reflection and the diminution of the subject in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz” at Mirrorings: Reflections on Reflection (Harvard Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference)
2007 “Suicide & Biopower: Elias Canetti’s Auto-Da-fé” at In the Flesh (Harvard University Department of German Studies Graduate Conference)
Theatre
2008 Dramaturg for the Brown University production of Hamletmachine, directed by José Enrique Macián.
2009 Dramaturg for the Brown University production of Cabaret, directed by Don Mays.
2009 Director of Shakespeare on the Green’s production of Coriolanus, adapted for the stage by Katrin Dettmer.
