List of Contributors
Albert Dikovich is a researcher in the DFG Research Training Group âThe Problem of the Real in Modern Cultureâ, University of Konstanz. He was a researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography (LBI) from 2012â17.
Bernhard Fetz is Director of the Literary Archives, the Literature Museum and the Department of Planned Languages / Esperanto Museum of the Austrian National Library. He was co-founder of the LBI in 2005 and was Deputy Director until 2009. He is the editor of Die Biographie â Zur Grundlegung ihrer Theorie (âTowards a Theory of Biographyâ, De Gruyter, 2009).
Vanessa HannesschlĂ€ger is a literary scholar based at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Austrian Academy of Sciences. She was a researcher at the LBI from 2013â16, working on the project âErnst Jandl Onlineâ in partnership with the Austrian National Library. Her research interests include archive and biography theory, digital editing, and modern Austrian literature.
Tobias Heinrich teaches German language and contemporary German, Austrian and Swiss culture and literature at the University of Oxford. He was Deputy Director of the LBI from 2012â14. He is the author of Leben lesen. Zur Theorie der Biographie um 1800 (âReading Lives: On the Theory of Biography around 1800â, Böhlau, 2016).
Wilhelm Hemecker is Director of the LBI, which he co-founded in 2005. He is University Professor for the History and Theory of Biography at the Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies, University of Vienna.
Marie Kolkenbrock is a Research Associate at the Department of German and Dutch, University of Cambridge, as part of the LBIâs partnership with the University. Her first monograph, Stereotype and Destiny: Arthur Schnitzlerâs Narrative Fiction, is due to be published in Bloomsburyâs âNew Directions in German Studiesâ series in 2018. She is currently working on a new scholarly biography of Schnitzler.
Esther Marian was a researcher at the LBI from 2005 until her unexpected death in 2011. Her key research interests were the theoretical presuppositions of biographical writing, particularly the work of Siegfried Kracauer, and theories of gender with relation to biography.
Cornelius Mitterer has been a researcher at the LBI since 2012. He is currently completing a study of the Austrian writer Richard von Schaukal and his literary networks, which engages in particular with Pierre Bourdieuâs notion of the âliterary fieldâ. His research interests include Viennese Modernism and Italian âmodernismoâ.
Manfred Mittermayer is Director of the Literary Archives in Salzburg. He was a Key Researcher at the LBI from 2005â12, during which time he wrote Thomas Bernhard. Eine Biografie (âThomas Bernhard: A Biographyâ, Residenz, 2015).
CaitrĂona NĂ DhĂșill is Senior Lecturer in German in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Durham, working on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and comparative literature, utopian fiction and theory, gender theory, and biography. She was a researcher at the LBI from 2005â09.
David Ăsterle has been a researcher and assistant to the director at the LBI since 2011. He is currently completing a study on the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Katharina Prager has been a researcher at the LBI since 2012, as part of a partnership with the Wienbibliothek (Vienna City Library), working on the digital biography âKarl Kraus Onlineâ. Her research also focuses on biography and its connections with gender and memory. She is the author of two biographies dealing with exile (Salka Viertel) and Viennese Modernism (Berthold Viertel).
Edward Saunders is Deputy Director of the LBI, where he has been a researcher since 2012. His work focuses on twentieth-century literary history, life-writing and cultural memory. He is the author of a biography of the Hungarian-British writer Arthur Koestler (Reaktion Books, 2017).
