Barbara Neymeyr

Barbara Neymeyr is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Literature at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, affiliated with the Institute of German Studies. Her research spans literary theory, philosophy, and cultural history with a focus on German-language literature from the 18th to 20th centuries.

Her research interests include:

• Literary Theory and Aesthetics
• German Literature (Romanticism, Realism, Modernism)
• Philosophy and Literature (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer)
• Intertextuality and Myth Reception
• Intermediality (Literature and Music/Visual Arts)
• Cultural History of Modernity

Neymeyr's scholarship critically examines intersections between literature and philosophy, particularly in Nietzsche's influence on modernist authors like Robert Musil and Thomas Mann. Her work emphasizes cultural diagnosis, moral philosophy, and the deconstruction of myths in Austrian literary modernism, often analyzing satirical and utopian elements in works by Joseph Roth and Musil.

Analysis of her 15 most recent publications (2022-2025) reveals a dominant focus on Nietzschean commentary, especially her multi-volume Historischer und kritischer Kommentar zu Friedrich Nietzsches Werken. Key thematic trends include moral aesthetics in Schiller/Schopenhauer/Nietzsche dialogues, psychological dimensions in Musil's works, and epoch diagnoses in Joseph Roth's Radetzkymarsch. Recurring subfields involve intertextuality, cultural decline narratives, and the role of satire in modernist critiques of society.