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Prof. Dr. Hans Jürgen Scheuer is Professor for German Literature of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period at the Institute of German Literature, Faculty of Languages and Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin. Born in Trier in 1964, he completed his doctorate at the University of Münster in 1994 and habilitation at the University of Göttingen in 2000. Prior to his current position since winter semester 2011/12, he held academic positions at the Universities of Stuttgart, Freiburg, and Göttingen, as well as teaching appointments at King's College London and Johns Hopkins University.
His research is organized around three interconnected axes: Brain (history of imagination in antiquity and the Middle Ages), Ars (rhetoric, poetics, and the relationship between liberal and mechanical arts), and Himmel (political theology and religious intelligence in medieval literature). His work explores how premodern thought forms persist in contemporary media and art, with particular interest in schema literature, allegory, metaphor, small narrative forms, and the trickster figure.
Scheuer's recent publications include the monograph The Urban Trickster: A Premodern Figure Between Elementary World Knowledge and Religious Intelligence (2024) and Holy Road in Hollywood: Apocryphal Narrative Patterns of Premodernity in the Canon of 'Great Cinema' (2025). His scholarship reveals how medieval narrative patterns, religious thought forms, and visual culture continue to shape contemporary artistic expression across media.
Scientific awards: While specific awards are not listed in the available information, Scheuer has received significant research support including 'Freiräume' funding from the Excellence Initiative at Humboldt University for his monograph The Urban Trickster, and is collaborating on the new edition of Walter Benjamin's works (WuN 6) with the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture and Suhrkamp Verlag.
Professor Scheuer teaches courses including Poetry, Interpretation, and Thinking of Patterns; Beyond Wit: Late Medieval Verse Novels; and The Knowledge of Utopia, reflecting his interdisciplinary approach that bridges medieval studies with contemporary media theory. His research team includes doctoral students and research assistants working on projects related to premodern narrative forms, religious communication, and the persistence of medieval thought patterns in modern media.
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