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Dr. Martin Schneider serves as Privatdozent (equivalent to Associate Professor) at the Institute of German Studies within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Hamburg. Currently acting as professor of Modern German Literature/Theatre Research during winter semester 24/25, he replaces Prof. Dr. Martin Schäfer. His academic journey spans prestigious institutions including Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and Durham University, where he held a Feodor-Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in early 2024.
Dr. Schneider completed his dissertation Wissende des Unbewussten. Romantische Anthropologie und Ästhetik im Werk Richard Wagners in 2013, followed by his habilitation Agonalität und Menschenliebe. Gefühlspolitik im Drama des 18. Jahrhunderts in 2023. His academic trajectory includes multiple acting professorships and significant research positions funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), including the project Agonale Gemeinschaften (2018-2022) and Bühne und Bürgertum. Das Hamburger Stadttheater 1770-1850 (2013-2017).
His research explores German literature from the 18th to 20th centuries through multiple interconnected lenses: drama and politics, theatre and musical theatre, cultural narrative research, intermediality (particularly music-literature relationships), literary anthropology, and aesthetics of the unforeseen including event, improvisation, and suddenness. His scholarly approach consistently bridges historical analysis with contemporary theoretical frameworks, revealing how literary and theatrical forms negotiate political and social transformations across historical periods.
Dr. Schneider's publication record demonstrates thematic consistency across decades, with recent work examining theatrical openings, emotional politics in Goethe's direction books, war literature across historical periods, and democratic theory in 1840s German drama. His scholarship reveals particular interest in how artistic forms engage with political tensions and community formation processes.
- Feodor-Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2024)
Dr. Schneider has secured significant research funding through DFG projects and currently contributes to the DFG Research Group Geistliche Intermedialität in der Frühen Neuzeit. His editorial work includes co-editing Die Kunst der Theatereröffnung (2024) and editing Das Regiebuch (2021). He has organized numerous conferences including the 2020 workshop Das Regiebuch. Zur Lesbarkeit theatraler Produktionsprozesse at the University of Hamburg, demonstrating leadership in theater studies scholarship.
Through the Digitaler Spielplan des Hamburger Stadttheaters 1770-1850 project, Dr. Schneider has contributed to digital humanities approaches in theater history. His international engagement includes research stays at Durham University, presentations at conferences across Europe and North America, and publications in both German and English, establishing him as a significant figure in transnational German literary and theater studies.
