Dr Gundula-Maria Sharman

Dr Gundula-Maria Sharman The University of Aberdeen School of Language & Literature Senior Teaching Fellow work +44 (0)1224 272486 work fax 01224-272562 pref g.m.sharman@abdn.ac.uk pref Department of German Taylor Building King's College Old Aberdeen AB24 3UB

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Web Links

German version of St Albans Psalter project,www.abdn.ac.uk/stalbanspsalter - Aug 2003

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Biography

Dr Sharman has been a member of the German Department since 1998.  In 2000 she completed her Phd Twentieth-century Reworkings of German Literature, which analysis how selected canonic texts ranging from Goethe to Thomas Mann, were received by post-1945 writers, including Brecht, Wolfgang Koeppen, and the Irish novelist John Banville.  Building on that work, she is currently focussing on intertextualities between Goethe's Werther and Büchner's Lenz.

 

Dr Sharman has been programme coordinator for German Studies since Sep 2011. 

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Research Interests

Dr Sharman's research areas are based in German literature and culture of the late 18th century until the post-45 era.  Her first monograph was concerned with the phenomenon of 'Literary Reworkings' (literarische Bearbeitungen) in the context of German literature.  The analysis includes works by authors such as Wolfgang Koeppen, Peter Schneider, Ulrich Plenzdorf and the Irish writer John Banville.

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Current Research

• the fragile self in Goethe's Werther, Bϋchner's Lenz and their literary successors, and
• German intercultural encounters with a special focus on the European North, Germans abroad and Nordic travellers in Germany

Through collaboration on the St Albans Psalter web site Dr Sharman also has inter-disciplinary links with History of Art.

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Teaching Responsibilities

Honours options

• Images of Childhood
• Love Marriage and Adultery in German literature
• Film and Text: literary film adaptations of NGC and DEFA
• Allusion and fusion: Goethe's Werther and Bϋchner's Lenz

Other teaching duties include a lecture series on Goethe's Faust, selected 20th-century novels and Kurzgeschichten, German film and German language options at all levels.

 

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External Responsibilities

School disability officer

Year Abroad co-ordinator.

Dr Sharman is currently an external examiner for the University of Western Scotland,  and for Advanced Higher German with the SQA (since 2001).

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KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND LINKS OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY

Introduction to If not us, who? as part of National Schools Film Week The Belmont Cinema, Aberdeen - Nov 2012

Introduction to Sophie Scholl  as part of National Schools Film Week The Belmont Cinema, Aberdeen - Nov 2011

Introduction to The Lives of Others as part of National Schools Film Week. The Belmont Cinema, Aberdeen - Nov 2010

Introduction to The Wave as part of National Schools Film Week. The Belmont Cinema, Aberdeen - Nov 2009

School Workshop on Germany after Unification, Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen - Nov 2009

Setting up student work placements in Germany (SAP and Barber International) 2008

Erasmus teaching exchanges, Universität Freiburg, 2011, Pädagogische Hochschule, Karlsruhe 2007 and Hàskoli Íslands, Reykjavik 2009

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