Marisa Siguan, honored with the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize 2017, awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Professor Marisa Siguan, professor of German Literature at the University of Barcelona, has been awarded the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize 2017, the prestigious award given by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to international scientists distinguished for their research in the field of German studies - literature and linguistics, German as a foreign language, etc.- as well as studies on Germany.
In particular, DAAD chose Marisa Siguan for the “intensity of her teaching and researching activity over the years as well as the excellence of her research”. The institution, dedicated to promote international academic cooperation, highlights that Siguan has decisively contributed in this cooperation and the understanding between the culture of German-speaking countries and ours, in a broad sense. The award will be given this autumn in Berlin.
Marisa Siguan is professor of German Literature at the University of Barcelona and has been external fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), which belongs to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, and the Morphomata University of Cologne. From 2000 to 2014 Siguan coordinated the doctoral program in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities of the Faculty of Philology of the UB and has also participated, since its creation, in the master degree of the UB with the same name. At the moment, she is coordinating the doctoral program in Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Philology. Her fields of research and teaching are mainly the Spanish-German literature relations in the 18th-19th and 19th-20th centuries, German modern literature and the relation between traumatic memory and literary writing in the 20th and 21st centuries. She has published, among other works, La recepción de Ibsen y Hauptmann en el modernismo catalán (1990), Transkulturelle Beziegungen, with Karl Wagner (2004), Goethe: obra narrativa (2006), Historia de la literatura en lengua alemana desde los orígenes hasta la actualidad, with Hans Gerd Roetzer (2012), and Schreiben an den Grenzen der Sprache (2014). She has given lectures and conferences at the universities in Santiago de Compostela, Seville, the Basque Country, the Complutense University of Madrid, Valencia, Trier, Vienna, Freiburg, Würzburg, Zurich, Rome III, London, Buenos Aires and Wisconsin-Madison. She is founding member of the Association for the German Language and the Goethe Society in Spain, entity chaired by her. She has been part of the international scientific committee of the Association for German Language, and since 2013, member of the German Academy for Language and Literature (DASD).
Professor Marisa Siguan, professor of German Literature at the University of Barcelona, has been awarded the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize 2017, the prestigious award given by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to international scientists distinguished for their research in the field of German studies - literature and linguistics, German as a foreign language, etc.- as well as studies on Germany.
In particular, DAAD chose Marisa Siguan for the “intensity of her teaching and researching activity over the years as well as the excellence of her research”. The institution, dedicated to promote international academic cooperation, highlights that Siguan has decisively contributed in this cooperation and the understanding between the culture of German-speaking countries and ours, in a broad sense. The award will be given this autumn in Berlin.
Marisa Siguan is professor of German Literature at the University of Barcelona and has been external fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), which belongs to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, and the Morphomata University of Cologne. From 2000 to 2014 Siguan coordinated the doctoral program in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities of the Faculty of Philology of the UB and has also participated, since its creation, in the master degree of the UB with the same name. At the moment, she is coordinating the doctoral program in Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Philology. Her fields of research and teaching are mainly the Spanish-German literature relations in the 18th-19th and 19th-20th centuries, German modern literature and the relation between traumatic memory and literary writing in the 20th and 21st centuries. She has published, among other works, La recepción de Ibsen y Hauptmann en el modernismo catalán (1990), Transkulturelle Beziegungen, with Karl Wagner (2004), Goethe: obra narrativa (2006), Historia de la literatura en lengua alemana desde los orígenes hasta la actualidad, with Hans Gerd Roetzer (2012), and Schreiben an den Grenzen der Sprache (2014). She has given lectures and conferences at the universities in Santiago de Compostela, Seville, the Basque Country, the Complutense University of Madrid, Valencia, Trier, Vienna, Freiburg, Würzburg, Zurich, Rome III, London, Buenos Aires and Wisconsin-Madison. She is founding member of the Association for the German Language and the Goethe Society in Spain, entity chaired by her. She has been part of the international scientific committee of the Association for German Language, and since 2013, member of the German Academy for Language and Literature (DASD).