Output
Monograph(s)
Aumüller, Matthias: Medikaler Raum in der Erzählliteratur der DDR. Narratologische Fallanalysen und historische Entwicklung. Berlin/Basel: Schwabe, 2025.
From tuberculosis hospital to pathology. Medical spaces in the narrative literature of the GDR:
Whether as a setting for socio-medical progress, ideological healing or the Cold War on the one hand, or as a place of critical reckoning with the past and individual and collective decline on the other, the medical space in the narrative literature of the GDR always has a representative significance for real society in addition to its concrete function in a fictional story. From a literary history perspective, this reflects a change in function that goes hand in hand with the changing attitudes of authors towards the GDR.
The study by Matthias Aumüller (former SNF Senior Researcher) contains analyses of works by Christa Wolf, Gabriele Stötzer, J. C. Schwarz, Klaus Schlesinger, Maria H. Rauchfuß, Stefan Heym and others.
Articles
Martina King: Beschädigte Körper im Lazarett – Leonhard Franks Erzählung Die Kriegskrüppel (1917), published in: Klaus Birnstiel, Johannes Görbert (eds.): Literary Disability Studies im deutschsprachigen Raum. Behinderung als ästhetisches und kulturelles Phänomen in der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts, Sonderheft Kulturpoetik 2026/2.
Baie, Mona: “Krankenhaus, ach Krankenhaus”: Zur Bedeutung des Klinikraums in David Wagners Leben und Verkin im Kontext neuerer architektonischer Raumtheorien. In: Mona Baie/Alexander Honold/Martina King (eds.): Das Medikale im Werk David Wagners; appears Schwabe 2026.
Baie, Mona: “A Featureless Landscape of Humiliation and Loss”: Clinical Spaces and the Politics of Disability in Hilary Mantel’s Giving Up the Ghost. In: Klaus Birnstiel/Harriet Cooper/Johannes Görbert (eds.): Literary and Cultural Disability Studies; in print, Nomos 2026.
Baie, Mona: Liegend kämpfen: Der Heilort “Krankenhaus” und die Poetik der Affekte in Audre Lordes The Cancer Journals. In: Alina Boy (ed.): Heilorte. Topiken und Topographien von Krankheit und Heilung in der Literatur; Rombach 2025, 163–186.
Master’s thesis
Zoé Gabrielle Kuster: Les représentations des hôpitaux de guerre – théâtres des propagandes et autres volontés sociopolitiques et culturelles (Master’s thesis in history of medicine, degree August 2025)
Conference papers and lectures
“Krankenhausidylle, Klinikarkadien”: “Ideale” klinische Räume in autobiografischer Literatur seit den 1960er Jahren
― Mona Baie
19 March 2026 – 20 March 2026
Presentation: Workshop “Gesundheit gestalten”
Universitätsklinik Magdeburg
Zwischen Inklusion und Medikalisierung: Klinische Räume und Behinderung in der europäischen Gegenwartsliteratur
― Mona Baie
07.05.2025, 18:15
Presentation
Freie Universität Berlin, lecture hall 2, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, D–14195 Berlin
The clinical ward in medical history: spatial climax of multiple interrelations (DE)
Alfons Labisch, author of the classic Homo hygienicus, talks about hospital sickrooms from the perspective of medical history – using unpublished image and text material. This will result in exciting, new approaches to the still largely unwritten cultural history of patients’ rooms and wards.
― Alfons Labisch
Room 036 Saal Henri Dunant, PER 17
Chem. du Musée 18, CH–1700 Fribourg
“A Featureless Landscape of Humiliation and Loss”
Clinical Spaces and the Politics of Disability in Hilary Mantel’s Giving Up the Ghost (2003)
― Mona Baie
03.11.2023, 16:30
Presentation
Conference “Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. British and Continental Perspectives”, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Medical Spaces in Literary Prose (1918-1933)
― Martina King
11.10.2023, 18:30
Presentation (online)
Literary Studies Colloquium
Institute for German Studies, Graz University
Sickrooms, corridors, hospital wards: on the psychogeography of the hospital in ‘Leben’ (DE)
The prize-winning Leben (2013), a captivating autobiographical novel by the German author David Wagner, evokes the hospital as an unsettling labyrinth of spaces, sceneries, and sensory impressions. In the lecture and following discussion, we will delve into the poetical intricacies of this work.
― David Wagner
06.09.2023, 17:00-19:00
Presentation (online)
Pavillon Vert
Chem. du Musée 10, CH–1700 Fribourg
