Helene Richter
Foundation

Helene Richter Foundation

Funded by emeritus Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Franz Karl Stanzel from 2007 to 2018 to honor the memory of the English scholar Helene Richter, who died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942. The prize was awarded for a dissertation, habilitation thesis, or a comparably high-level scientific monograph in German or English by a young scholar distinguished by the intensity of the research, clarity of structure and argumentation, significance of the results, close textual analysis, and fluent linguistic presentation. Studies related to Shakespeare or Romanticism, Helene Richter’s central areas of publication, were particularly welcome, but works on other areas of English literature could also be considered.

The following were awarded:

Year
awarded
2018
Sarah Herbe: ”Love the author; and me for bringing you acquainted”: Paratextual Life-Writing in English Poetry Books, 1563-1777
2017
Sandra Dinter: Childhood in Contemporary English Fiction: Contesting the Last Vestige of Essentialism
2016
(Keine Preisvergabe)
2015
Dorothee Birke: Writing the Reader: Quixotic Novels in England, 1752-2008
2014
Nora A. Pleßke: The Intelligible Metropolis: Urban Mentality in Contemporary London Novels.
2013
Irmtraud Huber: Reconstructive Dreams: A Pragmatic Fantastic after Postmodernism
2012
Julia Lippert: Ein kognitives Lesemodell historio(bio)graphischer Texte. Georg III. – Rezeption und Konstruktion in den britischen Medien (1990 – 2006)
2011
(Keine Preisvergabe)
2010
Margret Fetzer: John Donne’s Performances: Sermons, Poems, Letters and Devotions
2009
Stefanie Fricke: Memento Mori: Ruinen alter Hochkulturen und die Furcht vor dem eigenen Untergang in der englischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts
2008
Susanne Schmid: Shelley’s German Afterlives: 1814 – 2000
2007
Markus Marti: Titus Andronicus (Übersetzung im Rahmen der englisch-deutschen Studienausgabe der Dramen Shakespeares)