Dr Renate Rechtien
Lecturer in European Studies and German
1 West North 4.29
Email: r.a.rechtien@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 5664
Profile
Dr. Renate Rechtien is Lecturer in German Studies. She graduated from the University of London, Goldsmiths College, where she also carried out research towards a PhD awarded in 1997.
Before joining the Department, she was full-time Lecturer at Heriott-Watt University, Edinburgh. She is a qualified Interpreter and Translator who worked as a Freelance Translator, Writer and Sub-Editor in publishing for many years in London before joining academic life.
She teaches German Cultural Studies and German Politics to first and second year students, is unit convenor of Culture and National Identity in the final year of undergraduate level, and she co-teaches in Gender in Politics in Europe. She also teaches a national option in German on Multicultural Germany.
Research Interests
- GDR Literature with a special focus on women’s writing
- Identity and Place
- Gender and Intercultural Studies
Teaching
Undergraduate
Publications
Book/s
Rechtien, R. and Tate, D., eds., 2011. Twenty years on, competing memories of the GDR in post-unification German culture. Rochester, New York: Camden House. (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Clarke, D. and Rechtien, R., eds., 2009. The Politics of Place in Post-War Germany: Essays in Literary Criticism. Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen.
Rechtien, R. and Von Oppen, K., eds., 2007. Local/Global Encounters. Vol. 68. Amsterdam: Rodopi. (German Monitor)
Book Sections
Rechtien, R., 2012. From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to Living with Ghosts: Christa Wolfs Kindheitsmuster and Leibhaftig. In: Clarke, D. and Goodbody, A., eds. The self in transition: East German autobiographical writing before and after unification: essays in honour of Dennis Tate. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 123-144. (German monitor; 75)
Rechtien, R., 2009. From a topography of hope to a nightmarish ‘non-place’: chronotopes in Christa Wolf’s ‘June afternoon’, ‘Unter den Linden’ and What Remains. In: Clarke, D. and Rechtien, R., eds. The politics of place in post-war Germany: essays in literary criticism. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, pp. 261-284.
Rechtien, R., 2007. '[…] so unwichtig sind die Orte nicht, anden en wir leben.' Places of Longing and Belonging in Christa Wolf's Der geteilte Himmel and Sommerstück. In: Rechtien, R. and Von Oppen, K., eds. Local/Global Encounters. Vol. 68. 68 ed. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 121-143. (German Monitor)
Rechtien, R., 2007. "[…] eine Autobiographie nach anderen Gesichtspunkten als denen der äusseren Historie und Chronologie." Christa Wolfs Alltagsprosa als autobiographisches Projekt. In: Barker, P., Ohse, M. D. and Tate, D., eds. Views from Abroad. Die DDR aus britischer Perspektive. Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, pp. 223-234.
Rechtien, R., 2004. Irene Boehme's novel Die Buchhaendlerin. A Case of Reconstructing the Past in the Image of the Future? In: Foster, I. and Wigmore, J., eds. Neighbours and Strangers: Literary and Cultural Relations in Germany, Austria and Central Europe Since 1989. Vol. 59. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, pp. 219-237. (German Monitor no 59)
Articles
Rechtien, R., 2012. Spurensuche im Labyrinth. Momente des Unheimlichen in Christa Wolf's Früh- und Spätwerk. Text+Kritik Zeitschrift fur Literatur, 46, pp. 128-142.
Rechtien, R., 2010. Cityscapes of the German Democratic Republic - An Interdisciplinary Approach: Introduction. German Life and Letters, 63 (4), pp. 369-374.
Rechtien, R., 2010. The topography of the self in Christa Wolf’s Der geteilte Himmel. German Life and Letters, 63 (4), pp. 475-489.
Conference or Workshop Items
Rechtien, R. A., 2012. Overcoming nationhood? The Turkish-German axis in recent German cinema and literature. In: Shifting German and Central and East European Landscapes: Cultural Hybridity and Place, 2012-12-14, Bath.
Rechtien, R., 2011. Exploring routes and roots in recent German migrant cinema. In: 'Place and Identity’ interdisciplinary workshop, 2011-05-12, Bath.
Rechtien, R., 2011. From “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” to Living with Ghosts: the burden of historical representation in Christa Wolf’s autobiographical writing. In: Political Studies Annual Conference, 2011-04-19 - 2011-04-21, London.
Rechtien, R., 2009. Successful negotiations between cultures and traditions, or head-on collisions? Explorations of sexuality, gender, and masculine identity in recent German migrant cinema. In: The German Masculine and “The Other”, 2009-10-31, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Rechtien, R., 2009. Berlin as a site of cultural memory in the writing of Christa Wolf. In: Spaces of Nationhood: Landscape and Identity After Communism, 2009-09-07 - 2009-09-09, University of Birmingham, England.
Rechtien, R., 2009. Images and Imaginings of the socialist city in Christa Wolf’s early writing. In: Cityscapes in the Former GDR, 2009-05-09, University of Bath, England.
Rechtien, R., 2008. From psychoanalytical to corporeal memory. An analysis of Christa Wolf’s Patterns of Childhood and Incarnate. In: Cultural Memory. Forgetting to Remember/Remembering to Forget, 2008-09-10 - 2008-09-13, Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Kent, England.
