KAREN R. ACHBERGER

June 2002

Professional Memberships  |  Awards  |  Publications

ADDRESS:

505 Highland Avenue (507) 645-7937 (home)
Northfield, MN 55057 (507) 646-3381 (office)
krach@stolaf.edu (507) 646-3732 (fax)

EDUCATION AND POSITIONS HELD:

1996-99 German Department Chair, St. Olaf College, Northfield, fulltime
1995-present Professor, St. Olaf College, Northfield, fulltime
1988-95 Associate Professor, St. Olaf College, Northfield, fulltime
1979-88 Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College, Northfield, fulltime
1974-79 Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Eugene, fulltime
1975 PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Dissertation: "The German Opera Libretto Since 1945"
Doktorvater: Jost Hermand 1968 M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison
1967 B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND OFFICES:

American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), since 1967
Modern Language Association (MLA), since 1971
Coalition of Women in German (WIG), since 1974:

Founding Member; Steering Committee, 1978-81;
Co-Chair, 1980-81; Director of Membership, 1983-85
WIG Newsletter, Personal News Editor, 1997-present German Studies Association (GSA, formerly WAGS), since 1977: Charter Member; Executive Council, 1982-85;
Chair, Elections Committee, 1983-84;
German Studies Ad Hoc Task Force, 1985-87;
Curriculum and Academic Programs Committee, 1987-90 Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA), since 1980 Advisory Council, German II Section, 1981-82 International Brecht Society (IBS), since 1970

AWARDS:

Deutsch-Amerikanischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) / NEH, Summer Seminar 1996

David Bathrick, Cornell University: "Cinema in Nazi Germany" National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Year-Long Fellowship for 1994-95
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Summer Seminar 1988 Sander L. Gilman, Cornell University: "Medicine and the Humanities" American Council of Learned Societies, Year-Long Fellowship for 1984-85 ("The MLA-ACLS Fellowship in Literature") National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 1984-85, Travel-to-Collections Grant
Fulbright Supplemental Award to the Federal Republic of Germany, Alternate, 1984-85
Senior Fulbright Award, "Dt. Landeskunde" Seminar, Bonn/Berlin (West), Summer1981
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) / AATG Summer Stipend Alternate, 1980 International Research Exchange Board (IREX), Alternate Scholar to the GDR, Spring 1977 U.S. Committee for Friendship with the GDR/Liga für Völkerfreundschaft Stipend "Internationaler Germanistenkurs" in Dresden (GDR), July and August 1976 St. Olaf Faculty Development Summer Grant: 1983, 1989, 1991, 1999
St. Olaf Faculty Tutorial, Summer 1997
American Lutheran Church (ALC) Faculty Award, Summer 1980, 1984
University of Oregon Faculty Research Award, Summer 1976

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

Understanding Ingeborg Bachmann. Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature, James Hardin, ed. Columbia: U. South Carolina Press, 1995. 207 pp.  Nominated for Austrian Cultural Institute Book Prize 1995.

Literatur als Libretto. Das deutsche Opernbuch seit 1945. Mit einem Verzeichnis der neuen Opern. Reihe Siegen, No. 21. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1980. 288pp.

ARTICLES:

"Ingeborg Bachmann,"Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature. Ed. Thomas Riggs. Farmington Hills, Michigan: St. James Press, forthcoming 2002.

"Malina,"Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature. Ed. Thomas Riggs. Farmington Hills, Michigan: St. James Press, forthcoming 2002.

"'Ein Sultan, ein Wilder, ein Halbgott, ein Prinz': the Romantic Hero in Ingeborg Bachmann's Works of the Sixties." Heroes and Heroism in German Literature and Culture. Stephen Brockmann and James Steakley, eds. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001, 163-186.

"Malina(1971): Ingeborg Bachmann's Novel of Female Speechlessness and Absence." Towards the Millennium: The Austrian Novel 1971-1996. Gerald Chapple, ed. Tübingen: Stauffenberg, 2000: 29-46.

"Rescue from Kesey's 'Great Notion': The Healing Power of Water in Seghers, Frischmuth, and Bachmann." Water, Culture, and Politics in Germany and the American West. German Life and Civilization Series. Susan C. Anderson and Bruce H. Tabb, eds. N.Y.: Peter Lang, 2000, 79-92.

"'Bösartig liebevollí den Menschen zugetan. Humor in Ingeborg Bachmanns Todesarten-Projekt. Essays zu Ingeborg Bachmanns ëTodesartení-Projekt. Monika Albrecht and Dirk Göttsche, eds. Münster: Königshausen & Neumann, 1998, 228-245.

"'Das alltägliche Unerhörte': Ingeborg Bachmann's Modernist Novellas," Neues zu Altem: Novellen der Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart. Houston German Studies 10, Sabine Cramer, ed. Stuttgart: Wilhelm Fink, 1997, 207-234.

"German in the Humanities,"Die Unterrichtspraxis 26, No. 1 (Spring 1993), 8-12.

"Bachmann, Brecht und die Musik."Ingeborg Bachmann - Neue Beiträge zu ihrem Werk. Internationales Symposion Münster 1991. Dirk Göttsche and Hubert Ohl, eds., Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1993, 265-279.

"Music and Fluidity in Bachmann's 'Undine geht,'" Fictions of Culture: Studies in Honor of Walter H. Sokel. Ed.Steven Taubeneck. New York: Peter Lang, 1991, 309-320.

"'Kunst als Veränderndes': Bachmann and Brecht." Monatshefte 83,1 (Spring 1991), 7-16.

"Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973)." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume Eighty-five. Austrian Fiction Writers After 1914 . Ed. James Hardin and Donald G. Daviau. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1989, 24-39.

"Musik und 'Komposition' in Ingeborg Bachmanns Zikaden und Malina." The German Quarterly, 61, No. 2 (Spring 1988), 193-212.

"Introduction." The Thirtieth Year . Stories by Ingeborg Bachmann. Translated by Michael Bullock. N.Y.: Holmes & Meier, 1987; first paperback ed. 1995, vii-xvii.

"Beyond Patriarchy: Ingeborg Bachmann and Fairytales." Modern Austrian Literature 18, Nos. 3/4 (1985): Special Ingeborg Bachmann Issue, 211-222.

"Der Fall Schönberg: Musik und Mythos in Malina." Text + Kritik Sonderband: Ingeborg Bachmann. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold and Sigrid Weigel. Munich: Edition Text + Kritik, 1984, 120-131.

"Bachmann und die Bibel. 'Ein Schritt nach Gomorrha' als weibliche Schöpfungsgeschichte." Der dunkle Schatten, dem ich schon seit Anfang folge.Ingeborg Bachmann - Vorschläge zu einer neuen Lektüre des Werks.Ed. Hans Höller. Vienna: Löcker, 1982, 97-110.

"GDR Women's Fiction of the 1970's. The Emergence of Feminism Within Socialism." East Central Europe/L'Europe du Centre-Est 6, Pt. 2 (1979), 217-231.

"Ingeborg Bachmann's 'Homburg' Libretto: Kleist Between Humanism and Existentialism." Modern Austrian Literature 12, Nos. 3/4 (1979): 305-315.

"Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatriz as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura, by Irmtraud Morgner. Introduction." New German Critique 15 (Fall 1978), 121-124. Co-author: Friedrich Achberger.

TRANSLATIONS:

"White Easter," "The Duel," "Shoes," and "The Rope" by Irmtraud Morgner. German Feminism: Readings in Politics and Literature. Ed. by Edith Hoshino Altbach, et al. SUNY Press, 1984, 77-82, 209-219.

"Gospel of Valeska in 71 Stanzas. Twelfth Book of Trobadora Beatriz by Irmtraud Morgner." New German Critique 15 (Fall 1978), 125-146. Co-translator: Friedrich Achberger

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Ingeborg Bachmann. Literature as Utopia. Essays, Lectures, and Other Writings. AnAnnotated Translation. Co-editor: Monika Albrecht. Texts and Contexts Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

"Ingeborg Bachmann's Record Collection," "Über die Zeit schreiben" 3. Literarur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Essays zum Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns. Ed. Monika Albrecht & Dirk Göttsche. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, forthcoming 2002.

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