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Dr habil. Alexandra Ludewig

MA DPhil Munich, PhD Qld

Senior Lecturer (German Studies)

Arts Building, Room 2.12
Ph: (+61 8) 6488 2049
Fax: (+61 8) 6488 1182
Email: aludewig@arts.uwa.edu.au

QUALIFICATIONS: M.A., Ph.D., Dr. Phil.

1998 Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. Phil.), LMU University in Munich
1995 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), The University of Queensland
1993 Magister Artium (M.A.), LMU University in Munich

Research work for degrees:

1998 Dr. Phil. thesis “Großvaterland. Untersuchungen zu Thomas Bernhards (Auto)-Biographie”. The thesis examines the relationship between ancestry, mother - fatherland and identity as problematised by the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard in his autobiographical pentalogy.
1995 Ph.D. thesis: “Walter Kaufmann. Eine Fallstudie in Bikulturalismus”. The thesis highlights the creative tension of displacement as experienced by the Jewish-German-Australian writer Walter Kaufmann.
1993 M.A. thesis: “Die Funktion des Großvaters für Thomas Bernhard”. The thesis analyses the dynamic relationship between the two Austrian writers Johannes Freumbichler and Thomas Bernhard and the influence of the former on the works of the latter.

PRIZES AND AWARDS

2005 UWA Research Award (“From Bergfilm to Contemporary Heimatfilm”)
2004 Stipendium des bm:bwk (Österreichisches Bundesministerium) 2 weeks
2004 Stipendium des Goethe Instituts (Fortbildung für Fortbilder) 2 weeks
2004 Excellence in Teaching Award (Best Honours Supervisor) High Commendation
2003 Web-CT “Innovation of on-line unit” Grant
2003 Excellence in Teaching Award (best 2nd / 3rd year lecturer) Winner
2002 UWA Research Award (“Heimat in Contemporary German Film”)
2001 DAAD Forschungskurzzeitstipendium (DAAD = Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst / German Academic Exchange Service)
1998 Australian Research Council Small Grant (“New Media. New Message”)
1997 Time Release Award for the Development of Multimedia Applications for Teaching in German
1996 Golda Meir Fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1995 Commonwealth Postgraduate Scholarship at The University of Queensland

PUBLICATIONS

A) Books:

Advantage German. The Potential and Importance of the German Language in Australia, Goethe Institute 2001, ISBN 1-74052-0319; pp. 38.

* Großvaterland. Thomas Bernhards Schriftstellergenese, Peter Lang Verlag, Bern 1999; ISBN 3-906762-60-2; pp.368.

CD-Rom:

Der Autor Walter Kaufmann. Ein bikultureller Sonderfall, Marburg: Tectum-Verlag, 1996; ISBN 3-89608-894-7; pp.423.

Textbooks:

WWW and the Internet. A Guide and Workbook for Teachers & Students of German, Perth: The University of Western Australia, 1997; ISBN 0 86422 803 1; pp.52.

B) Refereed Articles and Book-Chapters:

  • “A German Heimat in the Baltic Region? Contemporary German Film as a European Provocation”, in: Journal of European Studies, 1/2006.

  • “Leni Riefenstahl’s Encounter with the Nuba. In Search of the Sublime”, in: Interventions 8/1 (2006).

  • * “Screening the East, Probing the Past. The Baltic Sea in Contemporary German Cinema”, in: German Politics & Society, Issue 71. Volume 22, No.2, Summer 2004; ISSN: 0882-7079; pp.27-48.

  • “Screening the East, Probing the Past. The Baltic Sea in Contemporary German Cinema”, in: International Centre for Landscape and Language, Volume 2 (3), 2004; ISSN 1448-0778; pp.1-13.

  • “Germanistik als Spagat zwischen Textphilologie und Kulturwissenschaft. Impressionen aus Deutschland und Australien”, in: Wissenschaftliche Nachrichten (Nautschnyj Vestnikk), 1/2004; ISBN 800:37; pp. 127- 133.

  • “Is there a German Heimat in the Baltic Region” in: Ian Foster and Juliet Wigmore (eds.), Neighbours and Strangers, Germany, Austria and Central Europe: Literary and Cultural Relations since 1989, Amsterdam/New York, NY 2004. VII, 284 (German Monitor 59), ISBN 90-420-1891-7; pp. 257-280.

  • * „Nestroy, Horváth, Loher und die Volksstücktradition. Nur das Lachen ist uns vergangen“ in: Nestroyana, 2/2003, ISSN 1027-3921, pp.193-202.

  • „Film Making in Second Language Acquisition“ in: Neusprachliche Mitteilungen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, 2/2003, L. Hermes et al. (eds.), ISNN 0028-3983, pp.102-109.

  • “Heimat, City and Frontier in German National Cinema”, in: Debatte: Review of Contemporary German Affairs, Günter Minnerup (ed.), Volume 9, Number 2/November 1, 2001, pp. 173-187.

  • Lawrance, Ludewig, Klinzmann & Tonkin: “Expanding their Horizons: Teaching Engineering students German Language & Culture”, in: Australian Journal for Engineering Education, vol.9, no.2, December 2001; ISSN 1324-5821; pp.193-198.

  • Keller, Matthias and Ludewig, Alexandra. “Nietzsche lebt in Lola rennt”, Germanic Notes and Reviews, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall 2001, R.F. Krummel (ed.) 2001; ISSN 0016-8882; pp.130-148.

  • “Modernes deutsches Theater”, in: New German Review: A Journal of Germanic Studies, Volume 14, 1989-1999, Los Angeles: UCLA 2000, ISSN 0889-0145; pp.55-73.

  • “Dea Lohers Theaterstück Adam Geist”, in: Forum Modernes Theater, Band 15, 2/2000, Günter Ahrends (ed.), Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag 2000; ISSN 0930-5874; pp.113-124.

  • “Europe’s DiVisions in Contemporary German Films”, in: Franz Oswald et al. (eds.), Europe — Divided or United?, Canberra: Southern Highlands Publishers 2000; ISBN 0-7334-0718-8; pp. 413-425.

  • “Heimat- und Anti-Heimatliteratur in Österreich”, in: Rodney Symington (ed.) seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies, Volume XXXIII, No.3, September 1997, Toronto: University of Toronto Press; CN ISSN 0037-1939; pp. 238-258.

C) Refereed Conference Proceedings:

  • “iMovie. A student project with many side-effects”, in: e-Xplore 2001: a face-to-face odyssey. Conference Proceedings from the AUC Conference, Townsville 2001; ISBN 0-947209-33-6; pp.12.1-12.11

  • Fardon, Mike, and Ludewig, Alexandra. “iLectures: A Catalyst for Teaching and Learning”, Published in R. Sims et al. (eds). Learning to Choose ~ Choosing to Learn: proceedings of ASCILITE 2000. Coffs Harbour, Southern Cross University, 2000, pp.45-56.

D) Invited Contribution:

“Sprache und Texte in der heutigen Gesellschaft”, in: Festschrift. 150 Jahre Stiftisches Gymnasium in Düren. 2002; pp.14-18.

E) Entry for Encyclopaedia:

“History of German in Western Australia”, in: Historical Encyclopaedia of Western Australia, 2006. (forthcoming)
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