Dr. Lara Tarbuk

Table of contents

    1. Academic Career
    2. Publications and Lectures
      1. Monographs
      2. Edited Volumes
      3. Essays
      4. Reviews and Short Works
      5. Lectures
    3. Organization of Conferences and Workshops
      1. FIS-Box Publications
      2. FIS-Box Activities
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Research Associate

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Dr. Lara Tarbuk

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Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies

Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies

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Visiting address:

Wiener Straße 48, 1st floor, room 1.18

01219 Dresden

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Postal address:

TUD Dresden University of Technology Faculty SLK
Institute of German Studies and Media Cultures Helmholtzstraße 10

01069 Dresden

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Office hours:

Wednesday:
13:00 - 14:00

Except during breaks between semesters. You can find all the information and registration details on OPAL in the corresponding cross-semester folder.

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Academic Career

  • Since February 2025: Research Associate (Postdoc) at the Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies (Prof. Dr. Lars Koch) at TU Dresden
  • October 2019–January 2025: Research Associate at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology at Freie Universität Berlin, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ortlieb
  • 2020–2024 Ph.D. at Freie Universität Berlin; dissertation title: The Performance of the Republic. Dramatic Concepts of Theatrical Events in Plays by Bertolt Brecht and Ödön von Horváth (defended: January 2025)
  • Summer Semester 2023: Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford (visiting fellowship from the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages)
  • 2016–2019 Master’s degree in Modern German Literature at Freie Universität Berlin
  • Winter Semester 2018/19: Study abroad at Saint Petersburg State University
  • 2016–2019 Student Assistant in the project “Feelings of Religious Belonging and Rhetorics of Injury” under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Brokoff
  • 2013–2016: Bachelor’s degree in German Studies, Slavic Studies, Philosophy, and Art History at the University of Freiburg
  • 2013–2016: Student Assistant in the department of Prof. Dr. Achim Aurnhammer
  • 2014–2019: Scholarship recipient of the German National Academic Foundation
  • 2012–2013 Studied German Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of Belgrade

Publications and Lectures

Monographs

Edited Volumes

Essays

  • Post-Migrant Perspectives on Narratives of Social Mobility: Saša Stanišić’s *Herkunft* and “Ein schönes Ausländerkind” from *Toxische Pommes*, In: *Classes. Emotions. Narrative. Affective Orders of the Social in Contemporary Literature. Edited by Sophie König, Lara Tarbuk, Robert Walter-Jochum, and Jana Maria Weiß. Berlin/Boston 2025, pp. 365–383. Open Access: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111625188-018/html

  • Classes. Emotions. Narratives. An Introduction to a Field of Tension in Contemporary Literature. In: Classes. Emotions. Narratives. Affective Orders of the Social in Contemporary Literature. Berlin/Boston 2025, pp. 1–20, co-authored with Sophie König, Robert Walter-Jochum, and Jana Maria Weiß, Open Access: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111625188-001/html

  • “Heroes for the Fairground Panopticon.” Bodies of War in *Drums in the Night*, *Man Is Man*, and *The German Lame Man*. In: Lydia Mühlbach/Kirsten Reimers/Thorsten Unger (eds.): Bertolt Brecht and Ernst Toller. J. B. Metzler: Stuttgart 2024, pp. 127–143.
  • “One Must Try to Settle In in Germany.” On the Significance of Furniture in *Drums in the Night* and *The Wedding*. In: *The Brecht Yearbook* / *Das Brecht-Jahrbuch* 48 (2023), pp. 62–76.
  • “I Plead for Mitigating Circumstances for a Ghost: Here Sits the Time of Inflation.” The Year 1923 in Ödön von Horváth’s *Sladek, or: The Black Army* (1928). In: Christine Frank (ed.): Berlin in 1923. Parallel Worlds in Literature, Science, and Art. Königshausen und Neumann: Würzburg 2023, pp. 175–190.
  • Playmates and Poems. Nicolas Mahler’s Attic Find (2015). In: Bülhoff, Andreas/Gilbert, Annette/Klimroth, Susanne/Ortlieb, Cornelia/Sestu, Timo (eds.): <container class="Artefacts of the Avant-Gardes 1885–2015">, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2023, pp. 229–244. Open Access: https://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/year/2024/docId/85988
  • Prince Friedrich von Homburg—(Not) a Markish Hamlet? On the Intertextual Relationships Between Heinrich von Kleist’s Prince Friedrich von Homburg and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In: Anwesenheitsnotiz. Student Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (2019), pp. 74–96.

Reviews and Short Works

Lectures

  • “Contested Stages: The Dramaturgy of Space in Brecht’s *In the Thicket*, ” Baustelle Brecht, “Practices of Positioning in Brecht, Benjamin, and Co.,” Literature Forum at the Brecht House, Berlin, December 2023.
  • “War in the Name: On the Significance of Proper Names in Saša Stanišić’s *How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone* and Lana Bastašić’s *Uhvati zeca*, ” “War and Peace” Conference , DLA Marbach, November 2023
  • “I Plead for Mitigating Circumstances for a Ghost: Here Sits the Time of Inflation.”“The Year 1923 in Ödön von Horváth’s*Sladek, or: The Black Army*,” lecture as part of the lecture series “Berlin in the Crisis Year 1923: Parallel Worlds in Literature, Science, and Art,” June 2023.
  • “Heroes for the Fairground Panopticon: Bodies of War in Brecht and Toller.” International Conference on Bertolt Brecht and Ernst Toller, Magdeburg, July 2022.
  • “Argumentation, Objectivity, and Affective Rhetorics in College Debates.” With Christof Kebschull. Conference: “Heated Tempers, Habitus of Coldness: On the Ambivalence of Affective Rhetorics in the Political and Literary Sphere,” Berlin, July 2022.
  • “One Must Try to Settle In in Germany! On the Significance of Furniture in Brecht’s Early Plays.” Baustelle Brecht/Müller “Living in the Empty Center,” Berlin, December 2021.
  • “Human/Machine. War and Physicality in Brecht’s Early Plays.” Guest lecture in the master’s seminar “The Artificial Human Around 1900 on Stage, in the Circus Ring, and in Film” by Visiting Prof. Dr. Laurette Burgholzer, Institute for Theater Studies, June 2021.
  • “Toy Poetry. On Nicolas Mahler’s Poetry Collection *dachbodenfund*.” Workshop: Puppet Writing, Freie Universität Berlin, January 2021.
  • “The Staging of the Republic: Bertolt Brecht and Ödön von Horváth.” Baustelle Brecht III, Literature Forum at the Brecht House, Berlin, December 2020.
  • “The Presentation of the Performance: Oskar Schlemmer, Bertolt Brecht, Ödön von Horváth.” With Cornelia Ortlieb. Conference: “Circus and the Avant-Gardes: Multimedia Technologies and Popular Body Machines,” Freie Universität Berlin, March 2020.

Organization of Conferences and Workshops

  • 06/2024Classes. Emotions. Narrative, conference , Free University of Berlin, with Sophie König, Robert Walter-Jochum, Jana Maria Weiß
  • 01/2024 Stages in Transition: Berlin Modernism(s) in Dramatic Texts and Theater Spaces, conference , Freie Universität Berlin, with Cornelia Ortlieb
  • 02/2023 Locating Origins, Articulating Origins. Reading and Discussion with Saša Stanišić, Reading , Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities, Freie Universität Berlin, Organization and Moderation

FIS-Box Publications

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FIS-Box Activities

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