Ass.-Prof. Dr. Rabea Kohnen

Rabea Kohnen joined the Department of German Studies at the University of Vienna in 2019. Her research focuses on transhistorical narratology, cultural studies, and media philology. She is currently working on a book on the dynamics of voice and figure in the reception of the Song of Songs in the German-speaking Middle Ages from a mariological perspective. In the light of this, she is particularly interested in the 'Vorauer Sündenklage' and the 'Lob Salomons'.

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Helene Eisl, BA MA MEd

Helene Eisl received degrees in Teaching (German language and literature; art and communicative practice) as well as Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her special interest in the context of these studies lay above all in the field of medieval studies as well as the theoretical and practical examination of historical printing techniques. In these fields she is active as an art educator in Salzburg and Vienna. Since October 2022, she has been working as a research assistant (PraeDoc) at the University of Vienna in the project "Material Narratology: Rhythm and Voice in the Vorau Manuscript 276", focusing on material, aesthetic and production-specific aspects concerning the caegory of rhythm. With regard to the Vorau manuscript, she is particularly interested in the texts 'Himmlisches Jerusalem' and 'Gebet einer Frau'.

Elisabeth König, Bakk.techn. BA MA

Elisabeth König studied Civil Engineering and Water Management at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna. After several years as a member of the Cistercian Order in a Bavarian abbey, she studied German Philology at the University of Vienna, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 2023. In addition to her studies, she trained as a teacher for German as a foreign and second language. She is particularly interested in the field of medieval studies, where she has been working as a research assistant (PraeDoc) in the FWF project "Material Narratology: Rhythm and Voice in the Vorau Manuscript 276" since January 2023. Her focus lies on the category of voice, related to the question of textual boundaries, gender aspects of voice constitution, and the alternation of narrativity or non-narrativity in the various texts of the Vorau manuscript. Her favorites among these texts are the 'Vorau Bücher Mose' and the 'Lob Salomons'.

Dorothea Sichrovsky, BA

Dorothea Sichrovsky is a student of German Philology in the Master's program at the University of Vienna. Her main interests lie in language attitudes and multilingualism research as well as medieval studies, especially biblical exegesis and historical linguistics. Among the texts of the Vorau collective manusprict, she is particularly interested in the Judith complex. She also studies older languages such as ancient Hebrew, ancient Greek and Latin. After her role as a mentor (fall semester 22), she has been a tutor for literary history and Middle High German at the Institute of German Studies since the summer semester 2023 and is involved in the German Studies Student Council.