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Vita

1979-1981
Bookshop apprenticeship

1983-1989
Studies in modern German literature, medieval literature, linguistics and history at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen

1990-1993
Participation in the project "Literary Life in Central Hesse" (State Focus Project)

1993-1995
Doctoral scholarship from the Hessian Graduate Support programme; Dissertation on the subject: The Publishing Company Krieger (1725-1825). The significance of the publisher, book dealer and lending librarian Johann Christian Kon-rad Krieger for the emergence of a reading culture in Hesse around 1800

1996
Research scholarship at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel

1997
Academic staff member with the German Research Foundation (DFG) project "Reactivation of the History of Ideas"; Partial project: Literal Distribution Processes in the 18th Century (University Giessen)
Academic staff member at the Institute for Book Studies Mainz from March 2001

2002
Habilitation scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the project "Travel and Reading during the Era of Industrialisation. On the emergence and development of the travel book trade from its beginnings around 1850 to the end of the Weimar Republic”

2004
Completion of the habilitation process on 20 July 2004 with the inaugural lecture on the subject "The Department Store Book Trade and Lending Book Trade during the Third Reich"

since 2006
Professorship for Book Studies at the LMU Munich and Director of the book studies academic programme

2006/2007
Distinction as "Professor of the year" in the category Humanities, Social and Cultural Sciences by the magazine „Unikum Beruf“

2012/2013
Permanent guest professorship at the University St. Gallen (Institute for Media and Communication Management)

2015/2016
Senior Researcher in Residence at the LMU Munich Center for Advanced Studies on the subject: »On the production and distribution of erotic-pornographic reading material in the Age of Enlightenment«

2018
Founding of the Centre for Book Studies: Book Research – Publishing Economics – Digital Media

Research Focuses

  • Publishing business correspondence from the 17th to the 19th century – The emergence of the publishing office and the logistics of book trade commerce (administration and forms)
  • Production and distribution of erotic-pornographic reading material from the 17th to the 19th century
  • Clandestine literature and the underground book trade in the German-speaking world of the 17th and 18th centuries
  • History of popular reading material
  • Digital edition of the works of Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow
  • Member of the international work group Digital Edition of the Works of Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow; Internet publications as part of the international work group Digital Edition of the Works of Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow (www.gutzkow.de)
  • Publishing House Archive Gebauer & Schwetschke
    Indexing and digitisation of the publishing house archive Gebauer & Schwetschke. City Archive Halle/Saale. Funded by the German Research Foun-dation (DFG) (2010-2013). Project direction in cooperation with: Prof. Dr. Daniel Fulda (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on the European Enlightenment) and Ralf Jacobs, M.A. (City Archive Halle)