Literary scholar Stübe receives Novalis Prize for Romantic Research!

Literaturwissenschaftler Raphael Stübe erhält den Novalis-Preis 2025 in Jena für seine Dissertation zur Romantik.
Literary scholar Raphael Stübe receives the Novalis Prize 2025 in Jena for his dissertation on romance. (Symbolbild/NAG)

Literary scholar Stübe receives Novalis Prize for Romantic Research!

The renowned Novalis Prize was awarded on May 3, 2025, in the solemn framework of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. The award winner Raphael Stüben, research assistant at the Institute for German Literature and its didactics as well as at the Free German Hochstift, was awarded for his dissertation "Neo -Romanticism at the turn of the century. Transformation of a romantic narrative model around 1900". The International Novalis Society and the research center European Romantic Stübes thus recognize significant contributions to romantic research, which finds the highest recognition in the field of literary studies.

Stübes dissertation illuminates the development of romance from its early 19th century to neuromanticism and its cultural effects. It shows that a shift towards a so -called "monoper spectiveness" is already created in romance. This analysis also extends to the work of prominent authors such as Heinrich Mann and Hermann Hesse. In his research work, steeping is supported by a graduate college at the University of Jena, for example in his work, for example, poems by Richard Dehmel.

Scientific environment

In the run -up to the award ceremony, a scientific colloquium took place, which took place on May 2, 2025, the birthday of Friedrich von Hardenberg. Here, the topic of "Politics of Romanticism" was discussed in various lectures and an exchange about the historical discourses within the concept of romance. In addition to stoners, Julia Soytek and Martin Ehrler were also among the nominees, whose dissertations also illuminate relevant and comprehensive aspects of romanticism. In "Tautology Poetics", Soytek examines the limits of speaking in (early) romance, while Ehrler deals with his work "non-landscapes" the importance of romantic motives in modern art.

This exchange illustrates the lively examination of romanticism in today's world and interest in the diverse interpretations and meanings of the term. Expert: Inside, like Sandra Kerschbaumer, demanding a responsible handling of historical findings, while the concepts of the Frankfurt Romantic Museum mentioned by Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken show concrete opportunities for transfer of knowledge.

new romantic research

parallel to these developments, the “New Romantic Research” has been published at Metzler-Verlag since 2022, including experts such as Roland Borgard and Frederike Middelhoff. This series aims to gather innovative scientific impulses from different disciplines and to illuminate the topicality of the romance. It opens dialogue about aesthetic, cultural studies and philosophy-historical perspectives and is open to contributions from the areas of literature, theater, art and media sciences as well as gender studies and environmental humanities.

In summary, it can be said that the romance is very popular in today's scientific debates. With the award of Raphael Stüben, it is once more evident that an intensive examination of romantic topics and its relevance for the present is in full swing. In this regard, neuromanticism is an exciting development that stimulates both nostalgic and critical perspectives on modern challenges.

For further information on the background of romantic research, we recommend the detailed reports on uni-frankfurt.de , yesterday href = "https://romatikforschung.uni-frankfurt.de/neue-romantikforschung/"> romantikforschung.uni-frankfurt.de .

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