Dr. Katrin Rösler
- Comparative history of religious orders (focus on the Premonstratensian Order, Cistercian Order)
- Female vita religiosa (focus on the High and Late Middle Ages)
Study and qualification
| 01/2010-11/2013 | Doctoral studies at the TU Dresden |
| winter semester 2000/01 - winter semester 2007/08 | Studies at the TU Dresden and the Université de Dijon (F)
Subjects: Medieval History, Romance Studies, Philosophy |
Professional stations
Since 10/2025 Research Associate at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig
12/2020 - 09/2025 Advisor at the Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs, Health and Social Cohesion - topics: integration, democracy work, diversity design
03/2019 - 11/2020 Personal Advisor to the Saxon International Students and Staff Officer in the Saxon State Parliament
01/2018 - 02/2019 Maternity leave and parental leave
08/2017 - 02/2019 Clerk to the Saxon International Students and Staff Officer in the Saxon State Parliament
11/2013 - 10/2017 Coordinator of an international research training group on the interreligious comparison of monastic cultures at the Research Center for Comparative History of Religious Orders at TU Dresden
01/2013 - 10/2013 Maternity leave and parental leave
01/2010-11/2013 Doctoral studies at the TU Dresden
09/2009-12/2009 Freelancer for provenance research at the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)
11/2004 -01/2008 Student Assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 537 of the TUD Dresden University of Technology
02/2008 - 08/2009 Maternity leave and parental leave
09/2004 - 09/2007 Course assistant at the Goethe Institute Dresden
02/2003 - 03/2003 Internship at the City Archaeology Paderborn
Degrees
| 2013 | Doctorate at the TU Dresden with the thesis: "Unity without equality. Aspects of the construction of pre-Monstratensian identity in the 12th and 13th centuries" |
| 2007 | Magistra Artium, TU Dresden |
Memberships in associations and working groups
| Since 2025 | Hist4Dem - Historians for a democratic society |
| Since 2024 |
AG Praemonstratensia (core team) |
| Since 2011 | Supporting member of Aktion Zivilcourage e.V. |
Monograph:
1. unity without equality. Aspects of the construction of Premonstratensian identity in the 12th and 13th centuries (Vita regularis. Abhandlungen 66), Münster: LIT 2020.
Contributions to edited volumes and journals:
1. between Contemplatio and Vita Apostolica. Aspects of the identity of the early Premonstratensian Order, in: Petrus Bsteh/ Brigitte Proksch/ Cosmas Hoffmann (eds.): Die Orden im Wandel Europas. Historische Episoden und ihre globalen Folgen (Spiritualität im Dialog 5), Münster: LIT 2013, pp. 46-60. (published under the name: Katrin Rothe)
In preparation:
1. the institutional integration of women in the new religious communities of the 12th century using the example of the Premonstratensians (working title), in: Historisches Jahrbuch 146 (2026).
2 Vita canonica as vita caritativa. The example of the Premonstratensians (working title), in: Mirko Breitenstein/ Nathalie Schmidt (eds.): Statuten von Hospitalorden und Statuten von Hospitälern im europäischen Vergleich (12. bis 18. Jh.) (Vita regularis. Abhandlungen), Münster: LIT 2026.
Smaller contributions, reports (selection):
1st report: asceticism in a cross-cultural perspective - conference in Vienna, In: Religionen unterwegs 23 (2017). S. 30-31.
Reviews:
1 Nottingham Medieval Studies 65 (2021). Special Issue: Cistercians and Regular Canons in Medieval Western Europe, ed. by Claude Lucette Evans / Kenneth Paul Evans, Turnhout: Brepols 2022, in: Analecta Praemonstratensia 99 (2023), pp. 185-187.
2 Svec Goetschi, Milena, Monastic flight and supplication. Apostasie und monastische Mobilität im 15. Jahrhundert (Zürcher Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft, 7), Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2015, in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 44-2 (2017), pp. 326-327.
3 Tanja Skambraks: Das Kinderbischofsfest im Mittelalter, Firenze: SISMEL. Edizioni del Galluzzo 2014, in: sehepunkte 16 (2016), No. 1 [15.01.2016], URL: https://www.sehepunkte.de/2016/01/26344.html
In preparation:
Vivien Bienert: The Augustinian Canons' Abbey of Böddeken. Library and book production in the 15th century. 2024, Cologne, in: Mediaevistik. International Journal for Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies, (in preparation)
Translations:
1. from vol. 35 (2024) translation of the summaries of all articles of the "Revue Mabillon" from French into German.
2 Schmitt, Jean-Claude: Outside or inside? The paradox of monastic existence in the West, in: Mirko Breitenstein / Gert Melville (eds.): Die Wirkmacht klösterlichen Lebens. Models - Orders - Competences - Concepts (Monasteries as Innovation Laboratories 6), Regensburg 2020, pp. 235-244.
3 Delle Donne, Fulvio: Nobilitas animi: attribute or requisite of a nobilitas sanguinis? The ideological reflection at the Aragonese court of Naples, in: Cristina Andenna/ Gert Melville (eds.): Idoneität - Genealogie - Legitimation. Justification and Acceptance of Dynastic Rule in the Middle Ages (Norm and Structure), Cologne 2015, pp. 351-362.
4 Delle Donne, Fulvio: Die Briefsammlung des Petrus des Vinea und die Probleme der Überlieferung von Dictamina in der Zeit Friedrichs II, in: Tanja Broser/ Andreas Fischer/ Matthias Thumser (eds.): Kuriale Briefkultur. Gestaltung - Überlieferung - Rezeption (Regesta Imperii. Beihefte, 37), Cologne/Vienna 2015, pp. 223-233 (Italian-German).
5 Panarelli, Francesco: Diocese, City and Female Religiosity: The Case of Matera in the Late Middle Ages. Lecture given at the FOVOG Dresden on June 29, 2011 (ital.-dt.).
6 Cengarle, Federica: Power and renunciation of power - power through renunciation. Lecture held in November 2011 at Villa Vigoni. (ital.-dt.)
Scientific projects:
| Since 10/2025 | Scientific collaborator at the project St Mary at Helfta. A Monastery in the Networks of its Time (13th to 16th century) |
| 11/2013 - 11/2017 | Coordinator of the international research training group on the interreligious comparison of monastic cultures at the Research Center for Comparative History of Religious Orders (FOVOG), funded by the Excellence Initiative's Support-the-Best program at TU Dresden |
| June 2017 | Organization of the session "Inside and Outside: relationships between monasteries and the world" at the International Medieval Congress (IMC) Leeds (UK) |
| 01/2016 - 12/2017 | Planning and implementation of the binational DAAD network (project-related program exchange with Croatia): Mobility and Hospitality in Monastic Networks at the University of Zagreb (Croatia), together with Prof. Dr. Cristina Andenna |
| January 2017 | Organization of the 2nd International Conference of the Research Training Group on Interreligious Comparison of Monastic Cultures, "Comparative Perspectives on Asceticism" at the University of Vienna (Austria) |
| 09 - 10/2016 |
Visiting Fellowship, University of Leeds (UK), with "Travel Grant for Short-Term Research Stays Abroad" of the Graduate Academy of TU Dresden |
| 01/2015 - 12/2016 | Planning and implementation of the binational DAAD network (project-related program exchange with Hungary): Communication and Knowledge Transfer in Medieval Monastic Networks at the Central European University Budapest (Hungary), together with Prof. Dr. Cristina Andenna |
| 06/2016 | Organization of the symposium: Weltentsagung, Asceticism and Monasticism in Interreligious Perspective, University of Vienna (Austria) |
| 04 - 05/2016 | Organization of the event series 'Mönchtum interreligiös' of the Graduiertenkolleg zum interreligiösen Vergleich monastischer Kulturen in cooperation with the Catholic Academy of the Diocese of Dresden-Meißen |
| 11/2015 |
Organization of the 1st International Conference of the Research Training Group "Interreligious Comparison of Monastic Cultures": Between Community and Seclusion: Religiosity in the South-Asian Traditions, Budhhism and Eastern and Western Christianity, TU Dresden |
| 09/2009 -12/2009 | Freelance researcher on provenance research at the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) |