Lara Tarbuk

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Lara Tarbuk

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Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies

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Academic career

• Since 02/2025 Research Associate (PostDoc) at the Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature (Prof. Dr. Lars Koch) at the TU Dresden
• 10/2019-01/2025 Research Associate at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology at Freie Universität Berlin, working area Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ortlieb
• 2020-2024 Doctorate at the Free University of Berlin; Title of the dissertation: Die Aufführung der Republik. Dramatic drafts of theatrical events in plays by Bertolt Brecht and Ödön von Horváth (defended: 01/2025)
• Summer semester 2023 Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford (Visiting Scholarship of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages)
• 2016-2019 Master of Modern German Literature at the Free University of Berlin
• Winter semester 2018/19 Study abroad at the 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 of German Studies, Slavic Studies, Philosophy and Art History at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
• 2013-2016: Student Assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Achim Aurnhammer
• 2014-2019 Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
• 2012-2013 Studied German language, literature and culture at the University of Belgrade

Publications and lectures

Editorships

• Classes.feelings.narration. On affective anchoring in the social in contemporary literature. Berlin/Bosten: DeGruyter ; together with Sophie König, Robert Walter-Jochum and Jana Maria Weiß (in preparation, 2025).

Essays

• Migration, feelings of class and guilt in Saša Stanišić and Toxische Pommes. In: Classes. In: Feelings. Narration. De Gruyter: Contemporary literature series. (In preparation, 2025)
• 'Heroes for the fairground panopticon'. Bodies of war in Trommeln in der Nacht, Mann ist Mann and Der deutsche Hinkemann . In: Lydia Mühlbach/Kirsten Reimers/Thorsten Unger (eds.): Bertolt Brecht und Ernst Toller. J. B. Metzler: Stuttgart 2024, pp. 127-143.
• 'One must try to settle down in Germany'. On the meaning of the furniture in Trommeln in der Nacht and Die Hochzeit. In: The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 48 (2023), pp. 62-76.
• 'I ask for extenuating circumstances for a ghost: Here sits the time of inflation. The year 1923 in Ödön von Horvath's Sladek or: The Black Army (1928). In: Christine Frank (ed.): Berlin im Jahr 1923. Parallel worlds in literature, science and art. Königshausen and 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="Artefakte der Avantgarden 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 - (K)ein märkischer Hamlet? On the intertextual relationships between Heinrich von Kleist's Prince Frederick of Homburg and William Shakespeare's Hamlet. In: Attendance note. Studentische Zeitschrift für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaft (2019), pp. 74-96.

Reviews and smaller works

• Podcast "A Dialogue from time to time / Translation talks" , episode: Gray areas between writing and translating. A conversation between Lara Tarbuk and Barbi Marković about the novel "Die verschissene Zeit", online: https://www.temporal-communities.de/explore/listen-read-watch/uebersetzen-im-gespraech-translation-talks/index.html
• Barbi Marković "The shitty time". Conversation with the author, Literaturhaus Berlin, 21.01.2022 (recording: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo8lQyVrGt4)
• [Review]: Polyphonic, multilingual, diverse | Brecht on Love and War at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, May 14, 2023 In: Dreigroschenheft 4/2023, pp. 19-23(https://www.dreigroschenheft.de/hefte-zum-download/51-jahrgang-2023)
• [Review]: "What is a Dietrich against a share?" The Threepenny Opera in the Tegel Prison. In: Dreigroschenheft 4/2024, pp. 20-21.(https://www.dreigroschenheft.de/hefte-zum-download/52-hefte-zu-2024/heft-4-2024)

Lectures

• "Contested stages. Dramatiken des Raumes in Brechts Im Dickicht", Baustelle Brecht, Praktiken der Platznahme bei Brecht, Benjamin und Co.,Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Berlin, December 2023.
• "The war in the name. On the meaning of proper names in Saša Stanišić's How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone and Lana Bastašić's Uhvati zeca", conference "War and Peace", DLA Marbach, November 2023
• "I ask for extenuating circumstances for a ghost: Here sits the time of inflation." The year 1923 in Ödön von Horváth'sSladek oder: Die schwarze Armee, lecture as part of the lecture series Berlin im Krisenjahr 1923: Parallelwelten in Literatur, Wissenschaft und Kunst, June 2023.
• "Heroes for the fairground panopticon. Bodies of War in Brecht and Toller.". Int. conference Bertolt Brecht and Ernst Toller, Magdeburg, July 2022.
• "Argumentation, objectivity and affective rhetoric in university debating". With Christof Kebschull. Conference: Heated minds, habitus of coldness. On the Ambivalence of Affective Rhetorics in the Political and Literary Public Sphere, Berlin, July 2022.
• "One must try to settle down in Germany! On the significance of furniture in Brecht's early plays". Construction site Brecht/Müller "Living in the empty center", Berlin, December 2021.
• "Man/Machine. War and corporeality in Brecht's early plays". Guest lecture in the master's seminar 'Der künstliche Mensch um 1900 auf der Bühne, in der Manege und im Film' by guest professor Dr. Laurette Burgholzer, Institute for Theatre Studies, June 2021.
• 'Toy poetry. On Nicolas Mahler's poetry collection dachbodenfund". Workshop: Puppet Writing, Free University Berlin, January 2021.
• "The performance of the republic. Bertolt Brecht and Ödön von Horváth". Baustelle Brecht III, Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Berlin, December 2020.
• "The performance of the performance. Oskar Schlemmer, Bertolt Brecht, Ödön von Horvath." 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. Feelings. Narration, conference, FU Berlin, with Sophie König, Robert Walter-Jochum, Jana Maria Weiß
• 01/2024 Stages in upheaval. Berlin modernity(ies) in drama texts and theater spaces, conference, FU Berlin, with Cornelia Ortlieb
• 02/2023 Locating origins, locating origins. Reading and discussion with Saša Stanišić, reading, Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities, FU Berlin, organization and moderation