Amelie BENDHEIM

Amelie Bendheim is assistant professor in German Literature / Medieval Studies. She is deputy director of the Institut für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und für Interkulturalität at the Department of Humanities and Erasmus Coordinator for Incoming Students and Partnership Agreements (German Studies).

In her doctoral thesis Amelie Bendheim offers a media and socio-historical reinterpretation of the narrative openings in Middle High German romances, introducing an analytical model of text-framing (Wechselrahmen, Winter 2017).

Recent research interests cover:
– Historical Narratology and Poetics
– Intercultural Medieval Studies
– Medieval Reception and Media History
– Literary Patronage of the Luxembourg Dynasty
– Middle Age for Secondary School
– Health and Body in Premodern Literature / (Premodern) Medical Humanities

Amelie Bendheim is responsible co-editor of the open access journal Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik (ZiG, transcript) and Scientific Board Member of the Medical Philologies series (Steiner).

Amelie Bendheim is program director of the Bachelor in European Cultures-German Studies and deputy program director of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Transnational German Studies

She teaches at Bachelor, Master and PhD levels, offering courses in Medieval and Cultural Studies (diachronic interculturalism, media history, German literature in a European context), Medical Humanities, Employability and Promotion of Competencies.

Amelie Bendheim supervises Bachelor, Master and PhD theses. She is advisory board member of the Ecole doctorale transfrontalière LOGOS.

Amelie Bendheim received the University of Luxemburg’s Teaching Award (2022). Video

Amelie Bendheim is president of the Luxembourg German Studies Association (Luxemburger Germanistenverband, LGV). She is active member of numerous international associations, as Mediävistikverband e.V., Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik (GIG), Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG), Deutscher Germanistenverband (DGV), elected member of the Bertau Ganz Kreis.

Amelie Bendheim completed her PhD dissertation (summa cum laude) as a cotutelle between the University of Mainz (Prof. Uta Störmer-Caysa) and the University of Luxembourg (Prof. Heinz Sieburg).
She studied German and French Philology as well as Educational Sciences at Mainz and Dijon.

2025:
– Mittelalter im Medientransfer. Rezeptionswege vormoderner Literatur (= Populäres Mittelalter, Vol. 6), ed. A. B./ Dennis Disselhoff, Bielefeld: transcript.
– Carolus Magnus/Charlemagne/Karl der Große im interkulturellen Wechselblick. Ein deutsch-französisches Forschungsatelier in Idee, Umsetzung, Resultaten und bleibenden Fragen, in: Zeitschrift für Interkulturelle Germanistik, Vol. 15, p. 257–277. (with Mathias Herweg/ Rainer Leng/ Marie-Sophie Masse)

2024:
– DFH/UFA Atelier de Recherche: Karl der Große: Gekreuzte Blicke auf eine europäische Figur. (with Mathias Herweg, Marie-Sophie Winter) Flyer
– Kolloquium Literatur und Neurologie (with Dieter Heimböckel, Thomas Emmrich) Poster | Flyer

Announcement:
– 2025 | 09.10. | UL: Literatur und Sucht (with Dieter Heimböckel, Claude Heiser, Claus Vögele)
– 2025 | 16.-18.10. | UL: Hermann von Veldenz: Yolanda von Vianden. Stand der Forschung und Ausblick (with Sam Mersch (Institut Grand Ducal), Ruth Reicher, Heinz Sieburg)