Maxim Braun

Since 2024
Research Associate in the Junior Research Group „Kulturtechnik Imagination“ de of Dr. Adriana Markantonatos at the Institute of Arts and Cultural Sciences of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (part of the Cluster of Excellence "Imaginamics. Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining" de)

2023–2024
Research Assistant at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar (Project Goethe Live 3D / Cross-sectional Directorate for Digital Transformation and Innovation Management)

2023
Teaching Assistant (Tutor) at the Faculty of Philosophy, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

2022–2023
Teaching Assistant at the Institute of German Literary Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, under Prof. Dr. Nina Birkner

2016–2024
Studies in German Studies, Philosophy, and General and Comparative Literary, Art, and Cultural Studies at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Friedrich Schiller University Jena

• European fairy tale collections of the 18th and 19th centuries
• Enchanted imagination in the interplay and tension between image and text
• Literary configurations of space and liminality
• Otherness and alienation as literary motifs
• Repressed female literary history

Alternative Realities in Enlightenment Fairy Tales: Wieland and Naubert’s Literary Experiments. In: Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, 3:1. (forthcoming autumn 2025)

Learning to Read Images: How Fairy Tale Publications Shaped Literary Practices in 19th-Century Europe, as part of: Made in Class. Literary Education in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Europe, conference organized by the research program Learning Modern Literature: Literary Education in Western Europe (1880-1940), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3-5 December 2025

Vom steinernen Gefängnis zum verführerischen Festmahl: Intermediale Perspektiven auf das Hexenhaus in Märchenpublikationen des 19. Jahrhunderts, as part of: Visuelle Chiffren in Bildender Kunst, Literatur, Film und anderen Medien, Workshop of the subproject Visuelle Chiffren von Heimat of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre Heimat(en) at Heidelberg University, 13–14 November 2025

The Fairy-Tale in the European Visual Imaginary: Examining Lilian Lancaster's Figurative Cartography, as part of: Europe through the Arts. Entangled histories of culture and identity(ies) - XVI Annual Conference of the Research Network on the History of Idea of Europe, Universidade da Coruña, 17-18 Juli 2025

• 2024. Master dissertation at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena: „Wahrheiten, die sich nicht gerne ohne Schleier zeigen“ – Integration von Wunderbarem und Wirklichkeit in deutschsprachigen Märchensammlungen des 18. Jahrhunderts. (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Matuschek)
• 2021. Bachelor dissertation at the Julius Maximilians University Würzburg: Die ambivalenten Funktionen von Grenzen und deren Beitrag zu Entfremdungsprozessen im Werk von Marlen Haushofer. (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Julian Schröter)
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