Maxim Braun

since 2024 
Research Associate in the Junior Research Group „Kulturtechnik Imagination“ de led by Dr. Adriana Markantonatos at the Institute of Art and Cultural Studies at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Part of the Cluster of Excellence initiative "Imaginamics. Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining")

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

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

2022-2023
Academic Assistant at the Institute for German Literary Studies at Friedrich Schiller University Jena under Prof. Dr. Nina Birkner

2016-2024
Studies in German Studies, Philosophy, and General and Comparative Literature, Art, and Cultural Studies at Julius Maximilian University Würzburg, Catholic University of Leuven, and Friedrich Schiller University Jena

• European Fairy Tale Collections of the 18th & 19th Centuries
• Fairy Tale Imagination in the Cooperation and Opposition of Image & Text
• Literary Space Configurations and Liminality
• Foreignness and Alienation as Literary Motifs
• Suppressed Female Literary History

Upcoming:

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 July 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 Center Heimat(en), Universität Heidelberg, 13-14 November 2025

• 2024. Master's Thesis at 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's Thesis at Julius Maximilian University Würzburg: Die ambivalenten Funktionen von Grenzen und deren Beitrag zu Entfremdungsprozessen im Werk von Marlen Haushofer. (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Julian Schröter)
  The thesis has been made available on marlenhaushofer.chExternal link and can be read online: ...External link