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: Alma Mater - Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, 2:3 (2025), 37-50. https://doi.org/10.29329/almamater.2025.1360.4External link

The Poetics of Concealment in Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows", as part of: Hiddentity. Concealment and Invisibility. Interdisciplinary Investigations Into the Hidden, international graduate conference, University of Naples "L'Orientale", 12-13 November 2026

Erinnerung als Verfahren der Fantasie - Erinnerungspoetik in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Fantasiestücken, as part of: E.T.A. Hoffmanns Fantasie- und Nachtstücke. Genre und Gestaltung, workshop, University of Cologne, 9-10 October 2026

The Manufacturing of the 'Bad Mother' - Editorial Revision and the Limits of the Speakable in "Hänsel and Gretel", as part of: Bad Mothers? (Re)Writing Motherhood, workshop, University of Augsburg, 17-18 September 2026

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), KU Leuven, 3-5 December 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, University of A Coruña, 17-18 Juli 2025

Figures, Types, and Images of the Social in the 19th and 20th Century: Practices of Social Imagining in the History of Knowledge and the Sciences, Workshop at University of Erfurt, 20–21 November 2025 (Co-Organisation) (Programpdf, 486 kb · de)

Ins Bild gesetzt. Soziales Imaginieren (in) der Großstadt. Illustrierte Journale. Paris, London & Wien. 1830-1860. Exhibition from 13.4.-11.6.2026 in the Thuringian University and State Library in Jena (ThULB) (Co-Organisation) (Link de)

• 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)
  The work was made available on marlenhaushofer.chExternal link and can be read online: ...External link