Interim Associate Professor PD Dr. Anna-Dorothea Ludewig

Anna-Dorothea Ludewig is a literary scholar and substitute professor for Jewish Studies. Since 2007, she has been based at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam. She is also a lecturer (“Privatdozentin”) at the University of Potsdam and a member of the editorial staff of the online journal MEDAON. Ludewig was the academic coordinator of the Graduate School “ MAKOM. Place and Places in Judaism” and received her Ph.D. from the University of Potsdam in 2007. From 2017 to 2019, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg, and she completed her habilitation at the University of Potsdam in 2020. In 2025, she was Harris German Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, NH.

Research interests:

Intersection of film and literature; German-language Jewish literary and cultural history (19th/20th century); literary and cinematic representations of femininity; (Jewish) cultural heritage; Prague German-language literature and biographies (“Prague Circle”)

Recent Publications (Selection):

With Ulrike Schneider (Eds.): Film in der Literatur / Literatur im Film. Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies 12 (2025).

With Torsten Hoffmann (Eds.): „Und dennoch!“ Rainer Maria Rilke – Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss: Briefwechsel und Texte zum Judentum. Göttingen 2024.

With Hannah Lotte Lund: Rahel Levin Varnhagen (Eds.): Rezeption – Projektion – Imagination. Berlin/Boston 2024.

„Jüdinnen“: Literarische Weiblichkeitsentwürfe im 20. Jahrhundert, Berlin / Boston 2022. Online unter: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778953 (open access)