Lea Marie Weber, M.A.
Research Interests
- Latin American, Spanish and German Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries
- Jewish Literature and Culture
- Intercultural Literature
- Literature and Religion, Mysticism
- Gender Studies
Doctoral Project
"(Jüdisch-)Mystische Elemente im lyrischen Œuvre von Alejandra Pizarnik" (working title)
Curriculum Vitae
- 2026: Gertrud Feiertag Scholarship from the Equal Opportunity Coordination Office (KfC) at the University of Potsdam (support for female PhD students to complete their degrees)
- 2025: Research stay at the Princeton University Library with a scholarship from the Friends of the Princeton University Library
- 2023: Research stays in Buenos Aires, Argentinia, and Princeton, New Jersey, USA, with scholarships from the DAAD
- 2022: Research stay at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem with a scholarship from the Graduate Support Programme of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
- 2021-2025: Recipient of a scholarship from the Saxony-Anhalt Graduate Support Programme; acceptance of a dissertation at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
- 2021: Master's degree in European Literatures at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. Title of the final thesis: "Mystische Elemente im lyrischen Œuvre von Alejandra Pizarnik“
- 2017: Bachelor's degree in literary studies and linguistics (German and Spanish) at the RWTH Aachen. Title of the final thesis: "Die Darstellung jüdischer Figuren in Antonio Muñoz Molinas Sefarad. Una novela de novelas“
Talks
- “Zwischen ayin und ani. Kabbalistische Spuren bei Alejandra Pizarnik”, as part of the symposium "Alejandra Pizarnik. Poetik der Schlaflosigkeit", Instituto Cervantes Munich (Germany), 22.07.2025.