Yr Athro Gerrit-Jan Berendse
Professor of Modern European Literature, Culture and German. (on sabbatical until August 2015)
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I studied German Language, Literature and Society, Art History and Modern Philosophy in Utrecht, Göttingen and Frankfurt/Main. MA summa cum laude in 1985 and PhD in 1990, funded by the Dutch Research Council, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Postdoc at University of Bochum and University of Utrecht. Start of teaching career in 1994 at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 2002 I moved to Cardiff School of European Studies as Chair in Modern European Literature and Culture. From 2002 to 2006 I was Director of Postgraduate Studies and Head of the German Department from 2007 till 2010. I am joint chair of the research unit Languages, Cultures and Ideologies.
My research interests are in contemporary German poetry and in the links between European literature and terrorism.
Cyhoeddiadau
2022
- Berendse, G. 2022. Surrealismus in der DDR. Kampfansage an den sozialistischen Realismus in ostdeutscher Literatur 1945-1990. Wallstein Verlag.
2021
- Berendse, G. 2021. Echoes of surrealism. Challenging socialist realism in East German literature, 1945-1990. Berghahn Books.
2020
- Berendse, G. 2020. The gravitational pull of the Old World: Karl Wolfskehl's stagnated poetic oeuvre in New Zealand. In: Steinberg, S. and Grenville, A. eds. Refugees from Nazi-Occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories. Brill, pp. 231-245.
2019
- Berendse, G. 2019. Flirting with surrealism: Elke Erb's act of writing. In: Kniesche, T. W. and Lutzeler, P. M. eds. Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch/A German Studies Yearbook 18. Stauffenburg Verlag, pp. 169-182.
- Berendse, G. 2019. Brecht-Masters-Kunert. In: Wessendorf, M. ed. The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 44., Vol. 44. Camden House, pp. 1-3.
2018
- Berendse, G. 2018. All power to the imagination. Kafka, authority and 1968 in the GDR. Times Literary Supplement 6005, pp. 12.
2017
- Berendse, G. 2017. Twentieth-Century poetry. In: Webber, A. J. ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 245-263.
2016
- Berendse, G. 2016. The politics of dialogue: poetry in the GDR. In: Leader, K. ed. Rereading East Germany. The Literature and Film of the GDR. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 143-159., (10.1017/CBO9780511902543.010)
2014
- Berendse, G. 2014. Resisting a culture ‘in-between’, or: what did Erich Fried learn from Dylan Thomas?. German Life and Letters 67(1), pp. 71-86. (10.1111/glal.12032)
- Berendse, G. 2014. Der Momentanismus. Erinnerungen an die DDR in Sarah Kirschs Tagebuchprosa. In: Ludwig, J. and Meuser, M. eds. Literatur ohne Land? Schreibstrategien einer DDR-Literatur im vereinten Deutschland. Band 2. FWPF, pp. 171-186.
- Berendse, G. 2014. Elke Erb. In: Korte, H. ed. Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. edition text + kritik, pp. 1-40.
- Berendse, G. 2014. Brigitte Struzyk. In: Korte, H. ed. Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. edition text + kritik, pp. 1-16.
- Berendse, G. ed. 2014. Poetry, poetics and translation in Anglo-German relations: Selected papers from the 2013 Conference of the Association for German Sudies. Wiley & Blackwell.
2013
- Berendse, G. 2013. Laughed back to life: Adolf Endler. The Times Literary Supplement 5748, pp. 15-15.
- Berendse, G. 2013. Fremdkörper in der Verlagslandschaft in der Spätphase der DDR. Beispiel: Akte Endler im Reclam Verlag Leipzig. Wirkendes Wort 63(1), pp. 111-120.
2012
- Berendse, G. 2012. Politisches Gedicht 13. Nov. 1974, BRD. In: Röhnert, J. and Geduldig, G. eds. Rolf Dieter Brinkmann: Seine Gedichte in Einzelinterpretationen. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 688-697.
2011
- Berendse, G. 2011. Die Wunde RAF: Zur Reziprozität von Fiktion und Terrorismus im Spiegel der neuesten Sekundärliteratur. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 47(1), pp. 10-26. (10.3138/seminar.47.1.10)
- Berendse, G. 2011. Shakespeares Kinder: Heiner Müller im Dialog mit Erich Fried. Glossen(31)
- Berendse, G. 2011. Vom Aushalten der Extreme: Die Lyrik Erich Frieds zwischen Terror, Liebe und Poesie. Philologische Studien und Quellen Vol. 233. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.
2010
- Berendse, G. 2010. Die Überlebensfigur Sächsische Dichterschule. German Life and Letters 63(3), pp. 280-294. (10.1111/j.1468-0483.2010.01499.x)
2009
- Berendse, G. 2009. Fractured memories: life writing in Adolf Endler's surrealist anti-autobiography. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 45(1), pp. 31-43. (10.3138/seminar.45.1.31)
- Berendse, G. 2009. Verlust der Mitte: Wolf Biermanns Abnabelung von seinem Topos Berlin. German Monitor 71, pp. 257-268.
- Berendse, G. 2009. Ausreisen aus der DDR bis 1961. In: Opitz, M. and Hofmann, M. eds. Metzler Lexikon DDR-Literatur. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 19.
- Berendse, G. 2009. Bartsch, Kurt. In: Opitz, M. and Hofmann, M. eds. Metzler Lexikon DDR-Literatur. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 28-29.
- Berendse, G. 2009. Biermann-Ausbürgerung. In: Opitz, M. and Hofmann, M. eds. Metzler Lexikon DDR-Literatur. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 38-39.
- Berendse, G. 2009. Biermann-Petition. In: Opitz, M. and Hofmann, M. eds. Metzler Lexikon DDR-Literatur. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 39-40.
- Berendse, G. 2009. Biermann, Wolf. In: Opitz, M. and Hofmann, M. eds. Metzler Lexikon DDR-Literatur. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 40-41.
- Berendse, G. 2009. Czechowski, Heinz. In: Opitz, M. and Hofmann Michael, M. eds. Metzler Lexikon DDR-Literatur. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 66-67.
- Berendse, G. 2009. Einreise in die DDR bis 1961. In: Opitz, M. and Hofmann, M. eds. Metzler Lexikon DDR-Literatur. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 86-86.
- Berendse, G. 2009. Endler, Adolf. In: Opitz, M. and Hofmann, M. eds. Metzler Lexikon DDR-Literatur. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 89-90.
- Berendse, G. 2009. Erb, Elke. In: Opitz, M. and Hofmann, M. eds. Metzler Lexikon DDR-Literatur. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 90-91.
- Berendse, G. 2009. Papenfuß, Bert. In: Opitz, M. and Hofmann, M. eds. Metzler Lexikon DDR-Literatur. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 244-245.
- Berendse, G. 2009. Lyrikdebatte in Sinn und Form. In: Opitz, M. and Hofmann, M. eds. Metzler Lexikon DDR-Literatur. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 210-211.
- Berendse, G. 2009. Sächsische Dichterschule. In: Opitz, M. and Hofmann, M. eds. Metzler Lexikon DDR-Literatur. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 287-289.
2008
- Berendse, G. and Cornils, I. 2008. Introduction: The Long Shadow of Terrorism. In: Berendse, G. and Cornils, I. eds. Baader-Meinhof Returns: History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism. German Monitor Vol. 70. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 9-20.
- Berendse, G. 2008. Shakespeare's Children in Dialogue: Erich Fried and Heiner Müller. In: Berendse, G. and Cornils, I. eds. Baader-Meinhof Returns: History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism. German Monitor Vol. 70. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 171-190.
- Berendse, G. 2008. Elke Erb. In: Arnold, H. L. ed. Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur - KLG. Text + Kritik München: edition text + kritik, pp. 10-44.
- Berendse, G. and Cornils, I. eds. 2008. Baader-Meinhof returns: History and cultural memory of German left-wing terrorism. German Monitor Vol. 70. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi.
2007
- Berendse, G. 2007. 'Dank Breton': surrealismus und kulturelles Gedächtnis in Adolf Endlers Lyrik. In: Leeder, K. ed. Schaltstelle. Neue deutsche Lyrik im Dialog.. Editions Rodopi, pp. 73-95.
- Berendse, G. 2007. Freundschaftsbund Sächsische Dichterschule? Autorenfreundschaft: Autorenfeindschaft in 50 Jahren deutscher Lyrik. In: Zimmermann, I. ed. Jahrbuch der Sächsischen Akademie der Künste 2005-2006. Dresden: Sächsische Akademie der Künste, pp. 292-305.
2005
- Berendse, G. 2005. Schreiben im Terrordrom. Gewaltcodierung, kulturelle Erinnerung und das Bedingungsverhältnis zwischen Literatur und RAF-Terrorismus. München: Edition text + kritik.
2003
- Berendse, G. 2003. German Anti-Americanism in Context. Journal of European Studies 33(3-4), pp. 333-350. (10.1177/0047244103040422)
2001
- Berendse, G. 2001. Schreiben als Körperverletzung: Zur Anthropologie des Terrors in Bernward Vespers Die Reise. Monatshefte 93(3), pp. 319-334.
Addysgu
Undergraduate teaching: final year option modules
- May 68: Marking Changes in European Politics and Culture
- Life and Letters of Bertolt Brecht
MA European Studies
Pathway on Europe in a National & Global Context
In this scheme I teach European protest culture in the 1960s and 70s. I have a special interest in the configurations between student movements and political violence in various European nations.
Pathway on Identities in European Studies
I teach the module on German Youth Culture, a phenomenon that spans from the 1770s to the 1970s, focusing on authors such as Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Georg Büchner, Jakob van Hoddis, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann.
MA Literature in European Cultures
Module on Memories of the Second World War in European Autobiographical Writing
I teach texts by the Holocaust survivor Jean Améry and the anonymously published diary Woman in Berlin in which Germans are portrayed as victims of WWII.
Module on The Novel and the City
I teach the novel Death in Rom by Wolfgang Koeppen.
Module on Crossing Borders: Adaptations of Literature into Film
Here, the main focus is the transfer from Günter Grass’s novel to Volker Schlöndorff’s film The Tin Drum.
Key projects
- Organisor of the Conference of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland at Cardiff in 2013 with Ruth Owen.
- Terror in the Arts. Changing Views of Political Violence in Literature and the Arts. 23-24 August 2000 at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (with Mark Williams)
- Cultural Memories of Left-Wing German Terrorism. 15-17 September 2005 at Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK (principal investigator)
- May 68 Postgraduate symposium. 9 May 2006 at Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK (principal investigator)
- Hamlet Reception in European Cultures. 11-13 September 2008 at Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK (with Ruth Owen)
Research fellowships
- Research Fellowship of Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research, Humanities section (NWO): 1986-1990
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship: 1999-2000, 2006 and 2010
- DAAD Senior Academic Fellowship 2007 and 2010
For more information on Jan’s current Research Leave Project
