Christiane Schönfeld

Christiane Schönfeld studied Art History and Germanic Languages & Literatures at the Universities of Freiburg and Bonn in Germany before moving to the US, where she graduated with a PhD (thesis on the representation of the prostitute in German Expressionism) at The Pennsylvania State University in 1994. After lecturing in the UK and Ireland, she was appointed Head of the Department of German Studies at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland, in 2009. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and Chair of W+IGS. 

The project

Title: German-language Exiles in the French Film Industry (1933-40)

Host institution: EA REIGENN - Représentations Et Identités. Espaces Germanique, Nordique et Néerlandophone, Sorbonne Université (Civilisations, cultures, littératures et sociétés), Paris

Selective bibliography

• The History of German Literature on Film. New York: Bloomsbury, 2023 (720 pp)
• Ernst Toller: A Youth in Germany, translated by Eoin and Eva Bourke, edited and introduced with Lisa Marie Anderson. Calgary: Broadview, 2024 (300 pp)
• “Stefan Ruzowitzky‘s Narziss & Goldmund: Hesse on Film in the 21st Century“, in: Hermann Hesse‘s Global Impact: Past, Present, Future, eds. Ingo Cornils and Neale Cunningham, Rochester: Camden House, 2024, pp. 178-97.
• “Film: Drehbücher, Adaptionen, Remakes”, Erich Kästner, ed. Stefan Neuhaus, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2023, pp. 263-85.
• “Kulturelles Erbe und Arbeit im Exil: Die deutschsprachige Literatur und der internationale Film (1933-45)”, Oxford German Studies 52.3 (2023): 350-65.