Christine Magerski

Christine Magerski holds the Chair of German Literature at the University of Zagreb. After her Master’s in Comparative Literature and History at Free University of Berlin, she worked on her dissertation at Monash University/Melbourne on the beginning of the sociology of literature in Germany in the late 20th century. Already in this context, she was focused on examining the interconnection between literature and society. At the Wissenschaftskolleg of Berlin as well as at University of Zagreb, she researched the social and cultural history of modernity with special consideration of the avant-garde and subcultural movements. Her research on literary sociology revolves around questions of socio-cultural self-description with special emphasis on the creative class and its (self)publicity. Christine Magerski is currently working on a monograph on images of society in literature and sociology of the 20th century. She lives with her family in Zagreb and in Berlin.

Monographs on the topic of literature, society and the public sphere:

Die Konstituierung des literarischen Feldes in Deutschland nach 1871. Berliner Moderne, Literaturkritik und die Anfänge der Literatursoziologie, Tübingen: Niemeyer 2004; Gelebte Ambivalenz.

Die Boheme als Prototyp der Moderne. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2015.

Literatursoziologie. Grundlagen, Problemstellungen und Theorien. Zusammen mit Christa Karpenstein-Eßbach, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2019; Umgekehrte Mimesis. Bausteine einer Geschichte der Künstlichkeit. Zusammen mit David Roberts, Weilerswist: Velbrück 2023.