Sieglinde Hartmann (born 1954 in Wuppertal, Germany) is a German medievalist, expert on the medieval poet Oswald von Wolkenstein and president of the Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft.

Biography

Sieglinde Hartmann studied in Cologne and Frankfurt am Main. She received her Ph.D. at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany with a study on age reflection and self-portrayal in Oswald von Wolkenstein's oeuvre. She has been visiting professor at the University of Graz (Austria), as well as lecturer at the Universities of Paris IV (Sorbonne - France), Mainz (Germany), Gießen (Germany), Kassel (Germany), Bamberg, and the J.W. Goethe-University in Frankfurt (Germany). In 2003, Sieglinde Hartmann was appointed to a professorship for Medieval German literature at the University of Würzburg. An important element in Sieglinde Hartmann's research approach is the international networking regarding German Medieval studies. In this context she was appointed professor for German philology at the Baku Slavic University, Azerbaijan.

As researcher, she mainly focuses on Medieval German literature, especially Oswald von Wolkenstein (ca. 1376/77-1445), a widely travelled knight, considered to be the most important German composer and poet of the Late Middle Ages. Since Wolkenstein’s work is closely connected with the culture of the other European countries of his time, Hartmann has developed a special comparative approach combining methods from the fields of literary studies, history, intellectual history, and art history to enrich, e.g., her textual analysis. Thus her new approach opens up paths to a contextual understanding of Wolkenstein’s genius within other cultural phenomena of the ‘Waning Middle Ages’. An important element in Sieglinde Hartmann's work regarding Wolkenstein is also the organization and presentation of Medieval concerts, often in cooperation with the Austrian musician Eberhard Kummer.

Since 2002, Sieglinde Hartmann has been a Member of the Programming Committee of the International Medieval Congress organized every year by the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds, Great Britain, responsible for comparative studies and German philology.

Because of her deep involvement in research on Oswald von Wolkenstein, Sieglinde Hartmann is a founding member and since 2007 the acting president of the Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, as well as editor-in-chief of the Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft (JOWG).

Research focus areas

• Oswald von Wolkenstein
• History of German literature in the high and late Middle Ages
• Medieval Reception
• The Nibelungenlied in the context of non-European heroic epics

Publications (selection)

External links

• Homepage Sieglinde Hartmann
• Institute for German philology at the University of Würzburg
• Baku Slavic University
• Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft
• Wolkenstein archive at the University of Graz
• International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Great Britain
• Book: Deutsche Liebeslyrik vom Minnesang bis zu Oswald von Wolkenstein