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Professor Andreas Kramer

Andreas explores twentieth century German literature and culture, and the European Avant-garde.

Staff details

Position

Emeritus Professor

Department

English and Creative Writing

Email

a.kramer (@gold.ac.uk)

Appointed to Goldsmiths in 1995.

Academic qualifications

  • MA, University of Münster (Germany)
  • Dr.phil. University of Münster (Germany)

Teaching

Dr Andreas Kramer is currently convening the following courses in ECL: 'Studies in Literature and Film' (final-year UG); 'Writing the European City' (final-year UG); 'The European Avant-Garde' (MA option). He also teaches on 'Introduction to Comparative Literature' (first-year UG course) and 'Moderns' (second-year UG course).

Areas of supervision

  • Susanne Shanks: Modernising the Understanding of Literary Regionalism: A Comparative Study of Scottish and East German Novels, submitted 2007
  • Grahame Lavis: Pastoral Modes in the Fiction of W G Sebald, submitted 2012
  • Helen Palmer: A Manifesto for Nonsense: The Futurist Drive in Deleuze’s Poetics, submitted 2012
  • Sarah Lee: An Aesthetics of Experiment: English Modernism and the European Avant-Garde, 1908-1922 (in progress)

 Featured work

  • „Flights out of Time: Dada and Heterochronia“; Time and Temporality in European Modernism and the Avant-Gardes, 1900-1950, mdrn / KULeuven (Belgium), 16-18 September 2013
  • „Crash! J.G. Ballards Mythologie der Autobahn“; Die Metaphorik der Autobahn: Verkehrsimaginationen in Literatur, Kunst, Film und Architektur seit 1945, Technische Universität Brfaunschwieg, 6-8 June 2013
  • “Alles so widersprüchig”: Lyrik und Weltanschauung bei August Stramm; “Sie starben jung”: Deutsche Dichter und Künstler des Ersten Weltkriegs, Hamburg, October 2012
  • Geographies of the Periphery: The Case of the Russian Avant-Garde, “Peripheral Modernisms” conference, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Univ. of London, March 2012
  • Topographien der Familie: Überlegungen zu Romanen von Schickele, Fleißer und Graf; international colloquium ‚Familie und Moderne’, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Univ. of London, March 2012
  • “Geschichte einer Vermehrung”: Paulus Böhmer und die Tradition des langen Gedichts, Internationales Paulus-Böhmer-Kolloquium, TU Braunschweig, Germany, December 2011
  • Writing the Cinematic Body in German Expressionism, February 2011; Research Seminar in Cinema and Modernism, RHUL / Media Arts, Univ. of London
  • Carl Einstein und die Geographien der Avantgarde (Carl Einstein and the European Avant-Gardes, IGRS London, Sept. 2010)
  • "Every Man His Own Football": Dada Berlin, Sport and Weimar Culture (2nd Conference of the European Network of Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, Póznan, Sept. 2010)
  • Yvan und Claire Goll: Formen literarischer Zusammenarbeit (IVG, Warsaw, July 2010)
  • Westwärts und zurück - London in German Literature; Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, Queen Mary, Dec. 2009
  • The Traffic of Gender in Expressionist Prose (London, IGRS, March 2009)
  • Mapping the Avant-Garde: Futurism and Geopolitics (Goldsmiths, Febr. 2009)

Publications and research outputs

Book

Kramer, Andreas. 2019. Sport und literarischer Expressionismus. Göttingen: V&R unipress GmbH. ISBN 9783847109396

Kramer, Andreas. 2019. Pacifist and Anti-Militarist Writing in German 1892-1928. Munich: Iudicium.

Kramer, Andreas and Robertson, Ritchie. 2018. Pacifist and Anti-Militarist Writing in German, 1889-1928: From Bertha von Suttner to Erich Maria Remarque. Munich: Iudicium. ISBN 9780854572687

Edited Book

Kramer, Andreas and Strozek, Przemyslaw, eds. 2021. Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900-1945). Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004449855

Kramer, Andreas and Röhnert, Jan, eds. 2020. Poetry and Film: Lyrik und Film. Abbas Kiarostami and Jim Jarmusch. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Faust. ISBN 9783945400760

Creighton, Nicola and Kramer, Andreas, eds. 2012. Carl Einstein Und Die Europaische Avantgarde/Carl Einstein and the European Avant-Garde (Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / Spectrum Literature). Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3110291155

Book Section

Kramer, Andreas. 2024. Geographies of Peripheral Modernism: The Case of the Russian Avant-Garde (Khlebnikov, Eisenstein, Tretyakov). In: Katia Pizzi and Roberta Gefter Wondrich, eds. Rethinking Peripheral Modernisms. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 121-139. ISBN 9783031355455

Kramer, Andreas. 2021. ‘Erdteile in Bewegung'. Geografische Entwürfe bei Carl Einstein und im Projekt Avantgarde. In: Jasmin Grande; Eva Wiegmann and Kristin Eichhorn, eds. Carl Einstein und die Avantgarde. Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, pp. 75-84. ISBN 9783958083394

Kramer, Andreas. 2021. 'Vive le sport!' German Expressionism and Dada. In: Andreas Kramer and Przemyslaw Strozek, eds. Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900-1945). 39 Leiden: Brill, pp. 108-133. ISBN 9789004449855

Article

Kramer, Andreas. 2019. Sport in Expressionist Art. International Journal of the History of Sport, 35(17-18), pp. 1692-1709. ISSN 0952-3367

Kramer, Andreas. 2016. “Jedermann sein eigner Fussball”: Die Dadaisten und der Sport. Hugo-Ball-Almanach. Studien und Texte zu Dada, 7, pp. 1-33.

Kramer, Andreas. 2013. "Schrift zagt blasses Unbekannt": The Poetry of August Stramm (1874-1915). Oxford German Studies, 42(1), pp. 38-56. ISSN 0078-7191

Research Interests

20th-century German literature and culture; the European Avant-garde; literature and film; critical theory. I’m particularly interested in comparative approaches to literature, in how modern literature is transformed by the visual; how literatures travel across national and linguistic boundaries; and how modern writing coexists with critical theory. I am currently completing a book manuscript entitled Inventing Maps: Geographies of the European Avant-Garde.