Dr Sarah Gaber
Dr Sarah Gaber
Curriculum Vitae
- Since February 2026: Research Fellow on the DFG-funded project ‘Online Commentary on Michael Ende’s *The Neverending Story*’ at the University of Oldenburg
- April 2022–January 2026: Research assistant and advisor at the German Literature Archive in Marbach
- April 2025–September 2025: Lecturer at the University of Stuttgart
- April 2019–March 2020: Lecturer at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
- 01/2018–01/2024: PhD studies and thesis at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, funded in part by the German National Academic Foundation
- April 2016–March 2022: Research assistant (BA/MA) and tutor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
- 10/2014–09/2017: MA in German Literature at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
- 10/2011–09/2014: Student assistant and tutor at Dresden University of Technology
10/2010–09/2014: Undergraduate degree in German Studies and Philosophy at Dresden University of Technology
Research interests
- Contemporary German literature, with a focus on the 20th century and post-war modernism
- Sociology of culture, with a focus on praxeology and field theory
- Literary archival studies with a focus on mediality and materiality, and research into authors’ personal libraries
- (Digital) presentation of literary estates and collection research
- Modern German editorial studies
Publications
Monograph
- Gottfried Benn and the Post-War Literary World. Works and Interactions of Late Fame, Göttingen 2026.
Edited volumes
- Provenance. Material Histories of Literature, ed. by Sarah Gaber, Stefan Höppner and Stefanie Hundehege, Göttingen 2024.
- Review by Bodo Plachta, in: editio 39, 2025, no. 1, pp.266–268.
- [with Jörg Robert] Gottfried Benn in the literary field after 1945 – Constellations and Actors, in: Benn Forum. Contributions to Literary Modernism 7, 2020/2021, pp.3–139.
Essays and articles
- ‘Between the Shelves’. The ‘imagined library’ in Navid Kermani’s *Das Alphabet bis S* from a practice-oriented perspective, in: *Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch / A German Studies Yearbook*, 2026 [in press].
- 1946 – 1948 – 1949. Three Editions of ‘Statische Gedichte’ (Gottfried Benn) or: Brief Publishing Histories from the Post-War German-Speaking World, in: editio [Special Issue: Comparative Editions], 2026, pp. 109–134.
- Of Beautiful Souls, Spherical Beings and Brothers-in-Arms. On the Imagination of Femininity and Masculinity in Friedrich Hölderlin’s ‘Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece’, in: Studia Theodisca 5, 2025, pp.175–207.
- Falsified Provenances in Contemporary Literature, in: Falsified Provenances in Literature and its Disciplines, ed. by Stefanie Hundehege and Madeleine Brook, Göttingen 2024, pp.147–153.
- Readings of Himself. Gottfried Benn’s ‘Double Life’ – Perspectives from the Estate, in: Yearbook of the Friends of the Monacensia, 2024, pp.55–73.
- [with Stefanie Hundehege and Stefan Höppner] Describing Provenances: An Introduction, in: Provenance: Material Histories of Literature, ed. by Sarah Gaber, Stefan Höppner and Stefanie Hundehege, Göttingen 2024, pp.9–25.
- Connoisseurship and Bibliophilia, in: Provenance. Material Histories of Literature, ed. by Sarah Gaber, Stefan Höppner and Stefanie Hundehege, Göttingen 2024, pp.215–228.
- Gottfried Benn [Case Study], in: Provenance. Material Histories of Literature, edited by Sarah Gaber, Stefan Höppner and Stefanie Hundehege, Göttingen 2024, pp.335–350.
- In Search of the Absolute. Carl Einstein’s *Bebuquin* and Gottfried Benn’s *Roman des Phänotyp*, in: *Benn Forum. Contributions to Literary Modernism* 8, 2022/2023, pp.9–31.
- Luther as ‘Head of the Household’ in the ‘Tischreden oder Colloqvia Doct. Mart. Luthers’, in: Martin Luther’s ‘Tischreden’. Trends and Perspectives in Research, ed. by Ingo Klitzsch, Gütersloh 2021, pp.181–195.
- ‘This is the most sublime critique ever published about me –’. Gottfried Benn, Friedrich Sieburg and the Significance of a Review in the Literary Field after 1945, in: Benn Forum. Contributions to Literary Modernism 7, 2020/2021, pp.117–139.
- [with Jörg Robert:] On the special issue: Gottfried Benn in the literary field after 1945. Constellations and key figures, in: Benn Forum. Contributions to Literary Modernism 7, 2020/2021, pp.3–7.
- [with Jörg Robert] Benn, Oelze and Literary Studies after 1945. Preliminary Considerations on an Edition and Cataloguing Project, in: Benn Forum. Contributions to Literary Modernism 6, 2018/2019, pp.181–195.
Shorter articles, virtual exhibitions, blog posts
- Reading Traces in the Archive. Writers’ Libraries at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, in: The Persistence of Reading in a Digital Age, ed. by Meike Werner, New York 2026 [in press].
- [with Stefanie Hundehege] Writers’ Networks in Exile. Dedication copies in Kurt Pinthus’s library, available online at: https://vfr.mww-forschung.de/web/transatlantischer-bucherverkehr/start
- The Library(ies) of Karl Wolfskehl. A History of Dispersion, available online at: https://vfr.mww-forschung.de/web/wolfskehl
- Wiese shows only superficial empathy. Benno von Wiese to Richard Alewyn in Paris, Erlangen, 14 September 1934, 1934, in: S.O.S. Letters from Exile from the German Literary Archive, ed. by Nikola Herweg, Marbach am Neckar 2022, pp.49–53.
- [with Ilka Schiele] Pinthus saves his library. Kurt Pinthus to Fritz von Unruh, New York, 8 November 1940 (draft) and Fritz von Unruh, dedication to Kurt Pinthus, 1952, in: S.O.S. Letters from Exile from the German Literary Archive, ed. by Nikola Herweg, Marbach am Neckar 2022, pp.146–151.
- Constantia and Agency. Untimely Reflections on Martin Optiz’s ‘Judith’, in: Florilegium Operum Martini Opitii in honorem Professoris Roberti Sive Opitzianische Blütenlese. Jörg Robert on his 50th Birthday, presented by colleagues and pupils, Tübingen 2021, pp. 53–61.
Projects
DFG project: Online commentary on Michael Ende’s *The Neverending Story*
Link to the project website: https://endes-zettelkasten.uol.de