New Professor of Modern German Literature: Prof. Dr. Sandra Richter

1 October 2025, by Nicole Nitschke

Since October 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Sandra Richter has been Professor of Modern German Literature at the Department of Language, Literature and Media I.

The appointment was made as part of a joint procedure between the UHH and the Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e.V. (DSG), which runs the German Literature Archive in Marbach (DLA). This will be the main focus of Sandra Richter's work, who remains managing board member of the DSG and director of the DLA.

Sandra Richter completed her studies in political science, German language and literature, philosophy, and art history at the UHH in 1997. In 1998, she received her doctorate from the University of Giessen with a thesis entitled “The Common Good and Public Happiness: Moral Teaching and the Philosophical Novel in the Eighteenth Century”, followed in 2003 by her habilitation at the UHH with a thesis on “Poetics. Poetological Poetry from Novalis to Rilke.”

After several positions as a research assistant, junior research group leader, scholarship holder, visiting fellow, and visiting professor in Germany and abroad, Sandra Richter held a professorship in modern German literature at the University of Stuttgart since 2008. This was followed by further national and international visiting professorships and fellowships, and finally, in 2014, the directorship of the Stuttgart Research Centre for Text Studies at the University of Stuttgart and, in 2019, the directorship of the German Literature Archive in Marbach.

We warmly welcome Sandra Richter to the Faculty of Humanities!