Prof. (em.) Dr. Dr. h.c. Aleida Assmann

Aleida Assmann is Professor em. of Englisch Literature at the University of Konstanz. Her research focuses on Cultural Anthropology and Cultural and Communicative Memory.

In 2018, she was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade / Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels. Since 2020, Assmann has been a member of the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and the Arts. In 2021 she was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. She is also a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and of the Academia Europaea.

Her most recent publications include Menschenrechte und Menschenpflichten. Schlüsselbegriffe für eine humane Gesellschaft, Wien 2018; Der europäische Traum. Vier Lehren aus der Geschichte, München 2018; Die Wiedererfindung der Nation. Warum wir sie fürchten und warum wir sie brauchen, München 2020; Zeit und Tradition. Kulturelle Strategien der Dauer, Darmstadt 2022.

Contribution to the CAS Blog

Aleida Assmann, Literatur als Schule der Empathie am Beispiel von Shakespeares Othello, CAS LMU Blog, 14 May 2024, https://doi.org/10.5282/cas-blog/50