Henrike Lähnemann

Lähnemann is the daughter of the theologian {{ill|Johannes Lähnemann|lt=Johannes Lähnemann|de}}, and the granddaughter of the German medievalist {{ill|Eleonore Dörner|de}} (née Benary) and the archeologist Friedrich Karl Dörner; she grew up in Lüneburg and Nuremberg, Germany. She studied German literature, History of Art and Theology at the University of Bamberg, the University of Edinburgh, Free University of Berlin and University of Göttingen. She completed a PhD at the Universität Bamberg on late medieval didactic literature.

Lähnemann worked at the University of Tübingen, where she gained her Venia legendi in German Philology with a study of the Book of Judith in German medieval literature. She spent a year as a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow{{Cite web |url=http://aarts.chem.ox.ac.uk/main/vacancies.html |title=Details of the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford |access-date=2013-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023111211/http://aarts.chem.ox.ac.uk/main/vacancies.html |archive-date=2013-10-23 |url-status=dead }} at the University of Oxford and a semester as visiting professor at the University of Zurich. Between 2006 and 2014 she held the Chair of German Studies at Newcastle University, and was also Head of the German Section in Newcastle's School of Modern Languages. In 2010, the German Research Foundation nominated her for AcademiaNet,See also the [http://www.academia-net.de/ AcademiaNet website]; click on English in the top left-hand corner for a description of the initiative. the database of profiles of leading women scientists;{{Cite web |url=http://academia-net.de/alias/Aktuelles/Eine-spannende-Umbruchssituation/1063291 |title=An AcademiaNet interview with Henrike Lähnemann (in German): 'Eine spannende Umbruchssituation' |access-date=2013-08-27 |archive-date=2013-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023060454/http://academia-net.de/alias/Aktuelles/Eine-spannende-Umbruchssituation/1063291 |url-status=dead }}[http://www.academia-net.de/alias/Aktuelles/A-Voice-for-Medieval-and-Modern-German/1219528 An AcademiaNet interview with Henrike Lähnemann: 'A Voice for Medieval and Modern German'] she also chaired Women in German Studies between 2009 and 2015. In 2015, she was appointed to the Chair of Medieval German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. Between 2015 and 2024 she spent two months each year based at FRIAS as a Senior Research Fellow, made possible by co-funding of the Oxford chair by the VolkswagenStiftung, the DAAD, and the University of Freiburg.

Her research focuses on medieval manuscripts, the relationship of text and images and how vernacular and Latin literature are connected, currently mainly in late medieval Northern German convents. At the moment she is working on a {{ill|Gerda Henkel Stiftung|de}} funded project to edit the letters of the nuns from Lüne (together with Eva Schlotheuber), and the edition of prayer books of the Medingen Convent. Their trade book about late medieval nuns, first published by Ullstein Verlag 2023 in German as 'Un-erhörte Frauen' is open access available in English as [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0397 'The Life of Nuns'].

Lähnemann's major topic is the engagement with the Reformation and printing. She brought a new linguistic and interdisciplinary angle to Reformation Studies in Oxford, completing the team of experts - Lyndal Roper and Diarmaid MacCulloch being counted among them. As part of the Translating, Printing, Singing the Reformation project a website{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Taylor Editions/ Reformation|url=https://editions.mml.ox.ac.uk/topics/reformation.shtml|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=27 August 2020|website=}} providing access to digitized Reformation pamphlets was launched, as well as a blog{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=The Reformation at the Taylor Institution Library - A Bodleian Libraries blog|url=https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/taylor-reformation/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=27 August 2020|website=}} and podcast{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Podcast Reformation 2017|url=http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/reformation-2017|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=27 August 2020|website=}} documenting the most recent activities of the Reformation team. Furthermore, book printing workshops{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=23 February 2017|title=Print workshop at Bodleian Library|url=https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/taylor-reformation/event/print-workshops/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=27 August 2020|website=}} and new productions of key scenes from the Reformation{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=1 November 2017|title=500 year celebration of 95 Theses|url=https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10159388676185167|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=27 August 2020|website=Facebook}} took place. The political relevance of the project becomes evident in the combination of Reformation and anti-Brexit ideas,{{Cite news|last=Lähnemann|first=Henrike|date=29 June 2016|title=Devastated but determined. Consequences of Brexit for Academia|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/forschung-und-lehre/devastated-but-determined-consequences-of-brexit-for-academia-14315054.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=27 August 2020|newspaper=Faz.net}}{{Cite web|last=Lähnemann|first=Henrike|date=14 August 2017|title=A UTOPIAN ISLAND? BREXIT IN A HISTORICAL CONTEXT|url=https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/en/publications/fellows-column/a-utopian-island-brexit-in-a-historical-context?set_language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=27 August 2020|website=University of Freiburg - FRIAS}} but especially in the use of Reformation pamphlets for a protest-Hallelujah{{Cite web|last=Henrike Lähnemann|first=Wai Yip HO|date=20 August 2019|title=The Reformation and Hongkong|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWz7_jdO7yY&feature=youtu.be|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=27 August 2020|website=YouTube}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=17 June 2019|title=Sing hallelujah to the lord 2019 .6.16 Hong Kong|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AFmwN3Ltv0&feature=youtu.be|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=27 August 2020|website=YouTube}} in the context of civil resistance in Hong Kong.

The author Angelika Overath dedicated her novel Sie dreht sich um{{cite web |title=Reading sample |url=https://www.randomhouse.de/leseprobe/Sie-dreht-sich-um-Roman/leseprobe_9783630873497.pdf}} to Lähnemann.

• [https://editions.mml.ox.ac.uk/topics/reformation.shtml Treasures of the Taylorian. Series One: Reformation Pamphlets]
• [http://medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk/ Medingen Manuscripts]
• [https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/?page_id=94423 The Nuns' Network]. [http://diglib.hab.de/edoc/ed000248/start.htm Editing the Lüne letters] (with Eva Schlotheuber, financed by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung). [https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/kloster Film documentation of the project]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130404074842/http://workshops.nypl.org/judith/ Sword of Judith Project]
• The [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~fmml2152/renner/ Renner] of Hugo von Trimberg
• [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~fmml2152/sigenot/ Jüngerer Sigenot]

Full publication list on Henrike Lähnemann's [https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/laehnemann institutional website].

• Lähnemann, H., Schlotheuber E. The Life of Nuns. Love, Politics, and Religion in Medieval German Convents. OBP 2024 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0397
• Lähnemann H., Jones, H. [ed.]: Martin Luther, Ein Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen und Fürbitte der Heiligen. An Open Letter on Translating  and the Intercession of Saints (Treasures of the Taylorian. Series One: Reformation Pamphlets 5), 2nd ed. 2022.{{cite web |last= |date= |year= |title=Ein Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen und Fürbitte der Heiligen. An Open Letter on Translating and the Intercession of Saints |url=https://editions.mml.ox.ac.uk/editions/sendbrief/ |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |publisher=Taylor Editions |pages= |language= |format= |quote= |periodical=}}
• Lähnemann H. , Schlotheuber, E. et al.: Netzwerke der Nonnen. Edition und Erschließung der Briefsammlung aus Kloster Lüne (ca. 1460-1555), in: Wolfenbütteler Digitale Editionen. Wolfenbüttel 2016-, [http://diglib.hab.de/edoc/ed000248/start.htm online].
• Lähnemann, H., Hascher-Burger, U.: Liturgie und Reform im Kloster Medingen. Edition und Untersuchung des Propst-Handbuchs Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. e. 18 (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation 76), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2013.
• Brine K, Ciletti E, Lähnemann H, ed. [http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product.php/28/ The Sword of Judith. Judith Studies Across the Disciplines]. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2010.
• Lähnemann H., Linden S, ed. [http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/176740 Dichtung und Didaxe. Lehrhaftes Sprechen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters]. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 2009.
• Lähnemann H. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131023105020/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/research/publication/752 Hystoria Judith: Deutsche Judithdichtungen vom 12. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert]. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2006.

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