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Dietmar Böhnke is Senior Lecturer in British Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig, as well as Study Abroad coordinator at the English Department. His research interests include Scottish literature and culture, especially of the present; the Victorian Age and its contemporary rewritings; book history (esp. Tauchnitz); and the British media, especially film. He has published various articles on these topics, as well as two books on contemporary Scottish authors: James Kelman (Berlin 1999) and Alasdair Gray (Berlin 2004). Most recently, he co-authored a book on the nineteenth-century publisher Bernhard Tauchnitz (Leipzig 2017). He also occasionally works as a presenter/interpreter of readings by high-profile contemporary writers (e.g. John Burnside, John M. Coetzee, Teju Cole, Howard Jacobson, Rachel Kushner, Deborah Levy, Tim Parks). In 2005, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.
- Nineteenth-Century Publishing in Anglo-German Contexts (Tauchnitz)Böhnke, DietmarDuration: 03/2020 – ongoingInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Kulturstudien Großbritanniens; Buchwissenschaft
- Neo-Victorianism: Rewriting the Victorians in Contemporary British CultureBöhnke, DietmarDuration: 01/2009 – ongoingInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Kulturstudien Großbritanniens
- Regional Identities in Europe (Focus on: Scotland)Böhnke, DietmarDuration: 01/2005 – ongoingInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Kulturstudien Großbritanniens
- Keiderling, T.; Mienert, M.; Böhnke, D.; Welz, S.„Baron der englischen Bücher – Der Leipziger Verlag Bernhard Tauchnitz 1837–1973“Markkleeberg: Sax-Verlag. 2017.ISBN: ISBN: 3867292019
- Böhnke, D.; Brusberg-Kiermeier, S.; Drexler, P. (Eds.)Victorian Highways and Byways: New Approaches to Victorian CultureBerlin: Trafo. 2010.ISBN: 978-3-89626-939-3
- Böhnke, D.Kelman Writes Back: Literary Politics in the Work of a Scottish WriterBerlin/Cambridge, Mass.: Galda + Wilch Verlag. 1999.
- Böhnke, D.Shades of Gray: Science Fiction, History and the Problem of Postmodernism in the Work of Alasdair GrayBerlin/Madison, WI: Galda + Wilch Verlag. 2004.
- Böhnke, D.“The ‘Grand Guignol’ Approach to Adapting the Victorians: Penny Dreadful and the Multiple Adaptations of Globalised Popular Neo-Victorianism”In: Wells-Lassagne, S.; Voigts, E. (Eds.)Filming the Past, Screening the Present: Neo-Victorian Adaptations.. Trier: WVT. 2021. pp. 123–140.
- Jahrestagung des Deutschen AnglistenverbandesAnglistentag 2019Kulturstudien Großbritanniens; Institut für AnglistikEvent Organiser: von Knebel Doeberitz, Oliver; Ronthaler, Jürgen; von Thuemmler, Alexandra; Fiedler, Sabine; Welz, Stefan; Böhnke, Dietmar; Fleischhack, Maria; Hofmeister, Frauke; Lampadius, Stefan; Große, Isabell; Jokschus, Max; Kriegel, Sophie; Steller, Jonatan Jalle; Voigt, Kati22/09/2019 – 25/09/2019
- Internationale KonferenzEnglish Literature in Your Pocket : The Tauchnitz Edition and Other Paperback SeriesEnglische LiteraturwissenschaftEvent Organiser: Welz, Stefan; Böhnke, Dietmar; Keiderling, Tom; Mienert, Melanie06/11/2021 – 07/11/2021