Heidi Thomann Tewarson

Professor of German
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Education

B.S. Boston University, 1961
M.L.A. State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1970
M.A. State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1973
Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1977

Areas of special interest

Romanticism, Twentieth-century German Literature, Culture and Politics of the Weimar Republic,
East German Literature, German Women Writers

Published works

Books

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  • Alfred Döblin: Grundlagen seiner Aesthetik und ihre Entwicklung, 1900-1933. (Alfred Döblin: Foundations of His Aesthetics and Their Development). Bern: Lang, 1979.

  • Rahel Levin Varnhagen. Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rowohlts Monographien, 1988. (3rd edition 1992; 4th edition 1997/5th edition 2003).

  • Rahel Levin Varnhagen. The Life and Work of a German Jewish Intellectual. Lincoln, NE: U. of Nebraska Press, 1998.

  • A Companion to the Works of Alfred Döblin, coedited with Roland Dollinger and Wulf Koepke. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003)

  • Toni Morrison. Reinbeck/Hamburg: Rowohlts Monographien, 2005

  • Willkommen und Abschied: Thirty-fiveYears of German Writers-in-Residence at Oberlin College. Coedited with Dorothea Kaufmann (Rochester: Camden House: 2005)

Selected Recent Articles

  • "Die 'große Freundin' und Freundschaftsstifterin Rahel Levin Varnhagen." In: Querelles. Jahrbuch für Frauenforschung (Band 3. Literarische Freundschaft) Stuttgart: Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1998, pp. 142-158.

  • "Die Aufklärung im jüdischen Denken des 19. Jahrhunderts: Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Ludwig Robert, Ludwig Börne, Eduard Gans, Berthold Auerbach, Fanny Lewald." Jahrbuch Vormärz Forschung 4: Juden und jüdische Kultur im Vormärz (Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 1999) pp. 17-61.

  • "Anna Siemsen" Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800 - 1950 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2003)

  • "Alfred Döblin's Early Stories Die Ermordung einer Butterblume: Toward a Modernist Aesthetic." A Companion to the Works of Alfred Döblin, eds. Roland Dollinger, Wulf Koepke, Heidi Thomann Tewarson (Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2003) pp. 23-55.

  • Other articles on epistolary writing, German Jewish identity, Enlightenment thinking in German Jewish literature, and women’s writings, and on specific authors (Alfred Döblin, Bertolt Brecht, Anna Siemsen, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Fanny Lewald).

  • "Jews among Christians in Germany." Encyclopedias of Diasporas. Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. Vol. 1. Overviews & Topics. Eds. Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, Ian Skoggard. Published in conjunction with the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University (New York: Kluwe Academi/Plenum Publishers, 2004) 465-474.

Courses taught by Heidi Tewarson

Language Courses: Beginning and Intermediate German

Literature Courses:

  • Introduction to German Literature (1830-1933)

  • Literature and Culture of the Weimar Republic

  • Bertolt Brecht

  • From Naturalism to Expressionism

  • Twentieth-Century German Women Writers

  • Introduction to German Literature

  • German Jewish Women Writers: Between Traditions, Disciplines, and Genres.

  • Twentieth-Century German Drama

  • Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Else Lasker-Schüler

  • Multicultural Literature in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (1990-2005)

Contact information

229 Peters Hall
440-775-8651

heidi.tewarson@oberlin.edu

 

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