Dr. Konstanze Baron

From 08/2025 - 12/2025

TMWWDG scholarship holder

Since 05/2024

Visiting scholar at the Gotha Research Centre

04/2023 - 10/2023

FONTE Visiting Professor for French and Italian Literary Studies

Institute for Romance Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin

10-11/2020 u. 06-07/2021

Scholarship holder at the German Study Centre in Venice

Project: "Jean-Jacques Rousseau as an envoy"

06/2015 - 10/2022

Former academic councillor / assistant to the chair of Susanne Goumegou

Romance Department, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

2015 - 2016

Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation

Mahindra Humanities Centre, Harvard University

Project: "Giving an Account of Oneself. Ethical Violence and the Subject of Autobiography"

04/2009 - 05/2015

Research Associate

Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of the European Enlightenment (IZEA)

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

12/2010

Doctorate (Dr phil.)

Literary Studies subject area, University of Konstanz

Title of the dissertation: "Diderot's Narratives. Die Problemnovelle der Aufklärung im Spannungsfeld von Moralphilosophie und ästhetischer Praxis" (expert reports: Ulrike Sprenger, Heinz Thoma)

01/2008 - 3/2009

Research assistant

Cluster of Excellence EXC 16 "Cultural Foundations of Integration"

University of Konstanz

2006 - 2007

International research stay

Humanities Centre, Johns Hopkins University

04/2002 - 03/2006

Doctoral scholarship holder

DFG Research Training Group (DFG) "The Figure of the Third"

University of Konstanz

2001 - 2002

Diploma/postgraduate programme (D.E.A.) "Histoire et sémiologie du texte"

Université Denis Diderot - Paris VII

2000 -2001

Master (M.St.) "European Literature"

Queen's College, University of Oxford

1997 - 2000

Bachelor (B.A.) "Modern History and Modern Languages - French"

Queen's College, University of Oxford

The Gotha court theatre before Ekhof: an attempt to characterise it, with particular reference to the French-language repertoire

The Ekhof Theatre in Friedenstein Castle owes its name to Conrad Ekhof, under whose artistic direction the Gotha court theatre was institutionalised as a standing stage in 1775. However, the theatre was built much earlier. Its use before 1775 is extremely varied. The research project focuses on the aristocratic amateur theatre, which, under the direction of Franziska Juliane von Buchwald, performed mainly French plays from the mid-1730s onwards, often on festive occasions and with the participation of members of the ducal family. The intellectual profile reflected in the repertoire is analysed, as are its functions for court culture. #