Reinhild Steingröver

Biography

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Reinhild Steingröver has been a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music since 2000. Previously, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of German at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1997-2000). Her main teaching and research interests focus on contemporary German and Austrian film and literature, in particular the intersection of art and politics and the role of the artist in society.

Steingröver is the author of a monograph on Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, (Einerseits und Andererseits, Essays zur Prosa Thomas Bernhards. New York: Peter Lang, 2000) and the editor of the anthology Not So Plain As Black and White: Afro-German History and Culture 1890-2000 (with Professor Patricia Mazón, State University of New York at Buffalo), which was published by the University of Rochester Press in 2005. She is currently writing a book on the last generation of film directors of the East German state-run film studio DEFA, entitled Last Features: DEFA’s Lost Generation, 1990-92 and editing the volume After the Avant-garde: Engagements with Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film (with Professor Randall Halle, University of Rochester).

In addition she has published numerous articles and translations in Germany, the UK, Canada and the United States, where she has also lectured extensively. Her article “On Fools and Clowns: Generational Farewell in Two Final DEFA Films”; Egon Günther’s Stein and Jörg Foth’s Letztes aus der DaDaeR, which will appear in The German Quarterly in fall 2005 is being re-printed in German translation in the yearbook of the DEFA Foundation apropos film 2005. Steingröver received many grants for research in Austria and Germany, including several from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Suhrkamp Foundation, the State University of New York at Buffalo and the University of Rochester.

She received her Ph.D. in German and Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1997, an M.A. in American Studies in 1991 and has previously studied Medicine, French and American Studies at the Free University of Berlin, Germany.