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Leonie Ettinger is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at New York University, where she earned her PhD in German in 2023. She researches 20th and 21st-century theater and literature; cultural history; Frankfurt School critical theory; and trauma theory, particularly transgenerational Holocaust trauma. Leonie holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, a BA in Anthropology and Media from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Certificate of Completion from the 3-Year Conservatory at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. As a theater producer, dramaturg, and curator, she has worked with companies like La MaMa ETC, The Living Theatre, The Civilians, and Brave New World Repertory Theatre. Leonie’s writing has appeared in Expressionismus (2020) and The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies (2022), with another article forthcoming in Concepts of Culture: New Directions in Conceptual History (2023). For her essay “Speaking Past: Ruth Klüger’s weiter leben: Eine Jugend,” she was awarded the Alpine Fellowship Academic Writing Prize (2020). As of October 2024, she will be a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University of Berlin.

Recent Publications

Refereed Journal Articles 

2022 “Witnessing Impossibility: The Traumatic Theater of Rachel Neuburger’s Nepenthe.” Edited by Lucia Aiello and David Miller. The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies 8.2: 25–54. 

Refereed Book Chapters

in press “The Rise and Fall of the Youth Concept: Intergenerational Conflict in Walter Hasenclever’s Der Sohn and Hanns Johst’s Schlageter.” In Concepts of Culture: New Directions in Conceptual History, edited by Michael Lipkin and Mattias Pirholt. Berghahn Books.

Other Publications

2020 “Zwischen Freiheitsdrang und Autoritätszwang: Vaterlosigkeit in Hasenclevers Der Sohn und Werfels Nicht der Mörder, der Ermordete ist schuldig” [Between Freedom and Authority: Fatherlessness in Hasenclever’s The Son and Werfel’s Not the Murderer, but the Murdered Is Guilty]. Edited by Kristin Eichhorn and Johannes S. Lorenzen. Expressionismus, Väter und Söhne, 1: 37–48.

2018 “Slavoj Žižek, Donald Trump, and the Left.” In Marxism in the Age of Trump, edited by Chris Cutrone, 65–78. Platypus Publishing LLC, 2018. (Originally published in The Platypus Review 99, 9/2017. https://platypus1917.org/2017/08/29/slavoj-zizek-donald-trump-left)

Manuscripts in Preparation

Forthcoming “After Unku: Intergenerational Holocaust Trauma in Sinti and Roma Literature”

Forthcoming “Replanting Roots: Salzmann’s Queer Theater of Disintegration”

Web-Based Publications

2020 “Speaking Past: Ruth Klüger’s weiter leben: Eine Jugend,” The Alpine Fellowship. https://alpinefellowship.com/leonie-ettinger-essay.

Journalism

2024 “Max Czollek im Gespräch” [Max Czollek in Conversation], mosaik blog, 7/2/2024.

https://mosaik-blog.at/author/leonie-ettinger/.

2023 “Nie wieder ist jetzt” [Never Again Is Now], Jüdische Allgemeine, 10/26/2023. https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/kultur/nie-wieder-ist-jetzt.

Translations

2022 “Psychoanalysis and Marxism” by Stefan Hain and Andreas Wintersperger, 

(co-translated with Tamas Vilaghy), The Platypus Review 148, 7/2022. https://platypus1917.org/2022/07/03/psychoanalysis-and-marxism.

Media Coverage

Social Media

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Country Focus

Germany

Expertise by Geography

Germany, United States, Western Europe

Expertise by Chronology

19th century, Early Modern, Modern, 20th century, 21st century

Expertise by Topic

Capitalism, Emancipation, Family, Genocide, Holocaust & Nazi Persecution, Literary History, Migration & Immigration, Politics, Public History, Rebellion & Revolution, World War I, World War II