Dr Nora Weinelt, born in 1996, lives in Berlin. She studied Comparative Literature, Art History and Italian Studies at LMU Munich and Université Paris IV. In 2020, she completed her doctorate on the modern figure of failure at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, which was funded by a scholarship from the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies (FU Berlin) and awarded the 2021 Merkur Prize. After stays abroad in Chicago and Princeton and a period at the University of Passau, she has been a temporary academic counsellor at the Chair of Comparative Literature/European Literatures at the University of Augsburg since 2021.

Her publications include the monographs Figuren des Versagens. Poetik eines sozialen Urteils (Berlin 2023) and Minimale Männlichkeit. Figurationen und Refigurationen des Anzugs (Berlin 2016) as well as numerous articles in journals and anthologies. Her most recent publication is a text on Claire Denis‘ film Beau Travail (’Ordnung und Begehren. Claire Denis‘ Beau Travail’, in: Große Werke des Films III, ed. Günter Butzer and Katja Sarkowsky, Tübingen 2024).

During her stay in Wiepersdorf, she will focus on the French author Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), most of whose influential work has still not been translated into German. The scholarship will be used to prepare an edition project planned together with Till Breyer (Bochum).