Joachim Fischer

Biography

Joachim Fischer studied in Mainz, Glasgow, Bonn and Trinity College Dublin. He holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Cultural Studies and is Director of the Centre for European Studies. He is also Senior Lecturer in German and Deputy Director of the Centre for Irish-German Studies.

Research Interests

The history of Irish-German relations; cultural dimensions of European integration; the Irish image of Germany; national images and stereotypes; Shannon Scheme; travel literature; Ernst Toller; utopian studies; film studies; Fritz Lang.

Professional Activities

Committee

2013 Germany group, Institute for International and European Affairs, Dublin,
2006 Executive Committee, International Association for the Study of Irish Literature,

Award

2009 - Distinguished Lecturer Award, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
2009 - Research Fellow, Institute for European History, Mainz
2008 - IRCHSS Senior Fellowship
1999 - DAAD Scholarship for Senior Academics
1997 - Third Level Exchange Programme (Professorenaustausch)

Education

1996 Trinity College - PhD
1983 Universität Mainz - MA

Employment

1990 University of Limerick - Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in German
1984 Dept. of German, University College Cork - DAAD Lektor and Assistant Lecturer
1983 Dept. of Comparative Philology, University of Mainz, Germany - Part-time Lecturer in Celtic Philology

Association

Member, Association for Third Level Teachers of German in Ireland
Member, Utopian Studies Society
member, Conference of University Teachers of German of Great Britain and Ireland (CUTG)

Language

French
Irish
German
English

Publications

Book

2015

Germany: Looking In, Looking Out
Katherine Meenan et al.

2006

Back to the Present - Forward to the Past: Irish Writing and History since 1798
Fischer, J

2005

As Others Saw Us: Cork through European Eyes
Joachim Fischer Grace Neville

2000

Das Deutschlandbild der Iren 1890-1939. Geschichte - Form - Funktion.
Fischer, J

1999

1998

Deutsch-irische Verbindungen - Irish-German Connections
Fischer, J

1998

Anders und doch nicht fremd. Materialien zur interkulturellen Landeskunde Irland Deutschland.
Dockrell, S; Fischer, J; Hughes, E; Hayes, J; Mohan, M; Supple, S

1998

The Correspondence of Myles Dillon 1922-1925. Irish-German-Relations and Celtic Studies.
Fischer, J

1994

1992

Elisabeth Grube und Katharina Diez. Zwei Dichterinnen und ihre Zeit.
Fischer, J; Langsfeld, I; et al

Book Chapter

2017

On the Specificity of Irish Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Maria Frances Dickson's Journeys to the Continent and Kilkee
Joachim Fischer
Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century

2015

German culture in Denis Johnston's (1901-1984) Life and Work: A Synopsis.
Joachim Fischer
S. Egger (ed.) Cultural/Literary Translators: Selected Irish-German Biographies II.

2013

Images of Germany in Irish Writing of the Last Ten Years (2002-2012)
Joachim Fischer
Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam: Proceedings.

2013

A Good Irish German: In Praise of Hugo Hamilton's Mother
Joachim Fischer
Representing the 'Good German' in Literature and Culture after 1945: Altruism and Moral Ambiguity.

2012

Die Einführung des Euro in Irland: Hintergründe Problem Konsequenzen
Fischer J
Finanzkrise: Die Krise in der Euro-Zone / Financial Crisis: The Euro-Zone Crisis. (Schriftenreihe Europäische Studien 2)

2012

Cultural Policy in the European Union, German-Irish Relations and the Goethe-Institut Irland's First Fifty Years: An Introduction.
Fischer J; Stehle R
Contemporary German-Irish Cultural Relations in a European Perspective: Exploring Issues in Cultural Policy and Practice.

2012

The Goethe-Institut in Dublin and its Impact of Irish Culture, 1961-2011: An Outline History.
Fischer J
Contemporary German-Irish Cultural Relations in a European Perspective: Exploring Issues in Cultural Practice.

2010

Deutsch in Irland.
Fischer J, Schewe M
Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache. Ein internationales Handbuch. Vol. 2.

2009

Irish-German Biographies and Irish-German Studies
Fischer J; Holfter, G
Creative Encounters: Selected Irish-German Biographies.

2008

Intercultural Connection within German and Irish Children's Literature: An Introduction.
Fischer J; Tebbutt, S
Intercultural Aspects in German and Irish Children's Literature

2008

Knowing Your Grass from Your Elbow: Parameters of the Irish Reception of Günter Grass
Fischer J
Die Medien und Günter Grass. Zur Rezeption von Günter Grass in Deutschland und international.

2007

Wagner, Bayreuth and the Irish Image of Germany.
Fischer, J
Music in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Irish Musical Studies. 9)

2007

Adieu, I must go to Dinner': Letters of an Irish Traveller from Dresden and Berlin, 1789/90.
Fischer, J
In: Irish-German Encounters. (Irish-German Studies 2)

2007

An Irish Traveller in Eighteenth Century Switzerland: Blayney Townley Balfour's Letters from Orbe and Berne, 1788/89
Fischer, J
From the Margins to the Centre: Irish Germanists on Swiss Culture and Literature

2006

Introduction
Fischer, J; Lynch, P; Coates, B
Back to the Present, Forward to the Past: Irish Writing and History since 1798. Vol. I.

2005

Introduction.
Fischer, J; Neville, G
As Others See Us: Cork through European Eyes. Cork: Collins Press 2005, 1-5

2004

Kenny Dodd goes mad: or, Charles Lever's unsentimental journey through Germany
Fischer, J
Denkbilder - Festschrift fur Eoin Bourke.

2003

'Deutscher und Ire' (ca. 1845/46).
Fischer, J; Weerth, G
Poetry Project. Irish Germanists Interpret German Verse

2003

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben 'Lied der Deutschen' (1841).
Fischer, J
Poetry Project. Irish Germanists Interpret German Verse.

2003

Aspects of the Irish reception of German culture: Goethe Schubert et al.
Fischer, J
Goethe and Schubert: Across the Divide.

2003

The eagle that never landed: a history of uses and abuses of the German language in Ireland.
Fischer, J
Languages in Ireland.

2001

'Marchen aus Irlands Gauen': Irisches und dessen Vermittlung im Kaiserreich.
Fischer, J
Literaturvermittlung um 1900.

2001

Ernst Toller 1893-1939: German playwright, political activist, and autobiographer
Fischer, J
Encyclopedia of Life Writing. Autobiographical and Biographical Forms. Vol.II.

2001

Deutschunterricht und Germanistikstudium in der Republik Irland.
Fischer, J; Schewe, ML
Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Ein internationales Handbuch. 2. Halbband.

2001

... 'thar lear' chomh iomlan is chomh aoibhinn ...": Aspekte des Deutschlandbildes in der zeitgenossischen irischsprachigen Literatur Irlands."
Fischer, J
Philologica et linguistica. Festschrift fur Helmut Humbach.

2001

Rosa Luxemburg 1871-1919: German political and social revolutionary, and letter writer.
Fischer, J
Encyclopedia of Life Writing. Autobiographical and Biographical Forms. Vol. II.

2000

Nineteenth-century Irish travellers to Germany and their tales
Fischer, J
Das schwierige 19. Jahrhundert. Germanistische Tagung zum 65. Geburtstag von Eda Sagarra im August 1998

1999

The bi-cultural classroom: more German-Irish experiences.
Fischer, J
Intercultural Communication and Language Learning.

1999

Irish-German Studies in Ireland - A bibliography of research 1995-1999.
Fischer, J
Yearbook of the Centre for Irish-German Studies 1998/99

1992

Ernst Toller and Ireland.
Fischer, J
German Writers and Politics 1918-39.

1992

Verzeichnis der wichtigsten Handschriften in offentlichen Bibliotheken.
Fischer, J; Langsfeld, I
Elisabeth Grube und Katharina Diez. Zwei Dichterinnen und ihre Zeit.

1992

Elisabeth Grube geb. Diez (1803-1871) und Katharina Diez (1809-1882). Leben und Werk zweier Schriftstellerinnen aus Netphen.
Fischer, J
Elisabeth Grube und Katharina Diez. Zwei Dichterinnen und ihre Zeit.

1988

Ernst Tollers Verhaltnis zum Judentum.
Fischer, J
Third Galway Colloquium.