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
Books
Deutsch-irische Verbindungen - Irish-German Connections
Joachim Fischer
1998
Trier
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
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Germany: Looking In, Looking Out
Joachim Fischer
2015
Dublin
Institute for Intern. & European Affairs
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Register of Research in Modern Languages 1989-93.
Joachim Fischer
1994
Dublin
Royal Irish Academy
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Back to the Present - Forward to the Past: Irish Writing and History since 1798
Joachim Fischer
2006
Amsterdam, New York
Rodopi
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Elisabeth Grube und Katharina Diez. Zwei Dichterinnen und ihre Zeit.
Joachim Fischer
1992
Siegen
Vorlander
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Das Deutschlandbild der Iren 1890-1939. Geschichte - Form - Funktion.
Joachim Fischer
2000
Heidelberg
Carl Winter Verlag
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Register of Research in Modern Languages 1994-1998.
Joachim Fischer
1999
Dublin
Royal Irish Academy
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Anders und doch nicht fremd. Materialien zur interkulturellen Landeskunde Irland Deutschland.
Joachim Fischer
1998
Dublin
ELO Press
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The Correspondence of Myles Dillon 1922-1925. Irish-German-Relations and Celtic Studies.
Joachim Fischer
1998
Dublin
Four Courts Press
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Book Chapters
Die Einführung des Euro in Irland: Hintergründe Problem Konsequenzen
Joachim Fischer
2012
Marburg
Klages
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Wagner, Bayreuth and the Irish Image of Germany.
Joachim Fischer
2007
Dublin
Four Courts Press
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Aspects of the Irish reception of German culture: Goethe Schubert et al.
Joachim Fischer
2003
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Irish-German Biographies and Irish-German Studies
Dr. Gisela Holfter
Joachim Fischer
2009
Trier
WVT
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Cultural Policy in the European Union, German-Irish Relations and the Goethe-Institut Irland's First Fifty Years: An Introduction.
Joachim Fischer
2012
Trier
WVT
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Adieu, I must go to Dinner': Letters of an Irish Traveller from Dresden and Berlin, 1789/90.
Joachim Fischer
2007
Trier
WVT
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Kenny Dodd goes mad: or, Charles Lever's unsentimental journey through Germany
Joachim Fischer
2004
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Irish-German Studies in Ireland - A bibliography of research 1995-1999.
Joachim Fischer
1999
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Irish-language literature in Europe: a survey of translations and reception patterns in continental countries
Joachim Fischer
2019
Dublin
Royal Irish Academy
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The Goethe-Institut in Dublin and its Impact of Irish Culture, 1961-2011: An Outline History.
Joachim Fischer
2012
Trier
WVT
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An Irish Traveller in Eighteenth Century Switzerland: Blayney Townley Balfour's Letters from Orbe and Berne, 1788/89
Joachim Fischer
2007
Oxford
Peter Lang
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Rosa Luxemburg 1871-1919: German political and social revolutionary, and letter writer.
Joachim Fischer
2001
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Verzeichnis der wichtigsten Handschriften in offentlichen Bibliotheken.
Joachim Fischer
1992
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The GDR through Irish Eyes: Nationalism and Patriotism in Kevin Brophy's East German novels
Joachim Fischer
2019
Trier
WVT
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The eagle that never landed: a history of uses and abuses of the German language in Ireland.
Joachim Fischer
2003
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Ernst Toller 1893-1939: German playwright, political activist, and autobiographer
Joachim Fischer
2001
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Elisabeth Grube geb. Diez (1803-1871) und Katharina Diez (1809-1882). Leben und Werk zweier Schriftstellerinnen aus Netphen.
Joachim Fischer
1992
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On the Specificity of Irish Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Maria Frances Dickson's Journeys to the Continent and Kilkee
Joachim Fischer
2017
Cham (CH)
Palgrave Macmillan
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Intercultural Connection within German and Irish Children's Literature: An Introduction.
Joachim Fischer
2008
Trier
WVT
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... 'thar lear' chomh iomlan is chomh aoibhinn ...": Aspekte des Deutschlandbildes in der zeitgenossischen irischsprachigen Literatur Irlands."
Joachim Fischer
2001
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Bilaterale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ungleicher Partner. Das Beispiel BRD-Irland.
Joachim Fischer
1987
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German culture in Denis Johnston's (1901-1984) Life and Work: A Synopsis.
Joachim Fischer
2015
Trier
WVT
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Knowing Your Grass from Your Elbow: Parameters of the Irish Reception of Günter Grass
Joachim Fischer
2008
Cologne
SH-Verlag
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'Marchen aus Irlands Gauen': Irisches und dessen Vermittlung im Kaiserreich.
Joachim Fischer
2001
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Images of Germany in Irish Writing of the Last Ten Years (2002-2012)
Joachim Fischer
2013
Trier
WVT
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A Good Irish German: In Praise of Hugo Hamilton's Mother
Joachim Fischer
2013
New York
Camden House
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August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben 'Lied der Deutschen' (1841).
Joachim Fischer
2003
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On the Specificity of Irish Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Maria Frances Dickson's Journeys to the Continent and Kilkee
Joachim Fischer
2017
BASINGSTOKE
PALGRAVE
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Edited Books
Peer Reviewed Journals
Maria Frances Dickson (1809-1885): A Forgotten Limerick Writer of the Nineteenth Century
Joachim Fischer
2017
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Boston or Berlin? Reflections on a Topical Controversy, the Celtic Tiger and the World of Irish Studies
Joachim Fischer
2014
Cork
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Periphere Perspektiven: zum Deutschlandbild irischer Reisender zwischen 1919 und 1933.
Joachim Fischer
1996
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A Future Ireland under German Rule: Dystopias as Propaganda during World War I.
Joachim Fischer
2008
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Other Journals
The Austrian Who Stayed in the Lakeside Hotel in 1913: or, Why Richard Bermann Never Went to Killaloe
Joachim Fischer
2019
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rev. of Ulrike Guérot, Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss! Eine politische Utopie (2016)
Joachim Fischer
2017
Taylor and Francis
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Media, languages and translations in the 1990s: the European challenge.
Joachim Fischer
1991
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Conference Publications
The Novel in Anglo-German Context: Cultural Cross Currents and Affinities
Joachim Fischer
1997
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22nd Annual Symposium on "War and Literature" of the RIA National Committee for Modern Language Studies.
Joachim Fischer
1995
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Medien Grass. Zur Rezeption von G¿nter Grass in Deutschland und international.
Joachim Fischer
2007
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Conference Wagner and Wagnerism: Contexts ¿V Connections ¿V Controversies.
Joachim Fischer
2002
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Conference Contributions
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Book Reviews
Review of Mervyn O'Driscoll, Ireland, Germany and the Nazis. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
Joachim Fischer
2006
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Review of C. Molohan, Ireland and Germany 1945-1955: Two nations friendship.
Joachim Fischer
2001
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Rev. of Zsolt Czigányik (ed.), Utopian Horizons
Joachim Fischer
2018
Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 25(1)
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Histories of Nationalism in Ireland and Germany: A Comparative Study from 1800 to 1932
Joachim Fischer
2018
LONDON
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
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rev. of Ulrike Guerot, Why Europe has to become a Republic: A political utopia
Joachim Fischer
2017
Taylor and Francis
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Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1772-1922: Anti-Colonialism within Europe
Joachim Fischer
2018
LONDON
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
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Review of Károly Pintér, The Anatomy of Utopia. Jefferson NC and London: McFarland & Co. 2010
Joachim Fischer
2013
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Review of S. Boyd / M, Schewe, Welttheater: übersetzen adaptieren inszenieren / World Theatre: translation adaptation production. Berlin, Strasburg (Um.), Milow: Schibri, [2011]
Joachim Fischer
2012
Stuttgart
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rev. of R M Douglas, Architects of the resurrection. Manchester 2009
Joachim Fischer
2012
Cork
Cork University Press
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Other Publications
Review of Mervyn O'Driscoll, Ireland, Germany and the Nazis. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
Joachim Fischer
2006
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Review of C. Molohan, Ireland and Germany 1945-1955: Two nations friendship.
Joachim Fischer
2001
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The real Story behind Thomas Grady's "Nosegay"
Joachim Fischer
2019
Limerick
Old Limerick Journal
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Histories of Nationalism in Ireland and Germany: A Comparative Study from 1800 to 1932
Joachim Fischer
2018
LONDON
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
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Rev. of Zsolt Czigányik (ed.), Utopian Horizons
Joachim Fischer
2018
Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 25(1)
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Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1772-1922: Anti-Colonialism within Europe
Joachim Fischer
2018
LONDON
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
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rev. of Ulrike Guerot, Why Europe has to become a Republic: A political utopia
Joachim Fischer
2017
Taylor and Francis
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Review of Károly Pintér, The Anatomy of Utopia. Jefferson NC and London: McFarland & Co. 2010
Joachim Fischer
2013
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Review of S. Boyd / M, Schewe, Welttheater: übersetzen adaptieren inszenieren / World Theatre: translation adaptation production. Berlin, Strasburg (Um.), Milow: Schibri, [2011]
Joachim Fischer
2012
Stuttgart
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rev. of R M Douglas, Architects of the resurrection. Manchester 2009
Joachim Fischer
2012
Cork
Cork University Press
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