Franziska Sajdak

Senior Researcher – Office

Email: franziska.sajdak[at]uni-greifswald.de

Bahnhofstr. 51
Room 1.05
17489 Greifswald

CV
Since 04/2025 Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO)
10/2023-03/2025 Researcher at the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Greifswald, Chair of Modern Scandinavian Literatures
09/2019-08/2022 Researcher at the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Greifswald, Chair of Modern Scandinavian Literatures
10/2018-04/2019 Research assistant at the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Greifswald
10/2017-03/2018 Lecturer at the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Greifswald
01/2016-09/2018 Research assistant at the cross-disciplinary and international Research Training Group (IRTG) “Baltic Borderlands: Shifting Boundaries of Mind and Culture in the Borderlands of the Baltic Sea Region” at the University of Greifswald
Since 01/2016 Doctoral degree programme supervised by Prof. Dr Joachim Schiedermair on the topic “Jewish identity in contemporary Scandinavian literature”
10/2011-10/2014 M.A. degree course in Scandinavian Studies with a focus on “Modern Scandinavian Literatures” at the University of Greifswald
08/2009-06/2010 ERASMUS Exchange Programme: Scandinavian Studies at Linköping universitet, Sweden
10/2007-09/2011 B.A. degree course in Scandinavian Studies and English Studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Selected publications

Papers:

(2019). “‘So I decide for you’: Generation and Identity in Göran Rosenberg’s A Brief Stop on the Roadfrom Auschwitz”. In: Collapse of Memory - Memory of Collapse. Narrating Past, Presence and Future about Periods of Crisis. Sasunkevich/Schiedermair/Törnquist-Plewa (eds.). Cologne: Böhlau.


Lectures:

23 November 2023: “‘Så jag bestämmer åt dig.’ Generation und Identität in skandinavisch-jüdischer Gegenwartsliteratur”, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

21 July 2023: “Jüdische Identität in skandinavischer Gegenwartsliteratur: Stephan Mendel-Enks Tre apor (2010) und Apan i mitten (2020)”, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

27 April 2018: “‘Så jag bestämmer åt dig’: Generation und Identität in skandinavisch-jüdischer Gegenwartsliteratur”, lecture at Überregionale Doktorandentagung der Skandinavistik (27-28/04/2018), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

13 December 2016: “Border Crosser. Jewish Identity in Contemporary Scandinavian Literature”, lecture at the lecture series “From Witch to Craft / From Ship to Art: New Baltic Borderlands Research”, University of Greifswald.

12 March 2016: “Across Borders: Narrating Faith and Identity in Scandinavian Jewish Literature”, lecture within the framework of the international graduate conference “Forging Faith(s) in Global Borderlands” (11-13 March 2016), University of California, Santa Barbara.