Astrid Lembke

Astrid Lembke is Professor of Medieval German Literature at the University of Mannheim's German Studies Department. She specializes in German courtly romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as well as in Yiddish literature of the late middle ages and the early modern era. She has published books on pre-modern Jewish tales about mortal men marrying she-demons (Dämonische Allianzen. Jüdische Mahrtenehenerzählungen der europäischen Vormoderne (Tübingen: A. Francke, 2013)) and on fictional inscriptions in medieval courtly texts such as Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius (Inschriftlichkeit. Materialität, Präsenz und Poetik des Geschriebenen im höfischen Roman (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020)).