Anne-Sophie Balzer
| Telefon: | +49 821 598 - 3569 |
| Fax: | +49 821 598 - 3559 |
| E-Mail: | anne-sophie.balzer@wzu.uni-augsburgwzu.uni-augsburg.de () |
| Raum: | 208 (U) |
| Adresse: | Universitätsstraße 1 a (innocube), 86159 Augsburg |
Bio
Anne-Sophie Balzer is a journalist, writer, scholar and admirer of all things wild. She writes essays, literary reviews, features, poetry, and a PhD thesis titled “Writing with Glaciers”. Anne-Sophie received a BA in Comparative Literature from Erfurt University and holds a MA in Cultural Theory and History from Humboldt University of Berlin. She is employed at Augsburg University as a member of the Graduate Program (Re)thinking Environment and recipient of a Fulbright.
Her work as a journalist appears in German publications, among them DIE ZEIT and ZEIT ONLINE, Berliner Zeitung and Taz. She is an occasional contributor to the national public radio DLF Kultur. Poems and translations of hers have appeared in Amberflora, Plant-Human Quarterly, Maiden Magazine, Blood Orange Review and elsewhere.
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
Since October 2021
Doctoral Fellow at Augsburg University’s IDK “(Re)Thinking Environment“
2013 – 2018
Master of Arts at Humboldt University Berlin
Cultural Theory and History
2009 – 2013
Bachelor of Arts at Erfurt University
Comparative Literature and Communication Studies
Projekte
Anne-Sophie Balzer is a scholar, poet and journalist. Growing up on the edge of the Black Forest in Southern Germany she left for the North at the first chance. Having lived both between the “ghosts of glaciers“ in the UK and in close proximity to actual ice sheets in Norway she aims to turn her long-year fascination with icy landscapes into a research project. Writing with Glaciers, her PhD project, is an inquiry into glacial poetics written under what we call the Anthropocene.