Profile (English)

Biography

Anna Kontriner studied Philosophy and Theology at the University of Vienna (MA, Mag.^a Theol.). After working as a freelance editor from 2021-2023, she is now a doctoral researcher in the DFG-funded project Self-Organisation and Horizontal Binding Forces: Local Authorities in Ancient Judaism from the 6th Century BC to the 1st Century AD at the University of Würzburg.

Research

Anna Kontriner is working on a dissertation with a narratological focus on the topic "Reflexionen und Fiktionen der Selbstorganisierung. Narratologische Studien zur Darstellung lokaler gesellschaftlicher Strukturen in deutero- und außerkanonischen Erzählungen" ("Reflections and Fictions of Self-Organization. Narratological Studies on the Representation of Local Societal Structures in Deutero- and Extra-Canonical Narratives"). The goal is to identify narrative representations or implicitly assumed concepts of local self-organization in the selected texts. On the one hand, the analysis focuses on how certain societal groups or actors within the narratives shape and influence the local structures of communal living through their actions, statements, or functions. On the other hand, the dissertation discusses to what extent certain societal conditions are assumed in the narratives without being explicitly stated or narrated. The primary aim is not to draw conclusions about historical realities, but rather to clarify the representation of societal circumstances in narrative fictional texts and to demonstrate how cultural narratives, self-perceptions, external perceptions, and (critical) reflections are expressed within them.