Press release: Göttingen scientist receives Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize

Nr. 82/2013 - 04.06.2013

DFG honours Dr Daniel Stein with the most important prize in Germany for young academics

(pug) Dr Daniel Stein from the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Göttingen is the winner of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, the most important prize in Germany for young academics. He is thus one of a total of nine young scientists who have been selected by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to receive the “Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prizes 2013”. In total, 123 candidates from all specialist areas were involved in this year’s prize round.

Daniel Stein, born 1975, is a research assistant in the Department of North American Studies of the Seminar of English Philology at the University of Göttingen and a post-doctoral member of the DFG research group on “The aesthetics and practice of popular seriality”. Here Dr Stein contributes his expertise in North American popular culture. His specialist areas are Afro-American music such as jazz and blues, and also comics as a popular medium. After graduating in American Studies from the University of Mainz, he was a lecturer at the English Department of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from 2001 to 2003.

In 2009 he received his doctorate at the University of Göttingen with a dissertation on “Louis Armstrong’s Jazz Autobiographics”, which won two scientific prizes: the Christian-Gottlob-Heyne Prize 2010 from the Graduate School of Humanities Göttingen (GSGG) for the best dissertation of the year, and the Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize 2010 from the Heidelberg Center for American Studies for outstanding work in the field of American studies.

The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Price is worth € 20,000 for each recipient and is both a recognition and an incentive for young academic researchers to pursue a linear scientific career. The prizes will be awarded in Berlin on 3 June 2013. Full information about the prize and the prize-winners is available at www.dfg.de/maier-leibnitz-preis.


Contact address:
Dr Daniel Stein
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Philosophische Fakultät – Seminar für Englische Philologie
Nordamerikastudien (American Studies)
Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3, 37073 Göttingen, telephone (0551) 39-9248
Email: daniel.stein@phil.uni-goettingen.de
Internet: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/197255.html