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Dr Joanna Raisbeck, Stipendiary Lecturer in German at St Hilda's College and MHRA Research Scholar at the Faculty of Modern Languages, has won the inaugural Klaus Heyne-Preis zur Erforschung der Romantik (Klaus Heyne-Award for Research in German Romanticism) for her doctoral thesis, 'Poetic Metaphysics in Karoline von Günderrode'. The prize is awarded by the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main for an 'outstanding contribution to the study of Romanticism'."

More information about the prize in general can be found here (in German and English). You can also read the press release from Frankfurt (only in German). It's also made it to the German national press. 

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