Contact
Office address: Schellingstraße 33, 80799 München
Room:
1010
Phone:
+49 (0)89 2180-2103
Email:
felix.bidder@campus.lmu.de
Felix Bidder joined the research training group ‚Family Matters‘ as research assistant and PhD candidate in April 2025. He received an MA in Scandinavian literature from LMU Munich, investigating the role of credits and speculation in Scandinavian fiction around 1900. In the past, he was a student assistant at LMU’s Institute for Nordic Philology as well as an assistant at the literary archive Monacensia, where he worked on the literary estates of Munich-based artists and cultural figures.
Wertpapiergebilde. Familienunternehmen und Unternehmer-familien in der skandinavischen Literatur um 1900
The dissertation project analyses a series of Modern Scandinavian narrative and dramatic texts (Lie, Kielland, Bjørnson, Ibsen, Pontoppidan) that engage with the tensions between family and economy, particularly as they emerged in the late nineteenth century. The project examines the extent to which the texts revolve around, interrogate, and distort traditionally set boundaries between family and economy – two knowledge systems that became increasingly institutionalised at the time. Within this framework, literary representations of business families and family businesses serve as discursive nodes where competing family fictions of the nineteenth century intersect and enter into dialogue.