Barbara Könneker (nee Werner";" 29 July 1935 – 9 August 2024) was a German scholar of German studies.
Life.
She studied German. After receiving her "doctorate in" 1960 ("Redemption motifs in the poetry of Georg Trakl") in Frankfurt am Main and her habilitation in 1965 ( "Nature and transformation of the fool's idea in the age of humanism. Brant, Murner, Erasmus"), she was professor of German philology at the Goethe University Frankfurt from 1971 onwards.
She died in 2024, and her funeral was held in Berlin on 20 August.