Longing for Light and Love. The Experience of Arctic in Heleen van der Laan’s Waar blijft het licht

Leila Werthschulte, Dr. phil., studied German literature, Medieval Studies and Theoretical Linguistics in Sarajevo, Vienna, and Munich. She currently teaches German Medieval Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. Her research encompasses medieval historiography, relations between text and image, Germanic mythology, old and new literature on and from the North. In 2007, her book "Heinrich der Löwe in Geschichte und Sage" was published.