Achim Aurnhammer

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Achim Aurnhammer

Achim Aurnhammer (born September 13, 1952 in Kirchbrombach ) is a Germanist - comparative literary scholar with a focus on early modern times , turn of the century / expressionism and German-Italian literary relations. Since 1992 he has been a professor at the German Department of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Career

As the son of the chemist Robert Aurnhammer and his wife Charlotte Lina, b. Yours, Achim Aurnhammer attended the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Ludwigshafen , where he graduated from high school in 1971 . As a Fellow of the Scholarship Foundation of the German people , he studied from 1971 to 1978 at the Universities of Heidelberg and Florence the subjects German , history and Italian language . In 1974/75 he also completed his photography training at the Centro di Studi Tecnico-Cine-Fotografici in Florence . He passed the scientific examination for teaching at grammar schools (German, history, Italian) in 1977/78.

He then became a research assistant at the German Department of Heidelberg University (chair Peter Michelsen ). With a thesis on European motif history of the androgyny he became ibid 1984 doctorate . From 1984 to 1991 followed, interrupted by a habilitation grant from the DFG (1989/90), a university assistant at the University of Heidelberg, where Aurnhammer received his habilitation in 1991 due to his work on the reception of Torquato Tasso in the German Baroque . After a substitute professorship at the Free University of Berlin (Chair Hans-Jürgen Schings ) and a university professorship at the University of Heidelberg (1991/92), Aurnhammer was appointed professor for modern German literary history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 1992 . He teaches there to this day and held all positions in academic self-administration: He was repeatedly Managing Director of the German Seminar, and at times Vice Dean (1994/95), Dean (1995–1997) and Dean of Studies (2008–2010) of the Philological Faculty.

From 2009 Aurnhammer was the project manager of the DAAD- sponsored Germanistic institute partnership with the University of Latvia in Riga (until 2016) as well as spokesman for the Admoni Graduate School of the DAAD in Riga for the next generation of German students in the Baltic States (until 2015); he was a member of the selection committee from 2011 to 2017 of the DAAD for Eastern and Central Europe and has been the project manager of the DAAD-funded German institute partnership with the Shanghai International Studies University since 2013 . In addition, Aurnhammer was a board member of the Scientific Society in Freiburg from 2013 to 2015 and he heads the Arthur Schnitzler archive at the German Seminar .

Aurnhammer was a Fellow and Internal Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS) in 2010/11 and 2012 . He is involved since 2012 as a co-applicant, Board Member and Project leader in the DFG SFB -geförderten 948 (> heroes - Heroisierungen - Heroismen <), also since 2012 as a co-applicant and board member of the DFG -geförderten Research Training Group 1767 (> Faktuales and fictional narrative '), and since 2014 as a co-applicant in the DFG- funded International Research Training Group 1956 (›German-Russian Cultural Transfer ‹). Aurnhammer has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2013 .

He lives in Freiburg im Breisgau , is married and has two children.

Research priorities

Methodologically, Aurnhammer's literary oeuvre is characterized by a synthesis of formal aesthetic, intertextual and comparative interests. His attention is just as pronounced for questions of tradition formation , including the reception of antiquity , and for the interactions between literature and the visual arts .

Aurnhammer is one of the most prominent Italian connoisseurs among German German scholars and is best known for his intensive, cross -epoch research into Italian-German literary and cultural relationships , including the history of Italian teaching in Germany and German trips to Italy. His habilitation thesis Torquato Tasso in the German Baroque , the commemorative exhibition held in the Goethe Museum Düsseldorf on the 400th anniversary of the death of the poet Torquato Tasso in Germany , as well as several studies and essays already bear witness to his Italian-German focus .

Numerous conferences and exhibitions on the German reception of Francesco Petrarch , Giovanni Boccaccio , Ludovico Ariostos and the history of the impact of the Italian baroque painter Salvator Rosa followed .

Aurnhammers studies on the German Baroque to the extend primarily to the areas antiquity and - Myth reception , the translation literature , the canon and the Dichterikonographie . As part of his research on the German Enlightenment in the Upper Rhine cultural area, Aurnhammer dealt in particular with Johann Georg Jacobi and Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel .

Another focus is the classical modern . Aurnhammer is known for his pioneering studies of Arthur Schnitzler as a reader and for the intertextual structure of his work on the role of music in Schnitzler and his film work . Together with Ute Oelmann , Wolfgang Braungart and Stefan Breuer he has the three-volume Stefan George -Handbuch co-edited and within the framework of the Freiburg SFB 948 on Heroisierungskonzepte Stefan George and his circle research.

Aurnhammer is co-editor of the Killy literary lexicon , numerous anthologies and editions as well as several academic series , including early modern times (Tübingen: Niemeyer, from volume 75), Neolatina (Tübingen: Narr), classical modern (Würzburg: Ergon), library of the Litterarian Association in Stuttgart (Stuttgart: Hiersemann) as well as the journals Studia austriaca and Studi Comparatistici .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Androgyny. Studies on a motive in European literature (=  literature and life. NF Volume 30). Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-412-01286-6 .
  • Torquato Tasso in the German Baroque (=  early modern times. Volume 13). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-484-36513-7 .
  • Petrarch's cat. The History of Kitty Petrarkism. Manutius, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-934877-43-5 .
  • with CJ Andreas Klein : Johann Georg Jacobi (1740–1814). Bibliography and list of letters (=  early modern times. Volume 166). De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026385-5 .
  • Arthur Schnitzler's intertextual storytelling (=  linguae & litterae. Volume 22). De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-030750-4 .
  • with Nicolas Detering : German literature of the early modern period. Humanism, baroque. Early Enlightenment (=  sub. Volume 5024). Narr Francke Attempto, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8252-5024-9 [623 p., 76 fig .; the second part consists of a compilation of 167 commented texts].

Editorships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Achim Aurnhammer - Home - Modern German Literature. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Academic career . Retrieved August 12, 2019.
  3. ^ Website of the Arthur Schnitzler archive . Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ Achim Aurnhammer at FRIAS . Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  5. ^ Website of the SFB 948 . Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  6. ↑ site of the graduate school Faktuales and fictional narrative . Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  7. ^ Website of the IGK 1956 . Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  8. ^ HAdW members since 1909. Accessed December 19, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Torquato Tasso in the German Baroque. Niemeyer , Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-484-36513-7 .
  10. ↑ (with Christina Florack-Kröll and Dieter Martin): Torquato Tasso in Germany. Commemorative exhibition on the 400th anniversary of death (April 25, 1995) in the Goethe Museum in Düsseldorf in collaboration with the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. [Exhibition catalog]. Manutius, Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 978-3-925678-54-7 .
  11. ↑ Torquato Tasso's intrusive satyr in German baroque drama. In: Brigitte Winklehner (Hrsg.): Italian-European cultural relations in the Baroque age. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 978-3-923721-19-1 , pp. 165-180 ( digitized version ); Pathography of the Poet. On the importance of melancholy for the early Tasso picture. In: Udo Benzenhöfer and Wilhelm Kühlmann (eds.): Medicine and disease experience in the early modern period: Studies on the borderline of literary history and medical history (=  early modern period. Volume 10). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 978-3-484-36510-0 , pp. 187-200 ( digitized version ); Felix M. Furtwängler's portrait cycle TORQVATVS TASSVS. In: Achim Aurnhammer (Ed.): Torquato Tasso in Germany. Its effect in literature, art and music since the middle of the 18th century (=  sources and research on literary and cultural history. Volume 3 [237]). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995, ISBN 978-3-11-014546-5 , pp. 317-320 ( digitized ; reprinted in: Felix Martin Furtwängler : TORQVATVS TASSVS. 12 portrait attempts. Prospero-Presse, Zug / Munich 1997 , ISBN 978-3-907607-00-8 ); in the same volume, pp. 398–422: Johann Georg Jacobis Hallenser Tasso-Vorlesung [from 1767, in particular on ' The liberated Jerusalem '] ( digitized version ); Tasso pilgrimages by German travelers to Italy. Inspirational journeys to the places where Torquato Tasso lived between 1750 and 1850. In: Yearbook of the Free German Hochstift (1996), pp. 146–170 ( digitized version ); 'Lamento e Trionfo' - On the change in the concept of authorship in the Tasso portraits. In: Sebastian Schütze , Maria Antonietta Terzoli (Ed.): Tasso and the fine arts. Dialogues - reflections - transformations (=  refigurations: Italian literature and fine arts. Volume 2). De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-054386-5 , pp. 1–36.
  12. ↑ Francesco Petrarca in Germany. Its effect in literature, art and music. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-484-36618-4 .
  13. ↑ with Hans-Jochen Schiewer: The German Griselda. Transformations of a literary figuration from Boccaccio to modern times. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023312-4 .
  14. ↑ with N. Henkel and M. Zanucchi: Boccaccio in Germany. Traces of his life and work 1313–2013. Exhibition for the 700th birthday in the Goethe Museum Düsseldorf. Exhibition catalog. Manutius, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-944512-00-6 .
  15. ^ With R. Stillers: Giovanni Boccaccio in Europa. Studies on its reception in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-447-10018-2 .
  16. ↑ with Dieter Martin: Ludovico Ariosto: Historia vom Rasenden Roland. Translated by Diederich von dem Werder (Leipzig 1632–1636). Edited and annotated. 3 volumes. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7772-0216-9 .
  17. ↑ with G. Schnitzler and M. Zanucchi: Salvator Rosa in Germany. Studies on its reception in art, literature and music. Rombach, Freiburg i. Br. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7930-9533-0 .
  18. ↑ with A. Klein: Johann Georg Jacobi (1740–1814). Bibliography and list of letters. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026385-5 ; the detected in the bibliography and attachments 18 Miszellen followed: John George Jacobi (1740-1814): Nessir and Zuleime. A story based on Raphael . 1782. In: Werner Busch and Petra Maisak (ed.): Metamorphosis of the world: The romantic arabesque. Imhof, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-915-3 , p. 64 f .; The little one so big [Johann Georg Jacobi on the 200th anniversary of his death]. In: Badische Zeitung , January 4, 2014, Magazin, p. III; Poetic exequies for Johann Georg Jacobi. In: Freiburger Universitätsblätter , 53 (2014), volume 204: Johann Georg Jacobi (1740–1814) - Freiburg poet professor and university rector . Rombach, Freiburg i. Br. 2014, pp. 89-108; Johann Georg Jacobi in Freiburg (=  traces . Issue 107). German Schiller Society, Marbach am Neckar 2015, ISBN 978-3-944469-04-1 .
  19. ↑ with W. Kühlmann: Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel. Signatures of the Late Enlightenment on the Upper Rhine. Rombach, Freiburg i. Br./Berlin/Wien 2010, ISBN 978-3-7930-9618-4 ; therein on pages 21–35 the essay: Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel and Johann Georg Jacobi. A poet friendship on the Upper Rhine around 1800 ; see. also: [Achim Aurnhammer]: Critical edition of the correspondence between Johann Georg Jacobi and Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel. [Project sketch.] Accessed August 12, 2019.
  20. ↑ Arthur Schnitzler: Arthur Schnitzler's Readings. Reading list and virtual library (=  files from the Arthur Schnitzler Archive of the University of Freiburg. Volume 2; =  Classical Modernism. Volume 19). Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89913-978-5 .
  21. ↑ Arthur Schnitzler's intertextual storytelling (=  linguae & litterae. Volume 22). De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-030750-4 .
  22. ↑ with D. Martin and G. Schnitzler : Arthur Schnitzler and the music (= files of the Arthur Schnitzler archive of the University of Freiburg. 3; = Classical Modernism. 20). Ergon, Würzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-95650-021-3 .
  23. ↑ with Barbara Beßlich and Rudolf Denk : Arthur Schnitzler and the film (=  files of the Arthur Schnitzler archive of the University of Freiburg. Volume 1; =  Classical Modernism. Volume 15). Ergon, Würzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89913-748-4 .
  24. ↑ Stefan George and his circle. A manual. Volume 1. De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026834-8 .
  25. ↑ Aesthetic Heroism. Hero concepts by Stefan Georges and his circle [2017] . Retrieved August 12, 2019.
  26. ↑ Killy Literature Lexicon at de Gruyter . Retrieved December 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Aurnhammer, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Germanistic-comparative literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchbrombach