Andreas Kablitz

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Andreas Kablitz (born November 8, 1957 in Aachen ) is a German Romance scholar and comparativeist at the University of Cologne and director of the Petrarca Institute there.

Life

After graduating from the Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium in 1976 in Bergisch Gladbach, Kablitz studied Romance studies and history at the University of Cologne. In 1981 he became a research assistant at the Institute for Romance Philology at the Free University of Berlin at the chair of Klaus W. Hempfer . In 1983 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Méditations poétiques by Alphonse de Lamartine , in 1987 he received his habilitation on The Discussion of the Ridiculum in the 16th Century in Italy. The beginnings of the modern theory of the comic in the Italian Renaissance . In 1989, Kablitz followed the call to a C3 professorship for Romance Philology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . A year later, Kablitz accepted the chair for Italian Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After four years, another appointment brought him back to his home university: Since 1994 Kablitz has been teaching in Cologne as a professor of Romance philology and general and comparative literature and is director of the Petrarca Institute. In 2004 and 2011 he turned down offers to the Free University of Berlin.

Among other things, Kablitz was a Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies , at the Käthe Hamburger Kolleg Morphomata in Cologne , and at the International College for Humanities Research “Fate, Freedom and Prediction. Coping strategies in East Asia and Europe ”in Erlangen, visiting scholar at the University of Washington and conférencier invité at the Collège de France .

Research priorities

Kablitz mainly deals with the older Italian literature, especially the great authors of the 13th and 14th centuries as well as with the more recent French literature. His comparative interests apply to ancient texts as well as German and English literature. An important area of ​​his research is his work on the theory of literature and its connection to philosophy.

Awards and memberships

In 1997 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Since 1998 he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation . Kablitz is a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , since 2006 a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and since 2007 a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 2016 he was elected chairman of the cultural studies section and senator of the Leopoldina.

In 2010 he was appointed commendatore des Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana by the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano . Kablitz has been a member of the International Advisory Board of Dante Studies since 2015 .

Kablitz was editor of the Italian Studies , the Romanica Monacensia and the Romance Yearbook . Since 1994 he has published the writings and lectures of the Petrarca Institute in Cologne , and since 2015 Kablitz has been the editor in charge of the comparative journal POETICA .

Fonts (selection)

items

  • " Spring sounds . Eichendorffs answer to Goethe's Easter Parade ", in: German Quarterly of Literature and Intellectual History 90 (2016), pp 567-598.
  • “Corneille's theatrum gloriae . Paradoxes of honor and tragic casuistry Le Cid - Horace - Cinna “, in: Discourses of the Baroque. Decentered or recentered world? , ed. by Joachim Küpper , [Romanistic Colloquium, Vol. 9] Munich 2000, pp. 491–552.
  • “Art on the other side or God as a sculptor. The reliefs in Dante's Purgatorio (Purg. X-XII) ”in: Mimesis and Simulation , ed. by Andreas Kablitz and Gerhard Neumann , [Rombach Sciences Series Litterae Vol. 52] Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, pp. 309–356.
  • “Affect intimacy and public discourse. Shakespeare's dark-lady sonnets as a deconstruction of the traditional lyrical discourse ”, in: Shakespeare's sonnets in European perspectives, A Symposium , ed. by Dieter Mehl and Wolfgang Weiß , [Studies on English Literature, Vol. 5] Münster / Hamburg 1993, pp. 206–242.
  • “The system error of the humanities” in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 31, 2014.
  • “Let's celebrate the founding of Europe”. In: DIE WELT , February 20, 2017. (welt.de)
  • “The logic of the world. How do you read a menu? What is the time doing with the sentences? And is it really not allowed to confuse author and narrator? Andreas Kablitz has written a monumental book about Thomas Mann's 'Zauberberg' ”. In: DIE WELT AM SONNTAG, October 1, 2017.

Monographs

  • Lamartines Méditations poétiques. Studies on the constitution of meaning in the conflict between reader expectations and text structure , Stuttgart 1985 [dissertation], ISBN 978-3-515-04224-6 .
  • Art of the possible. Theory of Literature , [Rombach Sciences Series Litterae Bd. 190] Freiburg im Breisgau 2013 (1st edition); 2016 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-3-7930-9708-2 .
  • Between rhetoric and ontology. Structure and history of allegory as reflected in recent literary studies , [New Forum for General and Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 50] Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8253-6701-5 .
  • The magic Mountain. The dissection of the world [New Forum for General and Comparative Literature, Vol. 55] Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8253-6804-3 . ( Online )
  • Is the Modern Age Legitimate? The origin of the modern understanding of nature and the literature of the 14th century (Dante - Boccaccio) . Schwabe, Basel 2019, ISBN 978-3-7965-3944-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by Andreas Kablitz at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
  2. ^ Entry by Andreas Kablitz at the International Morphomata College
  3. ^ Entry by Andreas Kablitz at the IKGF - International College for Research in the Humanities
  4. ↑ http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/documents/newsletters/newsletter2001.pdf
  5. ↑ https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/carlo-ossola/guestlecturer-2005-2006__2.htm
  6. ^ Website Fritz Thyssen Foundation - Scientific Advisory Board
  7. ^ Member entry of Andreas Kablitz at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  8. ^ Member entry of Andreas Kablitz at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  9. ↑ Member entry of Andreas Kablitz (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 3, 2017.
  10. ^ Website Leopoldina - Sections
  11. ^ Website Leopoldina - Senate
  12. ↑ site Wilhelm Fink - POETICA
personal data
SURNAME Kablitz, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance philologist and comparatorist at the University of Cologne and director of the Petrarca Institute there
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen