Barbara Vinken

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Barbara Vinken (* 1960 in Hanover ) is a German literary scholar and fashion theorist and has been Professor of General Literature and Romance Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich since 2004 .

Life

Barbara Vinken studied literature in Aix-en-Provence , Freiburg , Paris , Konstanz and Yale as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . She received her doctorate in 1989 in Constance and in 1992 in Yale . In 1997 he completed his habilitation at the University of Jena . Her most important academic teachers were the Romance studies Erich Köhler , Hans Robert Jauß , Shoshana Felman and Geoffrey H. Hartman .

After teaching positions in Constance, Yale, New York, Bochum, Hanover, Hamburg and Zurich , she has been Professor of French and General Literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich since 2004 . She is also the project manager of the Flaubert Center in Munich . Barbara Vinken has been visiting professor at New York University , the Humboldt University in Berlin , the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris , the École normal supérieure (ENS) in Paris, the University of Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III , the University of Chicago , Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Venice International University (VIU) in Venice. She also carried out research at the Free University of Berlin , the Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) at the LMU Munich. Barbara Vinken is a permanent visiting professor at EHESS for fashion theory.

Vinken became popular with a wide audience with her book The German Mother. The long shadow of a myth known in which she analyzes the myth of motherhood and the incompatibility of motherhood and work in Germany.

Dressed. The Secret of Fashion was nominated in 2014 for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the non-fiction / essay category. In 2018 Vinken was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Barbara Vinken is a columnist for the radio broadcaster Bremen Zwei with “Stillike” . She is also part of the quartet of critics for the ZDF literary program Buchzeit . She writes regularly for Die Welt , Die Zeit and NZZ .

Barbara Vinken, who has four siblings, two sisters and two brothers, is married to Anselm Haverkamp and has one son.

Publications

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Monographs

  • Inescapable curiosity - The novel's decay of the world: Richardson's “Clarissa” and Laclos' “Liaisons dangereuses” . Rombach, Freiburg 1991, ISBN 3-7930-9065-5
  • The origin of the aesthetic from theological reservation. Theories of the aesthetic from Port-Royal to Rousseau and Sade . Dissertation Yale University, New Haven, UMI Publishing, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1992.
  • Fashion after fashion. Dress and spirit at the end of the 20th century . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-11596-5
    • Revised English version: Fashion - Zeitgeist. Trends and Cycles in the Fashion System . Translated by Mark Hewson. Berg, Oxford / New York 2005, ISBN 1-84520-044-6
  • Du Bellay and Petrarch . Renaissance Rome . Habilitation thesis University of Jena, Niemeyer, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-484-55037-6
  • The German mother. The long shadow of a myth . Piper, Munich 2001. New edition: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-596-17619-0
  • Dissolution into the feminine. Mariology and bare life with Joseph Ratzinger , Benedict XVI . In: Ratzinger function . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-518-12466-6
  • Flaubert . Crossed modernity . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 3-10-086006-3
    • English translation: Flaubert Postsecular. Modernity Crossed Out. Translated by Aarnoud Rommens with Susan L. Solomon. Stanford University Press, Stanford 2015, ISBN 9780804780643
  • Flaubert's “Simple Heart”. A legend of modernity . August Verlag, Berlin 2009, (first volume of the series of Flaubert Lectures published by Barbara Vinken ) ISBN 3-941360-03-5
  • Beasts. Kleist and the Germans . Merve, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88396-298-6
  • Dressed. The secret of fashion . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-94625-3
  • The flowers of fashion - classic and new texts on the philosophy of fashion . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-608-94910-0
  • Love, lust and passion in literature. An essay . Complete Media, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-8312-0536-3
  • Bel Ami. We still live in this Babylon . Merve, Leipzig 2020, ISBN 978-3-96273-038-3

As editor

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae: Barbara Vinken , accessed on September 23, 2018
  2. ↑ people. In: Flaubert Center Munich. Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Review notes at Perlentaucher.de
  4. ↑ Nominations for the Non-Fiction Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2014 ( Memento from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Awarding of the medal on the Day of German Unity. In: bundespräsident.de. October 2, 2018, accessed October 2, 2018.
  6. Jump up ↑ fashion columns. Retrieved January 15, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ Das Buchzeit-Team , ZDF, accessed July 15, 2019
  8. ^ Eva Horn and Michèle Lowrie: Vorwort / Forword . In: Eva Horn and Michèle Lowrie (eds.): Denkfiguren / Figures of Thought . August, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-941360-32-7 , pp. 14 and 19 ( academia.edu ).
  9. ^ Deutschlandfunk.de , Büchermarkt , January 12, 2014, Christel Wester: Sachbuch. Of balloon pants and the new legroom (July 2, 2016).
  10. ^ Zeit.de , October 2, 2013, Ijoma Mangold, Susanne Mayer: fashion theorist Barbara Vinken. Carrying death under the sun , interview (July 2, 2016).

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personal data
SURNAME Vinken, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover