Carsten Gansel

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Carsten Gansel (born November 21, 1955 in Güstrow ) is a German literary scholar and university professor. He is Professor of Modern German Literature and German Literature and Media Didactics at the University of Giessen .

Career

After graduating from high school, which Carsten Gansel graduated with "distinction" in 1974, he studied German, Slavic and pedagogy from 1974 to 1978, after which he completed research studies in German literature and received his doctorate in 1981 at the "Liselotte Herrmann" Güstrow University of Education . After completing his doctorate, he did his basic military service from November 1981 to April 1983. From 1983 to 1986 he was a permanent research assistant in the field of German literature at the Güstrow University of Education. In 1985 Carsten Gansel received the facultas docendi - qualification to teach the history of German literature. The B-Promotion / Habilitation graduated Gansel in 1989 at the Institute of Culture and Art Sciences of the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the SED (soft drinks).

He then carried out teaching and research activities at the Pedagogical University of Neubrandenburg (1989–1991) and from 1991 at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (1991–1995). In November 1989 he was elected to the board of the newly constituted Society for German Studies in the GDR. As part of the Extraordinary Congress of the German Writers' Association of the GDR (DSV) in March 1990, he was elected to the working group dealing with the history of the DSV. In 1991 he was elected to the history commission of the Association of German Writers (VS), of which he was a member until the end of his work in 1997. In July 1992, within the framework of the University Renewal Act (HEG) , Gansel was transferred to the membership status of a professor under the University Framework Act (HRG, HRG professor). Professorships and visiting professorships took him to the universities in Bielefeld (1992) and Frankfurt am Main (1993). Since 1995 he has been professor for modern German literature and German literature and media didactics at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen.

Research priorities

Carsten Gansel's research focuses on German literature from the 19th to 21st centuries. Century; Systems and modernization theory; cultural studies memory research, media and film analysis; Literary criticism; Pop culture and adolescence research; Evolution and literature, narratology.

Memberships

Carsten Gansel is a member of the PEN Center Germany , the Association of German Writers (VS) and chairman of the jury for the award of the Uwe Johnson Prize and the Uwe Johnson Sponsorship Prize. In addition, he is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Laboratory for Lessing Reception Kamenz and a founding member of the International Christa Wolf Center (research center for German and Polish contemporary literature and culture). In December 1989, Carsten Gansel co-founded the Mecklenburg Literature Society, which feels particularly committed to the work of Uwe Johnson. He has been its chairman since 1992.

Visiting professorships

Gansel was visiting professor at the Universities of Zielona Góra (Poland), Calgary (Canada), Havana (Cuba) and at the State University of Moscow (Russia).

Awards

Fonts

Gansel is the author of monographs, editions, and editions on German literature from the 19th to the 21st century. He is co-editor of the scientific series German-language contemporary literature and media (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), GE Lessing in cultural memory (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), and the International Uwe Johnson Forum (Peter Lang).

As an author

Carsten Gansel has written more than 250 academic articles dealing with authors such as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Hermann Hesse, Erich Kästner, Hans Fallada, Johannes R. Becher, Erich Loest, Hans Werner Richter, Uwe Johnson, Christa Wolf, Brigitte Reimann, Günter Grass, Erwin Strittmatter or Jenny Erpenbeck. In addition, he has examined different literary systems in contributions, has investigated the relationship between literature and memory or has been dealing with the role of disorders in literary and media systems on the basis of the system-theoretical work of Niklas Luhmann since 2008.

Essays
  • with Mike Porath: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's “Emilia Galotti” in secondary schools and in school program documents between 1851 and 1904. In: Carsten Gansel, Birka Siwczyk (ed.): Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's “Emilia Galotti” in the school's cultural area (1830–1914) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, pp. 25–84.
  • Christa Wolf's memory poetics, human memory and the estate narrative 'Obituary for the Living' (1971). In: Carsten Gansel, Therese Hörnigk (Ed.): Between Moscow Novelle and City of Angels. New perspectives from Christa Wolf's life's work. vbb, Berlin 2015, pp. 69–93.
  • “See the other side with your own eyes”? or Why attempts at empathy (must) fail - literary images of Poland and Germany under discussion. In: Carsten Gansel, Monika Wolting (ed.): Pictures of Germany and Poland in the literature after 1989. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, pp. 19–38.
  • Literary criticism as an amplifier or filter for literary 'disturbances' On the theory and practice of literary criticism in the GDR. In: Heinrich Kaulen, Christina Gansel (ed.): Literary criticism today. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, pp. 133–158.
  • To the 'disorder category' in art and literature - theory and practice. In the S. (Ed.): Disturbances in literature and media. (= Communications from the German Association of Germanists. Issue 4/2014). Göttingen 2014, pp. 315-332.
  • From romantic landscapes, socialist villages and new village novels. For the staging of the village in German-language literature between pre-modern and late modern. In: Werner Nell, Marc Weiland (ed.): Imaginary villages. On the return of the village in literature, film and everyday life. transkript, Bielefeld 2014, pp. 197-225.
  • Between disorder and affirmation? On the rhetoric of memory in the work of Günter Grass. In: Journal for German Philology. Special issue. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2012, pp. 173–198.
  • Innocence a godsend? Memory figurations and depiction of war in literature in the GDR between 1949 and 1963. In: Günter Butzer, Joachim Jacob (ed.): Touches. Comparative perspectives on early German post-war literature. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2012, pp. 351-370.
  • "Hate Figures"? or "Death is a gift" - adolescent disorders and terrorism. In: Carsten Gansel, Heinrich Kaulen (Ed.): War Discourses in Literature and Media from 1989 to the Beginning of the 21st Century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, pp. 247–262.
  • Between an existential crisis and a second chance - adolescence in literature. In: Peter J. Uhlhaas, Kerstin Konrad (Ed.): The adolescent brain. With a foreword by Wolf Singer. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, pp. 25-44.
  • Between the dissolution of narration and 'precision aesthetics' - Hans Fallada's early work “The cow, the shoe, then you” and modern narration. In: Carsten Gansel, Werner Liersch (Ed.): Hans Fallada and the literary modernity. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, pp. 35–50.
Monographs and Editions

In addition to monographs, Carsten Gansel is responsible for a number of text editions, through which archive material can be accessed and author poetics can be viewed.

  • Do you think the Russians want ...? A Moscow diary. Nordkurier Mediengruppe, Neubrandenburg, 2018, ISBN 978-3-946599-49-4 .
  • Literature in dialogue. Conversations with authors 1989–2014. Edited and with an introduction by Norman Ächtler. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95732-117-6 .
  • with Birka Siwczyk (ed.): Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's “Emilia Galotti” in the school cultural area (1830–1914). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8471-0383-7 .
  • with Birka Siwczyk (ed.): Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 'Minna von Barnhelm' in the school cultural area (1830–1914). (= Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in the cultural memory - materials for the history of reception. Volume 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-600-9 .
  • Memory as a task? Documentation of the II. And III. Writers' congress in the GDR in 1950 and 1952 (= forms of remembrance. 31). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-585-9 .
  • with Birka Siwczyk: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's “ Nathan the Wise ” in the school cultural area (1830–1914) (= Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in cultural memory. Volume 1). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-522-4 .
  • Brigitte Reimann: Hunger for life. A selection from the diaries 1955–1970 with a letter to a friend. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7466-2036-8 . (With photos from the film "Hunger for Life")
  • Brigitte Reimann. Diaries 1955–1970. A selection for young readers. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7466-1902-5 .
  • Metamorphoses of a poet: Johannes R. Becher. Expressionist, bohemian, functionary. 1910-1945. Texts, letters, documents. Construction Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1992, ISBN 3-7466-0160-6 .
  • The divided poet. Johannes R. Becher. Poems, letters, documents. 1945-1958. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1991, ISBN 3-7466-0041-3 .
  • Modern children's and youth literature. A practical handbook for teaching. 5th edition. Cornelsen-Scriptor, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-589-22927-7 . (EA Berlin 1999)
  • Parliament of the Spirit? Literature between hope and repression (1945–1961). BasisDruck, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-86163-067-2 .
  • Tendencies of the anti-communist evaluation of the socialist national literature of the GDR in the FRG, their reflection in German lessons in the FRG as a component of the political education of school youth. Dissertation A . 2 volumes. Güstrow University of Education, 1981.
  • On the role of the fantastic as a means of realistic exploration and evaluation of reality in the literary process of the GDR and with selected authors in the period between 1949 and 1988. Traditions, tendencies, variants and functions. Dissertation. B. Akad. For Social Sciences at the ZK d. SED, Berlin 1989.

As editor

Carsten Gansel has been responsible for more than 70 publications that are devoted to literature from the 19th to the 21st century and investigate selected questions of the theory of literature. In addition, he is the author and co-editor of textbooks for high school German lessons that have been published by Cornelsen Verlag (“Deutsch plus”).

  • Realistic storytelling as a diagnosis of society . Edited by Carsten Gansel and Manuel Maldonado Alemán. Berlin: Okapi Verlag 2018.  
  • Russian German literature and memory . Edited by Carsten Gansel with the assistance of Julian Wessel. Berlin: Okapi Verlag 2018.  
  • Heinrich Gerlach : Odyssey in Red. Edited, with an afterword and documentary material by Carsten Gansel. Berlin: Galiani Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-86971-144-7 .
  • Heinrich Gerlach: Breakthrough at Stalingrad. Edited with an afterword and documentary material by Carsten Gansel. Berlin: Galiani Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-86971-121-8 .
  • with Therese Hörnigk (Ed.): Between Moscow Novella and City of Angels. New perspectives on Christa Wolf's life's work. vbb, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945256-27-5 .
  • with Monika Wolting : Pictures of Germany and Poland in the literature after 1989 (= German-speaking contemporary literature and media. Volume 16). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8471-0459-9 .
  • with Markus Joch and Monika Wolting: Between memory and foreignness. Developments in German and Polish literature after 1989 (= German-speaking contemporary literature and media. Volume 15). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8471-0382-0 .
  • with Lutz Schumacher and Markus Frank: conjectures. Uwe Johnson and contemporary literature. Twenty years of the Uwe Johnson Prize. Verlag für berlin-brandenburg, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-945256-21-3 .
  • Disturbances in literature and media. (= Communications from the German Association of Germanists. Issue 4/2014). Göttingen 2014.
  • with Sonja Klocke: Christa Wolf . In the stream of memory. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8471-0249-6 .
  • with Norman Ächter: The “principle of disturbance” in the humanities and social sciences (= studies and texts on the social history of literature. Volume 133). De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-031298-0 .
  • with Matthias Braun: It is about Erwin Strittmatter or From the dispute about memory (= German-speaking contemporary literature and media. Volume 11). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-997-0 .
  • with Dirk Vanderbeke: Telling Stories. Literature and Evolution = telling stories. Literature and Evolution (= Spectrum Science. Volume 26). De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026859-1 .
  • with Werner Nell: “They are all stories from my life.” Hans Werner Richter as a narrator and contemporary witness, networker and author (= Philological Studies and Sources. Volume 229). Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-503-12258-5 .
  • with Norman Ächtler: Iconography of Terror? Forms of aesthetic memory of terrorism in the Federal Republic 1978–2008. Winter, Heidelberg 2010.
  • with Werner Liersch: Hans Fallada and the literary modernity (= German-language contemporary literature and media. Volume 6). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-689-4 .
  • Rhetoric of memory. Memory and literature in the "closed societies" of real socialism between 1945 and 1989 (= German-language contemporary literature and media. Volume 1). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-543-9 .
  • Memory and literature in the "closed societies" of real socialism between 1945 and 1989 (= forms of memory. Volume 29). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89971-348-0 .
  • ... Biography is irrevocable ...: Materials from the colloquium on Uwe Johnson's work in December 1990 in Neubrandenburg. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-631-44100-2 .

Audio

  • Leipzig Book Fair: Carsten Gansel at the 3sat stand. 19th March 2016.
  • Lost and rediscovered. Heinrich Gerlach's Stalingrad novel. SWR contribution.
  • Breakthrough at Stalingrad. aspects.
  • Back to Stalingrad under hypnosis. Deutschlandradio Kultur

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e carsten-gansel.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f uni-giessen.de
  3. ↑ uwe-johnson-preis.de
  4. ↑ christawolfzentrum.nesti.net ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / christawolfzentrum.nesti.net
  5. ^ Mecklenburgische Literaturgesellschaft eV
  6. ↑ The story behind it: Why a Neubrandenburger reports from Moscow. In: nordkurier.de. Retrieved February 4, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b c carsten-gansel.de
  8. ↑ 3sat.de
  9. ↑ swr.de
  10. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  11. ↑ http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/entstehungsgeschichte-eines-anti-kriegsromans-unter-hypnose.1270.de.html?dram:article_id=351385
personal data
SURNAME Gansel, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow