Helmut Pfotenhauer

Helmut Pfotenhauer (born August 3, 1946 in Nuremberg ) is a German specialist in German.

life and work

Pfotenhauer studied German, history, political science and sociology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . In 1974 he received his doctorate with Kurt Wölfel with a thesis on Walter Benjamin's late work . In 1982 he completed his habilitation with a treatise on Nietzsche's physiology of art. From 1974 to 1983 he was a research assistant in Erlangen, from 1983 Heisenberg scholarship from the German Research Foundation . After visiting professorships at the University of Vienna and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , in 1987 he was appointed to the chair for modern German literary history at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . He taught there until his retirement in 2010. Until 2014 he was a senior professor. From 1997 to 2007 he was President of the Jean Paul Society. Since 2006 he has been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 2009 he was a visiting fellow at Trinity College (Cambridge) . His publications are devoted to literary anthropology, art literature, images in texts, biography and autobiography, edition philology, the works of Jean Paul (since 1994 editor of the historical-critical Jean Paul Edition).

Fonts (selection)

• The art as physiology. Nietzsche's aesthetic theory and literary production, Stuttgart 1985.
• Literary anthropology. Autobiographies and their history - am Leitfaden des Leibes, Stuttgart 1987.
• Around 1800. Configurations of literature, art literature and aesthetics, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 978-3-11-094210-1 .
• Description art - description of art. Ekphrasis from antiquity to the present, ed. with Gottfried Böhm, Frankfurt a. M. 1995, ISBN 978-3-7705-2966-7 .
• Early classicism. Position and opposition: Winckelmann, Mengs, Heinse (Library of Art Literature, Vol. 2, ed. With Markus Bernauer and Norbert Miller), Frankfurt a. M. 1995, ISBN 978-3-618-67020-9 .
• Classicism and Classicism (Library of Art Literature, Vol. 3, ed. With Peter Sprengel), Frankfurt a. M. 1995, ISBN 978-3-618-67035-3 .
• Speech images. Studies on literature from the 18th to 20th centuries, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-8260-1954-8 .
• Jean Paul. Biography. Published and post-processed autobiographical writings, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-446-20553-6 .
• Not completely awake and not quite a dream. The half-sleep pictures in literature, ed. with Sabine Schneider, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-8260-3274-5 .
• The half-sleep pictures in literature, the arts and sciences, ed. with Roger Paulin, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8260-4584-4 .
• Jean Paul. Life as writing. Biography, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24002-5 .

Honors and prizes

• 2014: X-ray medal from the University of Würzburg

Web links

• Literature by Helmut Pfotenhauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Helmut Pfotenhauer at the Jean-Paul-Edition job

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography of Helmut Pfotenhauer at Jean Paul University of Würzburg. Retrieved October 25, 2014
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Award of the X-ray medal to Helmut Pfotenhauer, Public Relations Office at the University of Würzburg. Retrieved October 25, 2014.