Jan Süselbeck

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Jan Süselbeck (born July 26, 1972 in Viersen ) is a German literary scholar , Germanist and literary critic .

Life

Youth and Studies

Süselbeck grew up as the son of a Protestant pastor in Saarland and the Lower Rhine and passed his Abitur at the German School in Barcelona . He completed his studies in modern German literature , modern history as well as theater , film and television studies at the Free University of Berlin with a master’s thesis with Horst Denkler on Arno Schmidt’s critical examination of Gustav Frenssen . In 2004 he received his doctorate from the Arno Schmidt Foundation at the FU under Peter Sprengel with a thesis on time criticism under Arno Schmidt and Thomas Bernhard .

academic career

From 2005, Süselbeck was a research assistant at Thomas Anz's chair at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 2009 he received a substitute professorship for modern German literature there. In 2012, Süselbeck completed his habilitation in Marburg with a study on the emotional effects of literary and audiovisual depictions of war from the 19th to the 21st century. With a habilitation colloquium on the topic of literary anti-Semitism with Gustav Freytag and Wilhelm Raabe , Süselbeck received the venia legendi for modern German literature there. After his inaugural lecture entitled "Between Intertextuality and Plagiarism. Literary Answers to Questions of Originality since 1990", Süselbeck received the status of a private lecturer at the University of Marburg on July 11, 2012 . From May 2012 he was also employed as a research assistant at the University of Siegen , where he held a substitute professorship for modern German philology as well as media and cultural studies in the 2013/2014 winter semester. In addition, in the summer semester of 2012, Süselbeck became a guest lecturer at the graduate school “Generational History. Generational Dynamics and Historical Change in the 19th and 20th Centuries ”at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . After further positions as a research assistant and lecturer or private lecturer in Marburg and Siegen, he was appointed Associate Professor of German Studies to a position at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service . For the academic year 2016/2017, Süselbeck received a Junior Fellowship at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald .

Süselbeck's main research interests are emotion research , representations of war, literary anti-Semitism , literature after Auschwitz , generation studies, contemporary literature , literature mediation in the media, film and theater studies.

Work in journalism and literature

Parallel to his studies and an academic career, he initially worked in public relations for Verbrecher Verlag and as a lecturer and freelance journalist in Berlin. Since 2001 article for the " Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung " and Marcel Reich-Ranicki's " Frankfurter Anthologie ", the " Deutschlandfunk ", for the " taz ", the " Frankfurter Rundschau ", the " Süddeutsche Zeitung ", the " Jüdische Allgemeine " , " Mittelweg 36 ", " From Politics and Contemporary History " (APuZ), " Konkret ", " Jungle World ", " Theater heute " and "Arte". Jan Süselbeck has been editor-in-chief of literaturkritik.de magazine since 2005 . From 2005 to 2015, Süselbeck was the first chairman of the Marburger Literaturforum eV

Publications

Monographs

  • In the face of cruelty. Emotional effects of literary and audiovisual depictions of war from the 19th to the 21st century . Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2013.
  • The laughter of the atheists. Time criticism with Arno Schmidt and Thomas Bernhard . Basel, Frankfurt am Main: Stroemfeld 2006.
  • "Ass = tillery + Säcksualität". Arno Schmidt's critical examination of Gustav Frenssen. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 2001.

Editorships

  • Family feelings. Generation history and Nazi memory in the media . Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag 2014.
  • with Søren Fauth and Kasper Green Krejberg: Representations of War. Emotionalization strategies in literature and in audiovisual media from the 18th to the 21st century . Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2012.
  • with Andrea Geier: competitions, conflicts, continuities. Generational issues in literature since 1990 . Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2009.
  • with Jörg Schuster and Kevin Vennemann : I collected them, the impossible places. Literary topographies of the present . Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2015 (= die listen. Journal for literature, art and criticism. 66th year, issue 257).

Selected essays

  • A debate about decay. "Tristesse Royale" as a realistic representation of a dialogue about nightlife. In: Søren R. Fauth / Rolf Parr (eds.): New realisms in contemporary literature. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2016, pp. 197–211.
  • Irrealencyklopädie der WesterWelt. Deconstruction and reconstruction of the canon by Arno Schmidt. In: Axel Dunker / Sabine Kyora (ed.): Arno Schmidt and the canon. Bargfeld messenger. Special delivery. Edited by Friedhelm Rathjen. Munich: edition text + kritik in Richard Boorberg Verlag, pp. 127–141.
  • Curse of a war child biography. NS gender images and generation criticism in Gisela Elsner's novel Fliegeralarm. In: Christian Poetini (ed.): Gender in memory. Gender-specific memory discourses in contemporary German-language literature. Contributions to the honorary colloquium for Mireille Tabah. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 2015, pp. 201–216.
  • Together with Jörgen Schäfer: Thinking about Lady P. From the Adlon tapes to Tristesse Royale - preliminary considerations for a text-genetic partial edition. In: Journal for Literary Studies and Linguistics (LiLi), Issue 179, September 2015, pp. 108-133.
  • Are the reviews disappearing from literary criticism? On the status of polemical forms of evaluation in the features section. In: Christina Gansel / Heinrich Kaulen (ed.): Literary criticism today. Trends - Traditions - Mediation. Göttingen: V&R Unipress 2015, pp. 175–195. A short version is available in literaturkritik.de 2/2015 .
  • The power of tears - On the melodramatization of the ›fate of the perpetrators‹ in Bernhard Schlink's novel "Der Vorleser" and in Stephen Daldry's film adaptation "The Reader". In: Carsten Gansel / Markus Joch / Monika Wolting (eds.): Between memory and foreignness. Developments in German and Polish literature after 1989. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2015, pp. 195–207.
  • Scenes in the synagogue. The reception of William Shakespeare's “Merchant of Venice” by August Wilhelm Schlegel and Heinrich Heine. In: Nike Thurn (ed.): Literary anti-Semitism. The German lesson. Contributions to its practice and scientific foundation. Issue 2/2015, pp. 18-29.
  • Philosemitism and Imagined Femininity. About Karl Gutzkows novel Wally, the doubter. In: sans phrase . Journal of ideological criticism. Issue 5, autumn 2014, pp. 166–182.
  • Wilhelm Raabe's ›beautiful Jewish women‹. Intercultural evaluations of ethics and aesthetics in literary text analyzes. In: Journal for Intercultural German Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1/2014, pp. 51–68. (= Peer reviewed).
  • The outsiders are the teachers. Leo Löwenthal's concept of a social history of literature. In: Nicolas Berg / Dieter Burdorf (eds.): 'Textschehre' - literary studies and literary knowledge in the context of critical theory. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2014, pp. 215–231.
  • The multiple me. Arnolt Bronnens autobiography as a later 'Spiegel-Text' for his Freikorps hero novel "OS". In: Karl Wagner , Michael Gamper , Stephan Baumgartner (eds.): The hero in the trenches. Leaders, masses and media technology in the First World War. Chronos, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-0340-1028-3 , pp. 273–287.
  • Tertium non datur. Gustav Freytag's “Debit and Have”, Wilhelm Raabe's “Hunger Pastor” and the problem of literary anti-Semitism - a changing discussion. In: Dirk Göttsche / Florian Krobb (eds.): Yearbook of the Raabe Society, Volume 54, Issue (July 2013), pp. 51–72.
  • Was Sells, But Who's Buying ? For emotionalizing through depictions of war in the media. In: From Politics and Contemporary History, Volume 63, 32–33 / 2013, August 5, 2013, pp. 34–40.
  • Later fame. Thomas Bernhard's drama “There is peace over all peaks. A German Poet's Day around 1980 ”as a parody of 20th century authorship concepts. In: Manfred Mittermayer / Mireille Tabah (eds.): Thomas Bernhard - Persiflage and Subversion. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 87–105.
  • The totality of the middle. Gustav Freytag's character Anton Wohlfart and Wilhelm Raabe's protagonist Hans Unwirrsch as 'heroes' of the anti-Semitic 'educational novel' in the 19th century. In: Nikolas Immer / Mareen van Marwyck (ed.): Aesthetic Heroism. Conceptual and figurative paradigms of the hero. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2013, pp. 293–321.
  • Between intertextuality and plagiarism. Literary answers to questions of originality since 1990. In: Erik Schilling / Klaus Birnstiel (Hrsg.): Literature and theory since postmodernism. With an afterword by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht . Stuttgart: Hirzel 2012, pp. 121-136.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Register of Associations of the Marburg District Court, register sheet VR 1436
  2. ↑ a b c Short biography on the website of the University of Marburg ( Memento of the original from November 4, 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. , accessed November 4, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-marburg.de
  3. ↑ Profile at Perlentaucher.de , accessed on November 4, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Süselbeck, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Viersen