Achim Hölter
Achim Hermann Hölter (born July 8, 1960 in Dülken ) is a German comparator and literary scholar .
Life
After studying German, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, General Literature and Romance Studies in Wuppertal and Düsseldorf , Hölter was an assistant at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . In 1988 he received his doctorate with the thesis: Ludwig Tieck . History of literature as poetry , his habilitation in 1993 with the work Die Invaliden. The forgotten history of the war cripple in European literature up to the 19th century .
From 1994–95 he was a substitute professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum , and from 1995 to 1997 he was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation at the University of Bonn . From 1997 to 2009, Hölter was professor for comparative literature at the University of Münster , and since September 2009 he has been professor for comparative literature at the University of Vienna .
Research priorities
- European romance
- Topic and discourse research
- Art and literary historiography
- Ritualizations in and around literature
- Aesthetic self or meta reference
- Completeness in art
- Arts comparison
- comics
- International reception research
- Canon research
- Libraries in Literature
- Multilingualism and multilingualism in comparative literature
Research projects
- Ludwig Tieck's Library. Anatomy of a Romantic and Comparatist Book Collection
- Real Lexicography of Literary Studies
- The Many Texts of Literary History
Memberships and functions as well as appointments
- in scientific societies
- German Society for General and Comparative Literature Studies (DGAVL) - Chairman 2005–2011
- Heimito von Doderer Society (Berlin) - Deputy Chairman 2008–2015
- UNESCO Memory of the World Program : "Education and Research" Sub-Committee - corresponding member since 2013
- International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) - member of the Executive Council since 2013
- Academia Europaea - elected member in 2014
- German University Association (Bonn)
- Goethe Society (Weimar)
- Heinrich Heine Society (Düsseldorf)
- Marcel Proust Society (Cologne)
- International Tieck Society (Dresden) - Chairman
- in other clubs
- German organization of non-commercial supporters of fair Donaldism (DONALD)
- Borussia Monchengladbach
Works (selection)
- as an author
- The book battle. A satirical concept in European literature . Aisthesis Verlag , Bielefeld 1995 (Aisthesis Essay; 5), ISBN 3-89528-115-8 .
- The invalids. The forgotten history of the war cripple in European literature up to the 19th century . Metzler, Stuttgart 1995 (including habilitation thesis, University of Wuppertal 1993), ISBN 3-476-01273-5 .
- Ludwig Tieck. Literary history as poetry . Winter, Heidelberg 1989 (also dissertation, University of Wuppertal 1987), ISBN 3-533-04219-7 .
- Early Romanticism - early comparative literature collected essays on Ludwig Tieck . Lang, Frankfurt a. M., Berlin, Bern [a. a.] 2001 (Helicon; 27), ISBN 3-631-37100-4 .
- as editor
- Marcel Proust . Reading experiences of German-speaking writers from Theodor W. Adorno to Stefan Zweig . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1998, ISBN 3-518-39291-3 .
- Metropolises on a scale. The city map as a matrix of narration in literature, film and art . transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89942-905-3 (together with Volker Pantenburg and Susanne Stemmler).
- Word births. In honor of Karl Maurer . Synchron-Verlag, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-939381-20-4 .
- Productive reception. Contributions to literature and art in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries . Knowledge Verl. Trier, Trier 2010, ISBN 978-3-86821-278-5 (together with Lothar Bluhm ).
- Comparative Arts. Universal aesthetics in the focus of comparative literature . Synchron-Verlag, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-939381-41-9 .
- Handbook of comparative literature. Theories, fields of work, knowledge practice . Metzler, Stuttgart a. Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-476-02431-2 (together with Rüdiger Zymner).
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Achim Hölter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website by Achim Hölter at the University of Vienna
- Marion Wittfeld, Achim Hölter: Dedicated literary scholar and "Donaldist" , portrait in the online university newspaper
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hell, Achim |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hölter, Achim Hermann |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German comparator |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dulken |