Achim Hölter

Achim Hermann Hölter (born July 8, 1960 in Dülken ) is a German comparator and literary scholar .

Life

Achim Hölter (2010)

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

1. ↑ CV on the website of the University of Vienna

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