Albrecht Koschorke

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Albrecht Koschorke

Albrecht Koschorke (born September 13, 1958 in Kastellaun ) is a German literary scholar at the University of Konstanz .

Life

Koschorke studied modern German literature, philosophy, art history, communication studies and ethnology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and in Paris. After receiving his doctorate in 1989, he was an assistant at the University of Würzburg from 1991 to 1993 and at the Free University of Berlin from 1994 to 1997 , where he completed his habilitation in 1997 . From 1998 to 2000 he was a DFG Heisenberg fellow. Since April 2001 Koschorke has been Professor of Modern German Literature and General Literary Studies at the University of Konstanz.

At the University of Konstanz, he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center for Literature and Anthropology in 2002 and, from 2003 to 2009, the spokesman for the cultural studies graduate program Die Figur des Third . Since 2010 he has held the same position for the graduate program The Real in Modern Culture . He also set up the research center for cultural theory and the theory of the political imaginary at the University of Konstanz . Since 2006, Koschorke has been a member of the board of the Cluster of Excellence Cultural Foundations of Integration . In 2014 he was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea .

Koschorke is co-editor of the German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history .

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Koschorke's first monographic publication dealt with Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and the interaction between literature and eroticism. Here he already developed his interest in how the medium of literature works in a broader cultural studies context. His dissertation on "the history of the horizon" (published in 1990) combines literary and art studies. She undertakes a Tour d'Horizon from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. His habilitation thesis Body Streams and Correspondence (published in 1999) is theoretically based on the media theoretical work of Friedrich Kittler and Jacques Derrida . It represents an attempt to describe the writing culture of the 18th century as a radical change in the history of the communication media: While communication is increasingly being written, the “distancing” medium of writing becomes a permeable carrier of feelings. The medical theories of the time played an important role in the development of the culture of writing and feeling in sensitivity . In the work The Holy Family and its Consequences (2000), Koschorke dealt with the theme of the Holy Family in the culture of the Christian West in terms of cultural history . Koschorke shows that this family structure was fundamental for understanding father-mother-child relationships in theory and art and that it still shapes modern myths like the Star Wars saga. More recent works, such as the joint publication Des Kaiser's New Dresses, are devoted to questions of the politically imaginary. This interest is pursued in The Fictional State.

Awards

Publications

  • Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. The staging of a perversion. Piper, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-492-10928-4 .
  • The story of the horizon. Boundaries and crossing of boundaries in literary landscapes. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-518-58064-7 .
  • Body currents and correspondence. 18th century mediology. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7705-3377-1 .
  • (with Cornelia Vismann , as ed.): Resistances of the system theory. Cultural theoretical analyzes of the work of Niklas Luhmann . Academy, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-05-003477-5 .
  • The Holy Family and its Consequences. One try. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-596-14765-4 .
    • The Holy Family and Its Legacy. Religious Imagination from the Gospels to Star Wars . Columbia University Press, New York 2003, ISBN 0-231-12756-1 .
  • (with Thomas Frank, Ethel Matala de Mazza , Susanne Lüdemann): The emperor's new clothes. About the imaginary political rule. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-596-15448-0 .
  • (with Lena Kugler, as editor): Bertha Pappenheim (Anna O.): Literary and journalistic texts . Turia and Kant, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-85132-320-7 .
  • (with Uwe Hebekus and Ethel Matala de Mazza, as editors): Das Politische. Figure theory of the social body after romanticism . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-7705-3894-2 .
  • (with Susanne Lüdemann, Thomas Frank and Ethel Matala de Mazza): The fictional state. Constructions of the political body in the history of Europe. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-17147-7 .
  • (with Nacim Ghanbari, Eva Eßlinger, Sebastian Susteck, Michael Thomas): Before the family. Boundary conditions of a modern institution. Konstanz University Press, Konstanz 2010, ISBN 978-3-86253-005-2 .
  • (with Konstantin Kaminskij, as ed.): Despoten poetry. Art of language and violence. Konstanz University Press, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-86253-015-1 .
    • Russian edition: Diktatory pišut. Literarurnoe tvorčestvo avtoritarnych pravitelej XX veka . Kul'turnaia revoliutsiia, Moscow 2014, ISBN
    • English language edition: Tyrants Writing Poetry. The Art of Language and Violence . Central European University Press, Budapest 2017, ISBN 978-963-386-202-5 .
  • Truth and fiction. Outlines of a general narrative theory . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012 and others, ISBN 978-3-10-038911-4 .
    • English language edition: Fact and Fiction. Elements of a General Theory of Narrative . de Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-034708-1 .
  • Hegel and us. Frankfurt Adorno Lectures 2013 . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-58620-4 .
  • Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf . On the poetics of National Socialism . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-281-3 .
    • Portuguese edition: O Mein Kampf de Adolf Hitler. Sobre a poética do Nacional-Socialismo. Uma leitura crítica . Cavalo de Ferro, Lisbon 2016, ISBN 978-989-623-225-2 .
    • Turkish edition: Hitler'in Kavgam'ı Üzerine Bir Analiz. Nasyonal Sosyalizmin Poetikası . Iletisim Yayincilik, Istanbul 2016, ISBN 978-9750521164 .
    • English language edition: On Hitler's Mein Kampf . The Poetics of National Socialism . The MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), London 2017, ISBN 978-0-262-53333-1 .
  • (with Helmut Lethen and Ludwig Jäger , as editors): Pointing to reality. On the problem of evidence in cultural studies . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-593-43043-0 .
  • (as ed.): Complexity and Simplicity. DFG Symposium 2015 . JB Metzler, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-476-04356-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uni-konstanz.de/figur3/index.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.uni-konstanz.de/kulturtheorie/
  3. ↑ https://www.exzellenzcluster.uni-konstanz.de/vorstand-sprecher.html?&L=1%3FL%3D1 .
  4. ^ Membership directory: Albrecht Koschorke. Academia Europaea, accessed July 2, 2017 .
  5. ↑ http://www.uni-konstanz.de/dvjs/editorial.htm
  6. ↑ https://fiph.de/forschung/Buchpreis/Buchpreis_2016.php
personal data
SURNAME Koschorke, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Kastellaun , Hunsrück