Aleida Assmann

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Aleida Assmann, 2014
Aleida Assmann introduces herself (2018).

Aleida Assmann (born March 22, 1947 in Gadderbaum , today a district of Bielefeld , née Aleida Bornkamm ) is a German English scholar , Egyptologist and literary and cultural scientist .

Life

Aleida Assmann is the daughter of the New Testament scholar Günther Bornkamm and his wife Elisabeth, b. Tin (1908-1995). In Heidelberg she attended the Elisabeth von Thadden School. From 1966 to 1972 she studied English and Egyptology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen . In 1977 she was in the subject English in Heidelberg with a thesis on the legitimacy of fiction doctorate . She took the minor examination in Egyptology in Tübingen, since her husband Jan Assmann had meanwhile been appointed to the chair of Egyptology in Heidelberg.

In 1992 she qualified as a professor at the New Philology Faculty of Heidelberg University, and in 1993 she accepted a professorship for English and general literature at the University of Konstanz . In 2001 she was a Max Kade visiting professor at Princeton University in New Jersey . She was also visiting professor at Rice University in Houston (2000), Yale University in New Haven (2002, 2003, 2005) and the University of Chicago (2007). In the 2005 summer semester she held the "Peter Ustinov Visiting Professorship" at the University of Vienna .

Assmann published numerous works on English literature and the archeology of literary communication. Since the 1990s, her research focus has been cultural anthropology , especially the topics of cultural memory , memory and forgetting.

Aleida Assmann is married to the Egyptologist Jan Assmann , with whom she has five children and who also researches and publishes together.

Awards

Jan and Aleida Assmann on the occasion of the 2018 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

Memberships

Fonts

  • The legitimacy of fiction. A contribution to the history of literary communication (= theory and history of literature and the fine arts. 55). Fink, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7705-1844-6 (also: Heidelberg, University, dissertation, 1977).
  • Work on national memory. A brief history of the German educational idea (= Edition Pandora. 14). Campus-Verlag et al., Frankfurt am Main et al. 1993, ISBN 3-593-34838-1 .
  • Time and tradition. Cultural strategies of duration (= contributions to historical culture . Volume 15.) Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1999, ISBN 3-412-03798-2 .
  • with Ute Frevert : Forgetting about history - obsession with history. On dealing with German pasts after 1945. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-421-05288-3 .
  • Memory spaces. Forms and transformations of cultural memory. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-44670-1 , (also: Heidelberg, Universität, habilitation paper, 1992).
  • Cultural memory on the millennium threshold. Crisis and future of education (= Konstanz University Speeches . 216). UVK - Universitäts-Verlag Konstanz, Konstanz 2004, ISBN 3-87940-791-6 .
  • The indispensability of cultural studies. With a subsequent correspondence (= Hildesheim University Speeches . New Part 2.) Universitätsverlag, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-934105-06-8 .
  • Generational identities and prejudice structures in the new German memory literature (= Wiener Vorlesungen im Rathaus. 117). Picus, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85452-517-6 (lecture on the university campus on April 27, 2005 on the occasion of the Sir Peter Ustinov professorship of the City of Vienna at the University of Vienna).
  • Introduction to cultural studies. Basic terms, topics, questions (= basics of English and American studies. 27). Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-503-07977-7 .
  • The long shadow of the past. Culture of remembrance and politics of history. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54962-4 .
  • History in memory. From individual experience to public staging (= Krupp lectures on politics and history at the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Science Center North Rhine-Westphalia. 6). Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56202-0 .
  • as editor with Jan Assmann : Perfection (= archeology of literary communication. 10). Fink, Munich et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-4813-2 .
  • with Geoffrey Hartman : The Future of Memory and the Holocaust. () Konstanz University Press, Konstanz 2012, ISBN 978-3-86253-017-5 .
  • Is time out of joint? The rise and fall of the modern time regime. Hanser, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24342-2 .
  • The new unease about the culture of remembrance. An intervention (= Beck series. 6098). Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65210-3 .
  • In the thicket of signs (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft. 2079). Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-29679-0 .
  • Forms of forgetting (= historical humanities. 9). Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1856-4 .
  • Reflection on Johann Sebastian Bach : An undyed mind . Cantata BWV 24. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Marianne Beate Kielland (soprano), Daniel Johannsen (tenor), Dominik Wörner (bass). Including an introductory workshop. DVD. Gallus Media, 2017.
  • Human rights and human obligations. Key Terms for a Humane Society. Picus, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7117-2072-6 .
  • The European dream. Four lessons from history (= CH Beck Paperback. 6343). Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-73380-2 .

Web links

Commons : Aleida Assmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-kultur-wir-zerfallen-in-ost-und-west-_arid,1353037.html
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Aleida Assmann: Are we more curious about the past today than about the future? , br.de, September 19, 2017
  3. ↑ Professor Aleida Assmann on the German culture of remembrance , focus.de, March 24, 2017
  4. ↑ a b c "The European Dream": Peace Prize Winners Jan and Aleida Assmann , br.de, September 26, 2018
  5. ↑ "Writing your whole life in a book ..." Dr. Aleida Assmann - Vita and academic career. Watzlawick Ring of Honor, accessed June 17, 2018 . Lectures in Vienna: Aleida Assmann receives Watzlawick Ring of Honor. City hall correspondence of the City of Vienna, March 27, 2009, accessed on June 17, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Aleida and Jan Assmann hold endowed professorships 2015 , Wissenschaft.de, December 4, 2014
  7. ↑ “Theological Prize” to Jan and Aleida Assmann , orf.at, April 18, 2016
  8. ^ Karl Jaspers Prize for the Assmann researcher couple , Deutschlandfunk Kultur, February 10, 2018
  9. ↑ Aleida and Jan Assmann: 2017 Balzan Prize for Collective Memory. International Balzan Prize Foundation, accessed June 17, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Balzan Prize 2017: Exchange on historical realities , Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , November 7, 2017
  11. ↑ Stefan Hauck: Peace Prize 2018: Interview with Aleida and Jan Assmann - “The value of truth is more important than ever”. Interview on boersenblatt.net , June 12, 2018, accessed June 17, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Member entry of Aleida Assmann (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 22, 2016.
  13. ↑ Review: Ijoma Mangold in: Berliner Zeitung. March 20, 1999.
  14. ↑ Review: Martin C. Wald in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft . Volume 55, 2007, pp. 389-391.
  15. ↑ an uncolored hat . Cantata BWV 24 for the 4th Sunday after Trinity for alto, tenor and bass vocal ensemble, oboe I + II, oboe d'amore I + II, tromba, strings and basso continuo. JS Bach Foundation , St. Gallen 2017 ( Online Archive [PDF; 5.5 MB ; accessed on September 16, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Assmann, Aleida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asman, Alaida; Bornkamm, Aleida (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English and Egyptologist and literary and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Gadderbaum , today in Bielefeld