Alexander Honold

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Alexander Honold (born November 16, 1962 in Valdivia , Chile ) is a German literary scholar and professor of German studies at the University of Basel .

Life

Honold studied German, Romance languages and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Free University of Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1994 from the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on Robert Musil and the First World War. The habilitation followed in 2002 at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU) with a study on astronomy in Friedrich Hölderlin's work . He taught u. a. at the FU Berlin, at the HU Berlin and at the University of Konstanz . 1997–2000 he was Scientific Coordinator of the DFG project »Literary and Cultural History of the Foreign«. During this time research stays at New York University (1997) and Stanford University (1998), as well as 1998/99 as a fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies (KWI) in Essen. He worked on the literary sheet of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Since 2004 he has been full professor of modern German literature at the University of Basel , where he was Dean of Research at the Faculty of Philosophy and History from 2010–2012 .

Focus of work

Honold's research areas are narrative research, research and educational trips since the time of Goethe, the semantics of the landscape and literary history of water, games and improvisation, and astronomy and calendars as cultural forms of knowledge. Alexander Honold is co-editor of the yearbook of the German Schiller Society (since 2016) and the Hofmannsthal yearbook on European Modernism (since 2017). 

Publications

Books

  • The earth narrator. Peter Handke's prose of the places, spaces and landscapes. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2017 ISBN 978-3-476-04537-9
  • Use of the seal. Literature under the sign of the First World War. Berlin: Vorwerk 8, 2015 ISBN 978-3-940384-65-2
  • Write the time. Seasons, clocks and calendars set the pace for literature. Basel: Schwabe, 2013 ISBN 978-3-7965-3193-4
  • Kilimanjaro. The German story of an African mountain. Berlin: Wagenbach 2011 (together with Christof Hamann ). ISBN 978-3-8031-3634-3
  • Walter Benjamin: Tell it. Writings on the theory of narration and literary prose. Selected and with an afterword by Alexander Honold. Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2007
  • Holderlin's calendar. Astronomy and revolution around 1800. Berlin: Vorwerk 8, 2005 ISBN 3-930916-68-1
  • After the Olympics. Hölderlin and the invention of antiquity. Berlin: Vorwerk 8, 2002 ISBN 3-930916-51-7
  • The reader Walter Benjamin. Fragments of a German literary history. Berlin: Vorwerk 8, 2000 ISBN 3-930916-33-9
  • The city and the war. The construction of space and time in Robert Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1995 (Musil-Studien, Vol. XXV) ISBN 3-7705-3008-X

Edited anthologies

  • Travel literature of the modern and post-modern (ed. With Michaela Holdenried and Stefan Hermes). Berlin: Erich Schmidt 2017, 682 pp. 
  • Handbook of literature and music. Handbooks for cultural studies philology Vol. 2 (Ed. With Nicola Gess). Berlin, Boston 2017, 682 pp. 
  • Goethe as a literary figure (edited with Edith Anna Kunz and Hans-Jürgen Schrader). Göttingen: Wallstein 2016.
  • Carmen perpetuum. Ovid's  Metamorphoses  in World Literature (Ed. With Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer). Basel: Schwabe 2013.
  • Aesthetics of the victim. Signs / actions between ritual and play (ed., With Anton Bierl and Valentina Luppi). Munich: Fink 2012.
  • Deconstructing Thomas Mann (ed., With Niels Werber ). Heidelberg: University Press Winter 2012.
  • East-west cultural transfers. Orient - America (ed.). Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011.
  • The narrative and the narrated image (ed., With Ralf Simon ). Munich: Fink 2010
  • Write in a foreign country. Contemporary literature on the trail of historical and fantastic voyages of discovery (ed., With Christof Hamann ). Göttingen: Wallstein 2009
  • Around the world with Germany. A cultural history of the foreign in colonial times (ed., With Klaus R. Scherpe). Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler Verlag 2004
  • Colonialism as a culture. Literature, media, science in the German early days of the foreign (ed., With Oliver Simons). Tübingen and Basel: Francke 2002
  • Spaces of literary postmodernism. Gender, Performativity, Globalization (Ed. By Paul Michael Lützeler in collaboration with Ingeborg Hoesterey, Alexander Honold and Doris Kolesch). Tübingen: Stauffenburg 2000
  • The foreign. Travel experiences, forms of writing and cultural knowledge (ed., With Klaus R. Scherpe). [Supplement No. 2, 1999, on the Journal for German Studies] Bern, Berlin etc .: Peter Lang 2000 - Second, revised edition under the series title: Publications on the Zeitschrift für Germanistik, Vol. 2. Bern, Berlin etc .: Peter Lang 2003
  • Thomas Bernhard - The preparation of people (ed., With Markus Joch). Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 1999
  • "The other voice". The foreign in the culture of modernity (ed., With Manuel Köppen). Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau 1999
  • Thomas Bernhard - an enactment (ed., With Joachim Hoell and Kai Luehrs-Kaiser). Berlin: Vorwerk 8 1998. Second edition 1999
  • The world of images of Peter Weiss (ed., With Ulrich Schreiber). Hamburg: Argument-Verlag 1995

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personal data
SURNAME Honold, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Valdivia , Chile