Anette Horn

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Anette Horn (born April 15, 1963 in Cape Town , South Africa) is a German specialist in German and English .

Life

She attended the German International School in Cape Town and studied at the University of Cape Town , where she received a BA degree in German and English in 1984, a BA (Hons) with distinction in 1984, an MA in 1991 and a doctorate in 1998 . Anette Horn received an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship from 2000 to 2002 and did research as a post-doc at the Technical University of Berlin and has been an NRF-rated researcher since 2004.

From 1985 to 1998 she held various contract positions at the University of Cape Town, from 2003 to 2004 she was Senior Lecturer at the University of Pretoria , from 2005 to 2010 Associate Professor and from 2011 to Professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (South Africa). From 2003 to 2009 she was the editor of Acta Germanica and from 2003 the corresponding editor of Kritika Kultura (Manila, Philippines), and from 2011 on the Scientific Advisory Board of INST (Vienna).

Anette Horn's research focuses on Friedrich Nietzsche (Nietzsche's concept of décadence; Nietzsche lexicon; Nietzsche research); on GDR literature (controversial legacy and innovation: the novella Die Reiseegegnung by Anna Seghers), Jean Paul and Heinrich von Kleist (To create a new world of ideas; The journey around the head. Jean Paul's associations of ideas; “I am a riddle to you?” Heinrich von Kleist's dramas [with Peter Horn]); about Rilke ([with Peter Horn] "I learn to see" on Rilke's poetry.)

In addition, Anette Horn has written numerous articles in scientific journals and anthologies on a. a. JMR Lenz, Herder, Hesse, Kafka, Musil, Elias Canetti, Jura Soyfer, Uwe Timm, Jürgen Fuchs, Monika Maron, Verena Stefan, Bessie Head, Athol Fugard, JM Coetzee, Zoë Wicomb, on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism released.

Fonts

  • Nietzsche's concept of décadence: criticism and analysis of modernity. (= Heidelberg contributions to German literature. Vol. 5). Peter Lang, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-631-35261-1 .
  • Controversial legacy and innovation: the novella Die Reiseegegnung by Anna Seghers in the literary-political context of the GDR in the 1970s. (= Contributions to literature and literary studies of the 20th century. No. 22). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-631-54024-8 .
  • Anette Horn, Peter Horn (ed.): The knowledge of world citizens. (Discourse philosophy). Athena Verlag, Oberhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89896-301-5 .
  • To create a new world of imagination. Essays on Jean Paul. Athena Verlag, Oberhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89896-345-9 .
  • Anette Horn, Peter Horn: “I learn to see” on Rilke's poetry. Athena Verlag, Oberhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89896-419-7 .
  • “Thinking does not mean deaf.” Essays on modern German literature. Athena Verlag, Oberhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89896-419-7 .
  • The trip around the head. Jean Paul's associations of ideas. Athena Verlag, Oberhausen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89896-470-8 .
  • Anette Horn, Peter Horn: “I am a riddle to you?” Heinrich von Kleist's dramas. 2013, ISBN 978-3-89896-532-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Germanistenverzeichnis: Anette Horn on: germanistenverzeichnis.phil.uni-erlangen.de
  2. ↑ Horn, Anette. on the website of the Institute for Research and Promotion of Regional and Transnational Cultural Processes
  3. ↑ Helen Fehervary: Controversial Legacy and Innovation. The novella Die Reiseegegnung by Anna Seghers in the literary-political context of the GDR in the 1970s. Review. In: monthly books. Volume 99, Number 2, Sumer 2007, pp. 250-252.
  4. ↑ Alessandra Schininà Acta Germanica 33, pp. 55-56.
  5. ^ Peter Böhm: The knowledge of the world citizens by Anette Horn; Peter Horn. In: German Studies Review. Vol. 32, No. 2 (May 2009), pp. 444-445 (online at: jstor.org ) .
  6. ↑ Ilona Jappinen: Review Nietzsche's concept of décadence: Critique and Analysis of Modernism by Anette Horn . In: German Studies Review. Vol. 24, No. 1, Feb., 2001, pp. 173-174 (online at: jstor.org ) .
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Anette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist in German and English
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town , South Africa