Arata Takeda

Arata Takeda (Japanese 武田 新, born June 15, 1972 in Ueno , Japan ) is a literary and cultural scholar of Japanese origin who is known, among other things, for his work on the phenomenon of the suicide bombing and transcultural education .

Career

Takeda, son of the Japanese theologian Takehisa Takeda, moved with his parents and siblings from Japan to Germany at the age of three and grew up in Mainz , Munich and Berlin . After completing his university entrance qualification in Japan and a Bachelor in Humanities at the International Christian University , he studied German , Romance and comparative literature at the University of Tübingen from 1997 to 2003 and German and comparative literature at the University of Venice in 2001/2002 . He received his doctorate in 2008 from the University of Tübingen with a dissertation on the cultural history of the suicide bombing , for which he was awarded the University of Tübingen's doctoral prize in 2009.

2011 Takeda was one of Alexander Kluge known about his thesis led him interview first in the feature pages of the world printed and later in the Sat.1 telecast News & Stories aired.

From 2008 to 2011 Takeda researched and taught at the University of Tübingen. In the 2011/2012 winter semester he worked at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna , from 2012 to 2014 at the University of Chicago and in 2014/2015 at the University of Paderborn . Since 2015 he has been working at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies at the Free University of Berlin .

Takeda has received a number of grants and grants, including the Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship , the Friedrich Naumann Foundation PhD Scholarship , the Research Fellowship from the International Research Center for Cultural Studies, the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , the William M. Calder III Fellowship from the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and individual funding from the German Research Foundation .

Takeda is a member of the International Committee of the Society for Intercultural German Studies and the Council for Migration .

research

Takeda's research and teaching activities focus on the areas of intercultural hermeneutics , narrative theory (including editor's fiction ), drama history and drama theory , the theory of literary translation , literary anthropology and transcultural education . In addition to his dissertation, his investigation into the history of the origin of the fable of the scorpion and the frog and his suggestions for promoting transcultural education both within and outside of the academic community attracted attention.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• The invention of the other. On the genesis of the fictional editor in the 18th century epistolary novel . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3973-7 .
• Aesthetics of Self Destruction. Suicide bombers in Western literature . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-7705-5062-3 (Dissertation University of Tübingen 2008, 314 pages full text online in the viewer at Digi20 of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek )
• We are like tree trunks in the snow. A plea for transcultural education . Waxmann, Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8309-2716-7 .

Contributions

• Formation of self-awareness. On Martin Walser's Ein jumping fountain (attempt to free the novel from the context of the peace prize speech) . In: Germanistische Mitteilungen , Heft 56 (2002), pp. 27–47.
• Exuberance through excess. Problems translating a form - using the example of haiku. A theoretical consideration and a practical suggestion . In: arcadia. Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft , Vol. 42, Issue 1 (2007), pp. 20–44.
• Suicide bombers in Western literature: Demythologizing a mythic discourse . In: Contemporary Justice Review , Volume 13, Number 4 (2010), pp. 455-475.
• Dialogue or self-talk? Problems of intercultural understanding in Martin Heidegger's From a conversation about language (1953/1954) . In: Jahrbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache , Vol. 36 (2010), pp. 221–232.
• Flower-filled trade routes. East-western forays on the trail of the fable The Scorpion and the Frog . In: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte , 85th year, issue 1 (2011), pp. 124–152.
• The regressive human sacrifice. About the actual scandal of contemporary terrorism . In: processes . Journal for Citizens' Rights and Social Policy, No. 197, vol. 51, Issue 1 (2012), pp. 116–129.
• Incorporated cultural conflicts. Interaction of cultures in the terrorist's body using the example of Christoph Peters'  Ein Zimmer im Haus des Krieg (2006) . In: Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik , 3rd year, issue 1 (2012), pp. 25–38.
• The explosive death. On the essay writing of the suicide bombing in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 . In: Journal for German Studies , New Series XXV, Issue 3 (2015), pp. 603–617.
• Consequences of culturalism. From confrontational to participatory approaches to conveying language, culture and values . In: processes . Journal for Citizens' Rights and Social Policy , No. 217, Vol. 56, Issue 1 (2017), pp. 127–139.
• The temporalization of genre poetics 1768–1951. To the knowledge history of a misinterpretation . In: German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history , 93rd vol., Issue 2 (2019), pp. 157-189.

Web links

• Literature by and about Arata Takeda in the catalog of the German National Library
• Arata Takeda on the website of the Free University of Berlin
• Researcher Arata Takeda: "Destruction fantasies have always existed" - Arata Takeda in conversation with Alexander Kluge
• Political murder - how are assassinations motivated? - Conversation with Manfred Schneider , Herfried Münkler and Arata Takeda, SWR2 Forum, March 30, 2011
• The suicide bombing - Dr. Arata Takeda: The deed that turns people into bombs (on YouTube ), Sat. 1 News & Stories , August 8, 2011
• On the trail of the lightning gods. The Japanese Arata Takeda has written a book about the aesthetics of self-destruction ( dpa ). In: Reutlinger General-Anzeiger , September 6, 2011
• New ways of living together in Germany. Social togetherness in a country of immigration . Educational film, Germany, 2012, 15:52 min., Script and direction: Christiane Zwick, production: Institute for World Studies in Education and Research, teaching paper
• Plea for a transcultural education - Arata Takeda in an interview with the Giordano Bruno Foundation
• Suicide bomber: cultural scientist Arata Takeda on a type , Bayern 2 kulturWelt, July 28, 2016
• History and representations of suicide bombings , Radio Corax Morgenmagazin, September 19, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom receives doctoral award from the University of Tübingen .
2. ↑ "Destruction fantasies have always existed". The suicide bombing is not an imported product: Alexander Kluge asks the researcher Arata Takeda . In: Die Welt , June 7, 2011, pp. 23–24.
3. ↑ Arata Takeda on the website of the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
4. ↑ https://rat-fuer-migration.de/verbindungen/
5. ↑ Arata Takeda: Flower-Rich Trade Routes: East-West Forays on the Trail of the Fable The Scorpion and the Frog. In: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 85/1 (2011), pp. 124–152.
6. ^ Arata Takeda: Transculturality in School Lessons. A concept and four 'recipes' for teaching and learning across borders , pp. 4–6; Arata Takeda: We are like tree trunks in the snow. A plea for transcultural education . Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin: Waxmann, 2012. pp. 79–89.
7. ↑ Jörg Schlömerkemper: Reading recommendations . In: Pedagogy 12 (2012), p. 53; Kostya Kennedy : Pete Rose: An American Dilemma . New York: Time Home Entertainment, 2014. p. 207; Peter Linke: "Because we are like tree trunks in the snow ..." . In: Das Blättchen 18/8, April 13, 2015.