Bernhard Jahn

Bernhard Jahn (* 1962 in Michelsrombach ) is a German specialist in German.

Life

From 1973 to 1982 he attended the Wigbert School . From 1983 to 1989 studied German Medieval Studies, Modern German Literature, Theoretical Linguistics, Musicology and Italian Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After obtaining his doctorate in 1992 ( doctoral thesis : Spatial concepts in the early modern period. On the construction of reality in pilgrimage reports, travel reports to America and prose stories). From 1993 to 1995 he had a postdoctoral fellowship as part of the Graduate School Art in the context of the Philipps University of Marburg. Topic: Courtesy and ceremony as principles of the aesthetic constitution of court and ruler in the baroque opera of the German-speaking area (1660–1730). From 1996 to 2002 he held a C1 position as a research assistant at the German Institute of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg . 2002: Completion of the habilitation process . Habilitation thesis : The senses and the opera. Sensuality and the problem of its verbalization in music theater in northern and central Germany (1680–1740). From 2002 to 2006 he was senior assistant (C2) in Magdeburg. From 2006 to 2010 he was a research associate at the German Institute of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg . Since 2010 he has been teaching at the W2 professorship for German literature of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period at the University of Hamburg .

His main research interests are German literature from the 15th century up to and including Goethe's time with occasional excursions into the literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, theater in the early modern period in Europe, especially music theater, intermediality in the early modern period: the interaction of the arts in Theory and practice, historical anthropology: senses, spatial concepts, ceremonial, genealogy, family, war and literature and media history.

Fonts (selection)

• Room concepts in the early modern period. For the construction of reality in pilgrimage reports, travel descriptions to America and prose stories . Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-631-45401-5 .
• The senses and the opera. Sensuality and the problem of its verbalization in music theater in northern and central Germany (1680–1740) . Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-484-66045-7 .
• Basic Drama Course . Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-12-939009-2 .
• as editor: The music in the culture of the baroque . Laaber 2019, ISBN 3-89007-877-X .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Bernhard Jahn