Christian Schärf
Christian Schärf (born December 24, 1960 in Ludwigshafen ) is a German literary scholar , essayist , novelist and presenter. He currently teaches as an adjunct professor at the Institute for Literary Writing and Literary Studies at the University of Hildesheim .
Life
Christian Schärf passed the Abitur examination at the state Carl-Bosch-Gymnasium in Ludwigshafen / Rhein in 1980 and then studied German Philology , Romance Philology and Philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In 1993 he did his doctorate on “Goethe's Aesthetics. A Genealogy of Scripture "from Bruno Hillebrand to Dr. phil. In 1998 he completed his habilitation at the University of Mainz . He received the Venia Legendi for modern German literary history. From 1998 to 2007 he was a professor at the University of Mainz. Since 2007 he has been teaching at the Institute for Literary Writing and Literary Studies at the University of Hildesheim in the courses of creative writing and cultural journalism as well as literary writing and proofreading. He has lectured as a visiting professor at the University of Bologna (2002 and 2004), the University of Valencia (1991 and 1999) and the University of Dijon (1994 and 1995).
From 1989 to 2006 he was responsible for the supervision and implementation of the poetry lectureship at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz , and from 2002 he was solely responsible. Between 2007 and 2012 he worked as a reviewer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Between 2010 and 2017, 16 of his radio essays were broadcast on SWR 2 -Essay. These include essays on the tension in detective novels , the phenomenon of charisma , the rhetoric of flirting and the philosophical problem of contingency .
Since 2012 he has been moderating regularly at lit.Cologne , Phil.Cologne and lit.RUHR , including events with Eva Menasse , Robert Seethaler , Martin Walser , Uwe Timm , Karen Duve , Rüdiger Safranski .
Christian Schärf is married and has three children.
Works
Novels
- The draftsman's journey. Eichborn, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8479-0614-8 .
- A winter in Nice. Eichborn, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-8479-0580-6 .
Monographs
- The flight of the bat. Essays on General Poetics. Aisthesis Verlag , Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8498-1110-5 .
- The desire to write. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8498-1033-7 .
- Write exciting. Crime, murder and horror stories. Duden , Mannheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-411-75436-6 .
- Write day after day. Journal and diary. Duden, Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-411-90324-5 .
- The untouchable. Gottfried Benn - poet in the 20th century. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89528-520-X .
- Alfred Doblin. Berlin Alexanderplatz. Novel and film. Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07955-6 .
- Literature in the knowledge society. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage , Göttingen 2001.
- The novel in the 20th century. Metzler-Verlag , Stuttgart / Weimar 2001.
- Franz Kafka. Poetic text and scriptures. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000.
- Story of the essay. From Montaigne to Adorno. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999.
- Factory building and world game. The idea of art in modern prose. Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 1999.
- Goethe's aesthetics. A genealogy of scripture. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart / Weimar 1994, ISBN 978-3-476-01258-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Press office: Christian Schärf. Accessed November 20, 2018 (German).
- ^ Christian Schärf | lit.COLOGNE. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .
- ↑ phil.cologne 4th In: Philosophy magazine. April 6, 2016, accessed December 20, 2018 (German).
- ^ Christian Schärf | lit.RUHR. Retrieved November 20, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sharp, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar, essayist, novelist and moderator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigshafen |