Christine Magerski

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christine Magerski (2015)

Christine Magerski (born March 28, 1969 in Wittenberge ) is a German literary and cultural scientist. She teaches as a professor for modern German literary and cultural history at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zagreb in Croatia.

Live and act

Magerski studied general and comparative literature and modern history at the Free University of Berlin (Magister Artium 1997). From 1998 to 2003 she was a doctoral candidate at Monash University Melbourne, where she did her doctorate with David Roberts in 2003 with a thesis on the connection between literary modernism, literary criticism and the beginnings of literary sociology. From 2003 to 2004 she was a postdoctoral fellow with Wolf Lepenies at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . Since 2004 she has been teaching recent German literary and cultural history at the German Studies department at the University of Zagreb. She lives with her husband and daughter in Zagreb and Berlin.

Magerski is a representative of the sociology of literature and works on a variety of literary and cultural sociological topics and questions. This includes works on the history and theory of literary modernism, the theory and cultural history of modern art, and cultural and social theory. She has emerged with publications on the theory of modern literature, the avant-garde and the bohemian . Magerski also dealt with the history of ideas, science and education.

The problem-oriented, transdisciplinary approach is characteristic of Magerski's writings. Your “combination of literary historical, scientific history and methodological issues” is considered innovative within literary studies. Her writings on the sociology of culture are also “contrary to established viewing habits in sociology”, since Magerski not only directs the gaze to converging or diverging figures of thought, but also relates the theoretical field to artistic positions and “time-specific discourse constellations and reference problems”. Magerski himself follows the tradition of the so-called Zagreb School .

Christine Magerski's main research areas are:

  • Literary modernity and literary theory
  • Sociology of literature and culture
  • Avant-garde and bohemian
  • Cultural and social theory
  • History of science

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The constitution of the literary field in Germany after 1871. Berlin modernism, literary criticism and the beginnings of literary sociology. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-11-092070-3 .
  • Theories of the avant-garde. Gehlen - Bürger - Bourdieu - Luhmann. Wiesbaden, Springer 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17839-4 . [1]
  • For which university? Historical Observations on the Construction of Education. Past Publishing, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-864-08055-5 . [2]
  • Life artist. A short cultural history of Berlin bohemian. Past Publishing, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-864-08171-2 . [3]
  • Living ambivalence. Bohème as a prototype of modernity. Springer, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-03349-1 . [4]
  • Imperial worlds. Literature and political theory using the example of Habsburg. Velbrück, Weilerswist 2018, ISBN 3958321518 . [5]
  • Sociology of literature. Basics, problems and theories. Textbook together with Christa Karpenstein Eßbach, Wiesbaden, Springer 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-22291-8 . [6]

Editorships

  • Modern understanding. On the paradox of a socio-aesthetic pattern of interpretation. Together with Christiane Weller and Robert Savage, Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8350-6071-5 .
  • Changing literary studies. Aspects of theoretical and technical reorganization. Together with Svjetlan Lacko Vidulic, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16502-8 .
  • Cultural rebels. Studies on anarchist modernity. Together with David Roberts , Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-22274-1 . [7]

Essays and articles (selection)

  • The power of the symbolic. From Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms to Bourdieu's Sociology of Symbolic Forms. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2/2005, pp. 112–127. [8th]
  • On the theoretical value of Pierre Bourdieu's field theory using the example of the differentiation and structuring of the literary field in Germany . In: KulturPoetik, Vol. 6, Issue 2/2006, pp. 153-171.
  • Arnold Gehlen : Modern art as a symbol of modern society. In: Thesis Eleven. Critical Theory and Historical Sociology, Issue 8/2012, pp. 81-96. [9] [10]
  • Peter Bürger . In: Classics of the Sociology of the Arts, ed. Christian Steuerwald, Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2016, pp. 79–92. [11] 

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Steffen Martus: Review of Christine Magerski, The constitution of the literary field in Germany after 1871. Berlin Modernism, literary criticism and the beginnings of literary sociology, Tübingen: Niemeyer 2004 . In: German Studies, Volume 47 , 2006, p. 349 .
  2. Andrea Glauser: Sociology of Art . In: Sociological Review. Reviews of New Literature, Volume 36 (Issue 1), 2013, pp. 24-26 .
  3. Christine Magerski: Make school. On the history and topicality of the sociology of literature . In: Zagreb German Studies . Issue 24/2015, p. 193-220 .