Corina Caduff

Corina Caduff (* 1965 in Chur ) is a Swiss cultural scientist , literary critic and author.

Life

She completed her German studies at the University of Zurich in 1991 with a doctorate on Elfriede Jelinek . She obtained her habilitation in 2001 at the Technical University of Berlin , where she worked as a private lecturer from 2002 to 2008 . From 2004 to 2017 she was a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts . She is currently Vice Rector Research at the Bern University of Applied Sciences and a literary and cultural scientist at the Bern University of the Arts . In addition, she is active in scientific and cultural funding institutions.

Her work focuses on artistic research, contemporary literature, the relationship between the arts and dying and death. She publishes in the academic and essay fields.

From 2005 to 2009 she worked as a critic at the Swiss Television Literature Club . She was a member of the jury for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2012 and the Swiss Book Prize 2014 and 2015 and is a member of the German-Swiss PEN Center .

Awards

• 2015: Recognition award from the city of Chur

Works

Authorship

• "I thrive amid epidemics." Elfriede Jelinek - Theater Texts. Lang, Bern 1991, ISBN 3-261-04439-X . (= Dissertation Univ. Zurich).
• "Dadim dadam". Figures of music in Ingeborg Bachmann's literature . Böhlau, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-412-01098-7 .
• The literaryization of music and visual arts around 1800. Fink, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7705-3763-7 (= habilitation thesis).
• The arts in conversation. On the relationship between art, music, literature and film. (With Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Florian Keller, Steffen Schmidt). Fink, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4524-7 .
• Land in turmoil. The arts and their settings. Lenos, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-85787-707-0 .
• Offending and acknowledging. Essays. Lenos, Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-85787-743-8 .
• Scenes of death. Lenos, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-85787-434-5 .
• Why transitoriness? Eleven conversations about atoms, death and black holes. Kadmos, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86599-366-3 , OPEN ACCESS: https://arbor.bfh.ch/198/

Editing

• Laure Wyss : writer and journalist. Limmat, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-85791-277-4 .
• The gender of the arts. (With Sigrid Weigel ). Böhlau, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-412-07693-7 .
• Figures of the foreign in Swiss literature. Limmat, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-85791-283-9 .
• Rituals today. Theories - controversies - drafts. (With Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka ). Reimer, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-02666-9 .
• Writing against modernity. German Studies in Switzerland - Contributions to a Critical Technical History. (With Michael Gamper). Chronos, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-0340-0503-2 .
• National Literatures Today - A Fantom? The imagination and tradition of Swiss as a problem. (With Reto Sorg). Fink / NZZ, Munich / Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-7705-4011-5 .
• Chiffre 2000 - New Paradigms of Contemporary Literature. (With Ulrike Vedder ). Fink, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7705-4178-2 .
• High-low. High and everyday culture in music, art, literature, dance and cinema. (With Tan Wälchli). Kadmos, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86599-042-6 .
• Authorship in the arts. Concepts - Practices - Media. (With Tan Wälchli). Yearbook Zurich University of the Arts 4. Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-906437-22-4 .
• Pain in the arts. (With Tan Wälchli). Yearbook Zurich University of the Arts 5. Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-906437-26-2 .
• Passions. Objects - locations - styles of thinking. (With Anne-Kathrin Reulecke and Ulrike Vedder). Fink, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-5006-7 .
• Art and Artistic Research. (With Fiona Siegenthaler and Tan Wälchli). Yearbook Zurich University of the Arts 6. Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-85881-293-3 .
• Writing the Present - On German-Language Literature 2000–2015 . (With Ulrike Vedder). Fink, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-5918-3 .
• Artistic Research and Literature. (With Tan Wälchli). Fink, 2019, open access , ISBN 978-3-7705-6333-3 .

Web publications

• The dance of the arts. 2006 (with Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Florian Keller and Steffen Schmidt).
• Intercultural Questionnaire about Death and Dying / Intercultural Questionnaire on Death and Dying. 2015 (with Francis Müller).

Web links

• Literature by and about Corina Caduff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Corina Caduff at perlentaucher.de
• Corina Caduff on Academia.edu
• Portrait of the author of the Lenos publishing house
• Website Corina Caduff Portrait of the author from Lenos Verlag
• Portrait of the author, Kadmos Verlag
• Corina in the database of renowned academics AcademiaNet
• Deutschlandfunk essay and discourse of October 13, 2019: '' Criticism in the Age of Digitization. On the relationship between the arts and the media '', by Mercedes Bunz and Corina Caduff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Dance of the Arts
2. ^ Intercultural Questionnaire about Death and Dying