Daniel Weidner

Daniel Weidner (* 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German Germanist and comparativeist . Weidner is deputy director of the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL).

Life

After studying philosophy , sociology , German and philosophy of science in Freiburg, Jena and Vienna, Weidner received his doctorate in 2000 from the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on Gershom Scholem .

Weidner held lectures on the theory of science at the University of Vienna from 1996 and from 2000 at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the field of cultural studies. From 2001 he taught comparative literature and German studies at the Humboldt University, the Technical University of Berlin and the Free University of Berlin, the University of Gießen and in Basel. From 2000 to 2005 Weidner worked as a collaborator in the ZfL project Figures of the Sacred in the Dialectic of Secularization and, after 2005, as a project manager for various research projects at the Center for Literature and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL). Since 2010 he has been deputy head of the ZfL.

Weidner was Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University in 2009 . In the same year he qualified as a professor at the Free University of Berlin with the scripture Bible and Literature around 1800. In the winter semester 2010/2011 he was a visiting professor in Gießen and in the spring semester 2011 in Basel. In the summer semester of 2012, Weidner was visiting professor at the University of Chicago .

Publications

Monographs

• Gershom Scholem. Political, esoteric and historiographical writing . Fink, Munich 2003 (dissertation).
• Bible and literature around 1800 . Fink, Munich 2011 (habilitation thesis).
• (together with Stefanie Ertz and Heike Schlie) Sacramental representation. Signs, Substance and Presence in the Early Modern Age . Fink, Munich 2012.

Editorships

• (together with Stefan Willer and Sigrid Weigel ): Trajekte (magazine) .
• Figures of the European. Cultural-historical perspectives . Fink, Munich 2006.
• (together with Martin Treml) Afterlife of religions. Cultural studies studies on the dialectic of secularization . Fink, Munich 2007.
• (together with Hans-Peter Schmidt) Bible as literature. An anthology . Fink, Munich 2008.
• Original poetry and the Orient. Johann Gottfried Herders On the Spirit of Ebrean Poetry , Kadmos, Berlin 2008.
• Profane life. Walter Benjamin's dialectic of secularization . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010.
• (together with Andrea Polaschegg) The book in the books. Interactions between the Bible and literature . Fink, Munich 2012.
• (together with Stefan Willer) Prophecy and prognosis. Dispositions on the future of science, religion and the arts . Fink, Munich 2013.
• (in accordance with Robert Buch) read Blumenberg. A glossary . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014. 
• (together with Claude Haas) Benjamin's tragedy. Theory - Reading - Afterlife . Kadmos, Berlin 2014.
• (together with Stephan Braese) "My language is German." German language culture of Jews and the humanities 1870–1970 . Kadmos, Berlin 2015.
• Handbook of literature and religion . Metzler, Stuttgart 2016. 
• (together with Falko Schmieder) margins of the archive. Cultural studies perspectives on the creation and decay of archives . Kadmos, Berlin 2016.

Web links

• Daniel Weidner on the homepage of the ZfL Berlin
• Daniel Weidner on Perlentaucher.de
• Literature by and about Daniel Weidner in the catalog of the German National Library