Dieter Lamping

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Dieter Lamping (born February 7, 1954 in Lohne (Oldenburg) ) is a German comparator and professor of general and comparative literature at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.

Career

Dieter Lamping studied general literature , German and pedagogy at the Universities of Cologne and Wuppertal . He received his doctorate in 1981 under Dietrich Weber at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal with the work The Name in the Story . After his habilitation in 1986 ( The lyrical poem. Definitions of theory and history of a genre ), he taught first from 1987 to 1988 as a professor of general literary studies at the University of Wuppertal, then from 1988 to 1993 as visiting professor and professor of general and comparative literature (comparative literature ) at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1993 he was offered a professorship for general and comparative literature at the University of Mainz; a simultaneous call to the Gerhart Mercator University Duisburg he refused. Guest lectureships have taken him to Indiana University Bloomington (1997) and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (2000). For many years he was the spokesman for the Mainz interdisciplinary working group Jewish Studies and founding spokesman for the Center for Intercultural Studies (ZiS) at the University of Mainz. In 2008 he was a fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).

Lamping has been co-editor of the Palaestra series since 1997 . Since 2013 he has been responsible for the area of ​​"comparative literature" at literaturkritik.de . From 2001 to 2008 he was co-editor of the magazine KulturPoetik .

Dieter Lamping is married to the writer and painter Simone Frieling.

Research and main areas of work

Poetry Theory

On the basis of a critical examination of the interweaving of poetry as a genre and the lyrical as an essential characteristic in earlier theories of poetry , Lamping develops a number of systematic redefinitions in Das lyrische Gedicht . The "poem" he sees as "Versrede" or "speech in verse," the "lyrical poem" as a "single speech in verse." He countered the failure of earlier poetry concepts in modern poetry, which he criticized, with a historically oriented testing of his definitions. The interdisciplinary Poetry Handbook published by Lamping brings together articles on the theory, analysis, typology, history and communication of poetry.

Genus theory

The genre-related work includes both general theory of the genre and the development of specific genre definitions. The main concern of the general theoretical work appears to be the reflective mediation of genre-theoretical and genre-historical approaches as well as structural and functional-historical approaches. The individual generic definitions endeavor to (re) construct definitions that are sufficiently precise but as little restrictive as possible. In addition to the lyrical poem, the aphorism is of particular interest . The preoccupation with Lichtenberg can also be classified in this context .

World literature

Lamping has taken a theoretical and practical position in the world literature discussion on several occasions, especially in the course of his preoccupation with the central fields of comparative literature . He is interested in international relationships between authors as well as literary internationality determined by intertextuality. Based on Goethe's conception of the term, Lamping advocates an intertextual, relational understanding of world literature that differs both from a purely additive conceptual understanding that encompasses all literatures of the world and from a normative use in the sense of a canon. World literature is understood as a corpus of texts that either actively refer to one another across linguistic boundaries or passively become the subject of such references.

Intercultural and Jewish Literature

With the anthology Dein aschenes Haar Sulamith , Dieter Lamping presented a representative collection of literary texts depicting the Holocaust for the first time . Lamping examines the contribution of Jewish authors to German literature in the volume Von Kafka bis Celan , which is a differentiated and work-related treatise on Jewish identity in German-language literature of the 20th century. The study of this topic is continued in the anthology Identity and Memory , which asks about the significance of 1945 for Jewish identity. Lamping sees Jewish literature as a paradigmatic example of intercultural literature . Further work on intercultural literature includes: a. with Adelbert von Chamisso as an intercultural poet, author in exile , the language change and the bilingualism of authors.

Translation theory

In his work on literary translation , Lamping defended the tendency of modern translators to strive for free adaptation in places rather than literal accuracy (such as Rilke in Louise Labé , Walter Benjamin in Baudelaire , Borchardt in Dante or Paul Celan in Shakespeare ). Against a normative translation theory, he advocates a relational theory that understands literary translation as “literature from and about literature” and, in addition to the reference to the original, also the reference to its author, to the linguistic and literary context, to the intended audience of the Translation and especially the translator himself.

Modern

In the field of literary modernism , Lamping has dealt with a number of representative authors such as B. Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Kafka , William Carlos Williams , Karl Kraus , Joseph Roth , Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , WH Auden , René Schickele u. a. In doing so, he highlighted the participation of her works in an international literary tradition (cf., for example, the anthologies Rilke and Die Weltliteratur and Kafka and Die Weltliteratur, co-edited by Lamping ). The focus of interest is often the innovative performance of modern authors. Lamping describes this innovative achievement in the field of lyric poetry as a break with the traditional poem type influenced by Romanticism through the use of new linguistic (alienation) or formal ( free verse ) means.

Editions

Lamping is the publisher of an annotated selection of poetry and prose by Rainer Maria Rilke , a two-volume annotated edition of the collected works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (along with Frank Zipfel), the first annotated edition of the collected works Alfred Andersch (10 volumes) and an annotated edition of the Collected Works by Franz Kafka (together with Sandra Poppe). He has also edited a representative selection of the literary portraits and reviews of Ludwig Marcuse and the works of Karl Kraus, as well as a collection of aphorisms (together with Simone Frieling).

Literary criticism and poetry

In recent years, Dieter Lamping has also devoted himself increasingly to columnist literary criticism. In addition to contributions to the Frankfurter Anthologie in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , among others , he is primarily active as a literary critic, essayist and columnist on the literaturkritik.de literary portal. Since 2013, Lamping has also been responsible for the bimonthly online magazine Komparatistik at literaturkritik.de.

In 2011 Lamping's first volume of poetry, Südwestwind, was published by E. Humbert Verlag, Neu-Bamberg.

Publications

Monographs

  • The name in the story. Bouvier, Bonn 1983. ISBN 978-3-416017121 .
  • The lyric poem. Definitions of theory and history of the genus Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989. Third edition 2000, ISBN 978-3-525207789 .
  • Modern poetry. An introduction. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1991. ISBN 978-3-525335734 .
  • Lichtenberg's literary afterlife. A reception story. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992. ISBN 978-3-525207819 .
  • Literature and theory. About poetological problems of modernity. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996. ISBN 978-3-525012178 .
  • From Kafka to Celan. Jewish Discourse in 20th Century German Literature. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998. ISBN 978-3-525012215 .
  • Today`s Germany and the Jews. The Representation of Jews in Post-War German Literature. Indiana University, Bloomington University Press, Indiana 1998.
  • Across Borders - A Literary Topography. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001. ISBN 978-3525208168 .
  • What should comparatists read? (together with Frank Zipfel). Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2005. ISBN 978-3-503-07954-4 .
  • "We live in a political world". Poetry and politics since 1945. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-525-20859-5 .
  • Modern poetry. Revised and expanded new edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-525-20862-5 .
  • The idea of ​​world literature. A concept of Goethe and his career (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 509). Kröner, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-520-50901-7 .
  • This beautiful city. Goethe and Mainz - Mainz and Goethe. (together with Simone Frieling). E. Humbert Verlag, Neu-Bamberg 2012. ISBN 978-3939285045 .
  • International literature. An introduction to the field of comparative literature. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-8252-3938-1 .

Editions, anthologies and anthologies (selection)

  • Ludwig Marcuse: How old can current news be. Literary portraits and reviews. Diogenes, Zurich 1989. ISBN 3-257-01825-8 .
  • Your ashen hair Sulamith. Poetry about the Holocaust. Piper Verlag, Munich and Zurich 1992. Second edition 1993, ISBN 3-492-11506-3 .
  • Rilke and world literature (together with M. Engel). Winkler, Düsseldorf and Zurich 1999. ISBN 3-538-07084-9 .
  • Rainer Maria Rilke: Poetry and prose. Winkler, Düsseldorf and Zurich: Winkler 1999 (various reprints). ISBN 978-3538069640 .
  • Sleep sweet sleep - poems and stories about sleep. , with 6 illustrations by Gustave Courbet , together with Simone Frieling, Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf and Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-538-06842-9 .
  • Identity and memory in Jewish literature after 1945. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-503-06164-9 .
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Collected works (2 volumes, together with F. Zipfel). Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf and Zurich 2003 and 2004 (various reprints). ISBN 3-538-05427-4 and 3-538-05433-9.
  • Kafka and world literature (together with M. Engel). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006. ISBN 978-3-525-20844-1 .
  • Alfred Andersch: Collected Works. Annotated edition. 10 volumes. Diogenes, Zurich 2004. ISBN 3-257-06360-1 .
  • Karl Kraus: The shining torch. Anaconda, Cologne 2007. Second edition 2011, ISBN 978-3866471078 .
  • Franz Kafka: Collected Works. 2 volumes (together with S. Poppe). Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf and Zurich 2007 and 2008. ISBN 978-3-538-05953-5 and 978-3-538-05944-3.
  • Aphorisms of world literature from 500 years (together with Simone Frieling). Anaconda, Cologne 2008. ISBN 978-3866472747 .
  • General education - works of world literature: you have to know that (together with Simone Frieling). Arena, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-401-50020-1 .
  • Manual of literary genres. (together with Sandra Poppe, Sascha Seiler, Frank Zipfel). Alfred Kröner, Stuttgart 2009. ISBN 978-3-520-84101-8 .
  • Handbook of Poetry: Theory - Analysis - History. Metzler, Stuttgart 2011. ISBN 978-3-476-02346-9 .

Articles (selection)

  • Jewish literature. Aspects and perspectives of their Germanistic and comparative research. In: Michael Brenner and Stefan Rohrbacher (eds.): Jewish studies in Germany. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, pp. 198-206.
  • Bilingualism and Interculturality in Jewish Literature. On the problem of “literary internationalism”. In: Monika Schmitz-Emans and Manfred Schmeling (eds.): Aspects of globalization. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999, pp. 247-258.
  • Storytelling as a search for meaning. Forms and functions of autobiographical narration in Alfred Andersch's work. In: Rüdiger Zymner u. a. (Ed.): Narrated world - world of narration. Festschrift for Dietrich Weber. Cologne: edition chova 2000, pp. 217-229.
  • Beauty and pain. Aporias of literary representation of pain in Sophocles, Rilke and Brodkey. In: KulturPoetik 3 (2003), pp. 192-206.
  • Literature and science. An exploratory attempt. In: KulturPoetik 5 (2005), pp. 139–152.
  • "What could have been". Borchardt's 'German Dante'. In: Michael Scheffel u. a. (Ed.): Aesthetic transgressions. Festschrift for Ulrich Ernst on his 60th birthday. Trier: WVT 2006, pp. 155-169.
  • "A piece of the Occident" on the edge. Sicily in post-war German literature. In: Béatrice Bijon u. a. (Ed.): Le Mezzogiorno des écrivains européens. Saint-Étienne 2006, pp. 219-227.
  • Homage with reservation. Modern lyric poets and Schiller. In: Walter Hinderer (ed.): Schiller's way into modernity. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2006, pp. 511–524.
  • Federal Republic of Germany / From 1945 until reunification. In: Walter Hinderer (ed.): History of political poetry in Germany. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2006, pp. 327–362.
  • Benn, Marinetti, Auden - a constellation of modernity. In: Friederike Reents (Ed.): Gottfried Benns Modernität. Göttingen: Wallstein 2007, pp. 36–54.
  • Interculturality as a subject of comparative literature. In: Natur und Geist 1 (2007), pp. 25-27.
  • Lyric analysis. In: Thomas Anz (Hrsg.): Handbuch Literaturwissenschaft. Volume 2: Theories and Methods. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2007, pp. 139–155.
  • Comparative text analysis. In: Thomas Anz (Hrsg.): Handbuch Literaturwissenschaft. Volume 2: Theories and Methods. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2007, pp. 216–224.
  • Literature as a critique of photography. Paul Theroux's “Picture Palace” and Günter Kunert's “Camera Obscura”. In: Sandra Poppe and Sascha Seiler (eds.): Literary media reflections. Arts and media in the focus of modern and postmodern literature. Berlin: Erich Schmidt 2008, pp. 171–184.
  • Modern Poetry and Popular Music: The Young Bob Dylan. In: Sigfrid Gauch u. a. (Ed.): Before changing. Yearbook for Literature 14. Frankfurt a. M .: Brandes & Apsel 2008, pp. 76-90.
  • Politics and the private. Everyday life and humanity in political poetry of the late 20th century. In: Monika Schmitz-Emans u. a. (Ed.): Comparative literature as a human science. Festschrift for Manfred Schmeling's 65th birthday. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2008, pp. 249–261.
  • The 'border genius'. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and European literature. In: Angermio (1), pp. 33-50.
  • Kafka's readings. In: Manfred Engel / Bernd Auerochs (eds.): Kafka manual. Stuttgart 2010, pp. 29-36.
  • Comparative genre research. In: Rüdiger Zymner (Ed.): Genus theory. Stuttgart 2010, pp. 270-273.
  • Theories of poetry. In: Rüdiger Zymner (Ed.): Genus theory. Stuttgart 2010, pp. 324-327.
  • German literature by non-German authors. Notes on the concept of "Chamisso literature". In: Chamisso No. 5 (March 2011), pp. 18-22.
  • Comparative genre research. In: Rüdiger Zymner (Ed.): Genus theory. Stuttgart: Metzler 2010, pp. 270-273.
  • Norms and standards of literary comparative literature. In: Journal of Literary Theory 5 (2011), 2, pp. 229-232.
  • The number as a poetic compositional principle. About the aesthetic pleasure in mathematical order, in: Andrea Albrecht , Gesa von Essen, Werner Frick (Ed.): Numbers, signs and figures. Mathematical inspirations in art and literature. Berlin: De Gruyter 2011, pp. 177–190.
  • Relations and functions of literary translation. A theoretical sketch. In: Jahrbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache 38 (2012). Munich: Iudicum, pp. 87-96.
  • A poem as a scandal. “What has to be said” by Günter Grass and others. In: Heinrich Detering, Per Øhrgaard (Ed.): What was said. A documentary about Günter Grass' “What must be said” and the German debate. Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. pp. 331–336.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Lamping, Dieter / Weber, Dieter (Hg): Genus theory and genre history. Wuppertal 1990, Lamping, Dieter a. a. (Ed.) Handbook of literary genres. Stuttgart 2009 (especially: introduction)
  2. ↑ Cf. Lamping, Dieter / Frieling, Simone (ed.): Aphorisms of world literature from 500 years. Cologne 2008.
  3. ↑ Cf. Lamping, Dieter: Lichtenbergs literary afterlife. A reception story. Goettingen 1992.
  4. ↑ Cf. Lamping, Dieter: Internationale Literatur. Göttingen 2013.
  5. ↑ cf. a. Lamping, Dieter: The Idea of ​​World Literature. A concept of Goethe and his career. Stuttgart 2010; Lamping, Dieter: World literature as reading for comparatists. In: Lamping, Dieter / Zipfel, Frank: What should comparatists read ?. Berlin 2005.
  6. ↑ Lamping, Dieter (ed.): Your aschenes Haar Sulamith. Poetry about the Holocaust. Munich 1992.
  7. ^ Lamping, Dieter: From Kafka to Celan. Jewish Discourse in 20th Century German Literature. Goettingen 1998.
  8. ^ Lamping, Dieter (Ed.): Identity and Memory in Jewish Literature after 1945. Berlin 2003.
  9. ^ Lamping, Dieter: "A poor thoughtless guest." Adelbert von Chamisso's intercultural poetry. In: Chiellino, Carmine / Shchyhlevska, Natalia (ed.): Moving language. From guest worker German to intercultural writing. Dresden 2014, pp. 15–27.
  10. ^ Lamping, Dieter: Do writers only have one language? About the change of language in exile literature. In: Ders .: Literature and theory: about poetological problems of modernity. Göttingen 1996, pp. 33-48.
  11. ^ Lamping, Dieter: About borders. A literary topography. Göttingen 2001.
  12. ↑ See, inter alia, Lamping, Dieter: The freedom of the translator. On Rilke's transmission of the sonnets Louise Labes. In: Euphorion 83 (1989), No. 4, pp. 431-449; ders .: "What could have been". Borchardt's 'German Dante'. In: Michael Scheffel u. a. (Ed.): Aesthetic transgressions. Festschrift for Ulrich Ernst on his 60th birthday. Trier: WVT 2006, pp. 155-169.
  13. ↑ Developed in detail in Lamping, Dieter: Relations and functions of literary translation. A theoretical sketch. In: Jahrbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache 38 (2012). Munich: Iudicium, pp. 87-96.
  14. ↑ See, for example, Lamping, Dieter: Moderne Lyrik. Göttingen 2008.
  15. ↑ Comparative literature at literaturkritik.de . literaturkritik.de. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Lamping, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comparator
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Lohne (Oldenburg)