Dietmar Till

Dietmar Till (* 1969 in Laupheim ) is a German specialist in German studies and a university professor .

Life

From 1991 to 1997 he studied general rhetoric, modern German literature and philosophy in Tübingen . He obtained his master's degree in Tübingen in 1997 , his doctorate in 2002 from the University of Tübingen and his habilitation from the University of Göttingen in 2010/2011 ( Venia legendi for German Philology and Comparative Literature). From 1997 to 2000 he received a scholarship from the GK Pragmatisierung / Entpragmatisierung in Tübingen. In 1998 and 1999 he was a scholarship holder of the Dr. Günter Findel Foundation in the Herzog August Library . In 2000 he did a research stay at the Göttingen University Library . From 2000 to 2003 he was a research assistant at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Regensburg . From 2003 to 2008 he was a research assistant at the German Department of the University of Tübingen. In 2006 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Washington . From 2008 to 2011 he headed the research project “Rhetoric of Empathy” at the Languages ​​of Emotion Cluster of Excellence, FU Berlin . Since 2011 he has held the chair for general rhetoric at the University of Tübingen.

His areas of research and work are rhetoric in history, theory and practice, propaganda research, the theoretical history of aesthetics and poetics, literary and cultural history of the early modern period and narrative research (especially telling and convincing).

Works (selection)

• Transformations of Rhetoric. Studies on the change in rhetoric theory in the 17th and 18th centuries (= early modern times. Volume 91). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-484-36591-9 (also dissertation, Tübingen 2002).
• The double sublime. A figure of argumentation from antiquity to the beginning of the 19th century (= studies on German literature. Volume 175). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-484-18175-3 .
• as editor: Swabian Romanticism. An anthology (= Bibliotheca Suevica. Volume 28). Edition Isele, Konstanz / Eggingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86142-477-2 .
• as editor: Rhetoric in the 18th century (= Rhetoric. Volume 33). De Gruyter, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2014, OCLC 1014907555 .

Web links

• General rhetoric - University of Tübingen: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Till. In: rhetorik.uni-tuebingen.de. Retrieved February 17, 2019 . 
• Dietmar Till. In: uni-tuebingen.academia.edu. Retrieved February 17, 2019 .