Ethel Matala de Mazza

Ethel Grace Matala de Mazza (born October 23, 1968 in Unkel ) is a German Germanist and professor of modern German literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

After graduating from high school, Matala de Mazza studied modern German literature, philosophy, linguistics and art history at the Ruhr University Bochum , the Paris Sorbonne and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1987 to 1994 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . She then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for German Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where she received her doctorate in 1999 with a thesis “on the project of an organic community in political romanticism”. From 2000 to 2002, Matala de Mazza was also a postdoctoral fellow on the “Poetology of Corporations” project at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin. After stays at the University of Chicago and Harvard University, she completed her habilitation in modern German literary studies in 2007 and represented Inka Mülder-Bach's chair at the LMU.

In the winter semester 2007/08 Matala de Mazza received a reputation as professor of cultural theory and cultural studies methods to Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration" of the University of Konstanz and did research there at the junction of text scientific with cultural and socio-theoretical issues in the study of literature. In the 2010/11 winter semester, Matala de Mazza succeeded Erhard Schütz on the Chair of Modern German Literature, with special emphasis on the period from the 18th century to the present, at the Institute for German Literature at the HU Berlin.

Matala de Mazza's research focuses on cultural theory and cultural anthropology as well as the history of literature from the 17th to the 20th century.

Matala is a member of the editorial team of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte , for which she has published several issues.

On February 2, 2016 was Booksellers Association of the German Book Trade appeal Matala de Mazza in the Board of Trustees of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade known. There she succeeds Ulrich Khuon , director of the Deutsches Theater Berlin , who is stepping down as a board member after six years.

Works (selection)

Monographs

The composed body. On the project of an organic community in political romanticism (= Rombach Sciences. Litterae series. Vol. 68). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1999, ISBN 3-7930-9213-5 (also: Munich, University, dissertation, 1998/99).
with Thomas Frank, Albrecht Koschorke , Susanne Lüdemann: The emperor's new clothes. About the imaginary political rule (= Fischer-Taschenbücher 15448 Forum Wissenschaft, Kultur & Medien ). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-596-15448-0 .
with Thomas Frank, Albrecht Koschorke, Susanne Lüdemann: The fictional state. Constructions of the political body in the history of Europe (= Fischer 17147). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-17147-7 .
The popular pact. Negotiations of the modern between operetta and feature pages . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-397234-4 .

Editorships

with Uwe Hebekus, Albrecht Koschorke (Hrsg.): Das Politische. Figure theory of the social body after romanticism. Fink, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7705-3894-3 .
with Clemens Pornschlegel (ed.): Staged world. Theatricality as an argument in literary texts (= Rombach Sciences. Litterae series. Vol. 106). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2003, ISBN 3-7930-9349-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Matala de Mazza, Ethel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Matala de Mazza, Ethel Grace (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist, cultural scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 23, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Uncle