Eva Horn

Eva Horn (born August 1, 1965 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German cultural and literary scholar and university professor at the University of Vienna .

Life

Eva Horn studied German , general literature, Romance studies and philosophy in Bielefeld , Konstanz and Paris . In 1996, she was at the University of Konstanz with a thesis on text forms of mourning in the literature of the Goethe time doctorate . From 1999 to 2005 she worked as a university assistant at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder) , among other things as coordinator of the Graduate School Representation - Rhetoric - Knowledge . After her habilitation , she was appointed to the University of Basel in 2005 . In 2008 she was appointed to the University of Vienna and has been a university professor there since 2009.

In her work, Horn deals with the phenomenon of insufficient human imagination with regard to the climate crisis . She once said: "The climate crisis is a very strange type of catastrophe, namely one without a big bang." According to this, despite the excellent work of climate researchers, we cannot properly imagine the changes and do not consider them real.

Eva Horn is a member of the executive committee of the Intelligence Service discussion group in Berlin.

Awards

• 2020: Heinrich Mann Prize for Essay Writing

Publications

• Write grief. The dead in the text of the Goethe era. Fink, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7705-3314-3 (also dissertation at the University of Konstanz 1996, online - PDF, 230 pages, 1.6 MB ).
• with Stefan Kaufmann and Ulrich Bröckling : border violators . Kadmos, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931659-26-7 .
• with Bettine Menke and Christoph Menke : Literature as Philosophy - Philosophy as Literature . Fink, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7705-4099-9 .
• The secret war. Treason, espionage and modern fiction. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-17707-3 .
• New German Media Theory , Special Issue Gray Room, 29, Fall 2007, ISSN  1526-3819 .
• with Anson Rabinbach: Dark Powers. Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theory in History and Fiction , Special Issue New German Critique 103, Winter 2008, ISSN  0094-033X .
• with Lucas Gisi: swarms - collectives without a center. A story of knowledge between life and information . Transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1133-5
• as editor with Michael Hagemeister The Fiction of the Jewish World Conspiracy. On the text and context of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-0498-7 .
• Future as a disaster. Fiction and prevention . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-401376-3 .
  • engl .: The future as catastrophe: imagining disaster in the modern age . Translated by Valentine Pakis. Columbia University Press, New York 2018, ISBN 978-0-231-18862-3 .
• with Hannes Bergthaller: Anthropocene - for an introduction . Junius, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-96060-311-5 .

literature

• The power of the secret services . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 2007, p. 194 ( online - October 1, 2007 ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva Horn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage with list of publications
• Eva Horn on Academia.edu
• Dispatch to Vienna. Kleist's Herrmannsschlacht and the Politics of Literature Inaugural lecture at the University of Vienna
• Interview with Eva Horn about her book project on the subject of the future as a coming catastrophe
• Eva Horn in the database of renowned academics AcademiaNet
• The human appears in the Anthropocene, consequences of a new epoch. Eva Horn in conversation with Michael Reitz. Deutschlandfunk, May 24, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/kulturwissenschaftlerin-ueber-den-klimawandel-eine.1008.de.html?dram:article_id=481808
2. ↑ http://www.gknd.de/vorstand.html