Friedemann Spicker

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Friedemann Spicker (born February 26, 1946 in Neuss ) is a German literary scholar and aphorist .

Life

He took a degree in German literature, history and sociology at the University of Cologne, received his doctorate in 1973 and laid 1974, the first Philological state examination from. From 1974 to 1976 he was a research assistant at the "Critical Kafka Edition" workstation in Wuppertal . In 1977 the second state examination in philology followed. 1986–1991 he was lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service and assistant professor at Yonsei University in Seoul . From 1991–1995 he was employed at the Eichendorff College in Geilenkirchen . 1991–1992 he had a teaching position at the University of Cologne . After working as a freelance scientist in Amsterdam from 1995 to 2001, Spicker lives in Königswinter. 2001–2009 he was a teacher in adult education at the Rhein-Sieg evening high school . He has been a freelance academic writer since 2009.

After the 1st aphoristic meeting in Hattingen in 2004, he began preparatory work to set up a "German Aphorism Archive". In September 2005, together with his wife Angelika Spicker-Wendt, the Angelika and Friedemann-Spicker Foundation was set up to promote aphorism and related small forms through research, archiving and public events. In September 2005 he was a co-founder of the association for the support of the German Aphorism Archive (DAphA) Hattingen, of which he is the 2nd chairman. The opening of the German Aphorism Archive took place on November 3, 2006 as part of the 2nd aphoristic meeting, and since then he has been running the archive on a voluntary basis. He has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Lichtenberg Society and co-editor of the Lichtenberg yearbook since 2007 . On April 27, 2014, he and his wife founded the Aphorism Foundation Spicker-Wendt under the umbrella of the Cologne High School and Foundation Fund .

Publications

In his scientific and literary writings, Spicker primarily devotes himself to aphorism and related small literary forms. In addition to independent publications, anthologies (as editor), articles and reviews have also been published.

Independent publications

  • German Wanderer-, Vagabunden- and Vaganten lyric 1910 - 1933. Ways to Salvation - Streets of Escape. Berlin: de Gruyter 1976 (sources and research. New series 66 [190]). (Exposé in: Jb. F. Int. Germanistik. Series B, Volume 3. Bern: Lang 1976, pp. 159–162)
  • The aphorism. Term and genre from the middle of the 18th century to 1912. Berlin: de Gruyter 1997 (sources and research on literary and cultural history 11).
  • Studies on the history of the German aphorism in the 20th century. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2000 (studies and texts on the social history of literature 79).
  • The German aphorism in the 20th century. Game, picture, knowledge. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2004.
  • Brief history of the German aphorism. Tübingen: Francke 2007.
  • The world is full of sayings. Portrait of great aphorists. With the collaboration of Angelika Spicker-Wendt. Bochum: Brockmeyer 2010 (dapha-prints 3).
  • (Together with Jürgen Wilbert): The aphorism in Westphalia. With illustrations by Erich Krian. Bochum: Brockmeyer 2013 (dapha-prints 5).
  • (Together with Jürgen Wilbert): "Lice of Reason" - a literary-musical evening in memory of 250 years of Johann Gottfried Seume - 200 years of Friedrich Hebbel. Hattingen: DAphA 2013.
  • Minimal offensive. Records 1986-2011. Bochum: Brockmeyer 2013.
  • “Who has to decide where I belong?” The German-Jewish aphorism. Göttingen: V & R unipress 2017 (Poetics, Exegesis and Narrative 7).

Release

  • The debate about German reunification. Seoul 1991. (In Korean. Together with Jong-Taek Lim.)
  • Aphorisms of world literature. Stuttgart: Reclam 1999. 2nd expanded and updated edition 2009.
  • More than mountains and humps. Lichtenberg in the German aphorism of the 20th century. A little anthology. Part I: Lichtenberg Yearbook 2001, pp. 120-137; Part II: Lichtenberg Yearbook 2002, pp. 196–214.
  • (Together with P. Kamburg and J. Wilbert): Mind game. Aphorisms, specialist articles, illustrations. Documentation for the 2nd nationwide aphoristic meeting from November 4th to 6th, 2006 in Hattingen an der Ruhr. Bochum: Brockmeyer 2007.
  • Elazar Benyoëtz : The speech anchors in silence. Aphorisms and letters. Bochum: Brockmeyer 2007 (dapha-prints 1).
  • Hans Albrecht Moser : Ivy without a tree. Thoughts of the average person. Bochum: Brockmeyer 2009. (dapha-prints 2)
  • (Together with P. Kamburg and J. Wilbert): Witz - Bild - Sinn. Facets of contemporary aphorism. Contributions to the aphorism competition 2008. Bochum: Brockmeyer 2008.
  • (Together with P. Kamburg and J. Wilbert): Thought, image and joke. Aphorisms. Technical articles. Illustrations. Documentation for the 3rd aphoristic meeting from November 6th to 8th, 2008 in Hattingen an der Ruhr. Bochum: Brockmeyer 2009.
  • (Together with P. Kamburg and J. Wilbert): “Thoughts are impolite. They come without knocking. ”Anthology of the aphorism competition 2010. Bochum: Brockmeyer 2010.
  • Man lives as long as he is wrong. German aphorisms. Stuttgart: Reclam 2010.
  • (Together with P. Kamburg and J. Wilbert): Thought transmission. Aphorisms. Technical articles. Illustrations. Documentation for the 4th aphoristic meeting from November 4th - 6th 2010 in Hattingen an der Ruhr. Bochum: Brockmeyer 2011.
  • Martin Kessel : "Society's question mark". Aphorisms. With drawings by Gisbert Tönnis. Ed. And with an afterword by Friedemann Spicker. Bochum: Brockmeyer 2012 (dapha-prints 4).
  • (Together with P. Kamburg and J. Wilbert): “Riders of principles don't change their saddles.” Anthology for the 2012 aphorism competition “On the value of values.” Bochum: Brockmeyer 2012.
  • German aphorisms. Stuttgart: Reclam 2012 (RUB 18695).
  • (Together with P. Kamburg and J. Wilbert): Appreciation - Appreciation. The aphorism in the change of values. Aphorisms. Technical articles. Illustrations. Documentation for the 5th aphoristic meeting from November 1st to 3rd, 2012 in Hattingen an der Ruhr. Bochum: Brockmeyer 2013.
  • (Together with P. Kamburg and J. Wilbert) (eds.): “In the gears, the grain of sand becomes power.” Anthology for the aphorism competition 2014 “Big things in small things.” Bochum: Brockmeyer 2014.
  • (Together with Angelika Spicker-Wendt): The spirit is not male - only its article. Aphorisms from women. With works on paper by Monika Tönnis-Littek. Bochum: Brockmeyer 2015 (dapha-prints 6).

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personal data
SURNAME Spicker, Friedemann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and aphorist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss