Friedhelm Marx

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Friedhelm Marx (born September 17, 1963 in Greven ) is a German literary scholar . His main research interests include the work of Thomas Mann , modern literature and contemporary German-language literature .

Live and act

Marx studied German and Catholic theology from 1984 to 1986 in Tübingen , until 1987 in Charlottesville and from 1987 in Bonn . In 1990 he completed his university studies in Bonn with the first state examination in both subjects. Until 1994 Marx worked at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal as a research assistant in the department of linguistics and literary studies and received his doctorate at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn on Wieland's and Goethe's novels ( Exquisite Heroes. Don Sylvio, Werther, Wilhelm Meister and literature ) to the Dr. phil.

Marx completed his assistantship from 1994 to 2000 under Jürgen Carl Jacobs in Wuppertal with the habilitation thesis "I but tell you ...". Christ figures in Thomas Mann's work . In 2000, Marx held a visiting professorship at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend . After three years as senior assistant at the University of Wuppertal, Marx was appointed to the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg in 2004 , where he has held the chair for modern German literary studies at the Institute for German Studies.

In 2020, as a Thomas Mann Fellow in Los Angeles, Marx would like to pursue the question of how the idea of ​​a united Europe, first developed in the 1920s, changed in American exile - against the background of the nationalistic boom in Germany and Europe, under the impression of the traumatic experience of the Exile and given the political constitution (and reality) of the United States of America.

Work (selection)

  • Thomas Mann and Nietzsche. An argument in Royal Highness. In: German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history (anno 1988, vol. 62, pp. 326–341)
  • Selected heroes. Don Sylvio, Werther, Wilhelm Meister and literature. University publishing house Carl Winter , Heidelberg 1995 ISBN 3-8253-0285-7 (Diss. Anno 1994 for Dr. phil.)
  • Schiller completely different. Gerhart Hauptmann's play with the Weimar Classic in the tragic comedy 'Die Ratten' . In: Journal for German Philology 115, 1996, pp. 122-136
  • Gerhart Hauptmann . Reclam , Stuttgart 1998 (RUB 17608, Literature Studies series), ISBN 3-15-017608-5
  • “But I tell you…” Christ figures in Thomas Mann's work . Verlag Vittorio Klostermann , Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-465-03172-5 (Habilitation thesis in Thomas Mann Studies, Vol. 25)
  • “ Measuring the World” as a historical novel, pp. 169–185 in: Gunther Nickel (Ed.): Daniel Kehlmann's “ Measuring the World”. Materials, documents, interpretations. Rowohlt Verlag , Reinbek near Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-24725-5
  • Cinema in the novel of the Weimar Republic. About Thomas Mann's 'Zauberberg' and Alfred Döblin's 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'. P. 139–152 in: Wolf Gerhard Schmidt , Thorsten Valk (Ed.): Literature intermedial. Paradigm formation between 1918 and 1968 . de Gruyter , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020801-6
  • Family disasters. About the narrative character of the family festival in contemporary literature. Pp. 131–141 in: Simone Costagli, Matteo Galli (ed.): German family novels. Literary genealogies and international context . Fink Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-5002-9

editor

  • along with
    • Lothar Bluhm , Andreas Meier: Interferences. Studies on the relationship between literature and history. Verlag Winter, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-533-04566-8
    • Wolfgang Bergem, Lothar Bluhm: Metaphor and Model. A Wuppertal colloquium on literary and scientific forms of the construction of reality , Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 1996, ISBN 3-88476-192-7
    • Andreas Meier: The European novel between enlightenment and postmodernism. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Jürgen C. Jacobs . VDG , Weimar 2001, ISBN 978-3-89739-204-5
    • Werner Frizen : Thomas Mann, Katia Mann - Anna Jacobson. An exchange of letters. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2005 ( Thomas Mann Studies. Vol. 34), ISBN 978-3-465-03408-7
    • Stephanie Catani: families, genders, power. Relationships in Ulrike Draesner's work. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0342-3
    • Stephanie Catani, Julia Schöll: Art of Memory, Poetics of Love. The narrative work of Hanns-Josef Ortheil. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0466-6 .
    • Stephanie Catani: Families tell. The literary work of John von Düffels. Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0611-0
    • Andrea Bartl: Beginnings of understanding. The literary work of Wilhelm Genazino. Wallstein, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0845-9
    • Heinrich Detering , Thomas Speaker : Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus - new views, new insights. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-465-03813-9
    • Julia Schöll: Truth and Deception. Contributions to the work of Jenny Erpenbeck . Wallstein, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 3-8353-1562-5
    • Andreas Blödorn: Thomas Mann Handbook. Life - work - effect. Verlag JB Metzler , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 3-476-02456-3
    • Stephanie Catani: Beyond borders. Texts and readings of contemporary German-language literature. Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1723-9

Offices and memberships

  • at the University of Bamberg
    • 2006–2007 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature
    • 2007–2009 Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies
    • 2009–2011 member of the Senate and the University Council
    • 2011–2013 Chairman of the Senate and Deputy Chairman of the University Council
    • Since 2004 coordinator of the poetics professorship
  • Since 2006 Vice President of the German Thomas Mann Society
  • Since 2014 member of the jury for the award of the E. T. A. Hoffmann Prize and the Culture Promotion Prize of the City of Bamberg
  • Since 2012 member of the international advisory board of the contemporary literature yearbook
  • 2012–2016 member of the jury for the award of literary grants from the Free State of Bavaria to writers; since 2016 member of the jury for the award of the Art Prize (literature) of the Free State of Bavaria
  • Since 2015 chairman of the jury for the award of the Thomas Mann Prize of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and the Bavarian Academy of the Arts

Web links

Tables of Contents

  1. ↑ to the person - Chair for Modern German Literature Studies. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Vice President Friedhelm Marx is Thomas Mann Fellow 2020 - German Thomas Mann Society. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Dissertation
  4. ↑ Gerhart Hauptmann
  5. ↑ Habilitation thesis
  6. ↑ Daniel Kehlmann's "Measuring the World"
  7. ↑ Cinema in the novel of the Weimar Republic
  8. ↑ Remembering, forgetting, telling
  9. ↑ Islands of Willingness
  10. ↑ Interferences
  11. ↑ The European novel between enlightenment and postmodernism
  12. ↑ Thomas Mann, Katia Mann - Anna Jacobson
  13. ↑ Families, genders, power
  14. ↑ Tell families
  15. ↑ Beginnings of understanding
  16. ↑ Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
  17. ↑ Truth and Deception
  18. ↑ Thomas Mann Handbook
  19. ↑ Beyond borders
personal data
SURNAME Marx, Friedhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Greven