Friedrich Schlegel Society

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The Friedrich Schlegel Society is a literary association, organized as a registered association. The Friedrich Schlegel Society promotes the preoccupation with the life and work of Friedrich Schlegel . It is based in Mainz . She gives the Athenaeum. Yearbook of the Friedrich Schlegel Society out.

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The Friedrich Schlegel Society was founded on April 13, 2007 by Ulrich Breuer (Mainz) and Nikolaus Wegmann (Princeton) in Mainz, where it is still based. Today it has about 100 members. The board consists of Christian Benne, University of Copenhagen (President); Andrea Albrecht , Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (1st Vice President); Ulrich Breuer, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2nd Vice President); Matthias Löwe, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (1st assessor and treasurer); Christopher Busch, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (2nd assessor).

The Friedrich Schlegel Society is committed to the development and research of Friedrich Schlegel's works in their literary, philosophical, cultural and media contexts. Other authors of early Romanticism and German and European Romanticism therefore also belong to the area of ​​interest . The Friedrich Schlegel Society would like to further disseminate the work of Friedrich Schlegel and his contemporaries through publications and lectures, conferences and readings.

The yearbook Athenaeum , published since 1991 , from 2008 under the title Athenaeum. Yearbook of the Friedrich Schlegel Society, has been published by Ferdinand Schöningh (since 2018 Brill ) on behalf of the Friedrich Schlegel Society since 2008 . It publishes treatises and reviews on Friedrich Schlegel and other authors of European Romanticism, on literary, philosophical, media-cultural, scientific and political reception of Romanticism as well as on the international and interdisciplinary influence of Romanticism.

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