Friedrich Ulfers

Friedrich Ulfers (* 1934 in Gießen ) is a German-American German studies specialist and professor of German studies at New York University .

life and work

After emigrating to New York, Ulfers studied at the university there, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from City College of New York in 1959 and a master's degree from New York University in 1961 , and received his doctorate in 1968 from the same university.

Ulfers has taught at New York University since 1982. During his teaching activities, Ulfers took on a number of administrative functions, for example, he was the German department head of the undergraduate studies at NYU, he was the head of the Berlin summer program in the Department of Global Affairs of the NYU and head of the "German House" in New York.

Friedrich Ulfers has published on a variety of topics, such as German Romanticism , the novel of the 20th century, philosophy at the turn of the century, post-structuralism and deconstruction . He also wrote literary reviews and articles in the field of philosophy.

Ulfers has received various awards from New York University, including the Great Teacher Award (1991) and the Golden Dozen Teaching Award (1989).

Works

• Times Square as an Exemplar of Postmodern Urban Space. Toward a New Metropolitanism: Reconstituting Public Culture, Urban Citizenship, and the Multicultural Imaginary in New York and Berlin. Ed. Friedrich Ulfers, Gunter Lenz, and Antje Dallmann, Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 2006, pp. 251–60.
• (with Mark Cohen): Nietzsche's Amor Fati: The Embracing of an Undecided Fate . In: Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts and Communication 9 (2007).
• Nietzsche's Ontological Roots in Goethe's Classicism. In: Nietzsche and Antiquity. His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition. Ed. Paul Bishop , Boydell & Brewer Ltd (UK), 2004.
• From skepticism to utopia: Musil's idea of ​​'essaysism'. In: Skepticism and Literary Imagination. Ed. Bernd Hüppauf and Klaus Vieweg , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003.
• Nietzsche's Idea of ​​'Education'. In: Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts and Communication . 4, 2002, pp. 30-36.
• Friedrich Nietzsche as a Bridge from 19th Century Atomistic Science to the Process Philosophy of 20th Century Physics, Literature, and Ethics. In: Philological Papers, West Virginia University, 2002, 49, pp. 21-29.
• The Beyond in Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: Reflections on a Post-nihilistic Ethics. International Conference on "Culture after Nihilism" -Paris. Article forthcoming 1994.
• Myth and History in Günter Grass' Der Butt. Houston German Studies, vol. 3. 1982. 32-42.
• Encounter with German Poetry: Paul Celan. Teaching Language Through Literature, 19, no. 1. 1979. 34-41.
• Reality and symbol in Gerhart Hauptmann's Bahnwärter Thiel. Teaching Language Through Literature, 16, no. 2, 1977. 26-32.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Ulfers short profile at New York University. ( English ) New York University . Retrieved July 1, 2011.

Web links

• Friedrich Ulfers , New York University. College of Arts and Science. As of May 14, 2010. (English)
• Friedrich Ulfers New York University. Department of German. As of May 14, 2010. (English)