Günter Blamberger

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Günter Blamberger in February 2014 at a conference in Delhi

Günter Blamberger (born October 16, 1951 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German literary and cultural scientist and professor of modern German literature at the University of Cologne . He became known for his research on Heinrich von Kleist and as director of the International Science College Morphomata .

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After a state examination for German, geography and history, Günter Blamberger initially became a research assistant for cultural geography at the University of Bayreuth with a research focus on the oriental city. In 1979 he moved to the German seminar at the University of Erlangen , where he received his doctorate in 1983 with a thesis on the poetics of contemporary German fiction (with case studies on novels by Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass) and completed his habilitation in 1990 with a study on the history of inspiration theory between Goethe's time and Modernism (with case studies on artist novellas by ETA Hoffmann, Eduard Mörike, Theodor Storm and Thomas Mann). From 1992 he was Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Kassel . In 1994, he succeeded Ulrich Sonnemann as managing director of the Science Center II for culture, media and psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel. In April 1995 he accepted a professorship for German Philology at the University of Cologne . From 1999 to 2004 he headed the projects “Archeology of Media Theory” (with Bernhard Dotzler) and “Loudspeakers: Media Discourses and Media Practices in the Era of National Socialism” (with the support of Bernhard Dotzler) in the cultural studies research college of the DFG 'Media and Cultural Communication' (SFB / FK 427) Cornelia Epping-Jäger).

Together with the archaeologist Dietrich Boschung, he has been the director of the International Morphomata College at the University of Cologne, established with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, since April 2009. As an interdisciplinary center for advanced studies with fellows from all over the world, it researches such as works of the arts and of literature in the course of changing times and cultures, forming knowledge of existential questions. Blamberger's interest here is primarily in aesthetic ideas of creativity, death, and the knowledge or design of something biographically special. In January 2016, the University of Cologne awarded Blamberger the university prize in the research category.

Blamberger has been President of the Heinrich von Kleist Society since 1996 and is responsible for its international conferences, the Kleist Prize and the Kleist Yearbook. For the 200th anniversary of Kleist's death in 2011, he designed and organized the Kleist Memorial Year on behalf of and with funds from the German Federal Cultural Foundation. He curated a. a. the double exhibition on Kleist in the Ephraim-Palais Berlin and in the Kleist-Museum Frankfurt (Oder) and arranged the catalog together with the scenographer Stefan Iglhaut. He also published an extensive Kleist biography in S. Fischer Verlag, which shows Kleist as a border crosser between the nobility and the bourgeoisie, as a disappointed idealist and project maker, whose risky thinking and writing as an abstention from halting in times of crisis fascinates and worries to this day. The biography was chosen by a jury of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels as the top title of the year 2011 in the field of humanities non-fiction, the FAZ praised it as “the best biography of this period so rich in Kleist biographies”, in Times Literary Supplement it said: “This new biography is certain to remain the definitive Life of Kleist for a generation ".

In addition to Kleist, creativity research, the literary and cultural history of death, the theory and history of aesthetic ideas in a cultural comparison, the poetics of modern novels and modern poetry, Blamberger's interest since the dissertation has been the interpretation of contemporary literature and the theory and practice of its communication. He has been a full member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry since 2015 . He was or is a member of numerous juries ( Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor , Heinrich Böll Prize , Kleist Prize, etc.). In 2010 he installed a lectureship for world literature at the University of Cologne and appointed Daniel Kehlmann , Péter Esterházy , Sibylle Lewitscharoff and Michael Lentz as 'literators'. In 2015, together with Heinrich Detering , he founded the international literary festival Poetica , which annually in January brings poets from all over the world together with humanities scholars on changing topics in public readings and discussions and in particular focuses on poetry as a marginalized genre of world literature. A curator who is also a Fellow of the Morphomata-Kolleg is in charge and moderation: Michael Krüger (2015), Aleš Šteger (2016), Monika Rinck (2017), Yoko Tawada (2018).

Blamberger's international reputation is based on numerous invitations abroad. In spring 2017 he was a Max-Kade-Critic at Washington University, St. Louis, in spring 2016 a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. He has been a visiting professor and lecturer since 1990 a. a. at the following universities: Adelaide, Aix-en-Provence, Buenos Aires, Exeter, Fortaleza, Krakow, London, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Melbourne, Parma, Paris, Venice, Vienna, Xi'an, Shanghai, Yale and Durham.

Private

Günter Blamberger is married, has two daughters and lives in Cologne and Berlin. At times he lived with Hannelore Elsner .

Memberships

Günter Blamberger is a member of the German-Chinese research cooperation “Literaturstrasse”, the IVG , he was or is also active for selection committees of the DAAD and for nominations by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . He is also a member of the German Academy for Football Culture

Awards

On May 6, 2019 he was awarded the "Cross of Merit on Ribbon" of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Cologne by the Lord Mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker, on behalf of Federal President Steinmeier in Cologne's historic town hall.

Monographs and edited volumes (selection)

  • From dealing with facts. Answers from the natural, social and human sciences . Edited with Axel Freimuth, Peter Strohschneider. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2018 ISBN 978-3-7705-6381-4
  • Imaginations of Death and the Beyond in India and Europe . Edited with Sudhir Kakar. Singapore: Springer, 2018 ISBN 978-981-10-6706-8
  • Beyond Identity - The Art of Transformation . Ed. With Marta Dopieralski, Yoko Tawada. Tübingen: Bankruptcy Book, 2018 ISBN 978-3-88769-818-8
  • The soul and its languages . Edited with Monika Rinck, Heinrich Detering, Sebastian Goth. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2017 ISBN 978-3-7705-6192-6
  • On creativity . Edited with Sudhir Kakar. Gurgaon-New Delhi: Viking / Penguin Books India, 2015 ISBN 978-0-670-08807-2
  • Are All Thinkers Sad? Case studies on the melancholy cause of creativity in Asia and Europe . Edited with Tanja Klemm, Sidonie Kellerer, Jan Söffner . Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2015 ISBN 978-3-7705-5724-0
  • Venus as Muse . From Lucretius to Michel Serres. Edited with Hanjo Berressem, Sebastian Goth. Leiden, Boston: Brill / Rodopi, 2015 ISBN 978-90-04-29247-5
  • On unsteady ground. Decadence and death in the Venice of modernity. Edited with Sabine Meine, Björn Moll, Klaus Bergdolt. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2014 ISBN 978-3-7705-5612-0
  • Figuring Death, Figuring Creativity: On the Power of Aesthetic Ideas . Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013 ISBN 978-3-7705-5605-2
  • Literator 2011: Péter Esterházy. Edited with Ines Barner. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013 ISBN 978-3-7705-5445-4
  • Possibility thinking. Utopia and dystopia in the present. Edited with Martin Roussel, Wilhelm Vosskamp. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013 ISBN 978-3-7705-5554-3
  • Economy of the victim. Literature under the sign of suicide . Edited with Sebastian Goth. Munich: Wilhelm Fink-Verlag, 2013 ISBN 978-3-7705-5611-3
  • Literator 2010 - Daniel Kehlmann . Edited with Ines Barner. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2012 ISBN 978-3-7705-5338-9
  • Kleist. Crisis and experiment . The double exhibition in the Kleist year 2011 in Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder). Edited with Stefan Iglhaut. Bielefeld / Leipzig / Berlin: Kerber Verlag, 2011 ISBN 978-3-86678-500-7
  • Kleist yearbook . Edited with Klaus Müller-Salget a. a. Stuttgart: JBMetzler, (1998 -) ISBN 3-476-01626-9 -
  • Morphomata - Cultural Figurations: Genesis, Dynamics, Mediality . Edited with Dietrich Boschung. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2011 ISBN 978-3-7705-5148-4
  • Study professionally . Edited with Hermann Glaser, Ulrich Glaser. Munich: CH Beck, 1993 ISBN 3-406-37732-7
  • The secret of creativity or: ingenium est ineffabile? Studies on the literary history of creativity between the age of Goethe and the modern age . Stuttgart: JBMetzler, 1991 ISBN 3-476-00745-6
  • Narrative literature of the early post-war period (1945-1952). Edited with Volker Wehdeking. Munich: CH Beck, 1990 ISBN 3-406-34759-2
  • Attempt on the German contemporary novel. Awareness of crises and a new foundation under the sign of melancholy . Stuttgart: JB Metzler, 1985 ISBN 3-476-00584-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Blamberger. In: Gerhard Lüdtke, Hans Strodel, Hans Jaeger: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar - Volumes 1–3. Saur, 1996, p. 278
  2. ^ Morphomata University of Cologne / Günter Blamberger. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  3. ^ Günter Blamberger: Attempt on the German contemporary novel . JB Metzler, 1985, ISBN 3-476-00584-4 .
  4. ^ Günter Blamberger: The secret of the creative . JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-476-00745-6 .
  5. ↑ Kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungskolleg SFB-FK 427 "Media and Cultural Communication" (Cologne) - SOFISwiki. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on September 8, 2017 (German (Sie-Salutation)).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / sofis.gesis.org  
  6. ↑ Morphomata Uni Köln / About Morphomata. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  7. ↑ University awards . Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  8. ^ Kleist portal: Heinrich von Kleist Society: Board of Directors. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  9. ^ Kleist portal: Kleist Museum: The exhibition. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  10. ^ Günter Blamberger: Heinrich von Kleist. A biography. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-15346-6 .
  11. ↑ Award-winning works April 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  12. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH: Günter Blamberger: Heinrich von Kleist: It remained the truth of feeling. July 6, 2011, accessed September 8, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Officer material - TheTLS. Retrieved September 8, 2017 (UK English).
  14. ^ Research. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  15. ^ German Academy for Language and Poetry - Academy - Members - Günter Blamberger. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  16. ↑ z. E.g . : Literator 2010 . Ed .: Ines Barner, Günter Blamberger. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-5338-9 , pp. 240 .
  17. ^ Max Kade Writers and Critics | Department of Germanic Languages ​​and Literatures. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 29, 2014 ; accessed on September 8, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / german.wustl.edu
  18. ↑ International Visitors: 2015-2016 . In: Stanford Humanities . ( stanford.edu [accessed September 8, 2017]).
  19. ↑ Biographical. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Etz & Wels. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 8, 2017 ; accessed on September 8, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.etzundwels.de
  21. ^ Message in the Hamburger Abendblatt from October 2, 2002
  22. ↑ https://www.fussball-kultur.org/adresse/address/guenter-blamberger
  23. ↑ Committed citizens honored; Order of Merit for Blamberger, Schwieren and Wackerhagen. from May 7, 2019. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
personal data
SURNAME Blamberger, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main