Georg Erich Schmid

Georg E. Schmid 1995

Georg Erich Schmid (born April 5, 1944 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian and writer .

Life

Schmid began his studies at the University of Vienna , where he a. a. Attended lectures by the liberal-anti-Catholic historian Fritz Fellner . When he was appointed full professor at the University of Salzburg in 1964, he followed him as assistant. In 1968 he completed his dissertation with the title “American policy on Austria at the time of the Paris Peace Conference 1919”.

Schmid began to focus more on conceptual analysis, the philosophy of science , structuralism and finally semiology . His literary work is also strongly influenced by it.

With his habilitation thesis “Reading Doderer. To a historical theory of literary practice. Essai. ”He wanted to show that there was no generally binding“ historical method ”. He did this in line with the thesis of the French philosopher Michel Serres "Ça marche parce que ce ne marche pas". (“It works because it doesn't work”.) In this context, Paul Feyerabend is better known , who in 1975 published the thesis “Anything goes”. A “scientific method” is therefore always linked to the “(real) question of power”. On March 8, 1979 Schmid was appointed lecturer for the subject “General History of Modern Times”. On September 12, 1989, he received the title of "Extraordinary Professor" in Salzburg. He has taught at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Western Illinois University, and Paris VIII University - Vincennes à St.Denis.

His application to succeed Fritz Fellner as full professor failed in 1993. In 1994 Schmid took early retirement for health reasons. He lives and works in France.

Fonts

Scientific works

• Doderer read. To a historical theory of literary practice. Salzburg 1978.
• The characters of the kaleidoscope - About story (s) in film. Salzburg 1983.
• (Ed.): The signs of history. Contributions to a semiological history. Vienna / Cologne 1986.
• The track and the route - (post) modern milestones in historical science. Vienna u. a. 1988.
• with Hans Petschar: Memory and Vision. The legitimation of Austria in pictures. A semi-historical analysis of the Austria Wochenschau 1949–1960. Graz 1990.
• with Gernot Heiss, Oliver Rathkolb: Austria and Germany's greatness. A sloppy relationship. Salzburg 1990.
• with Hans Lindenbaum, Peter Staudacher: Movement and Perseverance - Transport and Transport Systems in Austria 1918–1938. Railway, automobile, tramway. Vienna 1994.
• The history trap. Vienna u. a. 2000.
• Freud film or the cinema as a cure. Vienna 2006.
• Profiling the American Detective. Parker's Prose on the Coded Game of Sleuth and Rogue and the Tradition of the Crime Story. Frankfurt u. a. 2004.
• The Narrative of the Occident. Mapping the Roads to Tomorrow. Frankfurt u. a. 2009.
• In the Presence of the Future. An Essay on Its Present State. Frankfurt u. a. 2012.
• The Mind Scree. Identification Desire and Its Cinematic Arena. Frankfurt u. a. 2016.
• Thoughts on Things Forgotten. Recharging Our Collective Memory Banks. (together with Sigrid Schmid-Bortenschlager). Frankfurt u. a. 2018.

over 100 articles in magazines and edited volumes.

Literary works

• Roman trouvè. Darmstadt 1978.
• Cemetery of the Nameless. Reinbek 1982.
• Dead nature - nature morte. Novellas. Salzburg 1992.
• The eye of the typhoon. / Paths to nowhere. Diptych. 2 volumes. Salzburg / Vienna 1995/1996.

Art books

• Heads, companions, dares. Sculptures and pictures by Wolfgang Götzinger . Vienna around 1983.
• The eye found. Photographs by Ralph Werner and essays by Georg Schmid. Salzburg 1984

literature

• Fritz Fellner, Doris Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon. Vienna 2006.
• A. Müller: Review of Prof. Schmid's test lecture on the occasion of Prof. Fritz Fellner's successor. Presented as part of a PS by R. Hoffmann, University of Salzburg 1993.
• Hans Petschar, Georg Rigele (Ed.): History. Write. Dedicated to Georg Schmid. Vienna 2004.
• Katharina Picandet: Quoted novels of the present. Georg Schmid: Roman trouvé - Marcel Beyer: human flesh. Thomas Meineke: Light blue. Frankfurt u. a. 2010.

Web links

• Homepage of Georg Erich Schmid
• Literature by and about Georg Erich Schmid in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article by Georg Erich Schmid in the Biographical Lexicon on the history of Southeast Europe