Georg Witte

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Georg Witte (* 1952 in Arnsberg ) is a German comparator , Slavist and translator.

Life

From 1971 to 1982 Witte studied German and Slavic studies in Munich , at the University of Cologne and at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1984 and 1985 he did a research stay at Moscow State University . He received his doctorate in 1987 from the University of Bochum and then worked there as a research assistant . The Habilitation took place in 1992. In 1994 he was appointed professor of East Slavic literatures at the Humboldt University of Berlin appointed. In 2004 he accepted a professorship at the Free University of Berlin . From 2013 until his retirement in 2019, Witte was Managing Director of the Peter Szondi Institute . Since 2019 he has been director of the Department of Philology at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg .

Witte is married and has two children.

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Witte's main research interests include the literature of the Soviet Union , specifically experimental textual practices from the 1960s to 1980s. He makes various contributions to the relationship between literature and writing . Recently, there have been works on the aesthetics of things.

As a translator, he has published unofficial Russian poetry together with Sabine Hänsgen since the 1980s . He used the pseudonym Günter Hirt, Hänsgen called himself Sascha Wonders. He has translated poems by Vsevolod Nekrasov , Dmitri Prigow and Kirill Medvedev , among others .

Fonts

  • The Soviet collective farm and village prose of the fifties and sixties. On the evolution of a literary sub-series , Munich: Sagner 1983.
  • Appeal - game - ritual. Textual Practices in Russian Literature from the Sixties to the Eighties , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1989.
  • Moving and moving letters. Writing acceleration as an imagination technique for the sensitive , in: Georg Witte, Inke Arns, Mirjam Goller and Susanne Strätling (eds.): Kinetographien , Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2004, pp. 413–451.
  • The face of the poem , in: Susanne Strätling, Georg Witte (ed.): The visibility of writing , Munich: Fink 2006, pp. 173–190.
  • The gift as a thing, the thing as a gift. Daniil Charms' surpassing the functional object, in: Rainer Grübel, Gun-Britt Köhler (ed.): Gabe and Sacrifice in Russian Literature and Modern Culture , Munich: BIS 2006, pp. 282–303.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Personal website at the Free University ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.oei.fu-berlin.de
  2. ↑ Website of the Peter Szondi Institute ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Eastern Europe Institute  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de
  3. ↑ Витте Георг Вильгельм Хайнрих. Retrieved December 29, 2019 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Witte, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shepherd, Günter; Wonders, Sascha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comparator and Slavist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsberg