Gerhard Scheit

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Gerhard Scheit (* 1959 in Vienna ) is an Austrian academic author and essayist .

Live and act

After studying music, Scheit studied theater studies, German, philosophy and music in Vienna and Berlin. He has taught at several universities in Austria and lives as a freelance author and essayist in Vienna. His research focuses initially on the history of drama and musical drama as well as anti-Semitism in the history of literature and music, and since the mid-1990s studies on a critical theory of constitutional and international law. Starting with Theodor W. Adorno , Max Horkheimer and Franz Neumann , he regards Marx's critique of political economy as well as Freudian psychoanalysis as a prerequisite for socio-critical analysis. He places particular emphasis on the term "racket" - as a counter-term to that of law and sovereignty in civil society, it serves him above all to define the National Socialist and jihadist movements more precisely.

He published in the 1990s regularly in the magazine concretely , and later mainly regularly among others in the anti-German magazine Bahamas and on the website Café-Critique . In 2012, together with Manfred Dahlmann, he founded the "Zeitschrift für Ideologiekritik" sans phrase , which increasingly turns to the critique of existentialism and is published by Ça ira Verlag in Freiburg and Vienna . Scheit edited several volumes of the work by the writer Jean Améry published by Klett-Cotta .

In 2016, Gerhard Scheit received the Theodor Kramer Prize together with Stefan Horvath .

Works

author

  • Using the example of Brecht and Bronnen. Crisis and Critique of Modern Drama , Boehlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1988, ISBN 3-205-05118-1 .
  • Theater and revolutionary humanism. A study on Jura Soyfer , Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900351-98-8 .
  • Franz Grillparzer , Rowohlt, 1994, ISBN 3-499-50396-4 .
  • Dramaturgy of the sexes. On the common history of drama and opera , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12513-8 .
  • Garbage separation , Konkret Literatur Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-930786-16-8 .
  • Hanswurst and the state. A little story of the comedy . Deuticke, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-216-30153-2 .
  • The masters of the crisis. About the connection between human extermination and popular prosperity , Ça ira, Freiburg i. Br. 2001, ISBN 3-924627-70-3 .
  • Suicide Attack. On the criticism of political violence , Ça ira, Freiburg i. Br. 2004, ISBN 3-924627-87-8 .
  • Hidden state, living money. On the dramaturgy of anti-Semitism , Ça ira, Freiburg i. Br. 2006, ISBN 3-924627-63-0 .
  • Jargon of democracy. About the new Behemoth , Ça ira, Freiburg i. Br. 2007, ISBN 978-3-924627-95-9 .
  • The madness of world sovereignty. On the criticism of international law , Ça ira, Freiburg i. Br. 2009, ISBN 978-3-924627-15-7 .
  • Tormentable body. Criticism of society according to Adorno , Ça ira, Freiburg i. Br. 2011, ISBN 978-3-86259-104-6 .
  • Critique of Political Engagement , Ça ira, Freiburg i. Br. 2016, ISBN 978-3-86259-128-2 .
  • In the ant state: From Wagner's redemption to Badious event , special number, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-85449-471-3 .

Co-author

  • with Monika Meier and Peter Roessler: Theater - Science and Fascism. Self-published, West Berlin 1982.
  • with Peter Roessler (Ed.): Theater and Fascism. In: Wasp's Nest . No. 56, Vienna 1984.
  • The interrogated sex. On the Crisis of Power in Heinrich von Kleist's Dialogue. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold, Roland Reuss, Peter Staengle (eds.): Heinrich von Kleist. edition text + kritik, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-88377-440-5 . (TEXT + KRITIK special volume)
  • with Walter Pass and Wilhelm Svoboda: Orpheus in exile. The expulsion of Austrian music 1938–1945. Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85115-200-X .
  • with Wilhelm Svoboda: enemy image Gustav Mahler. On the anti-Semitic defense of modernity in Austria. Special number, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85449-196-4 .
  • with Wilhelm Svoboda: meeting point of the modern. Gustav Mahler, Theodor W. Adorno, Viennese Traditions. Special number, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85449-332-7 .

swell

  • Short biography in: Stephan Braese, Holger Gehle, Doron Kiesel, Hanno Loewy (eds.): German post-war literature and the Holocaust . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-593-36092-6 , p. 416.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten - Theodor Kramer Prize to Stefan Horvath and Gerhard Scheit . Article dated June 21, 2016, accessed June 21, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME That's it, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna