Gerhart von Graevenitz

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Gerhart von Graevenitz (2015)

Gerhart Martin von Graevenitz (born July 12, 1944 in Lahr ; † March 25, 2016 ) was a German literary scholar . From 2000 to 2009 he was rector of the University of Konstanz .

family

Gerhart von Graevenitz came from the Altmark Protestant noble family Graevenitz . He was married to Mechthild geb. Behrens; the marriage has two children.

Life

Von Graevenitz attended a pietistic boarding school , studied English and German and art history at the University of Tübingen , the University of Reading and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, and passed the state examination in 1969. In 1972 he was with the dissertation The reduction of the subject: Studies on the novel theory with Richard Brinkmann in Tübingen Dr. phil. PhD. He was a research assistant at the University of Tübingen and completed his habilitation in 1986 with the font Mythos. To the story of a thinking habit. From Giordano Bruno to Richard Wagner.

In 1988 he was appointed to succeed Wolfgang Preisendanz as full professor for modern German literature and general literary studies in Konstanz. From 1993 to 1996 he was Vice Rector for Teaching, from 2000 to 2009 Rector of the University of Konstanz and Chairman of the Cooperation Council of the International Lake Constance University (IBH). From April 2006 to March 2009 Graevenitz was chairman of the Baden-Württemberg State Rectors ' Conference. From 1996 to 2000 he held a permanent visiting professorship at Charles University in Prague and from 1996 to 2000 he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 511 “Literature and Anthropology”.

On February 2, 2009 the Senate of the University of Konstanz elected the physicist Ulrich Rüdiger to succeed Gerhart von Graevenitz as rector of the university. Von Graevenitz had not stood for re-election. On October 1, 2009, he handed over his office to his successor.

Act

He was co-editor of the German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history (DVjs). His main research interests and projects were a. the history of literature from the 17th to the 19th century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , media and cultural history of the 20th century and literary genres.

The success of the University of Constance in the excellence initiative of the federal and state governments is linked to his name . He founded the "Center for Young Scientists", today's college for the future of the University of Konstanz. Von Graevenitz was chairman of the board of trustees, later also chairman of the advisory board, of the Martin Buber Society ("Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities"), an institution - modeled on the Konstanzer Zukunftskolleg - for young people in the humanities and social sciences at the Hebrew University Jerusalem .

He was committed to the university partnership with Tel Aviv University and was a member of the founding committee, later of the university council, the neighboring Thurgau University of Education (PHTG) in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, and a member of the university council of the Vorarlberg University of Education in Feldkirch, Austria . He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Hildesheim .

Furthermore, he was a permanent fellow of the cultural studies college in the excellence cluster “Cultural Foundations of Integration” at the University of Konstanz. He was a member of the board of directors of the Konstanz Science Forum at the University of Konstanz. From 2012 to 2014 he worked in the working groups of the Science Council “Perspectives in German Science” and “Career Paths in Science”. He was a member of the research group “Research-Oriented Equal Opportunities Standards” of the German Research Foundation (DFG) .

He was a member of the Senate of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Graevenitz was a member of the ZDF television council from July 2008 to July 2012 . In November 2012, he was sent by ZDF as a member of Arte Germany's 18-strong program advisory board , which has a three-year term of office.

Von Graevenitz was a member of the board of directors of the UNESCO World Heritage Monastery Insel Reichenau Foundation . He was a member (lord of the castle) of the Narrengesellschaft Niederburg of the Great Constance Narrengesellschaft von 1884 eV

honors and awards

Fonts

Monographs (selection)

  • The positing of the subject. Studies on the theory of romance. 1973 (dissertation)
  • Eduard Mörike. The art of sin. On the history of the literary individual. 1978
  • Myth. To the story of a thinking habit. From Giordano Bruno to Richard Wagner. 1987 (habilitation)
  • Ed. Together with Odo Marquard : Contingency. 1988
  • The me on the edge. On the topic of self-portrayal in Dürer, Montaigne and Goethe. 1989
  • Edited together with Arno Borst , Alexander Patschovsky , Karlheinz Stierle : Death in the Middle Ages. 1993
  • The ornament of the look. About the basics of modern vision, the poetics of the arabesque and Goethe's west-eastern divan. 1994
  • Profession to science . [Speech given on the occasion of the handover of the rectorate on May 15, 2000] 2000
  • Theodor Fontane: Fearful Modernism. About the imaginary . Konstanz University Press, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-86253-050-2 .

Articles and contributions (selection)

  • Inwardness and publicity. Aspects of German 'bourgeois' literature in the early 18th century. (DVjs, 49, 1975)
  • Story from the spirit of the necrology. To justify the biography in the 19th century. (DVjs, 54, 1980)
  • Mythology of the festival - images of death .... (Gustave Flaubert and Gottfried Keller). (Das Fest. Ed .: W. Haug / R. Warning. 1989)
  • Contextio and conjointure, tissue and arabesque .... (Literature, Artes and Philosophy. Ed .: W. Haug / B. Wachinger. 1992)
  • Memoria and Realism. Narrative literature in the German "Bildungspresse" of the 19th century. (Memoria. Ed .: A. Haverkamp / R. Lachmann. 1993)
  • Differentiating the difference. Basics of the autobiography in Abelard and Héloise's letters. (Fs. W. Haug and B. Wachinger. Vol. 1. 1993)
  • The me in the end. Structures of the first-person narration in Apuleius' "Goldenes Esel" and Grimmelshausen's "Simplicissimus Teutsch". (The end. Figures of a form of thought ", ed. V. K. Stierle / R. Warning, Poetik und Hermeneutik 16, 1996)
  • Upside down allegory. The end of the "experience lyric" and the preparation of a poetics ... in Goethe's sonnet cycle from 1815/1827. (Allegory. Configuration of text, image and reading, ed. By E. Horn / M. Weinberg, 1998)
  • Literary studies and cultural studies. A reply. (DVjs, 73, 1999)
  • "Compression" - The culture model of the "Journal for Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissensch. (Kea, Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, 1999)
  • The violence of the like. Concettism in Piranesi's "Carceri" a. Kleist's "Earthquake in Chili". (Daring experiments and daring constellations - Kleist's work between classicism and romanticism / ed. V. Ch. Lubkoll / G. Oesterle, 2001)
  • The Frankfurt Carnival. Goethe's Images of the Stranger. (The young Goethe - genesis and construction of an authorship. Ed. By W. Wiethölter, 2001)
  • Knowing and seeing. Anthropology and Perspectivism ... (Knowledge in Literature in the 19th Century, Ed. Danneberg / Vollhardt 2002)
  • The major rulers of the Jews ... (Ed. U. Hebekurs, 2003)

swell

  • Deutsche Who's Who, Volume 46, 2007, p. 424

Web links

Commons : Gerhart von Graevenitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice for Gerhart von Graevenitz , Südkurier , March 29, 2016
  2. a b c The University of Konstanz has lost a great designer: On the death of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Gerhart v. Graevenitz . ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Press release from the University of Konstanz, March 25, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aktuelles.uni-konstanz.de
  3. Gerhart von Graevenitz: Children protected from transparent women: The Bible was questioned in the parental home . Südkurier 281/2003 of October 18, 2003, accessed on March 26, 2016 (pdf; 128 kB).
  4. ^ Prof. Gerhart von Graevenitz, University of Konstanz . עמיתי מרטין בובר באוניברסיטה העברית, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities, March 23, 2016, accessed March 26, 2016
  5. a b c The university became excellent with this man , accessed on March 29, 2016
  6. Senate of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities ( memento from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 26, 2016.
  7. ^ Ring of honor for University Rector Gerhart von Graevenitz . Press release from the City of Konstanz , September 25, 2009
  8. ^ Professor Gerhart von Graevenitz receives the Federal Cross of Merit . Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg, June 23, 2010, accessed on March 26, 2016.
  9. ^ A b German Association of Germanists: Gerhard von Graevenitz , German Association of Germanists, August 27, 2008, accessed on March 29, 2016