Gertrude Cepl businessman

Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann (born February 27, 1942 in Grevenbroich ) is a German literary scholar . Since 2003 she has been Professor of Modern German Literature at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and director of the affiliated institute “Modernism in the Rhineland” there.

Life

Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann received her doctorate with a thesis on the literary and political work of Günter Grass . She completed her habilitation with research on the "Friedrichshagener Dichterbund". Her main focus in teaching and research is literature from naturalism to the present day, problems of the sociology of literature, especially the formation of literary groups, and aspects of regional historical, transdisciplinary and comparative cultural studies.

As head of the “An-InstitutModerne im Rheinland”, she conducts research on the cultural history of the Rhineland.

From 2000 to 2007 she was visiting professor at the Institute for European Studies at Charles University in Prague . From 1999 to 2012 she was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Institute for the History and Culture of Germans in Eastern Europe (Oldenburg), responsible for awarding the Immanuel Kant scholarships and the Immanuel Kant research award. From 1997 to 2008 she cooperated with the Gerhart Hauptmann (Düsseldorf) within the framework of the “German-East European Forum / East-West Forum” project. From 2006 to 2012 she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the Working World. In 2011 she realized the exhibition “Writing Worlds - Written Worlds. For the 50th birthday of the Dortmund Group 61 ”in the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the City of Dortmund. Since 2007 she has been a member of the committee of the Niederrhein-Akademie / Academie Nederrijn eV The cooperation with the University of Rome (Antonella Gargano) dates back to 2007, beginning with the international conference "Cultural Theory and Region" at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. From 2008 to 2016 she was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rhenish Archive for Artists' Legacies (RAK). Activities included the planning and realization of colloquia. In 2011 the “TRIANGLE. Tri-Border Areas as reality, paradigm and challenge for Europe ”. Discourses and collaborations followed, etc. a. with the Universities of Luxembourg and Innsbruck. The focus of the cooperation in 2015 was the international conference "Memory Topographies in Trilateral Spaces" with the University of Gdansk. Since 2012 she has been chairwoman of the scientific advisory board in the project "1914 - In the Middle of Europe" of the Rhineland Regional Council (LVR). Since 2017 she has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the NRW project “100 years of Bauhaus in the west”.

Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann is married and has three children.

Awards

2012 Awarded the Rheinlandtaler of the Rhineland Regional Association (LVR) for her work on the intellectual and cultural history of the Rhineland.

On December 6, 2013, Cepl-Kaufmann was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

Works

Günter Grass . An analysis of the complete works under the aspect of literature and politics . Kronberg im Taunus , 1975 (plus dissertation University of Düsseldorf 1972)
German studies. Introduction to the study of literary studies. Stuttgart 1973 (= texts Metzler, 15), together with Winfried Hartkopf. Partly Reprinted in: literature and literary studies. Introduction materials. Edited by Heinz Geiger, Albert Klein, Jochen Vogt, Düsseldorf 1973 (= basic studies in literature. University didactic materials, vol. 1)
Berlin-Friedrichshagen. Capital of literature at the turn of the century. The Friedrichshagener Dichterkreis , Munich 1994, together with Rolf Kauffeldt.
"If the dresser doesn't like it ...". A cabaret in Germany , Düsseldorf 2000, together with Antje Johanning and Winrich Meiszies.
“I love nothing as much as cities.” Alfons Paquet as a writer, European, world traveler , Frankfurt 2001 (= Frankfurter Bibliotheksschriften, 9), together with m. Sabine Brenner, Martina Thöne
“German Rhine - Foreign Horse Drink?” The occupation of the Rhineland as reflected in literature. An exhibition by the Institute “Modernism in the Rhineland” at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in the University and State Library Düsseldorf , April 26th - June 1st 2001. Düsseldorf 2001, together with m. Carola Spies
The Association of Rhenish Poets 1926–1933 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2003
The myth of the Rhine. On the cultural history of a river . Darmstadt 2003, together with Antje Johanning
Introduction to modern archive work , Darmstadt 2006, together with Sabine Brenner and Max Plassmann
Of river idylls and winding towers. Literature at the interface between the Ruhr and the Rhine . Ed. With Jan-Pieter Barbian and Hanneliese Palm. Klartext, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0524-5
Christ. On the rediscovery of the sacred in modernity , Düsseldorf 2012 (together with Anne-Marie Bonnet, Jasmin Grande and Klara Drenker-Nagels).
Rhenish! - European! - Modern! Networks and self-images in the Rhineland before the First World War , Essen 2013 (together with Jasmin Grande and Georg Mölich).
Group fever. From the fruiting palm tree to the poetic construction crane , in: Schreibwelten - Geschrittene Welten. For the 50th birthday of the Dortmund Group 61, ed. on behalf of the Fritz-Hüser-Gesellschaft by Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann a. Jasmine Grande. Essen 2011 (Writings of the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the Working World 22), pp. 80–95.
August Sauer. On the positioning between science and the public , in: August Sauer. An intellectual in Prague between culture and science policy, ed. v. Steffen Höhne, Cologne 2011, pp. 79-103.
The one-sheet archival document “Theatermarke” as a medium of memory and cultural research. On the holdings in the University and State Library in Düsseldorf , in: Library and Research. The Importance of Collections to Science, ed. v. Irmgard Siebert, Frankfurt 2011, (Journal for Libraries and Bibliography. Special Volumes 102), pp. 45–73.
Rhineland - Berlin - Paris. Carl Einstein's messianic and spiritual search for identity in the context of his biographical topography , in: Carl Einstein and the European Avant-Garde / Carl Einstein and the European Avant-Garde, ed. v. Nicola Creighton et al. Andreas Kramer, Berlin 2012, pp. 13-30 (together with Jasmin Grande).
Berlin expressionism in the environment of the storm , in: Der Sturm. Center of the avant-garde, catalog for the exhibition in the von der Heydt Museum Wuppertal 2012, ed. v. Antje Birthälmer u. Gerhard Finckh, Wuppertal 2012, pp. 159–184.
The creation of a literature of the Ruhr area in the spirit of the revolution , in: Revolution and workers movement in Germany 1918-1920, ed. v. Karl Christian Führer, Jürgen Mittag, Axel Schild a. Klaus Tenfelde, Essen, 2013 (publications by the Institute for Social Movements, Series A, Vol. 44), pp. 431–451.
The invention of a cultural landscape. The Rhineland in Europe , in: Rheinisch! - European! - Modern! Networks and self-images in the Rhineland before the First World War, ed. v. Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann, Jasmin Grande a. Georg Mölich, Essen 2013, pp. 23–41.
Literary paradises , in: Das (lost) paradise. Expressionist visions between tradition and modernity, catalog for the exhibition in August Macke-Haus, ed. v. Klara Drenker-Nagels, Bonn 2014, pp. 93–111.
Yvan Goll. A search for contemporaneity , in: Conjunctions. Yvan Goll in the discourse of modernity, ed. v. Hermann Gätje u. Sikander Singh, Tübingen 2017, pp. 9–29.
Post wars under the sign of democracy. On the genesis of concepts of humanity in Germany , in: Freedom and justice as a challenge to the human sciences. Freedom and Justice as a Challenge of the Humanities, ed. v. Mira Miladinović Zalaznik u. Dean Komel, Bern 2018, pp. 13–39.
The Bonn Republic 1945 - 1963. The founding phase and the Adenauer era. History - Research - Discourse , ed. v. Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann, Jasmin Grande, Ulrich Rosar u. Jürgen Wiener, Bielefeld 2018.
1919 - the time of utopias. On the topography of a German century year , Bielefeld 2018

Web links

Homepage of the Aninstitut Moderne in the Rhineland
Literature by and about Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Cepl-Kaufmann , online, several works readable there, use search function; also essays in compilations

Individual evidence

↑ We introduce ourselves. Fellow people from the community and associations in focus (rubric): Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann. In: Grevenbroich local gazette. Official bulletin of the city of Grevenbroich, No. 42, October 19, 2006, p. 1
↑ Awarded: Prof. Dr. Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann receives Rhineland Thaler. Heinrich Heine University of Düsseödorf, accessed on December 11, 2018 .
↑ Victoria Meinschäfer: Prof. Dr. Cepl-Kaufmann awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. Heinrich Heine University of Düsseödorf, accessed on December 11, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Cepl merchant, Gertrude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grevenbroich

[1] We introduce ourselves. Fellow people from the community and associations in focus (rubric): Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann. In: Grevenbroich local gazette. Official bulletin of the city of Grevenbroich, No. 42, October 19, 2006, p. 1

[2] Awarded: Prof. Dr. Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann receives Rhineland Thaler. Heinrich Heine University of Düsseödorf, accessed on December 11, 2018 .

[3] Victoria Meinschäfer: Prof. Dr. Cepl-Kaufmann awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. Heinrich Heine University of Düsseödorf, accessed on December 11, 2018 .