Gotthart Wunberg

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God Wunberg (* 25. December 1930 in Wuppertal , † 5. February 2020 in Tübingen ) was a German Germanist , literary historian and cultural scientist and Emeritus Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Tübingen . From 1996 to 2004 he was director of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna.

Life

Wunberg came from Barmen , a district of Wuppertal. He studied German , Protestant theology , pedagogy and philosophy at the University of Tübingen and the University of Minnesota (USA) and in 1957 with the dissertation The terms "symbol" and "myth" with Friedrich Creuzer to Dr. phil. PhD. Afterwards he was a teacher for English and philosophical propaedeutics at the Evangelical Landerziehungsheim Urspringschule in Schelklingen.

In 1962 he became a lecturer at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands . In 1971 he became scientific advisor at the German seminar at the University of Tübingen, where he was professor for modern German literature until his retirement . He was also vice president of the university from 1986 to 1986. He turned down a call to Bonn in 1973. In 1987 he was a Distinguished Visiting Humanities Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles . His students include a. Alfons Backes-Haase , Moritz Baßler , Klaus Müller-Richter , Ioana Crăciun, Roland S. Kamzelak and Baal Müller .

From 1996 to 2004 he was director of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna, until 2008 a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (including the Commission for Cultural Studies and Theater History ). Wunberg has published several books with a focus on Viennese Modernism as well as essays for specialist journals a. a. Arcadia and text + criticism . He was also the editor of works by Samuel Lublinski , the Hofmannsthal Yearbook on European Modernism (the world's most important periodical for Hofmannsthal research) and the series “German Texts” ( dtv ).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The early Hofmannsthal. Schizophrenia as a poetic structure . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1965.
  • Authority and school . With a foreword by Walter Dirks . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1966.
  • German literature of the 19th century. 1830-1895 . Report 1: 1960–1975 (= Yearbook for International German Studies, Series C, Research Reports, Vol. 1). In collaboration with Rainer Funke. Lang, Bern 1980, ISBN 3-261-04743-7 .
  • Recognize. Literature and Aesthetic Perception in the Modern Age . Narr, Tübingen 1983, ISBN 3-87808-594-X .
  • Turn of the century. Studies on Modern Literature . Narr, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-8233-5218-0 .

Editorships

  • ed .: The literary modernity. Documents on the self-image of literature at the turn of the century (= Athenaeum Paperbacks German Studies, Volume 8). Athenäum-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  • ed .: Hofmannsthal in the judgment of his critics. Documents on the history of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's impact in Germany . Athenäum-Verlag, Frankfurt 1972.
  • ed .: The young Vienna. Austrian literary and art criticism 1887–1902 . 2 volumes, Niemeyer, Tübingen 1976.
  • ed .: Die Wiener Moderne. Literature, art and music between 1890 and 1910 . Reclam, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-15-007742-7 . (Reprint 2000)
  • ed. with Dieter A. Binder : plurality. An interdisciplinary approach. Festschrift for Moritz Csáky . Böhlau, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-205-98553-2 .
  • ed. with Moritz Baßler , Christoph Brecht, Dirk Niefanger: Historicism and literary modernity . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-484-10725-1 .
  • ed. with Horst Wenzel , Wilfried Seipel : The writing of the world (= writings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Volume 5). Skira, Milano 2000, ISBN 3-85497-019-6 .
  • ed. with Horst Wenzel, Wilfried Seipel: Audiovisuality before and after Gutenberg. On the cultural history of the media upheaval. (= Writings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum , Volume 6). Skira, Milano 2001, ISBN 3-85497-023-4 .
  • ed. with Lutz Musner, Eva Cescutti: Disturbed Identities? An interim balance sheet of the Second Republic. A symposium for the 65th birthday of Moritz Csáky . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-7065-1687-X .
  • ed. with Lutz Musner: Cultural Studies. Research - Practice - Positions (= Rombach Sciences, Edition Parabasen, Volume 1). 2nd Edition. Rombach, Freiburg 2003, ISBN 3-7930-9373-5 .
  • ed. with Dan Diner : Restitution and Memory. Material restoration in Europe . Berghahn Books, New York / Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-1-84545-220-9 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gotthart Wunberg: The early Hofmannsthal. Schizophrenia as a poetic structure . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1965, p. 174.
  2. ^ History , International Research Center for Cultural Studies, accessed on February 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ International Advisory Board ( Memento from February 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Austrian Academy of Sciences, accessed on February 15, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Wunberg, Gotthart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 2020
Place of death Tübingen