Gunnar Och

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Gunnar Och (born February 19, 1954 in Nuremberg ) is a German specialist in German .

Gunnar Och received his doctorate in 1985 in the field of modern German literary history at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . In 1993 he completed his habilitation there. Since 2000 he has been an adjunct professor for modern German literature.

His teaching and research interests are German-Jewish literary history and the literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. He has published studies on Jean Paul , Joseph von Eichendorff , August von Platen , Heinrich Heine and Thomas Mann .

Publications (selection)

as an author
  • The body as a sign. On the meaning of mimic-gestural and physiognomic expression in the work of Jean Paul (Erlanger Studies; 62). Palm and Enke, Erlangen 1985, ISBN 3-7896-0162-4 (also dissertation, University of Erlangen).
  • Old fairy tales of the cruelty of the Jews - On the reception of anti-Jewish blood guilt myths by the romantics. In: Rainer Erb : The legend of ritual murder - On the history of the blood accusation against Jews. (= Technische Universität Berlin . Center for Research on Antisemitism. Series of Documents, Texts, Materials. Volume 6). Metropol, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-926893-15-X , pp. 223-238.
  • Imago Judaica. Jews and Judaism as reflected in German literature 1750–1812 . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-986-X (plus habilitation thesis, University of Erlangen 1994).
as editor
  • August Graf von Platen. Life, work, effect . Schöningh, Paderborn 1997, ISBN 3-506-76184-6 (together with Hartmut Bobzin ).
  • Jewish life in Franconia. Appropriation, delimitation, alternative designs (Biblioteca Academica / History series; Vol. 12,1). Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-89913-226-2 (together with Hartmut Bobzin).
  • Jacob Wassermann . German, Jew, writer . Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-835-30158-0 (together with Daniela F. Eisenstein and Dirk Niefanger).
  • Aaron Wolfssohn : Carelessness and bigotry. A family painting in three acts . With an afterword ed. by Gunnar Och and Jutta Strauss. Transcribed reprint of the Breslau 1796 edition set in Hebrew letters (Small Archive of the Eighteenth Century; 22). Röhrig, St. Ingbert 1995, ISBN 3-86110-032-0

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personal data
SURNAME Oh, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg