Hans Richard Brittnacher

Hans Richard Brittnacher (born December 21, 1951 in Trier ) is a German philologist and literary scholar .

Life

Brittnacher studied German in Marburg from 1972 , and in Berlin from 1977 . He received his doctorate in 1994 as a research assistant at the German Studies Department at the Free University of Berlin . After completing his habilitation in 2001, he was senior assistant at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology from 2002 to 2018 and a teacher for special tasks from October 2006. He was appointed adjunct professor in 2006.

From 1983 to 1985 and from 1987 to 1989 he lectured as a lecturer for German language and literature at the University of Bari . He held Erasmus short-term lectureships in Bern and Vienna . In the 2003 summer semester he taught as a visiting professor in Vienna. From January to May 2005 he was Max Kade Professor at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . In the summer semester of 2008 he received a scholarship from the Hamburg Institute for Social Research .

His work focuses on fantastic literature and the intermediality of the fantastic, literary history of the Goethe era and the fin de siècle, outsiders and minorities in literature, gypsies and popular culture.

Selected Works

• Aesthetics of Horror. Ghosts, vampires, monsters, devils, and artificial people in fantastic literature. Suhrkamp: Frankfurt / Main, 1994, ISBN 978-3-518-38897-6 .
• Delirium of the body. Fantasy and Pornography in the Late 18th Century. Hanover: Wehrhahn, 1998, ISBN 978-3-932324-53-6 .
• Exhaustion and violence. Sacrifice fantasies in fin de siècle literature. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau (Literature - Culture - Gender, Large Series Vol. 18, edited by Inge Stephan and Sigrid Weigel) [Habilitation], 2000, ISBN 978-3-412-08001-3 .
• Life on the Frontier. The cliché and fascination of the gypsy image in literature and art. Goettingen. Wallstein, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1047-6 .
• (Mhrsg.): Joseph Roth - On the modernity of the melancholic gaze, ed. by Wiebke Amthor and Hans Richard Brittnacher. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028724-0 .
• (Mhrsg.): Experiment - Risk - Self-Design. Kleist's Radical Poetics, ed. by Hans Richard Brittnacher and Irmela von der Lühe. Göttingen: Wallstein 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1288-3 .
• (Mhrsg.): Fantastic. An interdisciplinary handbook, ed. by Hans Richard Brittnacher and Markus May. Stuttgart. Metzler 2013, ISBN 978-3-476-02341-4 .
• (Mhrsg.): Disappointment and commitment. On the aesthetic radicalism of Georg Büchner. Edited by Hans Richard Brittnacher and Irmela von der Lühe. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2014, ISBN 978-3-89528-994-1 .
• The sacrifice of grace. The beautiful soul and the sublime in Kleist's "The engagement in St. Domingo". In: Aurora. Yearbook of the Eichendorff Society for the Classical-Romantic Period 54 (1994), pp. 167-189.
• History of the impact of Goethe in world literature. In: Goethe-Handbuch, Vol. IV, 2: People, things, concepts, ed. by Hans-Dietrich Dahnke and Regine Otto, Stuttgart: Metzler 1998, pp. 1161–1187.
• Friedrich von Schiller. The robbers. In: Schiller manual. Published by Helmut Koopmann in collaboration with the Deutsche Schillergesellschaft Marbach, Stuttgart: Kröner 1998, pp. 326–353.
• Friedrich von Schiller. Grace and dignity. In: Schiller manual. Published by Helmut Koopmann in collaboration with the German Schiller Society Marbach. Stuttgart: Kröner 1998, pp. 587-609.
• The time of magical sleep. A motif of romantic storytelling in Ludwig Tieck and Washington Irving. In: Athenaeum. Jahrbuch für Romantik 12 (2002), pp. 133–154.
• Anti-Semitism and betrayal of love in Raabe's elderflower . In: Horizons merge. On the hermeneutics of mediation. Festschrift for Hartmut Eggert on his 70th birthday, ed. by Hans Richard Brittnacher, Matthias Harder, Almut Hille and Uschi Kocher. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2007, pp. 75–86.
• Fraud at high speed. Walter Serner's Poetics of Social Mobility. In: On the way. Contributions to the poetics of vagabondness in the 20th century, ed. by Hans Richard Brittnacher and Magnus Klaue. Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau 2008, pp. 71–88.
• Cheated out of childhood - Kaspar Hauser and his siblings Mignon and Meret. In: Childhoods, ed. by Thomas Koebner . Munich: edition text + kritik 2013, pp. 20–40.
• Splendor and misery of the Mafia - THE SOPRANOS as a moral painting from New Jersey. In: The New American TV Series. From Twin Peaks to Mad Men, ed. by Claudia Lillge, Dustin Breitenwischer, Jörn Glasenapp and Elisabeth K. Paefgen . Munich: Fink 2014, pp. 19–43.
• "Do you betray me with a kiss?" Judas in the film. In: HR Brittnacher (Ed.): Traitors. (Projections. Studies on nature, culture and film). Munich: edition text + kritik 2015, pp. 137–160.
• Do the pictures stand up to reality? The First World War in Art and Literature. In: Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts 28 (2014), Göttingen: Wallstein 2015, pp. 13–35.
• Judas or: The Inevitability of Evil. Literary attempts to solve a theological riddle. In: Religion and Literature in the 20th and 21st Century. Motives, ways of speaking, media. Edited by Robert Walter-Jochum and Tim Lörke. Göttingen: V&R unipress 2015, pp. 17–32
• Bastards and barbarians. Utopias of the hybrid in GOT. In: The world of 'Game of Thrones'. Cultural perspectives on George RR Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire". Edited by Markus May, Michael Baumann, Robert Baumgartner and Tobias Eder. Bielefeld 2016, pp. 157–172.

literature

• Susanne Scharnowski, Almut Hille and Wiebke Amthor (eds.): Wild readings. Literature and passion. Festschrift for Hans-Richard Brittnacher on his 60th birthday . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-89528-831-9 .

Web links

• Free University of Berlin

Individual evidence