Heiner Wittmann

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Heiner Wittmann (born August 15, 1955 in Cologne ) is a German Romance studies (literary and cultural studies), historian and political scientist .

Life

Heiner Wittmann passed the Abitur in 1974 at the Schiller-Gymnasium in Cologne . From 1976 to 1978 he studied literature , history and political science in Paris at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) and at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . From 1978 to 1984 he was enrolled at the Rheinische Friedrichs-Wilhelm-Universität in Bonn . After the first state examination in 1984 and the second state examination in 1986 in French and history, he received his doctorate in 1987. The topic of the dissertation with Dirk Hoeges and Wolf-Dieter Lange was the aesthetics in the work of Jean-Paul Sartre . From 1988 to 1991 he was an editor at Documents. Magazine for the German-French dialogue in Bonn: Editor-in-chief Ernst Weisenfeld . Since 1988 he has worked for various publishing houses in the Klett Group . From 1996 to 2003 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Linguistics / Romance Studies at the University of Stuttgart. From 2011 to 2015 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Romance Literature at the University of Stuttgart .

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His work includes studies on the literature and history of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as on Franco-German relations and the Internet and Web 2.0 . His work focused primarily on the role of literature and art in a political and social context: Sartre and art. The portrait studies from Tintoretto to Flaubert , Albert Camus. Art and Morals and Aesthetics in Sartre and Camus. The Challenge of Freedom . In June 2011, in a lecture at the Sorbonne, he recalled Sartre's justification of reception aesthetics , which Sartre wrote in 1947 in What is literature? had set out. His study on Napoleon III appeared in 2013 . and the Second Empire : Napoleon III. Power and art . The subject of the book is the relationship between artists and intellectuals and the regime of the Second Empire of Napoleon III.

His work includes numerous reviews, lectures at home and abroad on literary studies, Franco-German relations, teaching didactics, and the use of computers in foreign language lessons . With the lectures and seminars at the summer academy in Rinteln and through publications on Web 2.0, he has also turned to media studies .

Since 1996 he has been running a mostly bilingual blog on Franco-German relations, French literature, politics and history. Since 1996 he has been writing a blog for the Klett-Cotta publishing house , where he reports on new books and general topics from the book market, as well as a blog on art, architecture and culture in Stuttgart. Since 2008 he has published 160 films, interviews and discussions with authors, politicians and scientists.

Memberships

  • Member of the board of the Groupe d'Études Sartriennes
  • Member of the board of directors of the Sartre Society
  • 2nd chairman of the Hans Mayer Society

Prizes and awards

Publications

Monographs
  • From Wols to Tintoretto. Sartre between philosophy and art , (Bonn Romanist works edited by Wolf-Dieter Lange, Eberhard Leube and Heinz-Jürgen Wolf), Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8204-1025-2 .
  • Sartre and art. The portrait studies from Tintoretto to Flaubert . Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-8233-5167-2 .
  • Albert Camus. Art and Morals (= Dialoghi / Dialogues. Literature and Culture of Italy and France , edited by Dirk Hoeges , Volume 6). Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58693-8 .
  • L'esthetique de Sartre. Artistes et intellectuels , traduit par J. Yacar et N. Weitemeier, L'Harmattan, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7475-0849-8 .
  • Aesthetics in Sartre and Camus. The Challenge of Freedom (= Dialoghi / Dialogues. Literature and Culture of Italy and France , Volume 13). Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58693-8 .
  • Napoleon III Power and art . (= Dialoghi / Dialogues. Literature and Culture of Italy and France , Volume 17), Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-64209-2 .
Editing
  • Roland Ostertag, The exhibition at the Gähkopf. City history. Architecture. Urban planning , Stuttgart: private printing 2018.
  • together with Christina Rohwetter, Marita Slavuljica, (Ed.): Literary autonomy and intellectual commitment. The contribution of French and Italian literature to European history (15th – 20th centuries). Festschrift for Dirk Hoeges on his 60th birthday . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-631-52297-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former employee at the Institute for Romance Literature at the University of Stuttgart
  2. ^ German-French relations
  3. ↑ Appeler un chat un chat. Sartre et les lettres . In: Peter Knopp, Vincent von Wroblewsky (Ed.): Carnets Jean Paul Sartre. Passengers without a ticket , series: Sartre-Gesellschaft eV yearbooks , Volume 3, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2012, pp. 191–198
  4. ↑ In addition: List of reviews
  5. ↑ Romance Studies and New Media. The benefits of digital information for studies and schools . In: Bulletin of the Frankoromanistenverband , 1/2012, pp. 22–35.
  6. ↑ Media
  7. ↑ France blog
  8. ↑ Blog Klett-Cotta
  9. ↑ Stuttgart photos
  10. ↑ Video channel on YouTube
personal data
SURNAME Wittmann, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies (literature and cultural studies), political scientist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne