Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit

Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit (born August 20, 1948 in Korntal ) is a German Japanologist and translator . In 1992 she received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize . She is a professor at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit studied Japanese Studies , Sinology , German Studies , Communication Studies and Sociology at the University of Hamburg , the Ruhr University Bochum and in Tokyo at the Waseda University and the University of Tokyo . Then she completed her doctorate at the Department of East Asian Studies in Bochum Doctor of Philosophy and lectured there you habilitated in 1980 and in the same year by the between 1977 and 1985. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft included in the Heisenberg Program, which it played a five-year funding.

After the end of the funding, she accepted an extraordinary professorship at the social science faculty of Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, which lasted one year until she went to Trier University in 1986 to take on the newly established C4 professorship for Japanese Studies. In 1991 she accepted an offer at the Free University of Berlin, where she is still a professor.

Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit was one of the founding members of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 1993 . In 1995 she received the Federal Cross of Merit . From 1996 to 2004, as director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo , she made outstanding contributions to the exchange of German and Japanese culture, which the German Research Foundation honored in 2001 with the Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize . She also made a name for herself throughout Europe as President of the European Association for Japanese Studies (1994 to 1997). Since 1995 she has been a member of the Academia Europaea . In 2013 she was elected to the Leopoldina .

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Among the key areas of work Hijiya-Kirschnereit include the Japanese literature of modernity and their comparative analysis with the works of modern Europe. She has examined the relationship between Japan and Europe many times, for example on the basis of the Japanese dialogue with the West and the discussion of Japanese science with Western issues since the early Meiji period .

It is particularly important to her to bring Japanese culture closer to the West. One of her best-known generally intelligible works is Japan - The Other Cultural Guide ( ISBN 3458170111 ) , published in 2000 . In Harrassowitz-Verlag she gave the textbook series Iaponia Insula. Studies on the culture and society of Japan , published by Insel Verlag the Japanese Library , which contains works by Japanese authors translated into German. She translated some books herself. a. Women, masks ( Enchi Fumiko ), The Forger ( Inoue Yasushi ) and Dance, Snail, Dance ( Ōba Minako ). She writes literary reviews in German, Japanese and English, and also gives lectures as a reciter of Japanese poetry.

• Self-exposure rituals: On the theory and history of the autobiographical genre Shishosetsu in modern Japanese literature , Otto Harrowitz, Wiesbaden 1981. (2nd.rev.ed.2005)
• The end of the exotic , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 1988
• What does it mean to understand Japanese literature? Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 1990
• Overcoming the Modern? , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 1996.
• Cultural relations between Japan and the West since 1853 , Iudicium, Munich, 1999
• Japanese contemporary literature , edition text and criticism, Munich, 2000
• What was left of the Japanese , Iudicium (Iaponia Insula Studies on the Culture and Society of Japan, Vol. 26), Munich, 2013.

as co-editor

• The Cultural Career of Coolness . Lexington Books, Plymouth, England 2013, ISBN 978-0-7391-7316-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit in the catalog of the German National Library
• Profile at the Free University of Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Directory of members: Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit. Academia Europaea, accessed June 28, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Member entry by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 6, 2016.