Jörg Robert

June 2013 in the Goethe and Schiller Archive Weimar

Jörg Robert (born April 6, 1971 in Bad Neustadt an der Saale ) is a German specialist in German . He has been Professor of Modern German Literature at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen since 2012 .

biography

From 1991 to 1998 Robert studied German, Latin, Greek and Italian at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and at the University of Turin . In 2001 he received his doctorate from Günter Hess with a thesis on Konrad Celtis in Würzburg. From 2001 to 2006 he was a research fellow in the SFB 573 ('Pluralization and Authority in the Early Modern Age') at the LMU Munich. From 2006 to 2009 he was a research assistant and assistant at the Chair for Modern German History of Literature and Ideas at the University of Würzburg. In 2009 he took over the representation of the chair. In the same year Robert completed his habilitation with the study: “Before the Classics - The Aesthetics of Schiller between the Karlsschule and Kantreception” (published 2011). In 2012 he accepted the professorship for the history of literature in the early modern period at the University of Tübingen.

Jörg Robert is married to the classical philologist Irmgard Männlein-Robert .

Research priorities

• German literature in a European context from the 16th century to the present day
• Poetics and aesthetics as well as the history of culture and ideas
• Intermediality and Intertextuality

Publications

• Jörg Robert: Konrad Celtis and the German poetry project. Studies on the humanistic constitution of poetics, philosophy, nation and self. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2003 (= early modern period 76).
• Jörg Robert: Before the Classical Period - Schiller's Aesthetics between the Karlsschule and Kant reception. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2011 (sources and research on literary and cultural history 72).
• Jörg Robert: Introduction to Intermediality. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2014.
• Jörg Robert, Friederike Günther (ed.): Poetics of the Wild. Festival ceremony for Wolfgang Riedel. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012.
• Jörg Robert (ed.): An aggregate of fragments. Fragment and fragmentarism in the work of Friedrich Schiller. (with the collaboration of Marisa Irawan), Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013.
• Jörg Robert, Friedrich Vollhardt (ed.): Messy Collectanea. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Laocoon between antiquarian erudition and aesthetic theory building. DeGruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013.
• Jörg Robert, Joachim Hamm (ed.): Underworlds. Models and Transformations. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2014.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Robert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jörg Robert on the website of the University of Tübingen , accessed on December 17, 2014.