Jens Malte Fischer

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Jens Malte Fischer (born December 26, 1943 in Salzburg ) is a German cultural scientist .

Fischer studied German , history and musicology as well as singing in Saarbrücken , Frankfurt am Main and Munich . From 1982 to 1989 he was Professor of Modern German, Comparative and General Literature Studies at the University of GH- Siegen and from 1989 to 2009 Professor of Theater Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and is a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (Munich), the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and the German Academy for Language and Poetry . In 2014 he received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art .

His main research interests are the culture of the turn of the century around 1900, the history of German-Jewish culture and anti-Semitism , the history of opera and spoken theater in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the history of film. He works as a publicist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the monthly Merkur as well as for the program books of the Salzburg Festival.

Publications (selection)

  • Karl Kraus. Studies on the “theater of poetry” and cultural conservatism (= theory, criticism, history. 1). Scriptor, Kronberg 1973, ISBN 3-589-00036-8 (At the same time: Saarbrücken, University, dissertation, 1973: "Theater of Poetry" and cultural conservatism. ).
  • Karl Kraus (= Metzler Collection. 131). Metzler, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-476-10131-2 .
  • Fin de siècle. Commentary on an epoch. Winkler, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-538-07026-1 .
  • as editor: Psychoanalytical Literature Interpretation. Articles from "Imago, magazine for the application of psychoanalysis to the humanities" (1912–1937) (= German texts. 54). Niemeyer et al., Tübingen et al. 1980, ISBN 3-423-04363-6 .
  • as editor with Christian W. Thomsen: Fantasticism in literature and art. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1985, ISBN 3-534-08293-1 .
  • with Dieter Kimpel and Dietrich Naumann: German history of literature. From enlightenment to romance. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-590-12007-X .
  • Film Studies - Film History. Studies on Welles, Hitchcock, Polanski, Pasolini and Max Steiner (= media library. Series B: Studies. 2). Narr, Tübingen 1983, ISBN 3-87808-907-4 .
  • as editor: opera and opera text (= Siegen series. Contributions to literary, linguistic and media studies. 60). Winter, Heidelberg 1985, ISBN 3-533-03664-2 .
  • Opera - the possible work of art. Contributions to the operatic history of the 19th and 20th centuries (= word and music. Salzburg academic contributions. 6). Müller-Speiser, Anif / Salzburg 1991, ISBN 3-85145-007-8 .
  • Great voices. From Enrico Caruso to Jessye Norman. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 1993, ISBN 3-476-00893-2 .
  • Literature between dream and reality. Studies on Fantasticism (= series of publications and materials from the Fantastic Library in Wetzlar. 25). Phantastik in Wetzlar eV, Wetzlar 1998.
  • Richard Wagner's “Judaism in Music”. A critical documentation as a contribution to the history of anti-Semitism (= Insel-Taschenbuch. 2617). Insel, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2000, ISBN 3-458-34317-2 .
  • Twilight of the century. Views of a different fin de siècle. Zsolnay, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-552-04954-1 .
  • Gustav Mahler. The strange confidante. Biography. Zsolnay, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-552-05273-9 .
  • Carlos Kleiber - the scrupulous eccentric (= Small Library of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. 1). Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0138-2 .
  • From the marvel of the opera. Zsolnay, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-552-05396-0 .
  • as editor with Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer: Jews roles. Forms of representation in European theater from the Restoration to the interwar period (= Conditio Judaica. 70). Niemeyer Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-484-65170-8 .
  • Richard Wagner and its effect. Zsolnay, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-552-05614-5 .
  • Karl Kraus: The opponent. Biography, Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-552-05952-8 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Member entry by Jens Malte Fischer at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Jens Malte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg