Jeremy Adler

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Jeremy Adler (* 1. October 1947 in London ) is a British writer and emeritus professor of German language at King's College London . He is the son of the writer HG Adler and has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry since 2005 .

Life

Adler studied at Queen Mary College in London English as German literature and a doctorate (1977) at Claus Bock on the subject of an almost magical attraction: Goethe's Elective Affinities and the chemistry of his Zei t . He has been with Bill Griffiths , Lawrence Upton, Dick Higgins, and the like. a. Involved in the British Poetry Revival at Writer's Forum London around Bob Cobbing , published there Concrete and Visual Poetry , Texts and Poems also by HG Adler and Franz Wurm as 1971-73 and 1977 four issues of the collection A. An Envelope Magazine of Visual edited by him Poetry as artist books in self-published Alphabox . He gave the legacies of Hans Günther Adler and Franz Baermann Steiner to the German Literature Archive Marbach and works from their estate. Together with Rüdiger Görner and Michael Krüger , he reported on "German-speaking exiles in London under the sign of the Shoah" at the International College Morphomata of the University of Cologne on November 7, 2016.

Adler was a member of the Colloquium Neue Poesie Bielefeld, in the academic year 1985/1986 and again in 2011/2012 a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . In Germany, Adler became known for his criticism of Bernhard Schlink's bestseller Der Vorleser . With his rejection of the edition of Mein Kampf by the Institute for Contemporary History Munich- Berlin, he triggered an international debate. Adler summarizes his views and criticism in his book Das absolut Böse , published in 2018, and shared by Wolfgang Benz .

Adler is publicly opposed to Brexit and is in favor of the United Kingdom remaining in the EU. In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung , he criticized the EU deal with Turkey as human trafficking and called for the establishment of a European refugee agency.

Works (selection)

Poems and artist books

  • From . The Poetry Society, London 1973. 40 pp.
  • Tarot . Pirate Press, London 1975
  • The Amsterdam Quartet . Alphabox Press, London 1976. 5 pp.
  • The Wedding and other Marriages . 1980
  • Jeremy Adler, Bob Cobbing : Homage to Theocritus . Writers Forum, London 1985.
  • The Electric Alphabet . 1986. 2nd edition 1996, Internet edition 1997.
  • Big Skies and Little Stones . Alphabox Press, c. 1987. 25 loose folders
  • At the Edge of the World . 1995

Scientific work

  • Jeremy Adler: An almost magical attraction: Goethe's elective affinities and the chemistry of his time . Beck, Munich 1987,
  • Jeremy Adler, Ulrich Ernst: Text as a figure . Acta Humaniora, Weinheim 1987
  • Jeremy Adler (Ed.): From Prague Poet to Oxford Anthropologist: Franz Baermann Steiner Celebrated . Studies, Munich 2003.
  • Jeremy Adler: Absolutely Evil: To the new edition of Mein Kampf . Donat 2017.

Franz Baermann Steiner, writings

  • Jeremy Adler (ed.), Franz Baermann Steiner: On the falling path: Collected poems . Wallstein, Göttingen 2000,
  • Jeremy Adler, Richard Fardon (ed.), Franz Baermann Steiner: Civilization and danger: Scientific writings . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeremy Adler's entry in the Wiki Encyclopedia of Humanthermodynamics
  2. ↑ Jeremy Adler, Rüdiger Görner and Michael Krüger: German-speaking exiles in London under the sign of the Shoah. Morphmomata - University of Cologne, November 7, 2016, accessed on March 14, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Retrieved (alphabetically) since December 2012 with the Fellows
  4. ↑ J. Adler: The art of forcing compassion for the murderers. Objection to a successful book: Bernhard Schlink's “The Reader” is a sentimental falsification of history. In: SZ, April 20, 2002, p. 18.
  5. ↑ Jeremy Adler in conversation with Jasper Barenberg: Controversy about "Mein Kampf" "This book still contains a danger". Deutschlandfunk, January 8, 2016, accessed on May 4, 2017 (German).
  6. ↑ Jeremy Adler: Absolute evil cannot be neutralized. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 4, 2016, accessed on May 4, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Jeremy Adler: Debate: The Absolute Evil. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 6, 2016, accessed on May 4, 2017 (German).
  8. ↑ Jürgen Kaube: Evil, commented. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 8, 2016, accessed on May 4, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Patrick Guyton: Processing is a "service to the dignity of the victims". Der Tagesspiegel, January 8, 2016, accessed on May 4, 2017 (German).
  10. ↑ Hubertus Volmer in conversation with Albrecht Koschorke: Hitler's message "'Mein Kampf' is about the gesture". n-tv, January 8, 2016, accessed May 4, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Jeremy Adler: Absolute Evil . Donat, Bremen 2018, ISBN 978-3-943425-74-1 .
  12. ↑ Johannes Klotz: "Mein Kampf" Jeremy Adler attacks the Munich Institute for Contemporary History. Badische Zeitung, December 2, 2017, accessed on March 16, 2018 (German).
  13. ↑ Wolfgang Benz: Jeremy Adler, Das absolut Böse, review . In: Wolfgang Benz, Michael Borgolte, Peter Steinbach and Ludmila Thomas (eds.): Journal for History . 66th year, no. 3 . Metropol, Berlin March 2018, p. 291-293 .
  14. ↑ Jeremy Adler: There is a perverted idea of ​​freedom behind Brexit. Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 1, 2017, accessed on May 4, 2017 (German).
  15. ↑ Jeremy Adler: The Unfinished Continent. Europe lives from trading ideas. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 2, 2017, accessed on May 4, 2017 (German).
  16. ↑ Paul Munzinger (interview with Jeremy Adler): EU-Turkey deal: "This exchange process is nothing other than human trafficking". Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 4, 2016, accessed on August 17, 2018 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME Adler, Jeremy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British poet and professor of the German language
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH London