Jochen Schulte-Sasse

Jochen Schulte-Sasse (born July 12, 1940 in Salzgitter ; † December 12, 2012 in Piedmont , California ) was a German-American literary, cultural and media scholar and translator. From 1979 to 2011 he was a professor at the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch as well as the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature of the University of Minnesota , Minneapolis , where he already 1968-1969 as a visiting assistant professor and from 1978 to 1979 as associate professor worked would have. In 2002 he held the Fesler-Lampert Chair in the Humanities there . He was the brother of Hermann Schulte-Sasse .

Life

Jochen Schulte-Sasse attended the Freiherr vom Stein-Gymnasium in Lünen . There he passed the Abitur in 1960. In 1961 he began teaching German (German literature and philology) and philosophy at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . He also studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1962–1964), at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (1964–1965; in addition to the subjects mentioned also history and linguistics) and at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (1965–1968) . In June 1968 he passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools. The following month he was awarded the best dissertation of the year by the Department of Philology, examined by Hans Joachim Schrimpf and Hermann Lübbe , The Critique of Trivial Literature Since the Enlightenment. PhD studies on the history of the modern concept of kitsch .

From 1969 to 1976 Jochen Schulte-Sasse was a research assistant at the Ruhr University in Bochum, after his habilitation in July of the same year, he was a private lecturer there for a year . 1977–1978 and 1979–1980 he was a substitute professor ( Helmut Kreuzer ) at the University of Siegen .

Between 1990 and 2001 Jochen Schulte-Sasse was visiting professor at the universities of Irvine (1990), Graz (1992), Salzburg (1997) and Amsterdam (2001).

At the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Jochen Schulte-Sasse was involved in university self-administration in a variety of ways, from 2002 to 2007 as a member of the Senate. In addition, he supervised more than two dozen PhD projects.

With his dissertation published in 1971 and reissued in 1977 and the volume Literary Valuation , which appeared at the same time in the widespread Metzler Collection , as well as the volume Literarischer Kitsch (1979) published by dtv ( dtv Verlagsgesellschaft ), Jochen Schulte-Sasse had an early idea, according to Jürgen Link in his obituary, "made decisive contributions to the debates about an opening of the concept of literature and culture" and about the "possibility of an empirical aesthetic". Authors, philosophers and artists of the Enlightenment and Romanticism were a lifelong "source of inspiration" for him. In addition, through his work, Minneapolis "has become a Mecca for European-American debates about 'the postmodern situation'".

In this context, the four booklets for critical literary studies (1979–1983) published together with Peter Bürger and Christa Bürger , the journal Cultural Critique , which he co-founded, and the 88-publication series Theory and History of Literature ( published together with Wlad Godzich ) are also relevant . 1981–1997).

In addition, Schulte-Sasse had and still has great influence on generations of students through his introduction to literary studies , which he wrote together with Renate Werner and has been reissued many times since 1977 , a classic in the utb ( university paperbacks ) program. Classics have also become those articles published in renowned lexicons and reference works, which reflect his diverse research interests, work and results in condensed form.

That explains why colleagues thought of him with the following words: "Jochen's personal, intellectual, and professional generosity, his enthusiasm, and his intellectual judgment were contagious amongst his students, colleagues, and those whose work he unstintingly fostered."

Jochen Schulte-Sasse was married twice, since August 1970 with the literary, cultural and media scholar Linda Schulte-Sasse , b. Schiele. The first marriage resulted in a daughter, and a daughter and a son from his marriage to Linda Schulte-Sasse.

Monographs

• The criticism of trivial literature since the Enlightenment. Studies on the history of the modern concept of kitsch (= Bochum works on linguistics and literary studies, vol. 6). Munich: Wilhelm Fink 1971. Second edition 1977. ISBN 978-3-770503568
• Literary evaluation . Stuttgart: JB Metzler 1971 (= Metzler Collection, vol. 98). 2., completely reworked. Edition 1976. ISBN 978-3-476100986 .
• Literary structure and historical-social context: For example Lessing's “Emilia Galotti” . Paderborn: Schöningh 1975. ISBN 978-3-506782502 .
• Introduction to literary studies . Munich: Wilhelm Fink 1977 (together with Renate Werner). ISBN 978-3-770514649 .

Editorships, edited volumes

• Literary kitsch. Texts on his theory, history and individual interpretation (= deutsche texte, vol. 542). Tübingen: Niemeyer 1978.
• Naturalism / Aestheticism . Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 1979 (together with Christa Bürger and Peter Bürger). ISBN 978-3-518109922
• Enlightenment and literary public . Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 1980 (= Edition Suhrkamp 1040, New Series Vol. 40; together with Christa Bürger and Peter Bürger). ISBN 978-3-518110409 .
• To dichotomize high and low literature . Frankfurt a. M., Suhrkamp 1982 (= Edition Suhrkamp 1089, New Series Vol. 89; together with Christa Bürger and Peter Bürger). ISBN 978-3-518110898 .
• Popular Narratives / Popular Images . Cultural Critique, Vol. 10, 1988.
• Theory as Practice. A Critical Anthology of Early German Romantic Writings . Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press 1996 (translator and co-editor with Haynes Horne, Elizabeth Mittman, Lisa C. Roetzel, Andreas Michel, Assenka Oksiloff and Mary R. Strand). ISBN 978-0816627790
• Cultural Critique 59 . Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press 2005 (co-editor with Keya Ganguly and John Mowitt). ISBN 978-0816643783

Editions of literary texts

• Lessing / Mendelssohn / Nicolai - Correspondence about the tragedy . Munich: Winkler 1972. ISBN 3538076022 .
• E. Marlitt: In the house of the Commerce Council (together with Renate Werner). Munich: Fink 1977.

Articles (selection)

• Autonomy as a value. On the historical and aesthetic criticism of an ideologized term . In: Gunter E. Grimm (ed.): Literature and readers . Stuttgart: Reclam 1975, pp. 101-118 and 383-84.
• Literary market and aesthetic way of thinking. Analyzes and theses on the history of their connection . In: LiLi. Journal for literary studies and linguistics , 2nd year, 1972, pp. 11–31.
• Aspects of context-related literary semantics using the example of "Emilia Galotti" . In: Walter Müller-Seidel (ed.): Historicity in Linguistics and Literature Studies. Lectures and reports from the Stuttgart German Studies Conference 1972 . Munich: Fink 1974, pp. 159-174.
• Marlitt's "In the House of the Commerce Council". Analysis of a trivial novel with a paradigmatic intention (together with Renate Werner). In: E. Marlitt : In the House of the Commerce Council . Munich: Fink 1977, pp. 389-434.
• Literary evaluation: On the inevitable historical decline of a literary critical practice . In: LiLi. Journal for literary studies and linguistics , 18th Jg., Vol. 71, 1988, pp. 13-47.
• The Prestige of the Artist under Conditions of Modernity . In: Cultural Critique , No. 12, 1989, pp. 83-100.
• Carl Einstein or, The Postmodern Transformation of Modernism . In: Andreas Huyssen , David Bathrick (eds.): Modernity and the Text. Revisions of German Modernism . New York: Columbia University Press 1989, pp. 36-59.
• Nietzsche's Theoretical Resistance, introduction to Peter Sloterdijk, The Thinker on Stage . In: Nietzsche's Materialism . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1989, pp. IX-XXIV.
• Herder's Concept of the Sublime . In: Kurt Müller-Vollmer (ed.): Herder Today . Berlin and New York: de Gruyter 1990, pp. 268-291.
• War, Otherness and Illusionary Identifications with the State (with Linda Schulte-Sasse). In: Cultural Critique , No. 19, 1991, pp. 67-96.
• The Subject's Aesthetic Foundation (on Kant) . In: Peter Fenves and Richard Block (eds.): The Spirit of Poesy . Evanston: Northwestern University Press 1999, pp. 27-46.
• Mediality in Hegel: From Work to Text in the Phenomenology of Spirit . In: T. Rajan, A. Plotnitsky (eds.): Idealism Without Absolutes . Albany: SUNY Press 2003, pp. 73-91.
• The Concept of Literary Criticism in the Romantic Period . In: Peter Uwe Hohendahl (ed.): History of German Literary Criticism . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1988, pp. 99-177.
• Electronic Media and Cultural Politics in the Reagan Era: The Attack on Libya and Hands Across America as Postmodern Events . In: Cultural Critique , No. 8, 1988, pp. 123-152.
• From written to electronic culture: About recent interrelationships between media history and cultural history . In: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht , Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer (literary scholar) (ed.): Materiality of communication (= stw vol. 750). Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp 1988, pp. 429-453.
• Modernity and Modernism, Postmodernity and Postmodernism: Framing the Issue . In: Cultural Critique , No. 5, 1987, pp. 5-22.
• Imagination and Modernity or, The Taming of the Human Mind . In: Cultural Critique , No. 5, 1987, pp. 23-48.
• The aestheticization of transcendence. With an excursus on Goethe's "Faust" . In: Hans Adler (Germanist) , Renate Werner (ed.): Subjectivity-Humanity-Aesthetics. Studies on the history of German literature and its conditions. For Hans Joachim Schrimpf on his 60th birthday . Bochum: Selbstverlag 1987, pp. 41-79.
• The concept of literary criticism in romanticism . In: Peter Uwe Hohendahl (ed.): History of German literary criticism . Stuttgart: Metzler 1985, pp. 76-128, 350-353.
• Theory of Modernism versus Theory of the Avant-Garde . Introduction to: Peter Bürger: Theory of the Avant-garde . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1984, VIII-XLVIII, 100-105.
• Toward a "Culture" for the Masses: The Sociopsychological Function of Popular Literature in Germany and the US, 1880-1920 . In: New German Critique , No. 29, 1983, pp. 85-105.
• Use values ​​of literature. A critique of the aesthetic categories of "identification" and "reflexivity", especially with regard to Adorno . In: Christa Bürger u. a. (Ed.): To dichotomize high and low literature . Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp 1982, pp. 62-107.
• The poetics and aesthetics of Lessing and his contemporaries . In: Rolf Grimminger (ed.): Social history of German literature , Vol. 3. Munich: Hanser 1980, pp. 303–326.
• Critical-rational and literary public . In: Jochen Schulte-Sasse u. a. (Ed.): Enlightenment and literary public . Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp 1980, pp. 12-38.
• The concept of the bourgeois literary public and the historical reasons for its collapse . In: Jochen Schulte-Sasse et al. (Ed.): Enlightenment and literary public . Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp 1980, pp. 83-115.
• The German bourgeois drama (1730-1789) . In: Rolf Grimminger (ed.): Social history of German literature , Vol. 3. Munich: Hanser 1980, pp. 423–499.

Lexicon contributions (selection)

• Distance / lack of distance, aesthetic . In: Joachim Ritter (ed.): Historical Dictionary of Philosophy , Vol. 2. Basel: Schwabe 1972, columns 267–269.
• Kitsch . In: Joachim Ritter, Karlfried founder (ed.): Historical dictionary of philosophy . Basel: Schwabe 1976, Sp. 843-846.
• Trivial literature . In: Klaus Kanzog , Achim Masser (ed.): Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturgeschichte , Vol. 4. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 1984, pp. 562-583.
• The concept of literary criticism in romanticism . In: Peter Uwe Hohendahl (ed.): History of German literary criticism (1730–1980) . Stuttgart: Metzler 1985, pp. 76-128.
• Imagination / Imagination . In: Karlheinz Barck , Martin Fontius , Dieter Schlenstedt , Burkhart Steinwachs , Friedrich Wolfoppel (eds.): Aesthetic Basic Concepts , Vol. 2. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2001, pp. 88–120.
• Media / medial . In: Karlheinz Barck, Martin Fontius, Dieter Schlenstedt, Burkhart Steinwachs, Friedrich Wolfzettel (eds.): Aesthetic Basic Concepts , Vol. 4. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2002, pp. 1-37.
• Perspective / perspectivism . In: Karlheinz Barck, Martin Fontius, Dieter Schlenstedt, Burkhart Steinwachs, Friedrich Wolfzettel (eds.): Aesthetic Basic Concepts , Vol. 4. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2002, pp. 758–777.
• Fantasy : In: Karlheinz Barck, Martin Fontius, Dieter Schlenstedt, Burkhart Steinwachs, Friedrich Wolfschein (eds.): Aesthetic Basic Concepts , Vol. 4. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2002, pp. 778–797.

literature

• Mirko M. Hall: In memoriam: Jochen Schulte-Sasse . In: The German Quarterly , Vol. 86, No., 2013, pp. 90-92. 1
• Jürgen Link: Enlightenment as inspiration. On the death of Jochen Schulte-Sasse . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 17, 2012.
• Thomas Pepper, John Mowitt: Jochen Schulte-Sasse, renowned intellectual, dies at 72 . https://www.upress.umn.edu  ›News & Events› Press Releases.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jochen Schulte-Sasse, renowned intellectual, dies at 72 , upress.umn.edu, December 21, 2012, accessed on June 3, 2019.
2. ↑ Jürgen Link: Enlightenment as inspiration. On the death of Jochen Schulte-Sasse. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 17, 2012.
3. ↑ Thomas Pepper, John Mowitt: Jochen Schulte-Sasse, renowned intellectual, dies at 72. https://www.upress.umn.edu  ›News & Events› Press Releases.