Jost Hermand

Jost Hermand in July 2010

Jost Hermand (born April 11, 1930 in Kassel ) is a German university professor for literary studies and cultural history .

Live and act

After attending primary school in Berlin, Hermand came to Poland in 1940 as a ten-year-old until 1945 through the NS Kinderland deportation . From 1950 he studied literature, philosophy, history and art history in Marburg with a doctorate under Friedrich Sengle and Richard Hamann-Mac Lean in 1955. He then went to East Berlin with Richard Hamann , where he worked on the book series on “German Art and Culture from the Wilhelminian Period to Expressionism ”began, published 1959-75 by Akademie-Verlag . Expelled from the GDR in 1957, he has lived in the United States since 1958 and is Professor of Modern German Literature and German Cultural History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has also been an honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin since 2003 . He has held numerous visiting professorships as a literary, music and art scholar at American universities (Harvard, Texas) and German universities (Marburg, Kassel, Bremen, Oldenburg, Freiburg, Essen, Potsdam, Munich, Cologne, Gießen, FU-Berlin).

Honors and memberships

• Co-founder and honorary member of the Hans Mayer Society
• Fellow and curator of the Institute for Critical Theory
• Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies
• Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences
• Senior Fellow of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies Vienna
• Vilas Research Professor of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Honorary Member of the American Association of Teachers of German
• Founding Member of the International Brecht Society
• Member of the German PEN club abroad
• Hilldale Award for Academic Excellence, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Honored Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2009/2010)
• Co-founder of the North American Heinrich Heine Society
• Member of the Vormärz Research Forum
• Silver medal from the ver.di union
• Dr. phil. hc from the University of Kassel

Fonts

• The literary world of forms of the Biedermeier. 1958.
• Art Nouveau poetry. 1964, ISBN 3-15-008928-X .
• Art Nouveau. A research report. 1965, ISBN 3-534-03463-5 .
• with Richard Hamann : German art and culture from the early days to expressionism. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1959–1975. (Vol. 1: Gründerzeit . 1959. Vol. 2: Naturalism . 1960. Vol. 3: Impressionism . 1960. Vol. 4: Stilkunst um 1900. 1967. Vol. 5: Expressionism . 1975.)
  • under the title Epochs of German Culture from 1870 to the Present. Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich 1971–1976. Licensed edition by S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1977.
• Literary studies and art studies. Methodical interrelationships since 1900. Stuttgart 1965. / 2nd edition, 1971.
• Young Germany. Texts and documents. 1966, ISBN 3-15-008703-1 .
• The German pre-march. Texts and documents. 1967, ISBN 3-15-008794-5 .
• Synthetic interpretation. 1969. 6th edition, 1976, ISBN 3-485-03027-9 .
• From Mainz to Weimar. Studies on German Literature. 1969, ISBN 3-476-00310-8 .
• From the German Republic. Current provocations. 2 volumes (Volume 1: Theoretical Basics; Volume 2: Current Provocations.) 1968. / 2nd edition, 1975, ISBN 3-518-00793-9 .
• Pop international. A critical analysis. 1971, ISBN 3-7610-9209-1 .
• Inconvenient literature. An example series. 1971.
• The glow of the beautiful life. Studies at the turn of the century. 1972, ISBN 3-7610-4612-X .
• The Wilhelminian style parvenu. In: Aspects of the early days . Catalog for the exhibition at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) from September 8 to November 24, 1974 . Pp. 7-15
• Heinrich Heine. Historical-critical edition of the works , Volume 6. 1973, ISBN 978-3-455-03006-8 .
• The early Heine. A comment on the travel pictures. 1976, ISBN 3-538-07021-0 .
• Styles, isms, labels. For the periodization of modern art. 1978, ISBN 3-89104-283-3 .
• with Frank Trommler: The culture of the Weimar Republic. 1978, ISBN 3-485-00346-8 .
• Stänker and Weismacher. To the story of an affect. 1979, ISBN 3-476-00193-8 .
• Seven ways to suffer from Germany. 1979, ISBN 3-7610-2141-0 .
• Concrete listening. On the content of instrumental music. 1981, ISBN 3-88619-007-2 .
• German celebrations. 1982, ISBN 3-7997-0683-6 .
• Literary life in the Empire 1871–1918. Text output with materials. 1982, ISBN 3-12-351550-8 .
• Literary life in the Weimar Republic. Text output with materials. 1982, ISBN 3-12-351560-5 .
• Styles, isms, etiquette. To periodize art. 1982, ISBN 3-7997-0686-0 .
• Subject of dispute Heine. A research report (1945-1975). 1983, ISBN 3-7610-2101-1 .
• Bertolt Brecht. About the fine arts. 1983, ISBN 3-518-10691-0 .
• Places. Somewhere. Forms of utopian thinking. 1984, ISBN 3-7610-8117-0 .
• Adolph Menzel. 1986, ISBN 3-499-50361-1 .
• Culture in reconstruction. The Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1965. 1986, ISBN 3-485-00514-2 .
• Stories from the ghetto. 1987, ISBN 3-610-00399-5 .
• The culture of the Federal Republic of Germany 1965-1985. 1988, ISBN 3-485-00577-0 .
• The old dream of the new kingdom. Volkish utopias and National Socialism. 1988th / 2nd edition, 1991, ISBN 3-89547-709-5 .
• Culture in reconstruction. The Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1965. 1989. / 2nd edition, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-548-34551-4 .
• Arnold Zweig. 1990, ISBN 3-499-50381-6 .
• Green utopias in Germany. On the history of ecological consciousness. 1991, ISBN 3-596-10395-9 .
• Eloquent tones. Music in the historical process. 1991, ISBN 3-631-42934-7 .
• More than a liberal. About Heinrich Heine. 1991, ISBN 3-631-43080-9 .
• Commitment as a way of life. About Arnold Zweig. 1992, ISBN 3-89404-907-3 .
• As a pimp in Poland. Extended deportation to Kinderland 1940–1945. 1993. / 2nd edition 1995, ISBN 3-596-11321-0 .
• People die with the trees. On the cultural history of ecology. 1993, ISBN 3-412-02593-3 .
• History of German Studies. 1994, ISBN 3-499-55534-4 .
• German, Jew or French? Heine in an international context. 1995, ISBN 3-8142-0507-3 .
• Avant-garde and regression. 200 years of German art. 1995, ISBN 3-361-00441-1 .
• Applied literature. Political strategies in the mass media. 1996, ISBN 3-89404-916-2 .
• Judaism and German Culture. Examples of a painful symbiosis. 1996, ISBN 3-412-11395-6 .
• Ecological urgency postulates in the cultural and human sciences. 1997, ISBN 3-7776-0814-9 .
• Adolph Menzel “The Flute Concert in Sanssouci”. A realistically dreamed picture of Prussia. 1998. 2nd edition, 2000, ISBN 3-596-23928-1 .
• In a race against time. Impetus for an ecologically conscious aesthetic. 1999, ISBN 3-89404-904-9 .
• At home and elsewhere. Cold War experiences. 2001, ISBN 3-412-02201-2 .
• "The eternally bourgeois disgusts me". Brecht essays. 2001, ISBN 3-934344-09-7 .
• The German poets' associations. From the German Mastersingers to the PEN Club. 2001, ISBN 3-412-09897-3 .
• Ernst von Salomon. 2002, ISBN 3-7776-1162-X .
• Forms of Eros in Art. 2002, ISBN 3-205-99151-6 .
• with Michael Niedermeier : Revolutio Germanica. The longing for the "old freedom" of the Teutons. 1750-1820. 2002, ISBN 3-631-39671-6 .
• Beethoven. Work and effect. 2003, ISBN 3-412-04903-4 .
• After postmodernism. Aesthetics today. 2004, ISBN 3-412-12803-1 .
• German cultural history of the 20th century. 2006, ISBN 3-89678-563-X .
• Friendship. On the history of a social bond. 2006, ISBN 3-412-29705-4 .
• Heinrich Heine. Critical. Solidaric. Controversial. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-12206-5 .
• The splendor and misery of the German opera. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20098-5 .
• The art historian Richard Hamann. A political biography. 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20398-6 .
• Fifty years of German studies. Articles, statements, polemics, 1959-2009. 2009, ISBN 978-3-03911-877-9 .
• The dead are not silent. Brecht essays. 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60002-3 .
• Culture in dark times. Nazi fascism, internal emigration, exile. 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20604-8 .
• Political ideas. From Caspar David Friedrich to Neo Rauch . 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20703-8 .
• Lost illusions. A history of German nationalism. 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20854-7 .
• Culture in Dark Times: Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile. 2013, ISBN 978-0-85745-590-1 .
• Unfulfilled hopes. Review of the literature of the GDR. 2013, ISBN 978-1-299-55073-5 .
• Friends, celebrities, opponents. Political biographical snapshots. 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22158-4 .
• Role models. Partisan professors in divided Germany. 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22365-6 .
• The dear money! Property Relationships in German Literature. 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-50145-7 .
• Green classic. Goethe's understanding of nature in art and science. 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50359-8 .
• More than sounding air. Political echo effects in song, opera and instrumental music . 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50921-7 .
• The few and the many. Supporting layers of German culture from the beginning to the present . 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50751-0 .
• The resilient ineffectiveness of a classic. Brecht studies. Research 137th Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95749-141-1 .
• German "leading cultures" from the Weimar Classic to the present. Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-51151-7 .
• From German to Denglish. Stations of German language history . Cologne 2019, ISBN 9783412514631 .
• Unresolved past. Effects of the Cold War on West German Post-War Literature . Cologne 2019, ISBN 9783412514631

Editor or Associate Editor

• Base. Yearbook for contemporary German literature. With Reinhold Grimm 1970–1980.
• Brecht yearbook. With Reinhold Grimm 1971–1980.
• Literature in the historical process. With Klaus R. Scherpe, Gert Mattenklott and Helmut Peitsch 1981–1989.
• German Life and Civilization. 1987ff.
• Wisconsin Workshop Series. With Reinhold Grimm, Hans Adler and Marc Silberman 1970–2000.
• Stories from the ghetto . Athenäums Taschenbuch by anton hain, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-445-04747-2 .
• German Secret Societies: From the Early Modern Age to the Present . Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne, 272 pages, 2013, by Jost Hermand (Hrsg.) (Author), Sabine Mödersheim (Hrsg.) (Author).

Festschriften

• Colorful List edited by Helen Fehervary, Carol Poore, and Janet Swaffar. 1990.
• Responsibility and Commitment. Ethical postulates of cultural mediation. Edited by Klaus L. Berghahn, Robert C. Holub and Klaus R. Scherpe. 1996.
• Heroes and Heroism in German Culture. Essays in Honor of Jost Hermand. Edited by Stephen Brockmann and James Steakley. 2001.
• Kai Artinger: "Crossing borders in many ways. Richard Hamann's and Jost Hermand's cultural history book series 'German Art and Culture from the Wilhelminian Age to Expressionism'" in: Science between East and West: The art historian Richard Hamann as a border crosser , Marburg 2009
• The Temptation of Hope. From Thomas More to Ernst Bloch and Beyond. Edited by Klaus L. Berghahn. 2011.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jost Hermand in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Jost Hermand  in the German Digital Library
• Jost Hermand on the University of Wisconsin, Madison website