Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research
| Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin | |
|---|---|
| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | Humanities Centers Berlin |
| Legal form of the carrier: | registered association |
| Seat of the wearer: |
Berlin , Germany
|
| Facility location: | Berlin center |
| Type of research: | Basic research |
| Subjects: | Humanities |
| Areas of expertise: | Literary studies cultural studies |
| Basic funding: | BMBF , State of Berlin , third-party funding |
| Management: | Eva Geulen |
| Employee: | around 60 |
| Homepage: | www.zfl-berlin.org |
The Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (until 2019: Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin , ZfL) is a non-university humanities institute for researching literature in interdisciplinary contexts and under cultural-scientific requirements. Its headquarters are at Schützenstrasse 18 in the Berlin district of Mitte .
history
The ZfL goes back to the Central Institute for the History of Literature, which existed between 1969 and 1991 at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1996, after four years' lead, it was founded in the funding company for new scientific projects, which is supported by the Max Planck Society . Together with the Leibniz Center for General Linguistics (ZAS) and the Leibniz Center for the Modern Orient (ZMO), the ZfL forms the Humanities Centers Berlin (GWZ).
The founding director of the ZfL was from 1996 to 1999 the German studies specialist Eberhard Lämmert . The literary and cultural scientist Sigrid Weigel was director of the ZfL until July 2015 . The literary scholar Eva Geulen has been director since August 2015 .
From 1996 to 2007 the GWZ Berlin was funded by the State of Berlin and the German Research Foundation. In addition, third-party funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Volkswagen Foundation , the Fritz Thyssen Foundation , the Federal Cultural Foundation , the Capital Culture Fund , the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation , the German Aerospace Center and the like. a. solicited. After a positive evaluation by the Science Council (Germany) , the ZfL has been funded by the State of Berlin and project funding from the BMBF since 2008 with an annual budget of almost 2.5 million euros. In addition, further individual projects are supported by third-party funds. a. the German Research Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation and additional funding from the BMBF. The ZfL has been a member of the Leibniz Association since January 2019 .
research
Since the end of 2015, research at the ZfL has been divided into three permanent focal points (theoretical history, world literature and life science) and changing, overarching annual topics. The subject of research is literature in all focal areas , which also opens access to other fields of knowledge and forms of knowledge. According to the self-presentation of the ZfL, the research interest is particularly in the search for and the development of alternative descriptions of modernity , its history and its self-image. The “integration of perspectives from the history of religion as well as questions and procedures in the field of image science” also help to shape the profile.
Interdisciplinarity
The ZfL employees come from different philologies (comparative studies, German studies, Romance studies, Slavic studies, American studies), culture, art, music and theater studies, religious studies and Islamic studies, the history of science and philosophy.
Cooperations
In addition to the current project work, the ZfL maintains intensive cooperation relationships with institutions in Germany and abroad. In addition to Berlin universities and research institutes, this includes a. the Franz Rosenzweig Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the State Ilia University . The ZfL also works with cultural institutions such as the Literaturhaus Berlin , the Haus für Poesie Berlin and the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin .
Visiting scholars and honorary members
National and international researchers whose research is related to the ZfL projects are invited as visiting researchers and fellows for short-term research stays. From the exchange with some renowned scientists to such an intensive cooperation has developed that the ZfL they honorary members (Honorary Members) has appointed. Honorary members are the art historian Hans Belting (Karlsruhe), the humanities scholar and postcolonial theorist Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard University), the art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman (Paris), the science historian Rivka Feldhay (Tel Aviv) and the historian Carlo Ginzburg (Pisa), the psychoanalyst, literary theorist and writer Julia Kristeva (Paris), the image scholar William J. T. Mitchell (Chicago), the Germanist Stéphane Mosès (1931–2007), the philosopher Michail Ryklin (Moscow) and the Germanist Irina Schtscherbakowa (Moscow) ).
Publications
The ZfL maintains two series of books for the publication of research results: the series Trajekte in Wilhelm Fink Verlag (since 2003) and the series in literature research in Kulturverlag Kadmos (since 2006, previously Akademie Verlag ). These are successively made available open access on the publication server of the University Library in Frankfurt am Main . Numerous research results have also been published by other publishers (Fischer, Suhrkamp, de Gruyter and others). From 2000 to 2015 the magazine Trajekte was published twice a year .
Library
The ZfL library is a special public library for interdisciplinary literary and cultural research with the task of providing the best possible support for the work of the ZfL scientists. Your inventory is based on the ZfL's focus on the research areas of theoretical history, world literature and life-science. In addition to literary and cultural studies, the collection focuses on philosophy, media studies, the history of religion, visual studies, conceptual history and increasingly also the life sciences. The inventory comprises around 56,000 media units, including around 13,000 volumes of magazines (as of 2018).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About the GWZ . Website of the Association for Humanities Centers Berlin e. V., accessed on March 18, 2017.
- ↑ Press release of the Leibniz Association of November 30 , 2018 , accessed on January 4, 2019.
- ↑ Self-presentation of the ZfL . ZfL website, accessed on July 20, 2017.
- ↑ Trajekte magazine
- ^ Library of the ZfL . ZfL website, accessed on October 11, 2017.