Lisette Gebhardt

Lisette Gebhardt (born July 20, 1963 in Starnberg ) is a German philologist and Japanologist .

Biographical

After studying Japanology , Sinology and Comparative Literature ( University of Munich ), Gebhardt received his doctorate in Japanology on a topic from the Japanese history of literature and ideas around 1900 at the University of Trier . From 1994 to 1998 she worked at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo . In 2000, the literary scholar completed her habilitation at the University of Trier with a thesis on the identity discourse of Japanese intellectuals and writers. After teaching positions as well as substitute and visiting professorships at the universities of Zurich , Tübingen , Trier and Halle-Wittenberg , she was appointed as a specialist representative (C4) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt in 2003.

Research priorities and activities

Gebhardt's works ask about Japanese identity concepts since the modern age and open up the inner-Japanese cultural discourse in the form of a cultural diagnosis; it is primarily concerned with modern and contemporary Japanese literature, with the literary adaptation of religious and ideological content (“literature and religion”) as well as with social trends and current phenomena in contemporary Japanese culture (e.g. ikai , iyashi , ikikata ). On the literary representation of poverty and impoverishment (keywords precarization, precariat , precariate literature), she published the study “After Darkness. Japanese literature under the sign of the precarious ”. After the triple catastrophe in Fukushima , she dealt with the reaction of the art scene to this decisive turning point and examined above all the literary events since March 11, 2011, with questions about the status of Fukushima as a historical event and the repoliticization of the literary scene . The Fukushima text initiative was launched in April 2011, with the aim of translating and commenting on Japanese voices.

Gebhardt initiated the J-Bungaku working group on contemporary Japanese literature in 2003 and the Cultural Management (KuMa) seminar in 2007 , a project that aimed to familiarize students of Japanese studies with the fields of the creative industry and tested Japanese studies in cultural studies in practical projects. In 2010, Gebhardt founded the series on Japanese literature and culture at EB Verlag Berlin , which includes contributions to developments in the contemporary Japanese literary scene as well as to contemporary Japanese culture in general. She also reviews German-language new publications of Japanese literature for various online media, including on the review portal literaturkritik.de .

Publications

Monographs

(2016) (Ed.) (Together with the review forum literaturkritik.de): Nuclear Narrations - Explorations of the End Times five years after Fukushima. Reviews and essays. Berlin: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt. ISBN 978-3-86893-218-8 (first published as an online version in the April edition of literaturkritik.de).
(2014) (Ed.) (Together with Thomas M. Bohn, Thomas Feldhoff, Arndt Graf): The Impact of Disaster: Social and Cultural Approaches to Fukushima and Chernobyl Berlin: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt. ISBN 978-3-86893-166-2
(2014) (Ed.) (Together with Evelyn Schulz): New concepts of Japanese literature? National literature, literary canon and literary theory. Lectures of the 15th German-speaking Japanologentag - Literature II. Berlin: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt. ISBN 978-3-86893-120-4
(2014) (Ed.) (Together with Masami Yuki): Literature and Art after "Fukushima" Berlin: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt. ISBN 978-3-86893-118-1
(2013) (Ed.) (Together with Steffi Richter): Reader "Fukushima": translations, comments, essays. Berlin: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt. ISBN 978-3-86893-103-7
(2012) (Ed.) (Together with Thomas LeBlanc): Fantastic from Japan. An excursion to other Japanese worlds. Wetzlar: Series of publications and materials from the Fantastic Library in Wetzlar.
(2012) (Ed.) (Together with Steffi Richter): “Japan nach 'Fukushima'. A system in crisis ” . Leipzig: Leipzig University Press. ISBN 978-3-86583-692-2
(2012) (Ed.): “Yomitai! New Literature from Japan ”. Berlin: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt. ISBN 978-3-86893-057-3
(2010): "After dark". Contemporary Japanese literature under the sign of the precarious. Berlin: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt. ISBN 978-3-86893-031-3 ( Reviews ( Memento of April 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ))
(2009): Uchida Hyakken : From the Shadow World. Stories. Translated from Japanese and with an afterword by Lisette Gebhardt. Munich: dva. ISBN 978-3-421-04422-8
(2007): Gen'yū Sōkyū : The Feast of Abraxas. Novel. From the Japanese and with an afterword by Lisette Gebhardt. Berlin: bebra Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86124-903-0
(2003): Religion and Violence: Japan, the Middle East, and South Asia . Oriental studies booklets 10th ed. By Lisette Gebhardt and Ildikó Beller-Hann. Hall: OWZ Halle-Wittenberg.
(2001): Japan's New Spirituality. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-04398-9 (Japanese translation: 現代日本のスピリチュアリティ . Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo 2013, ISBN 978-4-00-022788-9 )
(1999): Christianity, Religion, Identity. A subject of modern Japanese literature. Frankfurt am Main et al .: Lang. ISBN 3-631-35829-6

Articles and contributions

(2016): “Precarisation, emergencies and global performance. National narratives of contemporary Japanese history ”. In: Stephan Köhn and Monika Unkel (eds.): Precarization societies in East Asia. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 235-260.

(2015): "Psychograms of a Lost Generation: Childhood and Adolescence in Contemporary Japanese Literature". In: Michael Kinski, Harald Salomon and Eike Großmann (eds.): Childhood in Japanese history - ideas and experiences. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Pp. 453-488.

(2014): “Prekariat: The Agenda of a Japanese Outrage - Transfer of Terms from the International Debate on Relegation”. In: Harald Meyer (Hrsg.): Conceptual histories from East Asian studies: Mechanisms of concept formation and establishment in Japanese, Chinese and Korean . Munich: Iudicium. Pp. 309-332.

(2013): “Neighborhood Culture Kôenji”. In: Benedikt Huber (ed.): MYTYO Mein Tokio / My Tokyo / (私の東京): A literary-photographic portrait of Tokyo . Stuttgart: Edition Esefeld & Traub, pp. 85–87.

(2012): "Widely Read Writings on Religion in Contemporary Japan - Popular Books on Religious Issues, 'Spiritual Literature' and Literary Works with Religious Themes". In: John Nelson and Inken Prohl (eds.): Handbook of Japanese Religions . Leiden: Brill, pp. 551-574.

(2012): “'I've been waiting all the time for that day to come': Positions of Japanese authors after 'Fukushima'”. In: Steffi Richter and Lisette Gebhardt (eds.) (2012): Japan after “Fukushima”: A system in crisis . Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, pp. 175–209.

(2010): “ Yoshimoto Banana seeks happiness - commentary on a current literary and social trend in Japan” ( research on contemporary Japanese literature , series of Japanese Studies Frankfurt).

(2010): “Murakami for everyone. A Japanese gives us what we want ”. In: Murakami Haruki . IQ84. Dumont author's notebook . Cologne: Dumont, pp. 12-19.

(2009): “'Very Simplest Sentences'. Brief Narratology of Contemporary Japanese Literature ”. In: Steineck, Christian and Simone Müller (eds.): Asiatic Studies , 63/3, SS 699–721.

(2009): “Lifestyle and Psychodesign in Japanese 'Moratorium Literature ' - Kawakami Hiromi and Ogawa Yôko ” ( research on contemporary Japanese literature , series of Japanese Studies Frankfurt).

(2009): "The decline of man and the environment - ecological issues in Japanese literature and Kirino Natsuo's novel 'Metabola'". In: Thomas Le Blanc (ed.): Series of publications of the Fantastic Library Wetzlar , Vol. 102, pp. 157–167.

(2008): "Age and Aging in Contemporary Japanese Literature". In: The Demographic Challenge. A Handbook about Japan. Ed. By Florian Coulmas et al. Leiden: Brill, pp. 491-512.

(2008): “Thoughts on contemporary Japanese literature” In: Harald Meyer (Ed.): Ways of Japanology. Festschrift for Eduard Klopfenstein , pp. 265–289.

(2007): "Academic work and Asian cult: Wilhelm and Rousselle as mediators of Asian religion" In: Wippermann, Dorothea and Ebertshäuser, Georg (ed.): Ways and crossings of the Chinese customer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt am Main, pp. 159-183.

(2007): “'Bubblonia-Bashing': Kirino Natsuo's importance for contemporary Japanese literature.” In: Eduard Klopfenstein (Ed.): Asian Studies , LXI-2, pp. 447–469.

(2007): “' Freeter Literature'? - A look at Kakuta Mitsuyo . ”In: Eduard Klopfenstein (Ed.): Asian Studies , LXI-2, pp. 643–660.

(2007): " Kanehara Hitomi : Mannerisms of Denial." In: Eduard Klopfenstein (Ed.): Asian Studies , LXI-2, pp. 685–695.

(2007): “The Dark Path of the Kirino Natsuo. Experiences of injustice as a subject of contemporary Japanese literature ”. In: Opfermann, Susanne (Ed.): Injustice Experiences . Königstein: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, pp. 137–157.

(2007): “Help in life and intensification of life: Religious experience in contemporary Japanese literature.” In: Haeffner, Gerd (Ed.): Religious Experience II. Intercultural Perspectives . Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, pp. 14-28.

(2004): “Consumption of healing (iyashi) in contemporary Japanese culture and the religious journey to Asia”. In: H. Piegeler, I. Prohl et al. (Ed.) (2004): Lived Religions. Festschrift for Hartmut Zinser . Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, pp. 325–338.

(2002): “The search for meaning - an intercultural phenomenon. Contemporary Japanese literature under the sign of religion and esotericism. ”In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik , New Series 3, pp. 523-531.