Lothar Bluhm

Lothar Bluhm (born April 25, 1958 in Wuppertal ) is a German German philologist and cultural historian .

Career

Between 1979 and 1985, Bluhm studied German , history , educational science and philosophy at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . After his first state examination, he worked as a lecturer for modern German literary history in the Department of Linguistics and Literature at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . As a member of the Department of German Philology (including Folklore), he was involved in a large number of editions in the field of historical narrative research and began to make a name for himself with publications on the Brothers Grimm and in fairy tale research. In 1990 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the diary of the Third Reich . In 1996 he qualified as a professor for modern German literary studies with a study of the history of science on the communication system of early German philology. In the following time he was first a deputy professor at the Bergische Universität, until in 2002 he accepted a professorship for German Philology (linguistics and literature) at the University of Oulu in Finland. There he was also responsible for international business communication. Since 2006, Bluhm has been teaching as professor for modern German literature and cultural studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau , Landau.

His list of publications shows numerous publications on the entire field of German literature. The main focus of scientific activity is literature, society and science around 1800, fairy tale research, classical modern literature, contemporary literature and motive and topos research. Since 1988, Bluhm has been the editor and since 2002 also the managing editor of the Germanistic trade journal Wirkendes Wort and has been (co-) editor of the Else Lasker-Schüler yearbook on classical modernism since 2000 . He is editor or co-editor of several literary or cultural studies series.

Prizes and awards

• 1991 recipient of a sponsorship award from the Bergische Universität Wuppertal for the 1990 dissertation.
• 2006 Lecturer at the University of Oulu / Finland; Appointment as lecturer for modern German literature.

Publications (selection)

• The Diary of the Third Reich. Evidence of inner emigration from Jochen Klepper to Ernst Jünger. (= Studies on Modern Literature , Vol. 20) Bonn: Bouvier-Verlag, 1991.
• Grimm Philology. Contributions to fairy tale research and the history of science. (= Series of works by the brothers Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , vol. 2) Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 1995.
• The Brothers Grimm and the beginning of German philology. A Study of Communication and Science Education in the Early Nineteenth Century. (= Spolia Berolinensia , Bd. 11) Hildesheim: Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1997.
• Encounters. Studies on the literature of classical modernism. Oulu: Yliopistopaino, 2002.
• "You seem like Saul, the son of Kis' ...". Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship between 'healing' and 'destruction'. In: Goethezeitportal. URL: http://www.goethezeitportal.de/db/wiss/goethe/meisterslehrjahre_bluhm.pdf (released on January 12, 2004).
• Location regulations. Notes on the literary controversy of the 1990s in Germany. A cultural studies sketch. In: German-language contemporary literature since 1989. Interim balance sheets - analyzes - mediation perspectives. Edited by Clemens Kammler and Torsten Pflugmacher. Heidelberg: Chronos, 2004, pp. 61-73.
• Notes on the annotation practice of modern editions using the example of the Innsbruck Trakl edition. A critical consideration. In: Edition and interpretation of modern poetry since Hölderlin. Edited by Dieter Burdorf. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2010, pp. 141–154.
• At a losing point. A journey through the history of a language image. ( KOLA Koblenz-Landauer studies on humanities, cultural and educational sciences, vol. 11) Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2012.
• The apocalypse in literature. What modern literature is and does - Goethe, Döblin, Handke. In: Doom scenarios. Apocalyptic images of thought in literature, art and science. Edited by Lothar Bluhm, Markus Schiefer Ferrari, Hans-Peter Wagner and Christoph Zusatz. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2013, pp. 141–166.
• Jews and Judaism in German-Language Literature. In: Judaism and Anti-Semitism in Europe . Edited by Ulrich A. Wien. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017, pp. 187–221.

Festschrift

• Facts and reservations. Festschrift for Lothar Bluhm on his 60th birthday. Edited by Stephan Merten, Gabriela Scherer, Björn Hayer and Kathrin Heintz. (= KOLA Koblenz-Landauer studies on humanities, cultural and educational sciences, vol. 21) Trier: WVT, 2018.

Web links

• Literature by and about Lothar Bluhm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage