Ludwig Fischer (philologist)
Ludwig Fischer (born May 28, 1939 in Leipzig ) is a German philosopher and German philosopher. He was a professor for modern German literature at the University of Hamburg .
Until 1965 Fischer studied biology, then German , Protestant theology and general rhetoric at the Universities of Tübingen , Basel and Zurich. In 1965 he passed his first state examination in German and Protestant theology and received his doctorate in general rhetoric in 1967 with a thesis on bound speech. Poetry and Rhetoric in the Literary Theory of the Baroque in Germany . He was then lecturer for German language and literature at Stockholm University and research assistant at the Institute for German Philology, General and Comparative Literature at TU Berlin.
In 1976 he completed his habilitation in German Philology at the TU Berlin . Since 1978 he has been full professor for modern German literature at the University of Hamburg. He has been retired since 2004.
Fischer worked on contemporary literature and the social history of literature (including mass and entertainment literature). He was also active in media studies (focus: television - genres, program structures - and documentary film) and cultural theory and history (including the history of reading and modes of reading, the media dispositive), cultural sociology (especially following Pierre Bourdieu ).
Before his retirement and beyond, Ludwig Fischer dealt with the perception and media history of the “cultural construct of nature ”.
Publications
- Hardcover speech. Poetry and Rhetoric in the Literary Theory of the Baroque in Germany. Tubingen 1968.
- Under the pseudonym Eschel Gneis: Dr. Radish's twelve-minute stories. Munich: dtv 2008.
- Nettles . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95757-407-7 .
as editor
- Unfinished business. The journalist and writer Horst Stern (= contributions to media aesthetics and media history. No. 4). Lit Verlag, Hamburg 1997
- together with Reinhard Piechocki : Horst Stern. Speeches - essays - interviews . Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn 2014
on Ludwig Fischer's work:
- Reinhard Piechocki (2010): Landscape - Home - Wilderness: Protection of Nature - but which and why? Becksche series, p. 27.
literature
- Dieter Arendt: Eulenspiegel, a fool's mirror of society, page 224, Klett-Cotta, 1978, ISBN 3129133704 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gneiss, Eschel (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist and philosopher, professor of modern German literature at the University of Hamburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |