Manfred Koch (Germanist)

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Manfred Koch (born December 19, 1955 in Stuttgart ) is a German literary scholar , essayist and literary critic .

Life

Manfred Koch studied philosophy , history and German at the University of Tübingen . In 1988 he received his doctorate there with a dissertation on poetics by Hofmannsthal and Rilke . From 1988 to 1991 he was employed by the DAAD as a lecturer for German language and literature at the University of Thessaloniki . From 1991 to 1998 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Giessen . There he completed his habilitation in 2001.

Until 2004, Koch was a substitute professor for modern German literature at the University of Tübingen . From 2004 to 2008 he was the responsible co-organizer of the poetics lectureship . He now teaches at the University of Basel . In the summer of 2010 and 2011, he taught at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Since 1996 he has been writing articles for the features section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . (Examples :) He also publishes within the series of the Swiss Vontobel Foundation . And he regularly writes radio essays for the station SWR2 .

Manfred Koch is married to the author Angelika Overath . He has been living in Sent in Switzerland since 2007 .

Publications

Monographs

  • Mnemonics of the beautiful. For poetic memory in romance and symbolism. Dissertation. University of Tübingen, 1988.
  • Weimaraner world residents. On the genesis of Goethe's term “world literature”. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-484-63029-9 . (Habilitation thesis, University of Gießen 2001.)
  • Jakob van Hoddis in Tübingen, 1922–1927: "... he was like Hölderlin". German Schiller Society, Marbach am Neckar 2006, ISBN 3-937384-17-0 .
  • Hölderlin's Wuerttemberg Manifesto: The unfinished elegy “The Walk to the Country”. Keicher, Warmbronn 2006, ISBN 3-938743-16-6 .
  • Idleness. A difficult discipline. Essays. To Klampen, Springe 2012, ISBN 978-3-86674-169-0 . (Abridged first edition: Laziness. With illustrations by Magi Wechsler. Series of publications by the Vontobel Foundation. Zurich 2011.)
  • The memory of the divine. Reflection on Joh. Seb. Bach's cantata Halt in Gedächtnis Jesum Christ BWV 67. As part of the JS Bach Foundation. Trogen, April 25, 2014.

Editing

  • with Angelika Overath: Bad marriages. A wedding book, compiled from many sources. Eichborn, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-8218-4710-7 , series Die Other Bibliothek .
  • with Angelika Overath: The art of simplicity. Herder, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-451-27825-1 .
  • with Angelika Overath: Insomnia. The book of the bright nights. A literary no-turn for sleep seekers and those on watch. Libelle, Lengwil 2002, ISBN 3-909081-47-9 .
  • with Angelika Overath and Silvia Overath: Geniuses and their secrets. 100 biographical puzzles. List, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-471-78310-5 .
    • As an audio book (read by Manfred Koch): 4 audio CDs. Radioropa / Technisat, Daun 2008, ISBN 978-3-8368-0170-6 .
  • with Angelika Overath: Bringing dogs is allowed. A literary salon. List, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-471-78311-5 .
  • Bread and games. About the religion of sport. With illustrations by Luis Murschetz. Vontobel Foundation, Zurich 2008. (New edition: Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0546-5 )
  • with Angelika Overath and Silvia Overath: Geniuses and their secrets. Volume 2: 100 new biographical puzzles. List, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-471-78312-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Koch ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the German Seminar of the University of Basel, accessed on January 21, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / germa.unibas.ch
  2. ↑ German Literature from 1945-1968. Middlebury College Course Hub , accessed January 18, 2018.
  3. ^ Post for the Olympian - Schiller's letter present on Goethe's 45th birthday. Article in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of August 28, 2009, accessed on January 21, 2018.
  4. ↑ Happy misunderstanding - On the 250th birthday of Johann Peter Hebel. Article in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of May 8, 2010, accessed on January 21, 2018.
  5. ↑ In the “Po = Ebene” - on the new edition of Arno Schmidt's giant opus “Zettels Traum”. Article in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of December 8, 2010, accessed on January 21, 2018.
  6. ↑ The artist as a petty bourgeois. About Gottfried Benn's comeback in 1949. Radio essay from April 27, 2009.
  7. ↑ Madame Bovary on the Nile. About Flaubert's trip to Egypt. Radio essay from May 17, 2010.
  8. ↑ Unverloren - Ingeborg Bachmann's poetic testament. October 23, 2017, accessed January 21, 2018.
  9. ↑ Review by Fabian Lampart. In: Werner Frick, Jochen Golz, Edith Zehm (eds.): Goethe-Jahrbuch 2003. Böhlau, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-7400-1209-9 , pp. 380–382.
  10. ↑ See the list of publications ( Memento of September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) of the Vontobel Foundation . Archive version, accessed January 21, 2018.
  11. ↑ Product information ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the JS Bach Foundation, accessed on January 21, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bachstiftung.ch
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, essayist and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart