Manfred Schneider (Germanist)
Manfred Schneider (born February 19, 1944 in Gleiwitz ) is a German literary and media scholar .
Life
Schneider studied German , Romance languages , musicology and philosophy in Freiburg i. Br. He received his doctorate in 1971 with a thesis on Christian Dietrich Grabbe . After his habilitation in 1979 he became professor for modern German literature at the University of Essen . In 1999 he moved to the Ruhr University in Bochum , where he held a chair for modern German studies, aesthetics and literary media until 2012 .
His research focuses on modern literature and aesthetics , media theory , literature and law, and the history of interviews in confession , interrogation and psychoanalysis . He dedicated a number of works to the disruptors of modern society (madmen, revolutionaries, barbarians, assassins).
In addition to his research and teaching activities, Schneider repeatedly expresses himself as a critic, commentator or essayist on the radio and in the political feature sections of various daily newspapers ( Frankfurter Rundschau and Neue Zürcher Zeitung ).
Publications (selection)
- Destruction and utopian community. On the theme and dramaturgy of the heroic in Christian Dietrich Grabbe's work . Frankfurt am Main: Athenaeum 1973 (Presence of Poetry; 7).
- Subversive aesthetics. Regression as a condition and theme of Marcel Proust's novel art. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1975 (Concepts of Linguistics and Literature Studies; 16).
- The fear and paradise of the complainer. Attempt on Karl Kraus. Frankfurt am Main: Syndicate 1977.
- The sick beautiful soul of the revolution. Heine, Börne, "Young Germany", Marx and Engels. Frankfurt am Main: Syndicate 1980.
- "The Children of Olympus". The triumph of curiosity. Texts, documents, comments. With the collaboration of Irmelin Sansen, Eva Striewe u. Ferdinand Fries. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer 1985 (Fischer Tb .; 4461).
- The cold heart writing. The autobiographical text in the 20th century , Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-446-14656-3 .
- with Rüdiger Campe : Stories of Physiognomics. Text - image - knowledge. Freiburg: Rombach 1996 (Rombach Wissenschaft. Litterae series, vol. 36).
- Love and deceit. The languages of desire. Munich / Vienna: Hanser 1992. Paperback edition: Munich: dtv 1994
- The barbarian. Apocalyptic mood and cultural recycling. Munich / Vienna: Hanser 1997
- The order of the promise. Natural law - institution - speech act. In collaboration with Peter Friedrich, Michael Niehaus u. Wim Peeters. Munich: Fink 2005 (literature and law: 2).
- with Ursula Renner-Henke : moulting. Readings of the Marsyas myth. Munich: Fink 2006.
- with Jo Reichertz : Social history of the confession. On the change in the culture of confession. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag 2007.
- with Peter Friedrich: Fatal languages. Oath and curse in literary and legal history. Munich: Fink 2009 (literature and law; 4)
- The assassination. Critique of Paranoid Reason . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-88221-537-2 . ( Review by René Aguigah )
- Transparency dream. Literature, politics, media and the impossible . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-082-8 .
- with Christian Lück, Michael Niehaus, Peter Risthaus: Archive of the example. Preparatory work and considerations. Zurich-Berlin: diaphanes 2013.
- Media revolutions. The Reformation in the 16th century and the uprisings in Arab countries in 2010/1011. Zurich: Series of the Vontobel Foundation 2014.
Web links
- Literature by and about Manfred Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
- Manfred Schneider , website at the Ruhr University Bochum
- Manfred Schneider: The debates about the German literary canon: An oath of disclosure. In: Die Zeit No. 25/97. Retrieved July 29, 2011 .
- Manfred Schneider: Panopticum in the 21st century. From Bentham to Google Earth. In: Podcast. July 10, 2008, accessed on April 14, 2018 (presentation for the Medias conference in res.Cultural positions in media research).
- Video: Manfred Schneider talks about his research project at the International College for Cultural Technology Research and Media Philosophy (IKKM) Weimar
- Manfred Schneider: Ruins, garbage and leftovers - The archeology of the present . June 2006 ( SWR2 RadioART: Essay ( Memento from July 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).
- Political murder - how are assassinations motivated? Conversation with Manfred Schneider, Herfried Münkler and Arata Takeda , SWR2 Forum, March 30, 2011.
- Cultural history: »They kill pictures with a special charisma«. In: K.WEST. January 2007, accessed on July 29, 2011 (Interview: Andrej Klahn).
- Zarathustra as an engineer . November 7, 2007 ( NZZ online - about Paul Scheerbart's novel “Lésabendio”).
- Manfred Schneider: Ukraine. Deadly failure. Why the idea seems infinitely cynical to us that a vicious mishap could have fueled the war in Ukraine. In: Die Zeit No. 31/2014. Retrieved July 24, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Baumgart : Das Zwitschern des Fleisches , review, in: Die Zeit , 37/1992
- ↑ Micha Brumlik : The Terror of Uniqueness , Review, in: Die Zeit , 14/1997
- ↑ Richard Kämmerlings : Alles totalklar , review in Die Literäre Welt , November 2, 2013, p. 1
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schneider, Manfred |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1944 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gliwice |