Manfred Schneider (Germanist)

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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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Baumgart : Das Zwitschern des Fleisches , review, in: Die Zeit , 37/1992
  2. ↑ Micha Brumlik : The Terror of Uniqueness , Review, in: Die Zeit , 14/1997
  3. ↑ Richard Kämmerlings : Alles totalklar , review in Die Literäre Welt , November 2, 2013, p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice