Markus Winkler (Philologist)

Markus Winkler (born May 31, 1955 in Bonn ) is a German Romance philologist and comparativeist in Geneva.

Life

From 1973 he studied Romance languages (French and Italian), German , philosophy and education at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . From 1975 to 1982 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 1977/78 he was a scholarship holder at the École normal supérieure (Paris) . He finished his studies in Bonn, where he passed the first state examination for teaching at the grammar school in 1980 in French and German. In 1980/81 he received a scholarship from the University of Lausanne . After completing his legal clerkship at a grammar school in Bonn, he passed the assessor examination in French and German in 1983. With a doctoral thesis on Benjamin Constant , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD (Egregia cum laude and Summa cum laude ).

He then worked for six years as senior assistant for modern German literature at the University of Geneva . Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, he was visiting professor at the University of Washington from 1990–1992 . The Pennsylvania State University appointed him 1992 as Associate, 1998 as Full Professor of German. He completed his habilitation in 1996 at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) . He held visiting professorships in Seattle, Berlin (formerly Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences ), Innsbruck, Limoges and Mainz. Since 1998 he has been full professor of modern German and comparative literature at the University of Geneva. There he has also been the coordinator and one of the three directors of the Program de littérature comparée since 2001 . 2000–2003, 2009–2012 and 2013–2015, he was also director of the Geneva département de langue et littérature allemandes . From 2002 to 2014 he was President of the Swiss Society for General and Comparative Literature.

See also : Critical lexicon for contemporary foreign language literature

Editorships

• Historical-critical edition of the works of Benjamin Constant
• Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Romance Literature (KLRG) (1999–2007)
• Periodical Colloquium Helveticum
• Swiss Hefts for General and Comparative Literature Studies (2000–2016)
• Contributions to literary theory and knowledge poetics (since 2014)

Works

• "Décadence actuelle" . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1984.
• Œuvres complètes de Benjamin Constant , 1993 ff.
• Mythical thinking between romanticism and realism: the experience of cultural foreignness in Heinrich Heine's work . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995.
• From Iphigenia to Medea . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2009.

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Markus Winkler, Department of German Language and Literature (University of Geneva)
• Publications by Markus Winkler (German Association of Germanists)
• Markus Winkler, Maria Boletsi, Jens Herlth, Christian Moser, Julian Reidy, Melanie Rohner, Elena Tétaz: “ Barbaric ”: the history of a basic European concept and its literary reflection from the 18th century to the present

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: "Décadence actuelle". Benjamin Constant's Critique of the French Enlightenment .
2. ↑ Habilitation thesis (from the SNSF grant): Mythical thinking between romanticism and realism. On the experience of cultural foreignness in Heinrich Heine's work .
3. ↑ Univ. Mainz ( Memento of the original from October 27, 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.