Marlies Janz
Marlies Janz (* 1942 as Marlies Gummert in Wuppertal ) is a German literary scholar , author and former editor.
Vita
After early work as an assistant director and dramaturge, Marlies Janz studied German studies , theater studies and general and comparative literature in Berlin, Munich and Grenoble with a grant from the German National Academic Foundation . She received her doctorate in 1974, then worked for a few years as a literary critic (Spiegel, Stern) and editor-in-chief for contemporary literature (Rotbuch Verlag, Frölich & Kaufmann, Luchterhand), received a grant from the German Research Foundation from 1982 to 1984 and qualified as a professor in 1986.
From 1984 to 2008 she was professor for modern German literature at the Free University of Berlin - with a one-year break at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (substitute professor Wolfgang Frühwald ) . In 1991 she was offered a full professorship at the University of Innsbruck, which she did not accept. Marlies Janz is best known for her fundamental studies on Paul Celan and Elfriede Jelinek .
Publications (selection)
- 1976: The commitment to absolute poetry. On the poetry and aesthetics of Paul Celan. Syndikat Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-8108-0014-7 . (At the same time Diss. Phil. Free University of Berlin 1974). Unchanged reprint of the first edition: Athenäum Verlag, Königstein / Taunus 1984, ISBN 3-7610-8305-X
- 1979 (as Marlies Gummert): Speech by a self-confident professor's wife . (Fiction) In: Kursbuch (magazine) , ed. by Karl Markus Michel and Harald Wieser with the assistance of Hans Magnus Enzensberger , No. 58: Karrieren , pp. 85–100. (Numerous reprints of the article in various anthologies)
- 1986: marble pictures. Femininity and death with Clemens Brentano and Hugo von Hofmannsthal . Athenaeum, Königstein / Taunus, ISBN 3-7610-8336-X
- 1995: Elfriede Jelinek. Metzler Collection, 286. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar, ISBN 3-476-10286-6
- 2010: Working bibliography on Elfriede Jelinek 1986-2008 .
- 1999–2020: Essays about Paul Celan in the Celan yearbooks published by Hans-Michael Speier , No. 7 ( ISBN 3-8253-0640-2 ), No. 8 ( ISBN 3-8253-1251-8 ), No. 9 ( ISBN 978-3-8253-5182-3 ), No. 10 ( ISBN 978-3-8260-6350-3 ) and No. 11 ( ISBN 978-3-8260-7014-3 ); initially University Press Winter, since No. 10 (2018) published by Königshausen & Neumann.
Web links
- Marlies Janz in the online directory of Hochschulgermanistik: germanistenverzeichnis.phil.uni-erlangen.de
- Catalog of the editing correspondence ( Rotbuch Verlag ) by Marlies Janz u. a. with Peter O. Chotjewitz ( Dario Fo ), György Dalos , Christian Geissler , Birgit Pausch , Ronald M. Schernikau , Peter Paul Zahl and with the publisher of the authors : kalliope-verbund.info
Individual evidence
- ^ News from the subject . In: Arbitrium , 9, H. 2, January 1991, p. 255, doi: 10.1515 / arbi.1991.9.2.255
- ↑ Marlies Janz on the website of the Free University of Berlin; accessed on January 31, 2016. There is also a relatively detailed list of publications
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Janz, Marlies |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gummert, Marlies (maiden name, also pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar, author and former editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |