Martin Jörg Schäfer

Martin Jörg Schäfer (* 1971 ) is a German specialist in German.

Life

From winter 1991/1992 to the end of 1997 he studied German, philosophy , English and comparative literature at the University of Hamburg and University College London (Erasmus exchange in the academic year 1995/96); Graduated with the Magister Artium. From the beginning of 1998 to the end of 2000 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Modern German Literature and Media Culture at the University of Hamburg within the framework of the interdisciplinary focus program “Theatricality” of the German Research Foundation (summer 1999 to winter 2002/2003: teaching assignments there). After completing his doctorate in May 2001 at the Department of Linguistics, Literature and Media Studies at the University of Hamburg, he was a postdoc from winter 2002/03 to summer 2004 at the interdisciplinary graduate college "Travel Literature and Cultural Anthropology" of the German Research Foundation at the University of Paderborn . From Fall 2004 to Spring 2006 he taught as a visiting professor (Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) at the German Department at New York University . In March 2007 he conducted research at University College London in the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's post -contact program . From summer 2006 to winter 2012/13 he was a research assistant (assistant professor) at the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Erfurt (general and comparative literature). (Meanwhile: winter 2010/11 to summer 2012: leave of absence for substitute professorships at the University of Siegen (winter 10/11: W2 for modern German literature, summer 11: W3 for modern German literature, winter 11/12 to summer 12: W2 for newer German literary and cultural studies), November 2010: completion of habilitation and appointment as lecturer at the University of Erfurt ( Venia legendi : General and Comparative literature, German literature), January to March 2010: on leave as a Fellow in residence at the College of Friedrich Nietzsche the Weimarer Klassik Foundation , summer 2007 to summer 2008: at the same time lecturer for aesthetics and art sociology at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (in block courses). From summer 2013 to winter 2013/2014 he was a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation at the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Erfurt.

Since summer 2014: he teaches as a university professor for modern German literature with a focus on theater research at the University of Hamburg (2014-2018 as a Heisenberg professorship of the German Research Foundation). In the spring semester of 2016 he was the Charlotte M. Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor in German Studies at Rutgers University . In the spring semester of 2019 he was Max Kade Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University . In autumn 2019 he was visiting professor at Fudan University (College of Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures).

His main research interests are literature, theater, theory formation from the 18th to the 21st century (especially "around 1800", modern and "post-modern", contemporary theater and performance), breaks in tradition and crisis narratives (e.g. upbringing and education; work vs. Laziness, idleness, leisure), questions of representation regarding aesthetics, theatricality, mediality, poetology, political fictions, characters in translation and transmission and the relationship between theater and text.

Fonts (selection)

• Scenic materialism. Dionysian theatricality between Holderlin and Hegel . Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85165-619-9 .
• Pain to be with. On the rereading of Celan and Heidegger by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy . Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2520-2 .
• The violence of leisure. Interrelationships between work, non-work, aesthetics . Zurich 2013, ISBN 3-03734-329-X .
• The theater of education. Goethe's “educational province” and the history of the theatricalization of education . Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 3-8376-3488-4 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Martin Jörg Schäfer