Matthew Koenigsberg

Matthew Königsberg (* 1956 ) is a German Japanologist .

Life

From 1975 he studied at the University of Virginia and later Japanese Studies in Hamburg (1982 Magister Artium, University of Hamburg . Master's thesis : Kobayashi Hideos 'Watakushi shōsetsu ron' . Studies continued with the aim of obtaining a doctorate). In 1984 he was hired as a certified research assistant at the Japanese Studies Department at the University of Tübingen . Due to the forced expatriation of his family at the time of National Socialism, there was a claim to German citizenship according to GG, Art. 116, No. 2. In 1986, Königsberg was re-naturalized. After receiving his doctorate in Tübingen in 1988 , he was employed as a research assistant at the teaching materials Japanese FU Berlin . In 1990 he was hired as a research assistant at the Japanese-German Center in Berlin . Responsibilities: Supervision of an academic exchange program with Japan as well as organization and content supervision of scientific congresses. In 1991 he represented the C-2 professorship in the Applied World Business Languages ​​Japanese course at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences . Since then, trainings in the field of intercultural competence for managers who are preparing for stays in Japan. In 1992 he was hired as a research assistant at C-1, Department of Language and Culture of Japan, University of Hamburg. Three-month research stay in Tōkyō with a SAP scholarship. In 1998 he was granted a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation . Topic of the work: Realism in Japan, The Ken'yūsha school and the testing of the new romance techniques . After his habilitation in 2001 and appointment as a private lecturer , University of Hamburg, Faculty of Oriental Studies, he was appointed visiting associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 , teaching area of ​​premodern literature and language of Japan (from winter semester 2002/2003) and third place on the list, C-3 Professorship for Japanese Studies, University of Munich . In 2004 he was hired as a teacher for special tasks (lecturer) at the East Asian Department of the Free University of Berlin . In 2009 he was awarded the honor of an adjunct professorship in Japanese Studies at the Free University of Berlin.

His main research interests are pre-modern and modern Japanese literature, structuralist and comparative literary studies, and language didactics.

Fonts (selection)

• The young Kobayashi Hideo . Life and work of a modern Japanese literary critic . Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-928463-53-5 .
• Korean Minority Literature in Japan. Assimilation and identity finding . Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-928463-57-8 .
• Ozaki Kôyô (1867-1903). Literary creation between tradition and modernity. The Ken'yûsha circle of poets and the invention of Japanese realism. A discussion-oriented work analysis . Hamburg 2008, ISBN 3-928463-81-0 .
• as editor with Michael Kinski , Gerhard Leinss , Markus Rüttermann and Harald Salomon: En - Nexus. Japanese episodes translated for ecumenism. In honor of Klaus Kracht on the occasion of his retirement . Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-447-10038-0 .

Web links

• www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/