Matthias Bickenbach

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Matthias Bickenbach (* 1963 ) is a German specialist in German .

Life

He completed his studies in German philology, philosophy and art history at the University of Cologne in 1995 with a doctorate . Graduate scholarship from the Protestant Studienwerk Haus Villigst eV Studies with Wilhelm Vosskamp, ​​Nikolaus Wegmann and Friedrich Kittler . The dissertation received the Offermann-Hergarten Prize of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne. After a research project on literary authority (1996), he was a research assistant at the SFB / FK 427 Media and Cultural Communication from 1998 to 2004 . After teaching at the Charles University in Prague and completing his habilitation in 2005 at the University of Cologne with the Venia Legendi "Literary Studies and Media Studies", he has represented professorships in modern German literature at the universities of Tübingen , Bonn , Düsseldorf and Cologne since 2007 . Since 2012 he has been teaching as an adjunct professor at the University of Cologne at the Institute for German Language and Literature I.

Bickenbach is a member of a cultural studies reading group for a "historical-speculative commentary" on all of Hermann Melville's "Moby-Dick" chapters, which has been commenting on each chapter of the novel in annual meetings since 2006 (together with Bernhard Siegert , Friedrich Balke , Markus Krajewski , Ethel Matala de Mazza , Roland Borgards , Armin Schäfer , Harun Maye , Lars Friedrich, Leander Scholz , Cornelius Borck and others). The results have been published in the Neue Rundschau by Fischer-Verlag since 2012 .

Since 2014 he has been editing the historical dictionary of media use with Heiko Christians and Nikolaus Wegmann .

  • 2015/16 research project on digital reading cultures at the Grimme Research College of the University of Cologne
  • 2019 Richeza Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for German-Polish cultural mediation.
  • Numerous literary essays (including on Herder, Goethe, Wieland, Ms. Schlegel, Cl. Brentano, Fontane, Musil and Thomas Kling) as well as works on media history.

His main research interests are poetics and romance theory (17th - 21st centuries), romance, cultural techniques, media history and digital reading cultures.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the possibilities of an 'inner' story of reading . Tübingen: Niemeyer 1999, ISBN 3-484-63020-5 .
  • with Harun Maye: Metaphor Internet. Literary education and surfing . Berlin: Kadmos 2009, ISBN 3-86599-089-4 .
  • The author's photo in the media evolution. Anachrony of a norm . Munich, Paderborn: Fink 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-4948-1 .
  • with Michael Stolzke: The speed factory. A fragmentary cultural history of the car accident . Berlin: Kadmos 2014, ISBN 978-3-8659-9230-7.
  • Screen and book. Try about the future of reading . Berlin: Kadmos 2020, ISBN 3520719010 .
  • Historical dictionary of media use . Edited by Heiko Christians, Matthias Bickenbach, Nikolaus Wegman. 2 vols. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau vol. 1 2015 ISBN 978-3412221522 , vol. 2 2018 ISBN 978-3412505127 , vol. 3 in preparation (2021).

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personal data
SURNAME Bickenbach, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin