Matthias Luserke-Jaqui

Matthias Luserke-Jaqui (born February 17, 1959 in Stuttgart ) is a German philologist and literary scholar .

education

Matthias Luserke-Jaqui attended elementary school in Stuttgart-Feuerbach from 1966 to 1969, and in 1969 he switched to the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart. Between 1974 and 1976 he attended the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Maulbronn ; This was followed by a stay in the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Blaubeuren , where he passed his Abitur in 1979. From 1980 to 1984 Luserke-Jaqui studied German , philosophy and Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen . He continued his studies at Saarland University in the subjects of Modern German Literature, Philosophy and Comparative Literature , where in 1987 his work Reality and Possibility. Modal theoretical investigation on the work of Robert Musils was doctorate. In 1993 he completed his habilitation with the work The Taming of the Wild Soul. Literature and passion in the Enlightenment and received the Venia legendi for modern German literary studies.

Professional career

Luserke-Jaqui began his professional career in 1987 as a research assistant at the Robert Musil Research Center in Saarbrücken; in October of the same year he received a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation on the history of the impact of Aristotelian poetics . In 1989 he was an assistant professor at the Department of German Philology at the University of Regensburg , and from the winter semester 1991/92 to the summer semester 1992 Luserke-Jaqui was a deputy professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

After completing his habilitation , he represented university professorships at the Universities of Mannheim and Saarbrücken and at the PH Erfurt / Mühlhausen . At the beginning of 1995 he received the Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation, and at the end of 1995 he was offered a professorship for 20th century German literature at the PH Erfurt / Mühlhausen. In 1996 he accepted a substitute professorship at the TH Darmstadt. Matthias Luserke-Jaqui has been a university professor for German studies / modern German literature at the Technical University of Darmstadt since 1998 .

Luserke-Jaqui has distinguished himself in particular through groundbreaking research work on the literary epoch of the Enlightenment and the period of Sturm und Drang. a. the Modern Art , the 20th century literature, literary theory and the combination of literary studies as cultural studies . In addition to his teaching and research activities, Luserke-Jaqui also publishes editions of works and texts.

The handbook Sturm und Drang was published by De Gruyter Verlag in 2017 as a large-scale overview .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Reality and possibility. Modal theoretical investigation into the work of Robert Musil . Frankfurt a. M., Bern, New York, Paris 1987. [Dissertation]
• Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz . The Hofmeister - The New Menoza - The Soldiers. Munich 1993 (UTB 1728).
• The taming of the wild soul. Literature and passion in the Enlightenment. Stuttgart, Weimar 1995 (= Germanistische Abhandlungen 77). [Habilitation thesis]
• Robert Musil. Stuttgart, Weimar 1995 ( Metzler Collection 289).
• Storm and stress. Authors - texts - topics. Stuttgart 11997. Bibliographically amended edition. Stuttgart 2010 (Reclam UB 17602).
• The young Goethe. "I don't know why I write so much fool". Göttingen 1999.
• School tells. Literary mirror images in the 19th and 20th centuries. Göttingen 1999.
• Lenz studies. History of literature, works, topics. St. Ingbert 2001.
• Medea . Studies on the cultural history of literature. Tübingen, Basel 2002.
• Eduard Mörike . A comment. Tübingen, Basel 2004 (UTB 2530).
• Friedrich Schiller . Tübingen, Basel 2005 (UTB 2595).
• “A nightingale that dares”. Luther and literature. Tübingen, Basel 2016.
• German literary history in 10 steps. Tübingen, Basel 2017.
• Schiller Studies: The Whole Man and the Aesthetics of Freedom. Tübingen 2018.

Text editions

• Friedrich Maximilian Klinger : The too early awakening of the genius of humanity . Ed. u. provided with an afterword v. Matthias Luserke. Revolutionary Reflexes in German Literature II. Saarbrücken 1989 (= Small Archive of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 4).
• Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz : Pandemonium Germanikum . A sketch. Synoptic edition of both manuscripts. With an afterword ed. Matthias Luserke u. Christoph White. St. Ingbert 1993 (= Small Archive of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 17).
• Johann Georg Schlosser : Prince Tandi to the author of the new Menoza [1775]. With an afterword ed. Matthias Luserke. Heidelberg 1993.
• Friedrich Schiller : Works and Letters in Twelve Volumes. Ed. v. Otto Dann , Heinz Gerd Ingenkamp , Rolf-Peter Janz, Gerhard Kluge , Herbert Kraft , Georg Kurscheidt, Matthias Luserke, Norbert Oellers , Mirjam Springer u. Frithjof Stock. Vol. 5: Dramas IV. Ed. v. Matthias Luserke. Frankfurt a. M. 1996.
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : The sufferings of the young Werther . Study edition. Parallel printing of the versions from 1774 and 1787. Ed. v. Matthias Luserke. Stuttgart 1999 (Reclam UB 9762).
• Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz u. a .: Jupiter and Schinznach / Ramond de Carbonnières: The last days of the young Olban . With an afterword ed. Matthias Luserke. Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2001.
• Friedrich Schiller: Classical Dramas. Maria Stuart, The Virgin of Orleans, The Bride of Messina, William Tell . Ed. v. Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. Frankfurt a. M. 2008.
• Friedrich Schiller: Anthology to the year 1782 . With an afterword ed. Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. Saarbrücken 2009.
• Jochen Klepper : Katharina von Bora. Fragment of a Luther novel. With an afterword ed. Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. Zell / Mosel 2017.
• Joseph Martin Kraus : Tolon. A tragedy in three acts. With an afterword ed. Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. Hanover 2017 (Theatertexte 57).

Editorial activity

• The Aristotelian Catharsis. Documents of their interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries. Ed. u. initiated v. Matthias Luserke. Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 1991.
• Lenz yearbook. Sturm und Drang studies. Vol. 1 and 2 (1992/1992); Vol. 10/11 (2000/2001); Vol. 15 (2008) under the title: Lenz Yearbook. Literature - Culture - Media 1750-1800 to Vol. 18 (2011) (Ed. With further collaboration and co-editor).
• Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz as reflected in research. Ed. v. Matthias Luserke. Hildesheim, New York 1995.
• Musil forum. Studies on the literature of classical modernism. Ed. v. Matthias Luserke-Jaqui u. Rosmarie Zeller. Berlin, New York. Vol. 27-30 (2003-2009).
• PEN. Studies and texts on the cultural history of German-language literature. Ed. v. Matthias Luserke-Jaqui, Helga Meise, Gerhard Sauder u. Jörg Schönert. Tübingen. Vol. 1-6 (2005-2007). From vol. 7, 2017: KULI. Studies and texts on the cultural history of literature. Ed. v. Matthias Luserke-Jaqui in connection with Albrecht Beutel , Peter Seibert u. W. Daniel Wilson .
• Schiller manual. Ed. v. Matthias Luserke-Jaqui with the assistance of v. Grit dommes. Stuttgart, Weimar 2005.
• “The whole world has become media.” Literature, technology, natural science in classical modernism. International Darmstadt Musil Symposium. Ed. v. Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. Tübingen 2005.
• DALPh. Darmstadt works on literary studies and philosophy. Ed. v. Gerhard Gamm u. Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. Vol. 1ff. Marburg 2009ff.
• Handbook Sturm und Drang. Ed. v. Matthias Luserke-Jaqui with the assistance of v. Vanessa Geuen u. Lisa Wille. Berlin, Boston 2017.

Web links

• Literature by Matthias Luserke-Jaqui in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German studies directory: Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. Retrieved February 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Luserke-Jaqui, Matthias. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .