Matthias N. Lorenz

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Matthias N. Lorenz (born May 21, 1973 in Delmenhorst ) is a German cultural scientist . His main research interests are contemporary and post-war literature , in particular literary anti-Semitism after 1945, politics of memory and historical discourse analysis of literature and contemporary film.

academic career

Matthias N. Lorenz studied cultural studies in Leipzig and Lüneburg from 1995 to 2000 . In 2004 he was with Peter Stein (Lüneburg), Klaus-Michael Bogdal and Jan Philipp Reemtsma Dr. phil is doing his doctorate. From 2000 to 2005 he worked as a research assistant at the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Lüneburg in the field of language and communication; from 2006 to 2011 as a research assistant for German literature and literature didactics at the chair of Klaus-Michael Bogdal in Bielefeld . In 2009/2010 he was a professor for modern German literature and its didactics at the TU Dortmund . From August to October 2010 he was the first Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack Visiting Professor for German Studies at the University of Western Australia in Perth .

In January 2012, Lorenz accepted the offer of an assistant professorship for contemporary literature at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Bern . In 2016 he received his habilitation at the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Bern with the font Distant Kinship on the German-language literary reception of Joseph Conrad and received the Venia Docendi for Modern German Literature . This was followed in 2020 by the call to the W3 professorship for modern German literature and comparative literature at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover .

In his dissertation on the representation of Jews and the Auschwitz discourse with Martin Walser , published in 2005 as a book , he undertook “an analysis of Walser's complete works in order to examine the allegations of anti-Semitism”. In his review , Hans-Joachim Hahn found that this claim was brilliantly honored . The book was in second place on the best non-fiction book list of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2005 and was book of the month in the magazines Konkret and Literaturen . In 2007, Matthias N. Lorenz and Torben Fischer published the encyclopedia on "Coping with the Past" in Germany , which summarizes the discourse history of National Socialism after 1945 in 170 entries.

Awards

  • 2004: Culture Prize of the University of Lüneburg for his dissertation on the representation of Jews and the Auschwitz discourse with Martin Walser. The anti-Semitism accusation against “Death of a Critic” in the context of the complete work
  • 2009: Karl Peter Grotemeyer Prize for outstanding performance and personal commitment in teaching , awarded by the Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft (WLUG) and Bielefeld University
  • 2019/2020: Admission as a Junior Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Martin Walser in criticism and research. A bibliography. Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-89528-354-1 .
  • “Auschwitz is pushing us into one spot”. Representation of Jews and Auschwitz discourse with Martin Walser. With a foreword by Wolfgang Benz . JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-476-02119-X . (Also: Dissertation, University of Lüneburg 2004)
  • Literature and censorship in a democracy. The Federal Republic and the freedom of art. (= UTB. 3266). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-03229-9 .
  • Distant Kinship. Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" in German literature from Kafka to Kracht. JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2017, ISBN 978-3-476-04471-6 . (Also: habilitation thesis, University of Bern 2017) Second edition 2018

Editing

  • DOGMA 95 in context. Cultural studies contributions to the attempts to authenticate in Danish film of the 1990s. Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-8244-4518-2 .
  • Narratives of horror. Artistic, media and intellectual interpretations of September 11, 2001 (= film - medium - discourse. Volume 4). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2777-9 .
  • With Torben Fischer: Lexicon of “ coming to terms with the past” in Germany. Debate and discourse history of National Socialism after 1945. with a foreword by Micha Brumlik . Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-773-8 .
  • With Klaus-Michael Bogdal and Klaus Holz : Literary anti-Semitism after Auschwitz. JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-02240-0 .
  • Juden.Bilder (= text + criticism. Issue 180). Edition Text + Criticism in Richard-Boorberg-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-88377-939-3 .
  • With Maurizio Pirro: the turning point in 1959? The literary staging of continuities and breaks in social and cultural contexts of the 1950s (= Modern Studies. Volume 9). Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-89528-866-1 .
  • With Nicole Colin and Joachim Umlauf: perpetrators and taboos. Limits of tolerance in German and Dutch historical debates (= writings of the library for contemporary history. New series volume 25). Klartext Verlag, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0346-3 .
  • With Oliver Lubrich : Jean Genet and Germany. Merlin, Vastorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-87536-290-9 .
  • Christian Kracht. Catalog of works and annotated bibliography of research . Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8498-1062-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Hahn: Review of: Matthias N. Lorenz: “Auschwitz pushes us into one spot”. Representation of Jews and Auschwitz discourse with Martin Walser. In: H-Soz-u-Kult. Stuttgart, November 7, 2005.
  2. ↑ Review notes on the book at Perlentaucher
  3. ↑ Klaus Holz: Memory of the processing. In: The time. No. 35, August 21, 2008.
  4. ^ Awarded the Karl Peter Grotemeyer Prize. Press release of the University of Bielefeld June 17, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Lorenz, Matthias N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Delmenhorst