Michael Boehler

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Michael Johannes Böhler (* 1940 ) is a Swiss literary scholar .

Life

After the Matura type A in 1960, he studied German, Philosophy, Greek and sociology at the University of Zurich . During this time he was President of the Small Student Council and delegate of the Association of Swiss Student Unions in the Swiss National Commission for UNESCO. In 1967 he received his doctorate from Emil Staiger with the dissertation Forms and Changes of the Beautiful: Investigations into Adalbert Stifter's concept of beauty . In 1968 he passed the diploma for the higher teaching post of the Canton of Zurich in the subjects of German and philosophy.

He then was Assistant Professor at the State University of New York in Binghamton, New York (USA). In 1974 he became an associate professor . From 1974 to 1978 he was rector of the literary high school in Bern-Neufeld , 1975/76 senior rector and 1977/78 president of the rectors' conference of the agglomeration of Bern. 1975 followed the habilitation in modern German literature at the University of Zurich. In 1976 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bern . In 1978 he was appointed to the University of Zurich. In 1978/79 he was visiting professor (full) at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio (USA). Further visiting professorships followed in Lausanne, Geneva, St. Louis and Stanford. Several times he was the managing director of the German seminar. In 2004 he retired. In 2007 he was visiting professor at the University of Bern. His main research interests are German-language literature , literary theory and history , aesthetics , the canon of literature as well as literature and the Internet.

From 1984 to 1992 he was a member of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation . In 1987 he became a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ernst Alker Foundation. From 1989 to 1996 he was Co-Head and National Coordinator of the Trilateral Research Priority Area “Differentiation and Integration. Language and literature of German-speaking countries in the process of modernization ». He has repeatedly served on the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation . In 1992 he became a member of the Board of Trustees of the Gottfried Keller Edition Historical-Critical Foundation. From 1992 to 2003 he was President of the Board of Trustees of the Hermann Hesse Foundation and from 1996 to 2010 of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss Institute for Children and Youth Media of the Johanna Spyri Foundation. He was also a board member of the Swiss Society for Research in the 18th Century. From 1999 to 2009 he was a member and chairman of the international expert council of the research focus “Places of Memory” of the commission for cultural studies and theater history of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , later also chairman of the international advisory board. From 2000 to 2006 he headed the Commission for Research into the 18th Century and the Enlightenment in Switzerland of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences . In 2000 he also became a committee member of the German Schiller Society and the German Literature Archive in Marbach . In 2007 he was a member and vice-president of the foundation board for a critical Robert Walser edition.

From 1984 to 2000 he was a member of the Scientific Council of the Society for Intercultural German Studies and the International Advisory Board of the journal German as a Foreign Language . From 1996 to 2004 he was a member of the Academy for Intercultural Studies at the University of Bayreuth and until 2006 of the Scientific Advisory Board for Studies in Contemporary German Literature (Stauffenburg Verlag). From 1993 to 2003 he was a member of the advisory board of Arbitrium magazine .

Fonts (selection)

  • Forms and changes of beauty. Studies on Adalbert Stifter's concept of beauty (= European university writings . Series 1. German language and literature . No. 6). Lang, Bern 1967.
  • Social role and aesthetic mediation. Studies in the sociology of literature from AG Baumgarten to F. Schiller . Lang, Bern a. a. 1975, ISBN 3-261-01476-8 .
  • (Ed.): Wilhelm von Humboldt : Writings on language (= Reclams Universal Library . No. 6922). Reprint of the bibliographically supplemented edition, Reclam, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-006922-6 .
  • (Ed.) Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Writings on natural science. Edited with afterword, notes and selected bibliography (Stuttgart, Reclam: 1977/1982/1990/1994/1999/2018) 248 + LIV, ISBN 978-3-15009866-0 .
  • (Ed.) Gottfried Keller: The people of Seldwyla. Part I and II. Edited with explanations and epilogue. with YA Elsaghe. (Basel, Birkhäuser: 1990) = Birkhäuser classic, new series. Vol. I: 296 + 46 p .; Vol. II: 343 + 41 pp.,
  • (Ed.) Hyperfictions. Hyperliterary Reader: Internet and Literature. Edited with Beat Suter. (Frankfurt / Basel, Stroemfeld: 1999) = Nexus Vol. 50, 235 pp. + CD-ROM,
  • (Ed.) Cultural topography of German-language literatures. Perspectives in the field of tension between integration and difference. Edited with Hans-Otto Horch. Max Niemeyer Published by Tübingen 2002, 274 pp.
  • The individuality in Stifter's late work. An aesthetic problem. In: German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history (DVjS) 43, (1969), 652–684,
  • The importance of Schiller for Hegel's aesthetics. In: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA) 87, (1972), 182-191,
  • The hidden tendency of the joke. On the sociodynamics of the comic. In: German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history (DVjS) 55, (1981), 351–378,
  • The 'new' Zurich literary controversy. Balance after twenty years. In: controversies, old and new. Files of the VII. International Germanists Congress Göttingen 1985. Vol. 2: Forms and form history of the dispute. The literary dispute. Niemeyer 1986, 250-262,
  • Swiss Literary Culture since 1945: Productive Antagonisms and Conflicting Identities. In: The German Quarterly 62.3, 1989, 293-307,
  • The reading canon in German-speaking Switzerland. A sketch of the problem. In: Literature Didactics - Reading Canon - Literature Lessons. Ed. Detlef C. Kochan. Amsterdam 1990 (= Amsterdam Contributions to Modern German Studies (ABNG), Volume 30), 9–63,
  • Clemens Brentanos 'The Several Wehmüller and Hungarian National Faces'. Art, commerce and love in the modernization process. In: Aurora. Yearbook of the Eichendorff Society for the classic-romantic period. 54: 145-166 (1994)
  • Poeta absconditus. On Goethe's poem "Finding Again" - read by Hofmannsthal. In: WM Fues and W. Mauser, eds .: "Verbergendes Revhüllen" ;. On theory and art of poetic disguise. Festschrift for Martin Stern. Königshausen & Neumann: Würzburg 1995, 177–196,
  • Shared authorship: Goethe and Schiller. Visions of the poet, realities of writing. In: Goethe-Jahrbuch, 112 (1996), 167–181,
  • Processes of nationalization of literature in German-speaking countries: faults and breaks - viewed from the edge. In: Martin Huber and Gerhard Lauer, ed .: Education and Confession. Politics, religion and literary identity formation 1850–1918. Max Niemeyer Verlag: Tübingen 1996 (= studies and texts on the social history of literature, vol. 59), pp. 21–38,
  • "Cross the Border - Close the Gap!" - The decanonization of the elite culture in postmodernism and the re-canonization of the American myth. To the canon discussion in the USA. In: Renate von Heydebrand, ed .: Kanon Macht Kultur. Theoretical, historical and social aspects of aesthetic canon formation. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1998, pp. 483–503,
  • One-dimensional literature - On the lack of space in social history. In: Martin Huber and Gerhard Lauer, ed .: After social history. Concepts for a literary study between historical anthropology, cultural history and media theory. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2000, pp. 129–153,
  • About the aesthetic concept of the game as a 'link' between traditional text hermeneutics, hyperfiction and computer games. (together with Manuela Kocher) In: Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie, 3 (2001). Edited by Georg Braungart, Karl Eibl, Fotis Jannidis. mentis Verlag, Paderborn, pp. 81-105. See also: Yearbook for Computer Philology - online:
  • From the Caribbean to the Alps. The Creole aspect of Swiss literature and the alpine idyll of the wooden leg. In: National Literatures Today - A Fantom? Edited by Corina Caduff and Reto Sorg. Wilhelm Fink Verlag: Munich 2004, pp. 57–74,
  • "High" and "Low". On the transatlantic circulation of cultural capital. In: Angelika Linke, Jakob Tanner (eds.) Attraction and defense. The Americanization of Everyday Culture in Europe. Böhlau Verlag: Köln, Weimar, Wien 2006, pp. 69–98,
  • Topological reflections - Swiss interplay in imaginary Europe. In: Moritz Csáky, Johannes Feichtinger (Ed.): Europe - united by values? The European debate on values ​​put to the test of history. [transcript] Publisher: Bielefeld 2007, pp. 103-132,
  • The art of interpretation as an interpretation of art - or the Doric pre-censorship. In: Joachim Rickes (Hrsg.): Admired a lot and scolded a lot. The Germanist Emil Staiger (1908–1987). Verlag Königshausen & Neumann: Würzburg 2009, pp. 63–83, ISBN 978-3-8260-4122-8 ,
  • Small Passion or Grand ennui - fly death and toad life. To two poems by Gottfried Keller. In: Corina Caduff, Anne-Kathrin Reulecke, Ulrike Vedder (eds.): Passionen. Objects - locations - styles of thinking. Wilhelm Fink: Munich 2010, pp. 171–179,
  • Switzerland prison or Seldwyla mountain fog? - On the question of space and time constraints in Swiss literature. In: Jürgen Barkhoff, Valerie Heffernan (Ed.): Switzerland write. On the construction and deconstruction of the Swiss myth in contemporary literature. De Gruyter Verlag: Berlin 2010, pp. 45–61,
  • The authentic in literature and the platonic shadow - poetics of the epiphany in Hugo von Hofmannsthal and James Joyce. In: Michael Rössner, Heidemarie Uhl (ed.): Renaissance of authenticity. About the new longing for the original. [transcript] Publisher: Bielefeld 2012, pp. 119–142,
  • "... Render Innocuous the Abstraction We Fear" - Johann Wolfgang Goethe in the Epochal Conflict between Scientific Knowledge and Narrative Knowing. In: Hermann Blume, Christoph Leitgeb, Michael Rössner (Eds.): Narrated Communities - Narrated Realities. Narration as Cognitive Processing and Cultural Practice. Rodopi / Brill: Leiden / Boston 2015, pp. 51–68,
  • Scientific Writing between tabloid Storytelling, arcane formulaic Hermetism and Narrative Knowledge. In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science, vol. 49, Special Issue 2, 2018: Goethe and Newton on the Theory of Colors, doi: 10.1007 / s10838-017-9396-6
  • Translatio Imperii in the 'Sister Republics' Switzerland and America in the 18th Century - Ancient Myths and Heroes in Nation-Building. In: Daniel Graziadei, Federico Italiano, Christopher F. Laferl, Andrea Sommer-Mathis (eds.): Mythos, Paradies, Translation - Perspectives on cultural studies. transcript Verlag: Bielefeld 2018, pp. 63–79,

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The people of Seldwyla . 1990, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-0348-6495-4 .
  2. ↑ :: hyperfiction.ch. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Michael Böhler, Hans Otto Horch: cultural topography of German-language literatures, perspectives in the field of tension between integration and difference . Reprint 2011 edition. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2011, ISBN 978-3-484-10844-8 ( degruyter.com [accessed December 5, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Michael Böhler: The individuality in Stifter's late work . In: German quarterly for literary studies and intellectual history . tape 43 , no. 4 , December 1, 1969, ISSN  2365-9521 , p. 652-684 , doi : 10.1007 / BF03376397 .
  5. ↑ Michael J. Böhler: The importance of Schiller for Hegel's aesthetics . In: PMLA . tape 87 , no. 2 , 1972, ISSN  0030-8129 , p. 182-191 , doi : 10.2307 / 460875 , JSTOR : 460875 .
  6. ↑ Michael Böhler: The hidden tendency of the joke to the sociodynamics of the comic . In: German quarterly for literary studies and intellectual history . tape 55 , no. 3 , October 1, 1981, ISSN  2365-9521 , p. 351-378 , doi : 10.1007 / BF03375066 .
  7. ^ Michael Böhler: The 'new' Zurich literary dispute. Balance after twenty years . In: Forms and Form History of Arguing. The literary dispute . Reprint 2017 edition. tape 2 . De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 1986, ISBN 978-3-11-143669-2 ( degruyter.com [accessed December 5, 2019]).
  8. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/406152?seq=1
  9. ↑ Detlef C. Kochan: Literature didactics, reading canon, literature lessons . Rodopi, 1990, ISBN 978-90-5183-044-6 ( google.ch [accessed December 5, 2019]).
  10. ↑ http://www.goethezeitportal.de/fileadmin/PDF/db/wiss/brentano/wehmueller_boehler.pdf
  11. ↑ http://www.goethezeitportal.de/fileadmin/PDF/db/wiss/goethe/wiederhaben_boehler.pdf
  12. ↑ http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/register/boehler1.htm
  13. ^ Michael Böhler: Nationalization processes of literature in the German-speaking area. Faults and fractures - viewed from the edge . In: Education and Confession Politics, Religion and Literary Identity Formation 1850-1918 . Reprint 2011 edition. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 1996, ISBN 978-3-11-093732-9 ( degruyter.com [accessed January 18, 2020]).
  14. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266257802_Cross_the_Border_-_Close_the_Gap_-_Die_Dekanonisierung_der_Elitekultur_in_der_Postmoderne_und_die_Rekanonisierung_des_Amerika-Mythos_Zur_Kanondiskussion_in_den_USA
  15. ↑ https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110918465/9783110918465.129/9783110918465.129.xml
  16. ↑ http://computerphilologie.tu-darmstadt.de/jg01/kocher-boehler.html
  17. ↑ https://corinacaduff.ch/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Nationale-Literaturen-heute-ein-Fantom.pdf
  18. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267155662_High_und_Low_Zur_transatlantischen_Zirkulation_von_kulturellem_Kapital
  19. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1fxhxf.10?refreqid=excelsior%3A2294c839652bc2ac8066b928fe9afaaa&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
  20. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266259238_Die_Kunst_der_Interpretation_als_Interpretation_zur_Kunst_-_oder_die_dorische_Vorzensur
  21. ↑ https://www.gottfriedkeller.ch/_docs/275/Boehler_KleinePassion.pdf
  22. ↑ https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783484970526/9783484970526.1.45/9783484970526.1.45.xml
  23. ↑ https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/transcript.9783839418611/transcript.9783839418611.119/transcript.9783839418611.119.xml
  24. ↑ https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004184121/B9789004184121-s005.xml
  25. ↑ https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3880-6/mythos-paradies-translation/
personal data
SURNAME Böhler, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böhler, Michael Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1940