Michael Fish

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Michael Fisch in Cairo 2013

Michael Fisch (born July 13, 1964 in Gerolstein / Eifel ) is a German literary scholar and writer .

Life

After graduating from high school, Michael Fisch completed a three-year training course as a retail bookseller . Since 1988 he has been studying German and philosophy at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and the Free University of Berlin , where he completed his master's degree in 1994 . After working in publishing houses, he worked at the Berliner Festspiele . In 1999 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin on the importance of travel for the life and work of Hubert Fichte . In 2000 he was project manager at the Berlin Literature Workshop and curated, among other things, the first international poetry festival Weltklang . From 2001 to 2004 he lived in Hamburg, where he worked for Europa Verlag . He also had two teaching positions at the University of Hamburg (2003 on Hubert Fichte and 2004 on Gerhard Rühm .) In 2004 he returned to Berlin and worked again for a book publisher until 2007. It was here that the editions of works by Michael Roes , Gerhard Rühm and Robert Wolfgang Schnell were created under his editorship . At the Free University of Berlin he also had a teaching assignment in 2006 on Gerhard Rühm and in 2007 on the Wiener Gruppe .

From October 2008 to June 2011 he was DAAD lecturer at the University of Manouba in Tunis. In 2009 he held lectures there on “Literature from 1818 to 1848” and “Poetry from 1945 to 1965” and since 2010 has held seminars on Georg Büchner , Peter Handke , Franz Kafka , Heinrich von Kleist , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Friedrich Nietzsche, among others . His Foucault bibliography was published in 2008, and his biography on Michel Foucault in 2011 . From October 2011 he had a teaching and research stay at the Institute for Semitic and Arabic Studies at the Free University of Berlin . Here he researched the subject of " Qur'ān as text", which he presented with a first lecture in August 2011 at the ganaa workshop in Leipzig. At the same time he is compiling a list of the German-language editions of the Qur'ān and their textual history. His Derrida bibliography was published in late 2011. A text story on the work of Jacques Derrida is to appear in 2020.

Since September 2012 he has held a visiting professorship at Helwan University , funded as a DAAD lecturer . In academic seminars in Cairo, he dealt with topics such as “interculturality versus transculturality”, “text theory and text understanding”, as well as the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . Seminars on German-language literature from the 18th century to contemporary literature followed. In addition to his Qur'ān directory, he wrote texts on Ibn al- Jschauzī (Abû Al-Faradj Ibn al-Djauzi) and Averroes (Ibn Ruschd). In cooperation with young scholars from the Arab world, he has been working on a transcultural tafsîr since 2013, i.e. on a Qur'ān translation and Qur'ān interpretation from a non-European perspective, the realization and completion of which within a cluster of twenty Years. A list of sources on international Qur'an scholarship was published in 2018.

Since September 2013 he has also been working as a university lecturer at the Department of German Studies at the University of Cairo . Since 2016 he has been a reviewer for the Egyptian University Commission for the appointment of professorships, as well as reviewer and co-editor of the Egyptian German Studies Periodical Kairoer Germanistische Studien (KGS). An important research focus for him lies in the literature of Austria after 1945. On this subject he has written articles about the authors Ingeborg Bachmann , Marianne Fritz , Elfriede Gerstl , Friederike Mayröcker , Gerhard Roth and Gerhard Rühm . In addition, since 2007 he has been writing a multi-volume cycle of narrations entitled Eine Neue Welt, the first volumes of which, Khamsa (2009), Plural (2013) and Viktor (2019) have already been published. The project, based on ten volumes of novels, deals with questions of (plural) identity and (transcultural) travel.

Since October 2018 Michael Fisch has held the position of visiting professor at the "Walter Benjamin Chair for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural Studies" as part of a DAAD long-term lectureship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Memberships

Publications

  • Personal bibliography on the life and work of Hubert Fichte. Edition diá, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-86034-148-0 .
  • Bibliography Robert Wolfgang Schnell. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 3-89528-262-6 .
  • Confusion of the world. On the importance of travel for the life and work of Hubert Fichte. Rimbaud, Aachen 2000, ISBN 3-89086-751-0 .
  • Who's speaking? Poems. Edition diá, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86034-158-8 .
  • How it goes on. Poems. Edition diá, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86034-155-3 .
  • Is Reality a Force? Edition diá, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86034-156-1 .
  • What else? Poems. Edition diá, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86034-157-X .
  • Gerhard Rühm - A Life at Work 1954-2004. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89528-489-0 .
  • Gestures and Conversations - About Hubert Fichte. Rimbaud, Aachen 2005, ISBN 3-89086-615-8 .
  • Hubert Fichte - Explosion of Research. Bibliography on the life and work of Hubert Fichte. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89528-545-5 .
  • Michel Foucault - Bibliography of German-language publications in chronological order (1954–1988). Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89528-677-3 .
  • Khamsa. Or the water of life (= A New World. Volume V; Edition Milo. Volume 22). Novel. Drava, Klagenfurt / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85435-609-7 .
  • Me and Now: Theoretical foundations for understanding the work of Gerhard Rühm and practical conditions for the output of his collected works. Transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1501-2 .
  • Works and joys. Michel Foucault - a biography. Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1900-3 .
  • Jacques Derrida. Bibliography of German-language publications in chronological order (1959–2009). Weidler, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89693-566-3 .
  • umm-al-kitâb - An annotated directory of German-language Koran editions from 1543 to 2013. Schiler, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89930-319-3 (470 years of European-occidental Koran reception).
  • Plural. Or the duplication of the I (= A New World. Volume III) novel. Rothenstein, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-9814491-3-6 .
  • ulûm-al-Qur'ân - An international directory of historical-critical Koran research from 1807 to 2017. Schiler, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-89930-196-0 (210 years of Koran scholarship taking into account related research areas).
  • Viktor. Or the variation of the script (= A New World. Volume VII). Novel. Shaker, Düren 2019, ISBN 978-3-95631-736-1 .

A New World (cycle)

  • Volume III plural. Or the duplication of the self. 2013.
  • Volume V Khamsa. Or the water of life. 2009.
  • Volume VII Viktor. Or the variation of the font. 2019 (7 chapters named after the Seven Deadly Sins ).

Contributions to transcultural science (BztW)

  • "The world knows me so that it will forgive me". Articles on Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838), Paul Ernst (1866–1933) and Hubert Fichte (1935–1986) ( contributions to transcultural science. Volume 1). Weidler, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89693-643-1 (The volume is dedicated to Gert Mattenklott .)
  • "Who ever knew what life was like". Essays on Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749–1832), Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) and Paul Celan (1920–1970) ( contributions to transcultural science. Volume 2). Weidler, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89693-653-0 (The volume is dedicated to Jörg Drews .)
  • "Whoever looked at beauty with eyes". Essays on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), August von Platen (1796–1835) and Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) ( contributions to transcultural science. Volume 3). Weidler, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-89693-663-9 (The volume is dedicated to Erhard Weidl .)
  • "Science is a sea without banks". Contributions to the research colloquium at the Department of German Studies at the University of Cairo ( Contributions to transcultural science. Volume 4). Weidler, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-89693-682-0 (The volume is dedicated to Tāhā Husain .)
  • »War - Religion - Psyche«. University didactic challenges of DAAD lecturing work in the MENA region. Documentation of applications and contributions ( Contributions to transcultural science. Volume 5). Weidler, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-89693-684-4 (The volume is dedicated to W. Günther Rohr .)
  • "The center moves". Essays on (East) African German studies ( Contributions to transcultural science. Volume 6). Weidler, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-89693-693-6 (The volume is dedicated to Alioune Sow .)
  • "We feel that we are walking among tasks." Essays on Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) ( Contributions to transcultural science. Volume 7). Weidler, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-89693-695-0 (The volume is dedicated to Edward William Said .)
  • "I'm going to report in detail about Egypt". Egypt in German travel literature (1899–1999) ( Contributions to transcultural science. Volume 8). Weidler, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89693-735-3 (The volume is dedicated to Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid .)
  • "See, man is truly lost". Essays on Qur'ân and Islam research (2011-2019) ( Contributions to transcultural science. Volume 9). Weidler, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89693-741-4 (The volume is dedicated to Peter Szondi .)
  • "Mahomet, whom I could never see as a fraud". On the genesis of the "West-Eastern Divan" by Johann Wolfgang Goethe ( Contributions to transcultural science. Volume 10). Weidler, Berlin 2020. (To be published.)
  • August Fischer: "What teaches you to know what the abyss is?" Contributions to the Qur'ân and Oriental Studies (1890-1940) . Edited by Michael Fisch ( Contributions to transcultural science. Volume 11). Weidler, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-89693-748-3 (In memory of the establishment of the German Oriental Society on October 2, 1845.)
  • "Transcultural Hermeneutics I". Lectures at the invitation of the Walter Benjamin Chair for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . ( Contributions to transcultural science. Volume 12). Weidler, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-89693-750-6 (The volume is dedicated to Stéphane Mosès.)

Editions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review notes on “Works and Joy. Michel Foucault - a biography " at perlentaucher.de , accessed on January 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ Book mother . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 6, 2013, p. 28 ( genios.de [accessed January 12, 2019]).
  3. ↑ See entry in Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. 71st vol. 1: A-O. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2018, pp. 235–236. For the first time in Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2002/2003. Volume 1: A-O. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2003, p. 293.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Entry in the directory of Germanists at the University of Erlangen. In: uni-erlangen.de, January 9, 2019, accessed on January 8, 2020.
  5. ↑ a b Short biography and information on the work of Michael Fisch at Literaturport
  6. ↑ a b c For the count, see short biography and information on the work of Michael Fisch at Literaturport .
personal data
SURNAME Fish, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and text scientist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerolstein