Michael Franz (philosopher)

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Michael Franz (born September 23, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German poet and philosopher . His focus is on semiotics and antiquity .

Life

Michael Franz was born in 1937 as the son of a sports teacher in Berlin. After the war, the parents ran an art gallery in the western part of the city . Franz wrote his first poems when he was twelve. According to a poem in his wife Wendla's 1988 book The Pleasure of Middle Years , he attended the Berlinische Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster . He passed his Abitur in 1955. From 1955 to 1957 and from 1960 to 1962 he studied philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin (HU).

From 1962 he worked for ten years as a journalist and editor for Berliner Rundfunk , the station in the east of the city , and did party work for the GDR in West Berlin. In 1973 he moved to the GDR. From 1974 to 1977 he was a research aspirant in the section Aesthetics and Art Studies HU Berlin. In 1978 he submitted his dissertation A entitled Introducing Basic Concepts of Theoretical Signs into Aesthetics . He received his habilitation in 1979. From 1977 to 1981 he was senior assistant at the Aesthetics / Cultural Theory section of the Aesthetics and Art Studies section and since 1981 lecturer there.

After the publication of poems in periodicals and in 1974 also in his own volume Anders we come here , in 1975 he received the sponsorship award of the Mitteldeutscher Verlag and the literature institute "Johannes R. Becher" . In 1979 the next volume of poetry, Tausendfuß und Hunderthand, appeared . The national newspaper ruled: “The gesture of the lyrical self remains too hidden. The originality sought in the formal aspect seems too cool and constructed. ”In the meantime he has also published essays .

From 1983 to 1991 he was employed as a working group leader at the Institute for Aesthetics and Art Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and since 1987 as a professor. In 1992 he became a project manager at the Research Center for Literary Studies of the Funding Society for New Scientific Projects . After all, from 1996 to 2003 he was project manager for cultural semiotics at the Center for Literary Research in Berlin.

The pleasure of the middle years with poetry, prose and essays was published in 1988. It was described in the press as a “welcome testing ground for various forms of expression” and as a “lucky bag filled with all sorts”. He then published a large number of philosophical, semiotic and literary-historical articles in magazines and books.

Michael Franz is co-editor of the specialist journal Weimarer Posts . He is also the author of lexical articles from his specialty in various specialist dictionaries ( Metzler Lexikon Aesthetics , JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar, etc.).

Quotes

To the detective novel

"My first novel, which I am writing in (vacation) installments, so to speak, is designed as a crime thriller, the genre that currently challenges me the most."

- Michael Franz : Self-Introduction, 1976

To the lyric

"For me, poems are the most intensive form of processing my experiences, including their social generalization, without ceasing to be my experiences that fill and characterize me."

- Michael Franz : blurb, 1979

On philosophy / semiotics

“One of the tasks of a cultural semiotics anchored in literary studies is to gradually explicate all approaches to the problem of signs that can be demonstrated in the history of philosophy and aesthetics, literary and art theory, in the concrete analysis of literary and other forms of cultural sign processes in order to To contribute to the further differentiation and specification of the basic provisions of a translinguistic semiotics. "

- Michael Franz : Foreword, 1999

Works

Novels

  • Victory of the Sphinx. Detective novel. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) / Leipzig 1984.

Poetry

  • Berlin summer 62 / in spring / our love . In: Sense and Form. Contributions to literature , 15th year, issue 1, January / February 1963, Junge Lyrik der Deutschen Demokratie Republik, pp. 71–72.
  • Rauch / late autumn in Meißen / Hölty / Wolff . In: Selection 74. New Poetry - New Names. Selected by Bernd Jentzsch , Holger J. Schubert and Wolfgang Trampe . With a preliminary remark by Heinz Kahlau . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1974, pp. 52–59.
  • We come here differently. Poems. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1974.
  • Millipede and Hundred Hands. Poems. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) / Leipzig 1979.

Non-fiction

  • On the problem of truth in the arts (= From Theory and Practice of Film ; Issue 2/1975). VEB DEFA Studio for feature films. Company academy. Berlin 1975.
  • Truth in art. New considerations on an old topic (= documentation, essay writing, literary studies ). Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1984.
  • From Gorgias to Lucretius . Ancient aesthetics and poetics as a comparative theory of signs (= literary research ; historical and systematic studies on a comparative theory of signs in the arts ; Volume 1). Published for the Center for Literary Research by Eberhard Lämmert. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-003275-8 .
  • Daidal discourses. Reception of antiquity in the age of high techne (= literary research ). Edited for the Center for Literary Research by Eberhard Lämmert and Sigrid Weigel . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-05-004140-4 .

Essays (selection)

  • On the history of GDR poetry. 1st part [set differently from the other parts: "Part 1"]: Theoretical basics. In: Weimar Contributions. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft , 15th year, issue 3/1969, pp. 561–619. Part 2: Aesthetic Differentiations. In: Same, Heft 4/1969, pp. 763-810. 3rd part: Paths to poetic concreteness. In: Same, Heft 6/1969, pp. 1166-1228.
  • Discussion at what price? In: Sense and Form. Contributions to literature , Vol. 24, Issue 4, July / August 1972, Umschau and Critique, pp. 887–890.
  • Cuba and Hegel ? On the poetology of the “world poem”. In: Louis Fürnberg - Cuba (Kurt Barthel). Work and effect today. Research on topicality. Viewpoints. Confessions (= workbooks ; series of publications by the Presidium of the Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic ; 20). Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1976, pp. 85–89.
  • The fountain. Genesis of a motif in Rilke's lyrical work . In: Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Central Institute for the History of Literature (ed.): Rilke studies. On the work and its impact. Editor: Edda Bauer. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1976, pp. 70–99.
  • Know more than can say or can say more than know. On the relationship between subjective intention and truth in Barlach's work. In: EB [General Assembly of the Working Group for the Care of the Barlach Plant] , Kulturbund der Deutschen Demokratie Republik, Schwerin District Management, Working Group for the Care of the Barlach Plant, Güstrow 1977, pp. 5-11.
  • "You have to change your life". Thoughts on the artistic image relationship. In: Weimar Contributions. Journal for literary studies, aesthetics and cultural theory , 25th year, issue 1/1979, pp. 150–166.
  • Design semantics. In: Form + Zweck. Trade journal for industrial design , 4th year, issue 2/1980, pp. 27–29.
  • Semantic consequences of the aesthetic sign situation. In: Harry Goldschmidt , Georg Knepler (ed.): Music aesthetics in discussion. Lectures and discussions , Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1981, pp. 229–241.
  • The crisis of the “work” concept. In: Brecht 83. Brecht and Marxism . Documentation. [Minutes of the Brecht Days 1983, 9. – 11. February]. Published by the Brecht Center of the GDR. Head of Werner Hecht . Editing of this volume Inge Jahn-Gellert. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1983, pp. 212–221.
  • Why I didn't stop reading Lukács . In: The drawer. First hand texts. Volume 2. Edited by Hinnerk Einhorn and Roswitha Jendryschik. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) / Leipzig 1985, pp. 286-297.
  • Looking for mediation. The dialectical nature of the particular as an aesthetic problem area in Georg Lukács' view. In: Georg Lukács: About the particularity as a category of aesthetics. Text revision: Jürgen Jahn. With an essay by Michael Franz. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1985, pp. 267-325.
  • The human measure of art. In: Umberto Eco : In the labyrinth of reason. Texts about art and signs (= Reclam's Universal Library ; Volume 1285; Art Studies ). Edited by Michael Franz and Stefan Richter. With the essay “The human measure of art” by Michael Franz. Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-379-00452-9 , pp. 460–478.
  • Literature and Society in Antiquity. Literary communication in the period of prosperity and crisis of the polis. In: Philologus. Journal for ancient literature and its reception , 135th year, issue 2/1991, pp. 240–248.
  • Plato Readings: The philosophical discourse in the conflict between saying and showing. In: Poststructuralism. Challenge to literary studies. DFG Symposium 1995 (= German symposia report volumes ; 18). Edited by Gerhard Neumann . Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-476-01507-6 , pp. 338-360.
  • Description in the context of a comparative theory of signs of saying and showing. Rhetorical and semiotic aspects in economic thinking by Adam Smith . In: Crossing borders. Contributions to a modern Romance studies , 4th year, issue 7/1997, ISSN 0944-8594, pp. 18-28.
  • The field of operationality. On the fundamental role of semiotics in John Locke / conventions, procedures and “invisible hand”. Coding Problems and Regulatory Models in the 18th Century / Eusynopsis and Energy. Shaftesbury and James Harris / From Expression Semiotics to Physiology. On the project of connecting gestural signs with Johann Jakob Engel (= literary research ; historical and systematic studies on a comparative theory of signs in the arts ). In: The Laocoon Paradigm. Character regime in the 18th century. Edited by Inge Baxmann , Michael Franz and Wolfgang Schäffner in collaboration with Bernhard Siegert and Robert Stockhammer . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-05-003454-8 , pp. 118-137 / S. 191-297 / p. 387-403 / S. 544-568.
  • From the general concept of art to “multi-digit aesthetics”. Philosophical aesthetics in the “Weimar Contributions”. In: Weimar Contributions. Journal for literary studies, aesthetics and cultural studies , vol. 51, issue 1/2005, pp. 65–95.
  • The "extract of aesthetics from philosophy". Philosophical aesthetics on the way to interdisciplinarity . In: Hans-Christoph Rauh , Peter Ruben (Hrsg.): Denkversuche. GDR philosophy in the 1960s. Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-359-6 , pp. 281-306.
  • From electrified expression to electrified statue. In: Electric Laocoon. Signs and media from punch cards to grammatology (= historical and systematic studies on a comparative theory of signs in the arts ; Volume 3). Edited by Michael Franz, Wolfgang Schäffner, Bernhard Siegert and Robert Stockhammer. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-05-003504-8 , pp. 58–76.
  • Invocation and Challenge. Readings of ancient cultural theory from Johannes Stroux (1946) to Reimar Müller (2003). In: Weimar Contributions. Journal for literary studies, aesthetics and cultural studies , 54th year, issue 2/2008, pp. 256–287.

Solo anthologies

  • The pleasure of the middle years (= small edition ). Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) / Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-354-00334-0 . (Poetry, prose and essays)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Franz, Kurt-Hans-Erdmann, Christoph Trilse: EB [general assembly of the working group for the maintenance of the Barlach factory] . Cultural Association of the German Democratic Republic, Schwerin district management, working group for the maintenance of the Barlach factory, Güstrow 1977, author, p. 3 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Brigitte Böttcher (Ed.): Inventory. Literary profiles . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976, Michael Franz, p. 30th f .
  3. ↑ Michael Franz: The pleasure of the middle years (=  small edition ). Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) / Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-354-00334-0 , My school: Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, p. 53 .
  4. ↑ a b c The authors . In: Bernd Jentzsch, Holger J. Schubert, Wolfgang Trampe (eds.): Selection 74. New poetry - new names . With a preliminary remark by Heinz Kahlau. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1974, Michael Franz, p. 166 .
  5. ↑ a b c Information on the editors and authors . In: Hans-Christoph Rauh, Peter Ruben (Hrsg.): Denkversuche. GDR philosophy in the 1960s . 1st edition. Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-359-6 , Michael Franz, p. 553 .
  6. ^ Helmut Fensch: City, Street, Stone. “A thousand feet and a hundred hands”, poems by Michael Franz . In: National newspaper . May 19, 1980.
  7. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Michael Franz. In: zfl-berlin.org. Retrieved October 2, 2019 .
  8. ↑ ie: having fun thinking. Prose and poetry of an aesthetician . In: Norddeutsche Zeitung . Schwerin April 1, 1989.
  9. ↑ Axel Machnow: Enjoyable and consistently clever . In: [k. A.] 1988.
  10. ↑ Text on the blurb of the millennium and hundred hand .
  11. ↑ Michael Franz: From Gorgias to Lucretius. Ancient aesthetics and poetics as a comparative theory of signs . Ed .: Eberhard Lämmert (=  literary research. Historical and systematic studies on a comparative theory of signs in the arts . Volume 1 ). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-003275-8 , foreword, p. XI f .

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personal data
SURNAME Franz, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin