Michael Nerlich

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Michael Nerlich (born March 11, 1939 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a German Romanist .

Life

Michael Nerlich with his wife Evelyne Sinnassamy

Michael Nerlich studied German , Romance languages ​​and art history in Hamburg , Cologne and Bonn as well as in Paris , Salamanca and Madrid . He did his doctorate in 1964 under Fritz Schalk on the reception of the Aristotelian conception of literature in the classical epic in Spain. He then researched the subject of the persecution of the Jews under the Catholic Kings using the example of Fray Luis de León . His habilitation thesis was published in 1966 under the title El Hombre justo y bueno. Inocencia with Fray Luis de León . At the same time he was involved with Jakov Lind in the avant-garde literary magazine Akzente against literary experiments without a deeper meaning.

He received his first appointment at the age of 29 and was Professor of Romance Literature at the Technical University of Berlin from 1969 to 2000 and Managing Director of the Institute for Romance Literature. He also set up a France Center there in the 1990s, which is now part of the Free University of Berlin .

From 2000 to 2008 Nerlich held a professorship for Spanish literary studies at the Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand and was involved in comparative literature in the French department.

Nerlich is married to the poet Evelyne Sinnassamy and lives in Charroux , France. You have a daughter, France Nerlich, who teaches art history at the Francois Rabelais University in Tours.

Act

Michael Nerlich campaigned above all to come to terms with the Franco-German past in Romance studies and to improve the Franco-German dialogue. In 1975 he and his wife founded the bilingual magazine Lendemains. Études Comparées sur la France , published today by Gunter Narr Verlag. The journal combines linguistic and literary approaches with historical and social science research. The focus is on the history and topicality of France and Franco-German relations.

Outside of the university, Michael Nerlich tried to prepare and preserve French history. In 1985 he founded a museum on the history of the city in Charroux, his adopted home in the Allier department, central France. In 1996 he received the Prix ​​Allen , the department's medal of merit, for his commitment .

In 1977 Nerlich published his two-volume contribution to the study of bourgeois consciousness formation 1100-1750 under the title Critique of Adventure Ideology . Today this is considered to be the foundation of the history of experimental and risk thinking.

In 1988 his book Apollon et Dionysos ou la science incertaine des signes was published . Nerlich used texts by Montaigne , Stendhal and Robbe-Grillet to show that the reality of (even) the (most open) texts sets limits to any interpretation. Umberto Eco shared this conviction two years later in his book on The Limits of Interpretation . In the years that followed, Michael Nerlich discovered more and more similarities between Ecos and his literary approaches, which he made the subject of publications. Finally, Nerlich also approached Eco's novels and in 1995 published the first German review of the island of the previous day in Lettre International . The long-term examination of Eco's life and work led Michael Nerlich to a biography of the Italian writer and semiotic with a detailed examination of Eco's complete works, which was published by A. Francke-Verlag.

Publications (selection)

  • Investigations on the theory of the classical epic in Spain (1700–1850) (= Cologne Romanistic Works, New Series, Issue 27), Geneva and Paris 1964.
  • El Hombre justo y bueno. Inocencia with Fray Luis de León (= Analecta Romanica, volume 17), Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1966.
  • Art, politics and rogue , Athenäum Verlag , Frankfurt a. M. 1969.
  • Critique of the ideology of adventure. Contribution to the study of civil consciousness formation 1100–1750 , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1977. Engl .: University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1987.
  • Apollon et Dionysos ou la science incertaine des signes. Montaigne, Stendhal, Robbe-Grillet , Hitzeroth, Marburg 1989, ISBN 978-3925944758 .
  • Stendhal , Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993, ISBN 978-3499505256 .
  • Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda , Episteme, Valencia 1996.
  • Adventure, or the lost self-image of modernity , Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 978-3980335232 .
  • El Persiles descodificado, o la Divina comedia de Cervantes , Hiperión, Madrid 2005.
  • Umberto Eco. The biography , A. Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3772083532 .

Editorial activities (selection)

  • (with Gilbert Badia), Critique of France Research: 1871–1975 , Argument Verlag, Karlsruhe 1977, ISBN 978-3920037653 .
  • Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma , Goldmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 978-3442076079 .
  • Les procès verbaux de la Société Populaire de Charroux d'Allier. La petite ville sous la Révolution Française , Charroux, TU Berlin, Berlin 1989.
  • (with Friedrich Knilli), Medium Metropole: Berlin, Paris, New York , Winter, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 978-3533037811 .
  • (with Sybil Dümchen), Text-Image / Image-Text , TU Berlin, Berlin 1990.

literature

  • lendemains - Études comparées sur la France, Hommages à Michael Nerlich , 34th year 2009, no. 133.

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personal data
SURNAME Nerlich, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel