Michael Scheffel

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Michael Scheffel (born February 27, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German literary scholar and university professor, professor of modern German literary history and general literary studies.

Life

After graduating from high school in Frankfurt , Scheffel studied German , Romance studies and art history in Tübingen , Tours and Göttingen . After obtaining his doctorate in Göttingen in 1988, he was a research assistant at the university there and qualified as a professor in 1995 in German studies. Since 2002 he has been Professor of General Literary Studies and Modern German Literary History at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . Together with Wolfgang Lukas, Scheffel heads the Wuppertal office of the in cooperation with the University of Cambridge (UK), the Cambridge University Library and the German Literature Archive Marbach as well as with the competence center for electronic indexing and publication processes in the humanities of the University of Trier and funded in the academy program Research project "Arthur Schnitzler: Digital historical-critical edition (works 1905 to 1931)" (www.arthur-schnitzler.de).

Scheffel has worked as a visiting lecturer and professor at the universities of Birmingham , Coimbra , Dublin , Frankfurt / Main , Lisbon , Pécs , Beijing and Szeged , among others . From 1987 to 1997 he worked regularly for the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as the literary department of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Since 1991 he has been editor of the magazine Text + Criticism , since 2005 co-editor of the series of publications on literary studies (WVT) and general literary studies and since 2012 co-editor of Diegesis. Interdisciplinary e-journal for story research. Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research . Scheffel is a founding member of the Center for Narrative Research (ZEF) and has been Vice-Rector for Research, Third- Party Funding and Graduate Funding at the Bergische Universität since autumn 2008 .

Michael Scheffel is the son of Gerda Scheffel and Helmut Scheffel and the brother of Tobias Scheffel .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Magical realism . The history of a concept and an attempt to define it. Tübingen: Stauffenburg 1990. ISBN 3-923721-46-3 .
  • Forms of self-reflective storytelling. A typology and six exemplary analyzes. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1997. ISBN 3-484-18145-1 .
  • Introduction to narrative theory . (Together with Matías Martínez): Munich: Beck 1999 ISBN 3-406-44052-5 ; 11th, expanded and updated edition 2019. Japanese transl .: Tokyo: Hosei University Press, 2006. Spanish transl .: Introducción a la narratología. Hacia un modelo analítico-descriptivo de la narración ficcional. Traductor Martín Koval. Colección Mitma. Buenos Aires: Las Cuarenta, 2011
  • Arthur Schnitzler . Stories and novels. Berlin: Schmidt 2015. ISBN 978-3-503-15585-9 .

Editions

  • Written nature. International Perspectives on Texts from the 18th Century . (Yearbook for International German Studies. Series A, Vol. 66.) Bern: Lang 2001. ISBN 3-906767-14-0 .
  • Voice (s) in the text. Narratological position determination. (Together with Andreas Blödorn and Daniela Langer) Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2006. ISBN 3-11-018571-7 .
  • Aesthetic transgressions. Festschrift for Ulrich Ernst on his 60th birthday . (Together with Silke Grothues and Ruth Sassenhausen) Trier: WVT 2006. ISBN 3-88476-792-5 .
  • Ambivalence and coherence. Investigations into narrative formation of meaning . (Together with Julia Abel and Andreas Blödorn) Trier: WVT 2009. ISBN 978-3-86821-138-2 .
  • Classics of modern literary theory . (Together with Matías Martínez) Munich: Beck 2010. ISBN 978-3-406-60829-2 .
  • Berthold Auerbach . An author in the context of the 19th century . (Together with Christof Hamann) Trier: WVT 2013. ISBN 978-3-86821-476-5 .
  • Schnitzler manual. Life-work-effect . (Together with Christoph Jürgensen and Wolfgang Lukas) Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2014. ISBN 978-3-476-02448-0 .
  • Text fates. Arthur Schnitzler's work in the context of modernity . (Together with Wolfgang Lukas) Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter 2017. ISBN 978-3-05-006470-3 .
  • Readings. Positions in contemporary philology . (Together with Luisa Banki) Trier: WVT 2017. ISBN 978-3-86821-716-2
  • Eduard von Keyserling and Classical Modernism . (Together with Christoph Jürgensen) Stuttgart: Metzler. ISBN 978-3-476-04891-2 .

Editions and editions

Editions and translations

Digital historical-critical edition

  • Arthur Schnitzler: Miss Else . (Together with Wolfgang Lukas, Christian Belz, Kristina Fink, Vivien Friedrich, Kathrin Nühlen, Giulia Speciale, Jonas Wolf). 2018 (www.schnitzler-edition.net)
  • Arthur Schnitzler: Doctor Graesler, spa doctor. (Together with Wolfgang Lukas, Christian Belz, Kristina Fink, Dana Machwitz, Kathrin Nühlen, Giulia Speciale, Jonas Wolf). 2019 (www.schnitzler-edtion.net)

Festschrift

  • Narrated modernity. Fictional Worlds in the 1920s. For Michael Scheffel on his 60th birthday. Edited by Andreas Blödorn, Christof Hamann and Christoph Jürgensen. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2018. ISBN 978-3-8353-3185-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.diegesis.uni-wuppertal.de
personal data
SURNAME Scheffel, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor, professor of modern German literary history and general literary studies
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main