Michael Schilling (Germanist)

Michael Schilling (born March 28, 1949 in Kiel ) is a German specialist in German studies and a university professor .

Life

Michael Schilling grew up in Hamburg, attended the Johanneum there and studied German , classical philology and pedagogy at the University of Hamburg from 1969 to 1974 . In 1977 he became Imagines Mundi with his dissertation . Metaphorical representations of the world in emblematics . to the Dr. phil. PhD. After two years on a project position, he followed his academic teacher Wolfgang Harms to Munich in 1979 . There he completed his habilitation in 1988 with a thesis on early modern photo journalism. After visiting and substitute professorships in Hamburg, Potsdam, Münster and Rostock, he accepted the professorship for older German literature at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg in 1996 , which he held until his retirement in 2014. His research deals with German and Latin literature from the 11th to 17th centuries. His main research interests include the media history of the early modern period (especially the illustrated leaflets), animal spades, emblems, baroque literature and the literary history of Magdeburg. He publishes the author's lexicon of the 16th century (together with Wilhelm Kühlmann and others) and the series of German illustrated leaflets of the 16th and 17th centuries (together with Wolfgang Harms) and was co-editor of the journals Euphorion and Archive for Cultural History for many years .

Works

• Imagines mundi: metaphorical representations of the world in emblematics. Frankfurt a. M., Bern, Cirencester / UK: Lang 1979, zugl .: Hamburg, Univ., Department of Linguistics, Diss., 1977, ISBN 978-3-8204-6395-8
• Image journalism in the early modern period: tasks and achievements of the illustrated leaflet in Germany up to around 1700. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1990, zugl .: München, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1987/88 ISBN 978-3-484-35029-8
• with Hartmut Freytag; Wolfgang Harms: Baroque culture of discussion: the emblems of the Bunter Kammer in the Ludwigsburg manor near Eckernförde. Kiel: Ludwig 2001 ISBN 978-3-933598-29-5
• (Ed. With Peter Strohschneider): Wechselspiele. Forms of communication and genre interference of Middle High German poetry. Heidelberg: Winter 1996
• (Ed. With Bernhard Jahn): Literature and play. On the poetology of literary game scenes . Stuttgart: Hirzel 2010
• (Ed.): Literature in the city. Magdeburg in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times . Heidelberg: Winter 2012
• (Ed. With Wilhelm Kühlmann et al.): Early modern times in Germany 1520-1620. Literary scholarly author's lexicon . Vol. 1–6, Berlin / New York (Boston): De Gruyter 2011−17
• Piety and cabinet paper. The early modern leaflets of the Jakobikirche in Lübeck. Regensburg: Schneell & Steiner 2018 ISBN 978-3-7954-3373-4

Editions

• Johann Fischart: Catalogus Catalogorum perpetuo durabilis (1590) . Tübingen: Niemeyer 1993.
• The knitter: The Pfaffe Amis. According to the Heidelberg manuscript cpg 341 . Stuttgart: Reclam 1994.

Web links

• Michael Schilling , website at the department for German studies at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
• Entry in the directory of Germanists