Michael Stolz (Germanist)
Michael Stolz (born December 12, 1960 in Munich ) is a Swiss - German German philologist and professor at the University of Bern .
Life
After studying German and Romance languages in Munich, Poitiers and Bern , Michael Stolz was a research assistant for German medieval studies at the University of Bern , where he received his doctorate in 1993 and qualified as a professor in 2000 . He then worked at the University of Basel (SNSF professorship 2001–2005) and at the University of Göttingen (professorship for older German language and literature, with a focus on the late Middle Ages and humanism, 2005/06) before taking up the chair for German studies in 2006 Medieval Studies at the University of Bern. Guest stays have taken him to the University of Oxford (EHRC Visiting Fellow 1995–1998), the University of Paris IV / Sorbonne (Professeur invité 2007/08), the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies - FRIAS (Fellowship 2014) and Stanford University (Visiting Scholar 2015).
Michael Stolz is married to the Slavist Zuzana Stolz-Hladká and has two children.
His qualification papers dealt with poetic techniques in the Marian poetry ›Der Tum‹ Heinrich von Mügeln (›Tum‹ studies, Tübingen / Basel 1996) and with intermedia modes of representation of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages (Artes liberales Cycles, Tübingen / Basel 2004) .
Michael Stolz is head of the digital projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for the Wolframs von Eschenbach › Parzival ‹ edition and for the reconstruction of the library of the early humanist Sigismund Gossembrot . His research focuses on the relationship between 'original' and 'copy', medieval literature in intercultural contexts (with studies on Wolfram von Eschenbach, the ' Carmina Burana' and Giovanni Boccaccio ) as well as the reception of Alanus from Insulis in the Prague milieu of the 14th century and 15th centuries ( Charles IV court , university , Hussite movement ).
He was u. a. President of the Swiss Academic Society for German Studies (2008–2012), Managing Director of the Bern Medieval Center (2009–2012) and Vice Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Bern (2010–2012, 2012–2014). During this tenure, he initiated the establishment of the Editing Philology course and the establishment of the Walter Benjamin College. From 2009 to 2018 he was editor of the journal Germanistik in Schweiz.
Publications (selection)
Monographs
- ›Tum‹ studies. On the poetic design in the Marienpreis Heinrichs von Mügeln , [Dissertation Bern 1993] Tübingen / Basel 1996 (Bibliotheca Germanica 36)
- Artes Liberales Cycles. Formations of Knowledge in the Middle Ages , 2 vols., [Habilitation paper Bern 1999] Tübingen / Basel 2004 (Bibliotheca Germanica 47)
- Parzival in manuscript. Profiles of the Parzival tradition using the example of five manuscripts from the 13th to 15th centuries , Basel / Berlin 2020 (in print)
Editorships
- with Robert Schöller and Gabriel Viehhauser (eds.): Edition and language history . Basel Symposium 2005, Tübingen 2007 (Supplements to editio 26)
- with Adrian Mettauer (Ed.): Book culture in the Middle Ages. Font - Image - Communication , Berlin / New York 2005, second edition 2006
- Margins of Medieval Studies [publication of the Maria Bindschedler guest lectures in the Bern Medieval Center], Bern from 2011
- with Robert Schöller (Ed.): German Studies in Switzerland . Journal of the Swiss Academic Society for German Studies, Issues 6–15 (2009–2018)
- with Yen-Chun Chen (Ed.): Internationality and Interdisciplinarity of Edition Studies , Berlin / Boston 2014 (Supplements to editio 38) [Contributions to the conference InterNationality and InterDisciplinarity of Edition Studies, February 15-18, 2012 in Bern]
- with Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich and Christian Rohr (eds.): Water in medieval culture. Use - Perception - Symbolik / Water in Medieval Culture: Uses, Perceptions, and Symbolism , Berlin / Boston 2017 (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Supplement 4)
- with Marian Füssel (Ed.): Courts and Experts. Relations of Power and Knowledge in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times , Göttingen 2018
- with Gabriele Rippl (ed.): Original and Copy: Techniques and Aesthetics of Reproductive / Productive Deviation , in: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 4 (2019), issue 3
Online projects
- Parzival project
- Gossembrot project
- Digital edition of the St. Gallen epic manuscript Cod. Sang. 857
- Digital edition of the Munich Wolfram manuscript Cgm 19
- Digital edition of the Bern Parzival manuscript Cod.AA 91
- Digital edition of the Rappoltsteiner Parzifal
Web links
- Michael Stolz 'website at the University of Bern
- Michael Stolz in Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar online (access required)
- Michael Stolz in the directory of Germanists
Individual evidence
- ↑ Proud, Michael. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on August 3, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated online edition with restricted access).
- ^ Swiss Academic Society for German Studies
- ↑ Bern Medieval Center
- ^ Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Bern
- ↑ Editing Philology course
- ↑ Walter Benjamin College
- ↑ German Studies in Switzerland
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Proud Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-German German philologist and professor at the University of Bern |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |