Niels Werber

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Niels Werber (born July 10, 1965 in Freiburg i. Br. ) Is a German literary , media and cultural scientist specializing in systems- theoretical literary studies and media history .

Life

In 1992 he received his doctorate. phil. with a work on the differentiation of literature as a functional system of modern society in the last third of the 18th century. In 2000 the habilitation followed with a system-theoretically oriented study of the history of literature on coevolution , i. H. the parallel development of the modern novel and intimate communication. Since 2002 several substitute professorships at the Ruhr University Bochum , the Humboldt University Berlin , the Bauhaus University Weimar and the University of Basel . In the summer semester 2008 visiting professor at the Comparative Literature Studies at the Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck , in the winter semester 2008/2009 professor at the TU Dortmund. Since the summer semester 2009 professor for modern German literature studies at the University of Siegen . His research interests are social insects , self-descriptions of society, literature and its media, and the geopolitics of literature.

Werber advocates a literary-sociological and media-theoretical approach based on Niklas Luhmann and sociological systems theory and is considered to be the main exponent of the so-called "Bochum model" within system-theoretical literary studies. Together with Gerhard Plumpe u. a. he understands modern literature as an autonomous functional system that serves to entertain the public in the face of growing free time contingents and operates with the asymmetrical key difference "interesting" / "boring". The literary works are conceived as symbolically generalized communication media of the literary system.

Werber has been co-editor of the magazine for literary studies and linguistics at the University of Siegen since 2011 . In addition, Werber regularly provides articles for newspapers and magazines such as Merkur , Soziale Systeme , Telepolis , Literaturen , taz and Frankfurter Rundschau .

Television and radio

  • Niels Werber in conversation with Herfried Münkler about “Ant societies. A story of fascination "on November 1st, 2013 at SalonT-Kultur in Berlin ( online )
  • Niels Werber on ant societies and the question of the freedom of the individual in the cultural time ( 3sat , June 10, 2013)
  • Niels Werber in conversation with Raoul Moerchen on WDR 3 (mosaic) about the analogies between "ant societies" and human coexistence (recording from July 1, 2013)
  • "Ant colony as a projection surface". A radio essay by Niels Werber for SWR2 knowledge. (First broadcast on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, 8.30 a.m. - 9 a.m. on the radio)
  • “The familiar in the foreign. Ants and Multitude ", March 12, 2015 Perspektiven, Kulturradio (recording from February 26, 2015 in the Deutsches Theater Berlin)

Publications (selection)

  • Literature as a system. To differentiate literary communication. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1992, ISBN 978-3-531-12325-7 .
  • Together with Gerhard Plumpe (Ed.): Observations of the literature. Aspects of a polycontextural literary study. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1995, ISBN 978-3-663-11979-1 .
  • Together with Rudolf Maresch (ed.): Communication - Media - Power. Suhrkamp Verlag Wissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-518-29008-8 .
  • Together with Rudolf Maresch (Ed.): Space - Knowledge - Power. Suhrkamp Verlag Wissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-518-29203-7 .
  • Love as a novel. For the coevolution of intimate and literary communication. Fink Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-7705-3712-9 .
  • The geopolitics of literature. Measurements of a medial space order. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20947-3 .
  • Niklas Luhmann, writings on art and literature. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-29472-7 .
  • Systems theoretical literary studies: terms - methods - applications. DeGruyter 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-021900-5 .
  • Ant communities. A story of fascination. S. Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart / Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-091212-1 .
  • Together with Stefan Kaufmann, Lars Koch (ed.): First World War. Cultural studies manual. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2014, ISBN 978-3-476-02445-9 .
  • Introductory geopolitics. Junius, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88506-085-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Advertiser, Niels
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and media scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau