Norbert Rehrmann

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Norbert Rehrmann (born August 12, 1951 in Kassel ; † July 4, 2010 there ) was Professor of Hispanic Cultural Studies at the Technical University of Dresden .

Life

After studying Hispanic Studies, Politics and Media Studies in Göttingen and Salamanca, Norbert Rehrmann was a research assistant at the University of Kassel and a private lecturer at the University of Bremen. Since 2001 he has held the professorship for Hispanic cultural studies at the Institute for Romance Studies at the TU Dresden. He was married to Athena Karagouni-Rehrmann and has one daughter.

Research priorities

In addition to research in Spanish and Latin American social and cultural history, other research focuses were religious diversity, cultural politics, identity formation processes, cultural, nature and technology discourses, cultural tourism and, up to the very recent present, intercultural business communication in the Hispanic region, as well as the political and cultural interdependencies between Germany / Central Europe and the Spanish-speaking world.

Contrary to the highly scientific orientation of his texts, Norbert Rehrmann always published his work in publications outside the specialist group. His preference for an understandable style is shown by his "Latin American History" and the posthumously published anthology on academic writing styles with the title "Bad Style. Language Criticism from Five Centuries".

Academic activities

In addition to research and teaching assignments, Norbert Rehrmann continued to perform the following functions:

  • Liaison professor of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Bonn)
  • Associate Editor / Consejo Editorial of Imago Americae magazine. Revista de Estudios del Imaginario des Centro Extremeño de Estudios y Cooperación con Iberoamérica (CEXECI), Cáceres (Spain) and the Universities of Guadalajara (Mexico), Florence (Italy) and La Plata (Argentina)
  • Several DAAD guest lectureships in Argentina and Venezuela and regular lecture and research stays in Spain and Latin America
  • Dresdner Hispanicum: Regular lectures by international Spain and Latin America experts from science, business, politics and culture
  • Socrates partnerships with the Universidad de Alicante and the Universidat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
  • Erasmus partnerships with the Universidad de la Laguna (Tenerife) and the Universidad Complutense (Madrid)

Third-party funded projects

In the course of his academic career, Norbert Rehrmann has acquired and managed the following third-party funded projects.

  • Latin America from a Spanish perspective: exile literature and panhispanism 1936 - 1975 (from 1989 to 1995, among others funded by the DFG)
  • History and cultural identity: On the importance of Spain's Jewish-Islamic past in the country's literary-political discourse in the 19th and 20th centuries (financed by the VW Foundation from 1996 to 2001)
  • The Legacy of Sefarad: The Jewish Sephardic Traditions in the Identity Discourse of Jewish Literature and Journalism in Latin America in the 20th Century. (funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation from 2002 to 2004)

International colloquia; Exhibitions, prizes

In addition to various publications, other contributions resulted from his research:

  • International Colloquium: "Spain and the Sephardi" (June 1997)
  • International Colloquium: "The Jewish-Sephardic Culture in Latin America, Portugal, Spain and Germany" (February 2001)
  • International Colloquium: "Jews in Latin America" ​​(March 2001)
  • International Colloquium: On the cultural history of nature, technology and (natural) sciences in Spain and Latin America (April 2005)
  • The project “Remember - convey - shape: The Dresden Maya Codex in the year of the humanities”, together with Jun.-Prof. Submitted by Silke Jansen, in 2007 she received a recognition award of € 7,500 from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
  • From October 17 to November 30, 2007, the exhibition "The Dresden Maya Codex: History and Present of a Cultural Treasure" was conceived and developed together with students of Romance studies in the foyer of the Saxon State and University Library (SLUB) and in the Shown in the foyer of the cathedral forum / house of the church in Dresden.
  • Together with the Cathedral Forum / House of the Church in Dresden and the Saxon State and University Library (SLUB), the international lecture series "The Maya - History and Mystery" took place from October 17 to November 30, 2007.

Publications

Books and editions

  • Norbert Rehrmann (ed.): Bad style! Language criticism from five centuries. Lambert Schneider 2011. ISBN 365023856X
  • Simón Bolívar: The life story of the man who liberated Latin America, Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-8031-3630-5
  • Norbert Rehrmann / Laura Ramírez Sáinz (eds.): Dos culturas en diálogo. Historia cultural de la naturaleza, la técnica y las ciencias naturales en España y América Latina, Madrid / Frankfurt a. Main: Iberoamericana / Vervuert 2007. ISBN 978-84-8489-303-5 (Iberoamericana), ISBN 978-3-86527-333-8 (Vervuert)
  • Latin American history - culture, politics, economy at a glance, Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt's Encyclopedia, December 2005, ISBN 3-499-55676-6
  • As editor: El legado de Sefarad. Los judíos sefardíes en la historia y la literatura de América Latina, España, Portugal y Alemania. Con un prologo de Juan Goytisolo. Salamanca: Amarú Ediciones 2003
  • The Difficult Legacy of Sefarad: Jews and Moors in Spanish Literature and Historiography. From Romanticism to the Middle of the 20th Century, Frankfurt: Vervuert 2002
  • As editor (together with Andreas Koechert): Spain and the Sephardi. History, culture, literature, Tübingen: Niemeyer 1999
  • "A fabulous meeting place". Lion Feuchtwanger's novel "The Jewess of Toledo" in the mirror of cultural history and literary studies, Berlin: edition tranvía 1996
  • Latin America from a Spanish perspective. Exile literature and panhispanism between reality and fiction (1939–1975), Frankfurt: Vervuert 1996
  • Spain. Cultural history reader. Comments, texts, bibliography, Frankfurt: Vervuert 1991
  • History as a national edification? Discovery and conquest of America in the work of Salvador de Madariaga, Kassel: Edition Reichenberger 1990
  • As editor: The "Nueva Canción" in Spain and Latin America. Essays, interviews and practical teaching examples, Nuremberg: DSV 1985
  • Political Songs in Latin America: The Example of the New Song in Chile. Interview with the Quilapayún group, "Entwicklungsperspektiven 'no 20, Kassel: Gesamtthochschule Kassel 1985
  • As editor (together with Miguel Prea): Aragón - history, culture and politics of a Spanish region. Teaching materials, Nuremberg: DSV 1987

The song movement of the Nueva Canción in Spain with a case study on José Antonio Labordeta from Aragón, Kassel University, 1986

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Web links

Obituary by Martin Franzbach in Hispanistica (from p. 25):

About the death of Prof. Rehrmann in the student press:

About the abolition of cultural studies at the TU Dresden:

Literature by Norbert Rehrmann in the German National Library:

personal data
SURNAME Rehrmann, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2010
Place of death kassel