Oliver year out

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Oliver Jahraus (born November 13, 1964 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is a German specialist in German and literature, culture and media studies. He holds the chair for modern German literature and media at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Oliver Jahraus studied German studies (modern German literature and German linguistics) and philosophy in Munich from 1984 to 1992 . In 1990 he completed his studies with an MA, in 1992 he received his doctorate with the work The monomaniacal work. A structural analysis of the oeuvre of Thomas Bernhard (Frankfurt am Main 1992). From 1994 to 1996 he was a research fellow in the DFG project “Radical Avant-gardes. From the Vienna Group to Viennese Actionism ”; This collaboration resulted in a monograph on the avant-garde. From 1996 to 2004 he was a research assistant at Wulf Segebrecht's chair at the University of Bamberg, from 2004 then senior assistant. From 1999 to 2001 he had a DFG habilitation grant. In 2000, he and Bernd Scheffer organized the international specialist congress "Writing and Image in Motion" at the LMU as part of the millennium project of the state capital of Munich. In the summer semester 2001 he completed his habilitation in Bamberg with a thesis on literature as a medium. Constitution of meaning and subject experience between consciousness and communication . In the same year he received the Bavarian Science Minister's award for good teaching as part of the team. In 2005 he was appointed to a chair at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as the successor to Wolfgang Frühwald . He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2014 .

Focus of work

The main focus of his work in research and teaching is the combination of theoretical and media-analytical interests. He has worked on literary and media theory, cultural theory and contemporary culture, as well as film, film analysis and film theory. In addition, he repeatedly deals with art and avant-garde theory (Viennese Actionism) and with Austrian literature and art. Another focus is on philosophy, in particular on the subject philosophy and its differential theory questioning (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Luhmann), as well as on the philosophy of language and the philosophy of the 20th century (Wittgenstein and Heidegger) and the overcoming of metaphysics. Another focus is the so-called ' supertheories ' system theory (Luhmann), deconstruction (Derrida), discourse analysis (Foucault).

Functions

Oliver Jahraus was LMU Bologna Commissioner from 2009 to 2011 , member of the board of the Human Sciences Center (HWZ) at LMU since 2007, Liaison Lecturer at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation since 2007 and Chairman of the Advisory Board for Literature and Translation Funding at the Goethe Institute since 2009 .

Fonts

Monographs

  • The 101 most important questions: German literature . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64760-4 .
  • Literature as a medium. Constitution of meaning and subject experience between consciousness and communication . Velbrück Wissenschaft, Weilerswist 2003. (At the same time habilitation thesis Univ. Bamberg 2001, reviewed by: Alexander Honold: Lust is liquid, the letter is firm. From the socks. Oliver Jahraus examines literature as a medium. In: FAZ. October 7, 2003. And by Jochen Hörisch: In: Arbitrium. Heft 2, 2006, pp. 147–151)
  • Amour fou. The story of Amour fou in literature, opera, film . Reclam, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7720-8005-7 .
  • Franz Kafka. Life, writing, power apparatus . Reclam, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-15-010616-8 .
  • University knowledge of German studies. Basic course in literary studies . Klett, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-12-939002-3 .
  • Literary theory. Theoretical and methodological foundations of literary studies . (= UTB 2587). Francke, Basel / Tübingen 2004.
  • Martin Heidegger. An introduction . Reclam, Stuttgart 2004. (reviewed by: Manfred Geier: This pure nacked Dadadasein. In: SZ, No. 147, literature supplement , June 29, 2004)
  • The action of Viennese actionism: subversion of culture and disposition of consciousness . (= The problem potential of the post-war avant-garde: Crossing borders in literature, art and media. Volume 2). Fink, Munich 2000.
  • The 'monomaniac' work. A structural analysis of the oeuvre of Thomas Bernhard . (= Munich studies on literary culture in Germany. Volume 16). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris 1992. (also Diss. Uni. Munich 1992)

Anthologies and editions

  • Approaches to literary theory. 17 model analyzes for ETA Hoffmann's "Der Sandmann". (= Reclams Study Book German Studies). Reclam, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-15-011082-9 .
  • with Armin Nassehi et al. (Ed.): Luhmann manual: Life - work - effect . Metzler, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02368-1 .
  • Observe with all your senses. Blurred boundaries, shape disasters and emotional drifts . Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-57014-2 .
  • as editor: Sigmund Freud: The poet and fantasizing. Writings on art and culture . Reclam, Stuttgart 2010.
  • with Claude D. Conter : Sex - Death - Genius: Contributions to the work of Helmut Krausser . Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0532-8 .
  • with Bettina von Jagow (ed.): Kafka manual. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008.
  • with Stefan Neuhaus (Ed.): The fantastic film. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005.
  • with Bernd Scheffer (Ed.): As in the film! To analyze popular media events . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2004.
  • with Stefan Neuhaus (ed.): The erotic film. For the media coding of aesthetics, sexuality and violence . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003.
  • as editor: Niklas Luhmann: Essays and Speeches. Reclam, Stuttgart 2001. (reviewed by Ludger Heidbrink, among others: Das Rätsel der Sphinx. In: Die Zeit. No. 41, October 4, 2001. And udT: In Luhmanns Baukasten. In: NZZ. November 3, 2001)
  • with Stefan Neuhaus (ed.): Kafka's “The Judgment” and the theory of literature . Reclam, Stuttgart 2002.
  • with Nina Ort (Ed.): Consciousness - Communication - Signs. Interactions between Luhmann's system theory and Peirc's theory of symbols. (= STSL. Volume 82). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2001.
  • with Nina Ort with the participation of Benjamin Marius Schmidt (Ed.): Observations of the Unobservable. Concepts of radical theory building in the humanities . Velbrück Wissenschaft, Weilerswist 2000.
  • with Bernd Scheffer (Ed.): Interpretation, observation, communication. Advanced literature and art in the context of constructivism, deconstruction and systems theory . (= IASL special issue No. 9). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999.

Series Editor

  • Munich studies on literary culture in Germany . Founded by Renate von Heydebrandt, Georg Jäger and Jürgen Scharfschwerdt. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris since 2005.
  • with Sabina Becker, Christoph Bode, Hans-Edwin Friedrich and Christoph Reinfandt: Literature - Theory - Culture . Ergon, Würzburg 2007.
  • with Michael Backes, Thomas Dreher, Georg Jäger : The problem potential of the post-war avant-garde: Crossing borders in literature, art and media . Edited by Michael Backes, Thomas Dreher, Georg Jäger , Oliver Jahraus. Fink, Munich 2000 ff.
  • with Bernd Scheffer: Text and image in motion . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2001.
  • with Stefan Neuhaus: Film - Medium - Discourse . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004.
  • Socio-political series of publications by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung . Hamburg 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal homepage at LMU
personal data
SURNAME Year out, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and literary, cultural and media scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten (Allgäu)