Oliver Lubrich

Oliver Lubrich (* 1970 in Berlin ) is a German literary scholar who has been Professor of Modern German Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Bern since 2011 . Lubrich has edited numerous works by Alexander von Humboldt , among other things ; since 2013, he and his colleagues have been working on the "Bern Edition" of previously unedited essays by Alexander von Humboldt in ten volumes, which were published in autumn 2019 on his 250th birthday.

Life

Lubrich attended the Goethe-Gymnasium in Berlin and graduated from high school in 1990 with a focus on Latin and Greek. He studied at several universities ( FU Berlin , Université Jean Monnet in Saint-Étienne, Universidad de Costa Rica, University of California ( Berkeley )), especially comparative literature, German, French and English. In 1996 he completed his master's degree in general and comparative literature at the Free University of Berlin, and in 2003 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on postcolonial poetics. From 1999 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Institute for General and Comparative Literature Studies (Peter Szondi Institute) in Berlin, from 2004 to 2008 he was an assistant at the same institute. Between 2008 and 2011 Lubrich was junior professor for rhetoric at the Free University of Berlin and was involved in the “Languages ​​of Emotion” cluster of excellence. Since August 2011 he has been full professor of modern German literature and comparative literature at the University of Bern.

From 1994 to 1999 he worked several times as a lecturer in theater history at the Theaterwerkstatt and the Ballet Center in Berlin. Visiting professorships took him to the University of Chicago (2005), the California State University in Long Beach (2006), the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) (2007) and in 2010 to the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil.

Together with the Potsdam Romanist Ottmar Ette , he edited two volumes of the “Humboldt Edition” of the Other Library .

Publications (selection)

• Monographs
  • The disappearance of difference: postcolonial poetics; Alexander von Humboldt - Bram Stoker - Ernst Jünger - Jean Genet , 2nd, through. Edition, Bielefeld: Aisthesis-Verlag 2009 (first edition 2004), also dissertation FU Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-89528-715-2 .
  • Shakespeare's self-deconstruction , Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2001.

• Documentation
  • Reports from the drop zone. Foreigners experience the bombing war in Germany from 1939 to 1945 , Frankfurt: The Other Library 2007.
  • Travels to the Reich, 1933–1945. Foreign authors report from Germany , Frankfurt: Die Other Bibliothek 2004, ISBN 978-3-8218-4550-0 .
  • John F. Kennedy. Among Germans, 1937–1945 (2013).

• As part of the Humboldt Edition of the "Other Library":
  • Kosmos: Draft of a physical description of the world , Alexander von Humboldt. Edited and provided with an afterword by Ottmar Ette and Oliver Lubrich, Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn 2004, ISBN 978-3-8218-4744-3 , The Other Library; Special tape.
  • Physical atlas or collection of maps depicting the principal phenomena of inorganic and organic nature according to their geographical distribution and distribution; on Alexander von Humboldt, Kosmos, draft of a physical description of the world / Heinrich Berghaus , edited and with an afterword by Ottmar Ette and Oliver Lubrich, Berlin: Die Andere Bibliothek 2014, ISBN 978-3-8477-0014-2

• As editor, with the assistance of Sarah Bärtschi: Alexander von Humboldt: Das graphische Gesamtwerk , Darmstadt: Lambert Schneider 2014, ISBN 978-3-650-40015-4 .
• As editor: Thomas Wolfe: Eine Deutschlandreise, Zürich, Manesse 2020, ISBN 978-3-717524243 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Oliver Lubrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Lubrich at the University of Bern
• Page about Lubrich at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ There are 1000 texts, see [1]
2. ↑ The "Bern Edition" is just one of the Humboldt research projects at the Lubrich Chair, see Alexander von Humboldt in Bern - homepage of the Humboldt research project