Ottmar Ette

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Ottmar Ette (born December 14, 1956 in Zell am Harmersbach , Black Forest) is a Romance philologist and comparator (professor of Romance literature and general and comparative literature) at the University of Potsdam .

Life

Ottmar Ette received his doctorate in 1990 from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau with a thesis on José Martí . He completed his habilitation in 1995 at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt through Roland Barthes . Ette has held several guest lectureships in various countries in Latin America, Europe and the USA and understands Romance studies as an intercultural mediating and transdisciplinary science.

In 2014 Ottmar Ette was elected Honorary Member of the  Modern Language Association of America  (MLA), since 2013 he has been a full member of the humanities class of the  Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , and in 2015 he was elected to the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin . In 2010 he became a member of the  Academia Europaea and u. a.  Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Modern Languages ​​Research at the University of London's School of Advanced Study.

From 2004 to 2005 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . From April 2010 to July 2010 he was a fellow at the FRIAS ( Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies ). He is co-founder of the ForLaBB (Research Association Latin America Berlin-Brandenburg).

He is also the founder and co-editor of the electronic magazine HiN - Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ( ISSN  1617-5239 ) and the Humboldt platform avhumboldt.de - Humboldt Informations online , as well as co-editor of the magazine Iberoamericana (Madrid - Frankfurt am Main). Since 2009 he has also been co-editor of the electronic magazine Istmo ( Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos , ISSN  1535-2315 ).

research

The focus of his research and teaching is on the following areas: Alexander von Humboldt, literary studies as a life science, conviviality, TransArea Studies: poetics of movement and literatures of Francophonie and Hispanophonie (in and outside Europe). There has been a separate internet platform for the research profile TransArea Studies since December 2011 ( POINTS - Potsdam International Network for TransArea Studies ).

Ette is head of the BMBF research project on Alexander von Humboldt American Travel Diaries: Genealogy, Chronology and Epistemology (2014-2017) and, since 2015, head of the long-term project A lexander von Humboldt on Travel - Science from the Movement of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, whose planned term is 18 years.

He is a co-applicant of the DFG Graduate Schools "Visibility and Visibility" (since 2011), "Between Spaces" (international DFG college with Mexico since 2009) and "Lebensformen + Lebenswissen" (since 2006). He is also a co-founder of the Latin America Berlin-Brandenburg Research Association (ForLaBB).

His work as editor includes the book series  mimesis - Romanische Literaturen der Welt ,  POINTE - Potsdam Inter- and Transcultural  Texts, as founder and co-editor of the four-language electronic magazine  HiN - Alexander von Humboldt on the net , the Humboldt platform  avhumboldt.de  and the magazines  Iberoamericana  (Madrid - Frankfurt am Main) and  Istmo (Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos) . Since 2011 he has headed  POINTS - Potsdam International Network for TransArea Studies.

effect

With the program publication “Literary Studies as Life Science - A Program in the Year of the Humanities” written by Ottmar Ette, a discussion was sparked that went far beyond the humanities and cultural studies. Its publication was followed by three further dossiers in the next issues of the quarterly magazine, as well as numerous events and reviews, including in Die Zeit. All contributions to the discussion showed that these issues deal with basic questions of literature and life science , of literary studies and life science and thus with highly topical problems of basic philological research. Ette has been a jury member for the Voltaire Prize since 2017 .

Honourings and prices

Ottmar Ette was awarded the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize in 1987 for the manuscript of his new edition by Alexander von Humboldt: Reise in die Äquinoktial-Umgebung (Ed., 2 vols. Insel 1991) , for José Martí (Niemeyer 1991, trans. México: UNAM 1995) 1991 the Young Scientist Prize for Romance Literature from the University of Freiburg, Roland Barthes - An Intellectual Biography (Suhrkamp 1998) was awarded the Hugo Friedrich and Erich Köhler Research Prize in 2001.

Ottmar Ette has been Chevalier des French Ordre des Palmes Académiques since 2012 and a full member of the Academia Europaea since 2010 . In 2013 he was elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . In 2014 Ottmar Ette was elected Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America. In 2014 he received the Mexican science award "Escuela Nacional de Altos Estudios" from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México . In 2015 he was elected a member of the learned society Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin .

selected Writings

Monographs (selection)

  • José Martí (Niemeyer 1991, transl. México: UNAM 1995)
  • Roland Barthes (Suhrkamp 1998)
  • Literature in motion (Velbrück Wissenschaft 2001; transl. Literature on the move. New York, Amsterdam: Rodopi 2003; Spanish: Literatura en movimiento. Madrid: CSIC 2008)
  • World consciousness. Alexander von Humboldt and the unfinished project of another modernity (Velbrück Wissenschaft 2002)
  • About life knowledge. The task of philology (Berlin: Kadmos 2004)
  • Writing between worlds. Literatures without a permanent residence (ÜberLebenswissen II) (Berlin: Kadmos 2005)
  • Alexander von Humboldt and globalization (Frankfurt: Insel 2009)
  • Del macrocosmos al microrrelato. Literatura y creación - nuevas perspectivas transareales (Guatemala: F&G Editores 2009)
  • Knowledge of life together. List, load and lust of literary conviviality on a global scale (ÜberLebenswissen III) (Berlin: Kadmos 2010).
  • Signs of life. Roland Barthes as an introduction. (Hamburg: Junius Verlag 2011).
  • Convivence. Literature and Life After Paradise. (Berlin: Kadmos 2012).
  • TransArea. A literary history of globalization. (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2012).
  • Multi-logical philology. The literatures of the world and the example of a trans-area Peruvian literature. (Berlin: Walter Frey 2013).
  • Roland Barthes: Landscapes of Theory. (Paderborn: Konstanz University Press 2013).
  • Anton Wilhelm Amo: Philosophizing without a permanent residence. (Berlin: Kadmos 2014).
  • The Jauss Case: Paths to Understanding in a Future of Philology. (Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2016). ISBN 978-3-86599-327-4
  • World fractals. Paths through the literatures of the world. (Stuttgart: JB Metzler Verlag 2017).
  • Filología polilógica. Las literaturas del mundo y el ejemplo de una literatura peruana transareal. (Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada 2017).
  • El caso snacks. Caminos de la comprensión hacia un futuro de la filología. (México DF: Almadía 2018).
  • EscreverEntreMundos. Literaturas sem morada fixa (SaberSobreViver II). Tradução Rosani Umbach, Dionei Mathias, Teruco Arimoto Spengler. (Curitiba: Editora UFPR (Série pesquisa, 347) 2018).
  • Alexander von Humboldt y la globalización. El saber en movimiento. Traducción de Johanna Malcher. (México: El Colegio de México 2019).
  • O caso snacks. A compreensão a caminho de um futuro para a filologia. Tradução de Giovanna Chaves. Apresentação de Regina Zilberman. (Goiânia: Caminhos 2019).
  • Alexander von Humboldt: la aventura del saber. New ensayos humboldtianos a 250 años de su nacimiento. (Guatemala: F&G Editores 2019).
  • O caso snacks. A compreensão a caminho de um futuro para a filologia. Tradução de Giovanna Chaves. Apresentação de Regina Zilberman. Goiânia: Caminhos 2019.
  • Alexander von Humboldt: la aventura del saber. New ensayos humboldtianos a 250 años de su nacimiento. Guatemala: F&G Editores 2019.
  • Mobile Prussia. Views beyond the national. Stuttgart: JB Metzler Verlag 2019.
  • TransArea. Une histoire littéraire de la mondialisation. Traduction de Chloé Chaudet. Préface de Jean-Marc Moura. Paris: Classiques Garnier (Collection “Bibliothèques francophones”, 8) 2019.
  • Alexander von Humboldt and globalization. The mobile of knowledge. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, 4967) 2019 [476 p.].
  • L'Affaire Jauss. The chemins de la compréhension vers un avenir de la philologie. Traduit de l'allemand par Robert Kahn. Mont-Saint-Aignan: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre 2019 [135 p.].

Anthologies (selection)

  • Views of America (with W. Bernecker, 2001).
  • Cuba today. Politics, Science and Culture (with M. Franzbach, 2001).
  • Max Aub - André Malraux (with J. Jurt and M. Figueras, 2005).
  • Intellectual honesty - Intégrité intellectuelle. Festschrift for Joseph Jurt (with M. Einfalt, U. Erzgräber, F. Sick, 2005).
  • Limits of Power - Power of Limits (with M. Braig, D. Ingenschay, G. Maihold, 2005).
  • ArabAmericas. Literary Entanglements of the American Hemisphere and the Arab World (with F. Pannewick , 2006)
  • Caribbean (s) on the Move: Archipiélagos literarios del Caribe (2008).
  • Nanophilology. Short and short literary forms in Romania (2008).
  • Europe America. Transatlantic Relations (with D. Ingenschay, G. Maihold, 2008).
  • Humboldt and Hispanic America. Past, present and future. / Humboldt e Hispano-América. Pasado, Presente y Futuro. (Volume 1, HiN - Alexander von Humboldt on the web, with F. Holl and E. Knobloch, 2009).
  • Literary studies as a life science. Program - Projects - Perspectives (with W. Asholt 2010).
  • Trans * Chile. Cultura - Historia - Itinerarios - Literatura - Educación. Un acercamiento transareal. (with H. Nitschack, 2010) and Humboldt and Hispano America. Past, present and future. / Humboldt e Hispano-América. Pasado, Presente y Futuro. (Volume 2, HiN - Alexander von Humboldt in the network, with F. Holl and E. Knobloch, 2010).
  • Caleidoscopios coloniales. Transferencias culturales en el Caribe del siglo XIX. Kaléidoscopes coloniaux. Transferts culturels dans les Caraïbes au XIXe siècle (with Gesine Müller, 2010).
  • Trans (it) areas. Convivencias en Centroamérica y el Caribe. Un simposio transareal (with W. Mackenbach, G. Müller, A. Ortiz Wallner, 2011).
  • Forms of knowledge and norms of knowledge of living together. Literature - Culture - History - Media (2012).
  • El Caribe como paradigma. Convivencias y coincidencias históricas, culturales y estéticas. Un simposio transareal (with A. Kraume, W. Mackenbach, G. Müller, 2012).
  • Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas (with VM Kutzinski, L. Dassow Walls, 2012).
  • Worldwide. Archipelago de la mondialisation. Archipiélagos de la globalización. A TransArea Symposium (with G. Müller, 2012).
  • Word power trunk. Racism and Determinism in Philology (18th / 19th Centuries). With the collaboration of Philipp Krämer and Markus A. Lenz. (with M. Messling 2013).
  • Food. Eating and Drinking in the Arts and Cultures. (with Y. Sánchez, V. Sellier, 2013).
  • TransPacífico. Conexiones y convivencias en AsiAméricas. Un simposio transareal. (with W. Mackenbach, H. Nitschack, 2013).
  • Imaginarios del miedo. Estudios desde la historia. (with C. Naranjo Orovio and I. Montero, 2013).
  • Accidents of language. Literary and philological explorations of the catastrophe (with J. Kasper, 2014).
  • According to hybridity. Futures of cultural theory (with U. Wirth, 2014).
  • Paisajes vitales. Conflictos, catástrofes y convivencias en Centroamérica y el Caribe (with G. Müller, 2014).
  • Humboldt Research Horizons. Nature, culture, writing (with J. Drews, 2016).
  • New Orleans and the Global South. Caribbean, Creolization, Carnival (with G. Müller , 2017).
  • Forster - Humboldt - Chamisso. World travelers in the field of tension between cultures ( with J. Drews, T. Kraft, B. Schneider-Kempf, J. Weber, 2017).
  • Landscapes and cartographies of Humboldt's science (with J. Drews, 2017).
  • Alexander von Humboldt Handbook. Life - Work - Effect (2018).

Text editions (selection)

  • Alexander von Humboldt, Journey to the Equinox (Ed., 2 vols. Insel 1991; Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize)
  • José Enrique Rodó, Ariel (1994)
  • Alexander von Humboldt, Kosmos (with O. Lubrich, 2004)
  • Alexander von Humboldt, Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of America (with O. Lubrich, 2004)
  • Alexander von Humboldt, About an attempt to climb the summit of Chimborazo (with O. Lubrich, 2006)
  • Alexander von Humboldt, Critical Inquiry into the Historical Development of Geographical Knowledge of the New World and the Advances in Nautical Astronomy in the 15th and 16th Centuries (2009)
  • Roland Barthes, Die Lust am Text. Translated from the French by Ottmar Ette. Comment from Ottmar Ette. (2010)
  • Alexander von Humboldt, Political Essay on the Island of Cuba. A Critical Edition. (with VM Kutzinski, 2011)
  • Alexander von Humboldt, Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. A Critical Edition. (with VM Kutzinski, 2012).
  • Alexander von Humboldt, Picture Worlds. The drawings from the American travel diaries. (with Julia Maier, 2018).
  • Alexander von Humboldt, The Book of Encounters. People - cultures - stories from the American travel diaries. Edited, translated from French and commented by Ottmar Ette. (2018)

Interviews with and by Ottmar Ette (selection)

Meetings

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http ://www.latein Amerika-forschung-berlin-brandenburg.de/
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of December 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from June 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from January 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from November 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ http://www.uni-potsdam.de/romanistik/ette/avhumboldt.html
  7. ↑ Alexander von Humboldt on the road - science from movement (BBAW project website). Retrieved September 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Zs. Lendemain. Études comparées sur la France. Journal for Comparative French Research , 125. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 2007 ISSN  0170-3803 pp. 7 - 32
  9. ↑ Zs. Lendemain. Études comparées sur la France. Journal for comparative French research. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 2007, issues 126/127, 128 and 129 and [1] in Die Zeit
  10. ↑ http://www.pnn.de/campus/333673/
  11. ↑ http://news.commons.mla.org/2014/06/04/results-of-2014-ratification-vote/
  12. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from September 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ^ Märkische Allgemeine, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany: Literature - a way out of intellectual dead ends. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Ette, Ottmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies and comparative studies (professor for Romance literature and general and comparative literature) at the University of Potsdam
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Zell aH , Black Forest