Paul Michael Lützeler

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Paul Michael Lützeler (Vienna 2011)

Paul Michael Lützeler (born November 4, 1943 in Doveren , then district of Erkelenz ) is a German-American Germanist and comparative literary scholar . He teaches as Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis .

Life

After graduating from secondary school, Lützeler studied German, English, philosophy and history in Berlin, Edinburgh, Vienna and Munich. In 1968 he emigrated to the USA and completed his studies in 1972 with a doctorate in German at Indiana University in Bloomington with the thesis "Hermann Broch, Ethics and Politics: Studies on Early Work and the Trilogy of Novels 'Die Schlafwandler'" and then followed suit St. Louis , where he received a professorship at Washington University in St. Louis in 1973 . He was Chairman of the German Department from 1983 to 1988 and from 1993 to 1995 spokesman for the Faculty Senate Council. Lützeler founded the European Studies Program at Washington University in 1983 , which he then headed for 20 years. In 1985 Lützeler founded the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature , which he continues to direct today. Also since 1985 Lützeler has been inviting a German-speaking critic and a German-speaking writer to St. Louis to teach and research. In 2002 he founded contemporary literature. A Germanic yearbook that he edited as Editor in Chief until 2020. Lützeler also campaigned for exchange programs between Washington University and European and Asian universities. He has held visiting professorships in Princeton , Tübingen , Graz , Greifswald , Mainz , Freiburg , New Delhi , Beijing , Madrid and Tokyo, among others . He taught compact seminars at the universities in Melbourne , Pavia , Guadalajara , Jerusalem and Zadar .

Lützeler is chairman of the international working group Hermann Broch , was president of the AFM (American Friends of the German Literature Archive in Marbach) from 2012 to 2019 and was vice-president of the International Association for German Studies from 2005 to 2010 . He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a member of the Academia Europaea . From 2011 to 2016 he was a member of the Strategy Commission of the Science Council and is a member of the PEN Center Germany . Since 2015 he has also been a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Intercultural German Studies .

Paul Michael Lützeler is an American and German citizen and lives in St. Louis. He is married and has two grown children.

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Lützeler's research focuses on contemporary German-language literature, the literary European discourse, German-language exile literature , especially in the USA, as well as German and European romantic literature . Lützeler is particularly regarded as a specialist in the Austrian-American exile writer Hermann Broch , whose entire works he edited and whose biography he wrote. In addition to literary studies, Lützeler also publishes on historical and political science topics such as European integration and the discourses of postmodernism , postcolonialism and globalization. Several of his books and editions have been translated into other languages, including a. into English, Spanish and Japanese. He also wrote for Die Zeit , the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Die Welt , the Tagesspiegel , the Frankfurter Rundschau , the Neue Rundschau and the Merkur .

Awards

Scholarships

bibliography

Written books (selection)

  • Hermann Broch, Ethics and Politics: Studies on the early work and the novel trilogy "Die Schlafwandler" (= Diss. Bloomington, Indiana University, 1972). Winkler, Munich 1973.
  • Hermann Broch. A biography . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 978-3-518-38078-9 . (translated into English, Spanish and Japanese; also as an e-book)
  • History in literature. Studies on works from Lessing to Hebbel . Piper, Munich 1987.
  • The writers and Europe. From romance to the present . Piper, Munich 1992.
  • European identity and multiculturalism . Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1997. (translated into Italian)
  • Cultural break and crisis of faith. Broch 's 'Sleepwalker' and Grünewald 's ' Isenheimer Altar '. Francke, Tübingen 2001.
  • Postmodern and postcolonial German-language literature . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2005.
  • Continentalization. The writer's Europe . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2007.
  • Civil war global. Human rights ethos and contemporary German-language novel . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2009.
  • Hermann Broch and the modern age . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2011
  • Transatlantic German Studies. Contact, transfer, dialogue . De Gruyter, Berlin 2013.
  • Journalistic German Studies. Essays and reviews . De Gruyter, Berlin 2015.

Editions (selection)

  • Hermann Broch . Annotated work edition, 17 volumes. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1974–1981. (also as e-book)
  • German literature in the Federal Republic since 1965 (with Egon Schwarz ):. Athenaeum, Königstein 1980.
  • Novels and short stories of German romanticism. New interpretations . Reclam, Stuttgart 1981.
  • Goethe's narrative. Interpretations (with James E. McLeod ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1985.
  • Contemporaneity. Festschrift for Egon Schwarz on his 65th birthday with Herbert Lehnert and Gerhild S. Williams . Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1987.
  • Late modern and post modern. Contributions to contemporary German literature . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  • Hope europe. German essays from Novalis to Enzensberger . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
  • Europe after Maastricht. American and European Perspectives . Berghahn Books, Providence, Oxford 1994. (translated into Romanian)
  • Poetics of the authors. Contributions to contemporary German literature . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
  • Hannah Arendt-Hermann Broch. Correspondence 1946–1951 . Jewish publishing house in Suhrkamp Verlag 1996, Frankfurt am Main.
  • Writing between cultures. Contributions to contemporary German literature . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996. (translated into English)
  • The post-colonial view. German authors report from the Third World . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997.
  • Spaces of literary postmodernism. Gender, performativity, globalization . Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2000.
  • Kleist's stories and dramas. New Studies (with David Pan ). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001.
  • Hermann Broch. Visionary in Exile . The 2001 Yale Symposium (with Matthias Konzett, Willy Riemer and Christa Sammons). Camden House, Rochester, NY 2003.
  • Friendship in exile. Thomas Mann and Hermann Broch . Klostermann Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • Hermann Broch and the Arts (with Alice Stašková ). De Gruyter, Berlin 2009.
  • Prodigal Son? Hermann Broch's correspondence with Armand . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2010.
  • The ethics of literature. Contemporary German authors (with Jennifer Kapczynski ). Wallstein, Göttingen 2011.
  • Hermann Broch and Romanticism (with Doren Wohlleben ). De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2014.
  • Hermann Broch Handbook (with Michael Kessler ). De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2016.
  • Transatlantic German Studies: Testimonies to the Profession (with Peter Hoeyng ). Camden House, Rochester NY 2018.
  • Hermann Broch - Frank Thiess, Correspondence 1929–1938 | 1948-1951 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2018.

Editing of professional journals

Editing of scientific series

  • Studies on contemporary German-language literature (1995–2005): 19 vols.
  • Co-editor: Stauffenburg discussion. Studies on inter- and multiculturalism (1995-2015): 29 vols.

Member of editorial boards

literature

  • Michael Kessler, with the collaboration of Marianne Gruber, Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer, Christine Mondon and Friedrich Vollhardt (eds.): Hermann Broch. New studies. Festschrift for Paul Michael Lützeler for his 60th birthday (= Stauffenburg-Colloquium. 61). Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-86057-161-3 (with list of publications by Paul Michael Lützeler).
  • Mark W. Rectanus (Ed.): About contemporary literature. Interpretations and interventions. Festschrift for Paul Michael Lützeler on the 65th birthday of former students. = About Contemporary Literature. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89528-679-7 (with list of publications by Paul Michael Lützeler).
  • Peter Hanenberg, Isabel Capeloa Gil (ed.): The literary Europe discourse. Festschrift for Paul Michael Lützeler on his 70th birthday. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8260-5240-8 (with list of publications by Paul Michael Lützeler).
  • Michael Braun (Hrsg.): German literature and European contemporary history. For Paul Michael Lützeler on his 75th birthday . Stauffenberg, Tübingen 2018.

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ^ Member entry by Paul Michael Lützeler at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
personal data
SURNAME Lützeler, Paul Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES PML
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Doveren , Rhineland