Poetics professorship

Poetics professorships have been established at various universities today. The professorship (sometimes called lecturer) is not a regular university professorship, but an honorary title that is intended to emphasize the special competence and performance of an author who is considered to be outstanding and pioneering in his field and is therefore invited to the university, to bring his / her own poetics to the representation or to the concept. Poetics professorships have primarily two purposes: First, the writer invited to take on the professorship is asked to reflect theoretically and to formulate the cornerstones of his / her own understanding of literature (his / her poetics). Second, the result of reflecting on one's own concept of literature is usually presented in a series of public lectures to a university as well as to the general interested public, in order to promote a complex examination of a literary work on a high level of reflection.

In the early modern period , professorships for poetics were often located at the artist faculties or the philosophy faculties that replaced them. Since the decline in the validity of normative poetics at the end of the 18th century, the poetics of a work, i.e. the literary concept behind a literary work, has become increasingly subjective and only binding for the individual author. Since the first modern professorship of this kind, the Frankfurt Poetics Lectures , which began in 1959, poetics lectureships and professorships have proven to be a central medium both to promote public discussion about literature and to promote the scientific discussion of contemporary literature: printed poetics lectures are essential points of orientation the reflective examination of a literary work.

• Poetics professorship at the University of Bamberg , since 1985/1986
• Poetics professorship for drama at Saarland University , since 2011/12 ( http://www.poetikprofessur.de )
• Brothers Grimm Professorship at the University of Kassel , since 1991
• Frankfurt poetics lectures, initially initiated by S. Fischer-Verlag, today financed a. a. from Suhrkamp-Verlag since 1959 ( http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/forschung/profil/stiftgast/poetik )
• Oldenburg poetry professorship for children's and youth literature , financed by the EWE Foundation since 2004.
• Chamisso lecturer in poetry at the TU Dresden and the Robert Bosch Foundation
• Heiner Müller visiting professor for German-language poetics at the Berlin Literature Prize
• Oxford Professor of Poetry

Comparisons

• Poetics lectureship
• Poetics lecture

Secondary literature

• Assmann, David-Christopher: "Intoxication and work, hard work. John von Düffel's authentication gesture", in: Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies 47.3 (2011), pp. 365–378.
• Basker, David: "'Key scenes of experience': (Dis) location in the Prose Work of Hans-Ulrich Treichel", in: ders. (Ed.), Hans-Ulrich Treichel (= Contemporary German Writers), Cardiff: University of Wales Press 2004, pp. 37-60.
• Bohley, Johanna: "On the boom of the genre poetics lecture as" Form for nothing "", in: Schöll, Julia / Bohley, Johanna (ed.), The first decade. Narratives and poetics of the 21st century, Würzburg: Königshausen u. Neumann 2012, pp. 227-242.
• Monika Schmitz-Emans : Reflections on Presence. Poetics lectures as experiments with the self and with time. In this. u. a. (Ed.): Comparative literature as human science. Festschrift for Manfred Schmeling's 65th birthday. With the collaboration of Hans-Joachim Backe u. a., Königshausen u. Neumann, Würzburg 2008, pp. 377-386.
• Schmitz-Emans, Monika u. a. (Ed.): Poetics. Authors - texts - terms. With the collaboration of Kai Fischer u. a. 2009.
• Volk, Ulrich: The poetological discourse of the present. Studies on the contemporary understanding of poetics, presented using selected examples from the Frankfurt Foundation Guest Lecturer on Poetics, Frankfurt a. M. u. a .: Peter Lang 2003.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [cf. Paul Michael Lützeler: Introduction. Poetry lectures and postmodernism. In: Paul Michael Lützeler (ed.): Poetics of the authors. Contributions to contemporary German literature. Frankfurt a. M .: Fischer 1994, pp. 7-19, here p. 7; s. a. P. 16: "All authors are far from drafting binding poetics."]
2. ↑ [cf. Monika Schmitz-Emans: Reflections on Presence. Poetics lectures as experiments with the self and with time. In: Monika Schmitz-Emans / Claudia Schmitt / Christian Winterhalter (eds.): Comparative literature as human science. Festschrift for Manfred Schmeling's 65th birthday. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2008, pp. 377–386, here p. 377.]
3. ↑ [An overview of the poetry professorships and lectureships in German-speaking countries can be found in: Monika Schmitz-Emans / Uwe Lindemann / Manfred Schmeling (eds.): Poetiken. Authors - texts - terms. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter 2009, pp. 445–465.]
4. ↑ [Poetics lectures have already become the subject of research, cf. z. B .: Paul Michael Lützeler (ed.): Poetics of the Authors. Contributions to contemporary German literature. Frankfurt a. M .: Fischer 1994; Monika Schmitz-Emans: Reflections on Presence. Poetics lectures as experiments with the self and with time. In: Monika Schmitz-Emans / Claudia Schmitt / Christian Winterhalter (eds.): Comparative literature as human science. Festschrift for Manfred Schmeling's 65th birthday. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2008, pp. 377–386; see. also the conference "The first decade. Narratives and poetics of the 21st century" (Berlin February 24-26, 2011), plus the conference proceedings: Johanna Bohley / Julia Schöll (eds.): The first decade. 21st century narratives and poetics. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann will be published in 2012.]
5. ↑ Kassel Brothers Grimm Professorship ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.