Rüdiger Görner

Rüdiger Görner (born June 4, 1957 in Rottweil ) is a German-speaking literary scholar and author. Görner has lived in London since 1981.

Life

After studying German, history, musicology, philosophy and English studies ( University College London ) as well as his doctorate in Tübingen and London , he taught as a lecturer, later reader and since 1997 professor at the University of Surrey , Aston University in Birmingham and has been at the University of Birmingham since 2004 at Queen Mary University of London as Centenary Professor of German with Comparative Literature.

He is a founding director of the Center for British German cultural relations ( english Center for Anglo-German Cultural Relations ) and editor of the yearbook Angermion. Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers , which deals with British-German cultural relations.

From 1999 to 2004 he was the director of the Institute of Germanic Studies at the University of London . There he founded the Ingeborg Bachmann Center for Austrian Literature in 2002 .

He taught as a visiting professor at the Universities of Mainz , Hanover , Heidelberg Tokyo , Vienna and Salzburg .

His main research interests are science and music in German-language literature, poetry theory at the turn of the century and “pluralectics” (instead of dialectics ) in European Romanticism.

He writes as a guest author for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Frankfurter Rundschau , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Die Presse (Vienna). Guest contributions in Südwestrundfunk (SWR), Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Westdeutschen Rundfunk (WDR), and Deutschlandfunk (DLF), since the British referendum on Brexit (2016) numerous radio interviews with critical statements in various media.

Görner is a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry . In 2012 he was awarded the German Language Prize. In 2016 he received the Reimar Lüst Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for his life's work. In 2017 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his work in the German-British cultural exchange.

Scientific works

• The diary . (= Artemis Introductions. Volume. 26). Artemis Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-7608-1326-7 .
• Holderlin's center. On the aesthetics of an ideal . Iudicium Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-89129-223-6 .
• Knowledge and renunciation from art. Studies on a motive in Goethe . Iudicium Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-89129-231-7 .
• Frontier workers. Poets and thinkers in between . Attempto Verlag, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-9803240-9-5 .
• The art of the absurd. About a literary phenomenon . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-534-12344-1 .
• Unity through diversity. Federalism as a political way of life . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden / Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-531-12801-9 .
• Word paths. Approaches to late modern literature . Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-931402-18-5 .
• Schubert's Unanswered Question . (= Occasions ). Austrian Cultural Institute, London 1998, ISSN  1367-5052 .
• Wall, shadow, scaffolding. Culture-critical attempts. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-931402-51-7 .
• Homunculus in the Age of Simulation. On Authenticity in Contemporary German Literature. Inaugural Lecture as Director of the Institute of Germanic Studies. School of Advanced Study / University of London, London 1999.
• Nietzsche's art. Approaching a thinker . Insel / Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-458-34310-5 .
• Borders, thresholds, transitions. On the poetics of the transitory . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht., Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-20817-0 .
• Rainer Maria Rilke. In the heart of language. Hanser / Zsolnay Verlag, Munich / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-552-05302-6 .
• Thomas Mann. The magic of the last . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-538-07196-9 .
• The age of the fractal. A culture-critical attempt . (= Passages philosophy ). Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85165-786-9 .
• When idols dawn. Forms of aesthetic thinking in Nietzsche. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-30160-9 .
• Shape and transformation. Approaches to a literary aesthetic morphology . Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8253-5830-3 .
• The plural ectics of romance. Studies on an epoch-making way of thinking and representing. (= Literature and Life. New Series. Volume 78). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78528-6 .
• The living spirit. British-German Interventions on University Policy. Forum 81st German University Association, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-924066-96-3 .
• Violence and grace. Heinrich von Kleist's Poetics of Contrasts. (= Contributions to modern literary history. 292). Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5929-4 .
• Speech intoxication and loss of speech. Essays on Austrian literature from Hofmannsthal to Mayröcker . Ed. by Heide Kunzelmann. Special number, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85449-359-4 .
• Goethe's mental morphology. Studies and experiments . Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8253-6021-4 .
• Stefan Zweig. Forms of a language art. Special number, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85449-377-8 .
• Dover in the Harz Mountains . Studies on British-German cultural relations. Winter, Heidelberg 2012.
• Listening thoughts. Music literary bagatelles and etudes. With a foreword by Wolfgang Rihm. Basel, Schwabe 2013, ISBN 978-3-7965-2929-0 .
• A Tale for All Seasons. Reflections on the German Preoccupation with Shakespeare. London, Globe Education 2013, ISBN 978-1-902037-76-9 .
• The perfumed word. The five senses in literary theory and practice. The Salzburg Lectures I. Freiburg i.Br., Rombach 2014, ISBN 978-3-7930-9763-1 .
• Georg Trakl. Poet in the decade of extremes. Vienna, Paul Zsolnay 2014, ISBN 978-3-552-05697-8 .
• Hades rides. Investigations into a literary aesthetic motif. (= Morphomata Lectures Cologne ). Paderborn, Wilhelm Fink 2014, ISBN 978-3-7705-5734-9 .
• Voice spell. About a literary aesthetic vocalistic. (= The Salzburg Lectures. II). Rombach, Freiburg i.Br. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7930-9785-3 .
• "Let fracture surfaces sparkle". Essays on a literary morphomatics. Rombach, Freiburg i.Br. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7930-9781-5 .
• Landscape in (alp) dream. On a motif of Georg Trakl in the wider context. (= Pressburger Akzente. Lectures on cultural and media history at UK Bratislava. No. 5). edition lumière. Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-943245-33-2 .
• Aesthetics of repetition. Attempt on a literary form principle . (= Small writings on literary aesthetics and hermeneutics. Volume 6). Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1759-8 .
• Aim higher. Over towers. A literary story of motifs . Berlin University Press / Verlag Römerweg, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-7374-1325-1 .
• Hölderlin and the consequences. JB Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-02651-4 .
• Did you understand me? Thought-aesthetic investigations into Nietzsche's (self-) perceptions. Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-7965-3637-3 .
• Thomas Mann's narrated world. Studies on a procedure . JB Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-476-04584-3 .
• Oskar Kokoschka. Artist of the century. Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-552-05905-4 .
• Brexism or: attempts to locate in between. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6853-1 .

Literary works (selection)

• Poetic sacrifice . Poems. Bläschke Verlag, St. Michael 1981, ISBN 3-7053-1211-1 .
• Mozart's risk . Prose. Poems with a Dramolet. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-458-16157-0 .
• Baden studies. Deuticke Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-216-07946-5 .
• Forays into English literature . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-458-33879-9 .
• Literary reflections on music. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-458-34411-X .
• London fragments. Literary forays. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2003. (Translated into English: London Fragments. A Literary Expedition . Haus Publishing. London 2007, ISBN 978-1-905791-09-5 .)
• Black stone of the Kaaba. From Meiner's letters to Bettina von Arnim. Edition Isele, Eggingen 2005, ISBN 3-86142-366-9 .
• Bodensee Etudes. Verlag W. Neugebauer, Feldkirch / Graz 2006, ISBN 3-85376-239-5 .
• Home and tolerance. Speeches and reflections. Edition isele, Eggingen 2006, ISBN 3-86142-384-7 . (Extended new edition: Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2017.)
• Heart Shard . Poems. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7013-1113-7 .
• “More coming soon” The Book of Letters. German-language letters from four centuries. Berlin University Press, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940432-25-4 .
• Schiller's apple. Scenes, thoughts and images. For Schiller's 250th birthday. Berlin University Press, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940432-67-4 .
• Klam. Narrative. Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85449-396-9 .
• The Sorrows of N. A Naumburg trilogy. Mironde Verlag, Chemnitz 2014, ISBN 978-3-937654-55-3 .
• Venetian autumn sonata. In: Jürgen Klein: Venetian Moments. Shoebox House Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-941120-16-7 , p. 7.
• London, querstadtein. Ambiguous declarations of love . Corso, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-7374-0701-4 .
• Nausicaa or The Frozen Waves. Novel. Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85449-432-4 .
• Levin's farewell. Stories and impressions . Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85449-462-1 .
• Hamlet in Wittenberg . Novella. Shoebox House Verlag, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-941120-28-0 .
• London Disfonia. Poems. Edition PEN. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-85409-850-8 .
• To the moon in the night of its darkness. Poems of a summer. Edition Signathur, Dozwil / CH 2018, ISBN 978-3-906273-28-0 .
• Beach goods of the night. Novel. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-85409-896-6 .
• Rendezvous at Immerwo. Edition PEN. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-85409-943-7 .
• The fifth season. Poems. Edition PEN. Löcker Verlag, Vienna ISBN 978-3-85409-959-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rüdiger Görner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rüdiger Görner at the University of London
• No more romantic . In: The time . No. 27 , June 28, 2007, pp. 52 ( zeit.de ).
• The state as the measure of man . On Herfried Münkler's studies on the state of affairs in the early modern period. In: The time . No. 45 , October 30, 1987 ( zeit.de ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ qmul.ac.uk
2. ↑ degruyter.com
3. ^ Ingeborg Bachmann Center for Austrian Literature
4. ↑ Cross of the Order of Merit for Professor Dr Rüdiger Görner on the website of the German Embassy in the United Kingdom, May 31, 2017.