Ralf Georg Czapla

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Ralf Georg Czapla (born June 24, 1964 in Immerath ) is a German literary and cultural scientist. He teaches modern German literary studies and comparative literary history as an adjunct professor at the German Department of Heidelberg University .

Life

Ralf Georg Czapla studied German , Latin , comparative and Middle Latin philology at the University of Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1992 from Bernhard Sorg and Jürgen Fohrmann with a dissertation on the reception of myths under Arno Schmidt . In 1990 he passed the first and in 1994 the second state examination for teaching at grammar schools. Czapla worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the universities in Bonn, Paderborn, Marburg, Saarbrücken and Heidelberg. In 2006 and 2007 he taught "Tor Vergata" as a guest lecturer at the Università degli Studi di Roma . In 2008 he completed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on the biblical epic of the early modern period, which was supervised by Wilhelm Kühlmann , who had worked as his assistant from 2001 to 2008. Deputy professorships at the universities in Freiburg im Breisgau, Bern and Tübingen followed. Czapla has received several study and research grants.

From 2009 to 2019 Czapla served as successor to Hans Wollschläger the Rückert-Gesellschaft e. V, after having been a member of the editorial board of the Rückert Studies since 2006 . He was a scientific advisor to the exhibition “Mythos Raky. From Erkelenz into the world. About the life and work of the entrepreneur and deep drilling pioneer Anton Raky «. From 2012 to 2018 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Carmen Sylva / Fürstlich Wiedisches Archiv research center.

Research areas

Czapla's research encompasses literature from the late Middle Ages and the early modern period , the Goethe period and the 19th and 20th centuries through to the present day. The majority of his work is oriented towards cultural studies and leaves the narrow framework of German studies in favor of a perspective that also integrates socio-historical and ideology-critical aspects. With the edition, translation and commentary on the Latin biblical poems by Andreas Gryphius , Czapla has made the early work of the Silesian Baroque poet, which has so far received little attention in research, accessible to a larger audience. In the 19th century he was interested in writers like August Wilhelm Schlegel , Wilhelm Raabe and Theodor Storm as well as in forgotten poets like Friedrich Rückert and August von Platen . The preoccupation with contemporary literature constitutes a further research focus. It ranges from the authors of Expressionism and New Objectivity to post-war authors such as Werner Bergengruen , Arno Schmidt and Johannes Bobrowski to the exhibition project » 2-3 Streets « initiated in 2010 together with the artist Jochen Gerz as part of the 2010 Capital of Culture year .

Further thematic focal points in Czapla's work are the relationship between literature and religion, the Rome and Italian poetry of different centuries, photography from an intermedia perspective, the reception of antiquity in German literature as well as literary products of National Socialism and the early Federal Republic that have so far been neglected. Czapla also publishes didactic publications. In 2015, Czapla's monograph was published on the industrialist Friedrich Baur and his sister, the expressive dancer Claire Bauroff .

Works (selection)

Monographs and Articles

  • Myth, sex and dream game. Arno Schmidt's prose cycle “Kühe in Halbtrauer” (= literature and media studies. 15). Igel Verlag, Paderborn 1993, ISBN 3-927104-35-3 (also: Bonn, Universität, Dissertation, 1992).
  • The unleashing of Prometheus. Longing for redemption and the eschatology of history in poetry drafts by the young Joseph Goebbels. In: International Archive for the Social History of German Literature . Vol. 29, No. 1, 2004, pp. 55-83, doi : 10.1515 / IASL.2004.1.55 .
  • “The perfect only tolerates adoration and sacrifice” - A trip to Rome through the eyes of Stefan George. To Carlo Schmid's “Roman Diary”. In: Ralf Bogner, Ralf Georg Czapla, Robert Seidel , Christian von Zimmermann (eds.): Reality as a challenge. Literature in its concrete historical context. Festschrift for Wilhelm Kühlmann on the occasion of his 65th birthday. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025393-1 , pp. 511-529.
  • The Bible epic in the early modern period. On the German history of a European genre (= early modern times. Vol. 165). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-025856-1 .
  • The unequal siblings. The entrepreneur Friedrich Baur and the dancer Claire Bauroff. Biography. Piper, Munich et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05725-7 .

As editor

  • Andreas Gryphius : Herod. The Mount of Olives. Latin epic (= library of rare texts. 4). Edited, translated and commented on. Weidler, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89693-133-4 .
  • With Ulrike Rembold: God's word and human speech. The Bible in dialogue with the sciences, arts and media (= yearbook for international German studies. Series A: Congress reports. Vol. 73). Lectures of the interdisciplinary lecture series of the Tübingen graduate college "The Bible - its origin and its effect" 2003-2004. Lang, Bern et al. 2006, ISBN 3-03910-767-4 .
  • "Made to measure". Hermann Broch's poems for the dancer Claire Bauroff. With an edition of the Bauroff - Broch correspondence and excerpts from the Bauroff - Burgmüller correspondence. In: Yearbook on the culture and literature of the Weimar Republic. Vol. 12, 2008, ISSN  1618-2464 , pp. 69-113.
  • With Anna Fattori: The immortalized city. Rome in German-language literature after 1945 (= yearbook for international German studies. Series A: Congress reports. Vol. 92). Lang, Bern et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-03-911629-4 .
  • From Goethe to Gregorovius. Friedrich Rückert and the Roman poetry of the 19th century (= Rückert studies. Vol. 18). Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89913-697-5 .
  • Friedrich Rückert and the music. Tradition - Transformation - Convergence (= Rückert Studies. Vol. 19). Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89913-779-8 .
  • Claire Bauroff : "But change is life". Poems. Edited and with an afterword by Ralf Georg Czapla. Bernstein, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-939431-61-9 .
  • With Franca Victoria Schankweiler: The correspondence between August Wilhelm von Schlegel and his Bonn housekeeper Maria Löbel. "My dear Marie" - "Dear Professor". Historical-critical edition. Edited and annotated. Bernstein, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-939431-77-0 .
  • With Harald Horst: Knowledge transfer between handwriting and cradle print. Studies on the library of the Hohenbusch Kreuzherrenkloster (= writings of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande eV 27). Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande e. V., Erkelenz 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815182-4-5 .
  • “... to continue writing your life.” Friedrich Rückert's “Kindertodtenlieder” in the context of literary and cultural history (= Rückert Studies. Vol. 21). Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-95650-123-4 .

literature

  • Hans Groob: Falling on a bicycle becomes a literary experience . In: Rheinische Post , October 24, 2015. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Czapla, Ralf Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Immerath (Erkelenz)