Ralf Junkerjürgen

Ralf Junkerjürgen (born May 1, 1969 in Rheda-Wiedenbrück ) is a German professor of Romance studies at the University of Regensburg . His research focuses on popular culture , narratology , reception aesthetics and film .

Studies and teaching

He had studied Italian as well as French and German, initially for the teaching post at the University of Münster. In 2001 he received his doctorate from the University of Münster. After teaching at the University of Marburg, he taught at the TU Chemnitz between 2001 and 2007, where he completed his habilitation in 2006. Since 2007 he has held a professorship for Romance cultural studies at the University of Regensburg.

His main research interests include 19th and 20th century literature, narratology, literary body representation, entertainment research and contemporary Spanish cinema. He has created monographs with, among others, Pedro Álvarez Olañeta zu Alber Ponte .

As far as teaching methods are concerned, Junkerjürgen has been testing project work, which is little used at German universities in the humanities, since 2011 and has worked with students to translate adventure novels by Louis Boussenard and Jules Verne , which have been published by Ablit-Verlag (Munich). In addition, there were translations of little-known adventure novels by Emilio Salgari and Gabriel Ferry in Germany . His teaching activities include topics such as French films and their American remakes, literary translation and, together with Isabella von Treskow, in the area of ​​social and media analysis of amok , school massacres and excesses of violence.

Entertainment research: tension

In his study Tension - Narrative Procedures of Reader Activation , Junkerjürgen tried to make the results of empirical media psychology fruitful for structuralist text analysis and developed a model of literary tension, the transferability of which he was able to transfer to other popular authors such as Karl May , JRR Tolkien and Joanne K. Rowling checked. This also includes a figure typology, which uses various parameters to describe the fundamental suitability of figures for empathic effects. Junkerjürgen has introduced the term empathic capacity for this . Using the example of the novels Jules Verne, for example, he showed the extent to which the contouring of figures allows or prevents empathy in the (contemporary) reader.

hair

Junkerjürgen is also known for its cultural history of hair colors in Europe since ancient times. Based on the thesis that stereotypes arise from a complex interplay of different factors, he first worked on the traditional lines of hair color interpretation in religious, physiognomic, nationalistic and literary discourses and developed a multi-level explanatory model from this.

The Swiss Tages-Anzeiger requested a cultural-scientific opinion from Junkerjürgens on the short haircut of the Swiss beauty queen Dominique Rinderknecht . Junker Jurgen replied that her haircut was actually an expression of a progressive attitude, “because short hairstyles and female self-determination are closely related. Since the emergence of feminism at the end of the 19th century, the female short hairstyle has symbolized the opposition to a traditional understanding of roles. ”Short hair for women would then go out of fashion and can currently be used innovatively again. Today the hairstyle is no longer specifically an expression of feminism, but of modernity.

Spanish cinema

More recently, Junkerjürgen has turned to Spanish cinema, which has received little attention from German-speaking Hispanic studies after the Second World War, and has published one of the first German-language overview presentations with a collection of individual interpretations. He was also a juror at the Spanish short film festival in Alcalá de Henares and contributed to the Spanish film and culture festival CinEScultura in Regensburg . In 2013 he organized the first awarding of the Premio cinEScultura for a Spanish short film. In this context, research and the festival are closely linked, which is seldom common in German-speaking countries.

Translations

Junkerjürgen is also the author of short stories and literary translations from Italian and French.

Fonts (excerpt)

Monographs

• Tension - Narrative Practices of Reader Activation. A study using the example of Jules Verne's travel novels . Peter Lang: Frankfurt a. M. etc. 2002, ISBN 978-3-631-39376-5 .
• Hair colors. A cultural history in Europe since antiquity . Böhlau: Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20392-4 .
• with Pedro Álvarez Olañeta: Alber Ponte, corto en las venas. Acercamiento a un cineasta español . Vervuert: Frankfurt a. M. 2011, ISBN 978-3-86527-650-6 .
• Jules Verne. Biography. WBG Theiss, Darmstadt 2018, ISBN 978-3-8062-3746-7 .

Editing

• Gabriel Ferry: The Cossack Hunt . Munich: Ablit, 2013.
• Jules Verne: The Count of Chanteleine / The Road to France , Munich: Ablit, 2013.
• Louis Boussenard: The Robinsons of French Guiana , Munich: Ablit, 2012.
• Emilio Salgari: The Black Corsair , Munich: Ablit, 2011.
• Spanish films of the 20th century in individual presentations . Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2012. (Publisher link: http://www.esv.info/978-3-503-12201-1 )
• with Jochen Mecke and Hubert Pöppel: Germans and Spaniards - a cultural comparison . Bonn: Federal Agency for Civic Education, 2012.
• Spanish novels of the 20th century in single representations . Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2010.
• Classic novels of Europe in single representations . Hamburg: Dr. Kovač, 2007.
• with Volker Dehs: Jules Verne. Voices and interpretations of his work. In collaboration with Volker Dehs . Wetzlar: Fantastic Library, 2005.

Articles (selection)

Narratology; tension

• “Of the life and death of childhood. Adventure profiles with Karl May and Emilio Salgari ”, in: Yearbook of the Karl May Society 2011, pp. 203–223.
• “Unreliable narration and suspicious reading. On the epization of psychoanalysis in Svevo and Moravia ”, in: Archive for the study of modern languages ​​and literatures, 1 (2010), pp. 108–124.
• "Tension and Media Change". "The Fellowship of the Ring" as a book, film and computer game, in: Brigitte Frizzoni / Ingrid Tomkowiak (eds.), Entertainment. Concepts, Forms, Effects, Zurich: Chronos, 2006, pp. 175–196.
• “The tension doubled, no tenfold - 'The treasure in Silbersee' in the mirror of psychological reception aesthetics”, in: Yearbook of the Karl May Society 2003, pp. 67–86. (Link to the full text: http://www.karl-may-gesellschaft.de/kmg/seklit/JbKMG/2003/67.htm )
• "Tension - what is it? With an analysis of Joanne K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) ”, in: Dörte Bischoff and Joachim Frenk (eds.): Language worlds of the information society: Perspektiven der Philologie. Münster: Litverlag, 2002, pp. 99-108.

Body; hair

• “From stupid blondes and irascible redheads. On the history and development of stereotypes about hair colors ”, in: Blick in die Wissenschaft. Research magazine of the University of Regensburg 24 (2011), pp. 3–7.
• "Gendered Images of Creativity in Maupassant", in: Zwierlein, Anne-Julia (Ed.): Gender and Creation: Surveying Gendered Concepts of Creativity, Authority, and Authorship, Heidelberg: Winter, 2010, pp. 149–157.
• "Dizziness, fall, bleached curls - On the mythology of the wrong blonde", in: Border Crossing. Contributions to a modern Romance studies, 17, 33, (2010), pp. 68–84.
• "Figure constellation as a representation of age in La casa de Bernarda Alba", in: Text - Interpretation - Comparison. Festschrift for Manfred Lentzen on his 65th birthday, ed. by Elisabeth and Joachim Leeker, Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2005, pp. 513-523.
• “El cabello femenino como tema poético”, in: Correa Ramón, Amelina; Morales Raya, Remedios; D'Ors Lois, Miguel (ed.), Estudios literarios en homenaje al Profesor Federico Bermúdez-Cañete, Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2008, pp. 231–248.

Media; spanish cinema

• "Quantifying desire, qualifying disease. Gendered images of sexual addiction in Spanish Cinema by Pedro Almodóvar, Julio Medem, and Valérie Tasso ”, in: Anne Zwierlein; Iris Heid (Ed.): Gender and Disease in Literary and Medical Cultures / Gender and Disease in Literature and Medicine. Heidelberg: Winter (in preparation).
• "... not just simple remakes". Sweded movies als Filmtravestien, in: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaften, 8, (2013), pp. 156–164.
• “Spanish-German culture clash. Film and television images of migration in transition ”, in: Jochen Mecke / Hubert Pöppel / Ralf Junkerjürgen, Germans and Spaniards - a cultural comparison, Bonn: Federal Center for Political Education, 2012, pp. 303–316.
• "Bigas Luna: Jamón Jamón (1992)", in: Spanish Films of the 20th Century in Individual Representations, Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2012, pp. 235–254.
• "Julio Medem: Lucía y el sexo (2001)", in: Spanish films of the 20th century in individual presentations, Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2012, pp. 327–344.
• "Pedro Lazaga: ¡Vente a Alemania, Pepe! (1971) “, in: Spanish Films of the 20th Century in Individual Representations, Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2012, pp. 165–179.

Awards and grants

• 2001 Special award from the University of Münster for the dissertation
• August 1999 Grant of the Istituto Trentino di Cultura for participation in a course on Italian literature of the 20th century in Levico Terme / Italy
• 1997/98 language assistant at the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas of Oviedo / Spain on the PAD selection process
• 1997 Prize of the Romance Seminar in Münster for the best exam of the examination date
• 1996 Winner of the literary competition for short prose of the Senate Committee for Art and Culture of the University of Münster
• 1996 Strasbourg Prize from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS
• 1992/93 scholarship from the DAAD (Romance students to France)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on the Hispanismo portal ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Practical seminars on how students are prepared for the world of work Die Welt, By Tanja Tricarico, June 14, 2013
3. ^ Daniela Langer: literary tension / s. Forms of tension in narrative texts and possibilities of their analysis, in: Ingo Irsigler; Christoph Juergensen; Daniela Langer (Ed.), Between Text and Reader. Studies on the concept, history and function of literary tension , Munich: text & kritik, 2008, p. 22.
4. ↑ Linus Schöpfer: "We are reading an ambiguous code here" . Interview with cultural scientist Ralf Junkerjürgen on: Tages-Anzeiger .ch / Newsnet from June 10, 2013; Retrieved June 12, 2013.
5. ↑ Entry in the UniGestalten 2011 ideas competition ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Initiative u. a. of the Donors' Association for German Science 

Web links

• Homepage Ralf Junkerjürgens at the University of Regensburg
• Interview with Ralf Junkerjürgen at the TU Chemnitz (PDF; 5.3 MB)
• Literature by and about Ralf Junkerjürgen in the catalog of the German National Library