Ralf Simon

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ralf Simon (born June 29, 1961 in Hanover ) is a German literary scholar and professor of German studies at the University of Basel .

Life

Simon studied German and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . After receiving his doctorate in 1989, he was a research assistant at the German Department of the University of Bonn (chair of Kurt Wölfel ) until his habilitation, which took place in 1996. From 1997, Simon was a fellow in the Heisenberg program of the German Research Foundation . In 1999 he was a substitute professor at the University of Karlsruhe . In 2000 he accepted a professorship for modern German literary studies (successor to Karl Pestalozzi) at the German Department of the University of Basel. From 2005–2009, Simon was a member of the board of directors and module leader in the national research focus “Image Criticism” (head: Gottfried Boehm ) at the University of Basel. He was President of the International Herder Society (2011/12) and is (co-) editor of the yearbook of the Jean Paul Society.

Focus of work

Simon's research areas are v. a. in German-language literature of the 18th and 19th centuries and in literary theory. His literary-historical work focuses on the Enlightenment and Weimar Classicism (Lessing, Jean Paul, Goethe, Moritz, Schiller, Wieland, Herder and Hölderlin), Romanticism (Brentano, Achim von Arnim, Eichendorff, Tieck, Heine) and realism (Raabe, CF Meyer, Stifter), in the modern age a. a. the authors Brecht, George, Rilke and Arno Schmidt. From a literary theoretical perspective, Simon dealt in a special way with poetological structuralism (Jakobson) and with questions of plot-oriented narratology . Further systematic focuses are the theory and poetics of comedy as well as the action theory of the lyric. Simon has presented numerous works on literary and poetic visual criticism and visual philosophy. More recently, he has been working on issues that are philosophically and literarily related to the theory of prose.

Publications

Books

  • Introduction to the structuralist poetics of the medieval novel, Würzburg 1990 (Diss. Bonn 1989).
  • The memory of interpretation. Memory theory as a foundation for hermeneutics, aesthetics and interpretation by Johann Gottfried Herder (Studies on the Eighteenth Century, Volume 23), Hamburg (Felix Meiner Verlag) 1998 (Habil. Bonn 1996 - Review: Peter Frenz in Arbitrium 3/2000, p. 310– 314).
  • The poetic text as image criticism, Munich 2009.
  • The imagery of the lyric text. Studies on Hölderlin, Brentano, Eichendorff, Heine, Mörike, George and Rilke, Munich 2011.
  • The idea of ​​prose. On the history of aesthetics from Baumgarten to Hegel with a focus on Jean Paul, Munich 2013.

Published books

  • Theory of Comedy - Poetics of Comedy. Edited by Ralf Simon. Bielefeld (Aisthesis) 2001.
  • Flood of images and iconoclasm around 1800. On the difficult visualization of modernity. Edited by Helmut J. Schneider, Thomas Wirtz and Ralf Simon, Bielefeld (Aisthesis) 2001.
  • Eduard Mörike. Aesthetics and conviviality. Edited by Wolfgang Braungart and Ralf Simon, Tübingen (Max Niemeyer Verlag) 2004.
  • Gift, exchange, transformation. Transfer economies in the work of Clemens Brentano. Edited by Ulrike Landfester and Ralf Simon, Würzburg 2009.
  • The topography of Europe in the romantic imagination. Colloquium Helveticum 39/2008. Edited by Florence Pennone, Ralf Simon and Markus Winkler, Freiburg (Switzerland) 2009.
  • Yearbook of the Jean Paul Society. Edited by Elsbeth Dangel-Pelloquin, Helmut Pfotenhauer , Monika Schmitz-Emans and Ralf Simon, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen, 42/2007; 43/2008; 44/2009; 45/2010.
  • The narrative and the narrated image. Edited by Alexander Honold and Ralf Simon, Munich 2010.
  • Between image and concept. Kant and Herder on the scheme. Edited by Ulrich Gaier and Ralf Simon, Munich 2010.
  • The lyrical picture. Edited by Ralf Simon, Nina Herres and Csongor Lörincz, Munich 2010.
  • Between architecture and literary imagination. Edited by Andreas Beyer , Ralf Simon and Martino Stierli, Munich 2013.
  • Space in the crow's corner. A Jean Paul Reader. Edited by Ulrich Holbein and Ralf Simon, Düsseldorf 2013.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Simon, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar at the University of Basel
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover