Rudolf Drux

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Rudolf Drux (born May 2, 1948 in Rosenheim ) is a German German studies scholar and professor for modern German literary history and general literary studies .

academic career

Drux obtained his doctorate after studying German and Latin studies , which he completed in 1973 with the state examination in German and Latin , as well as historical-comparative linguistics / literature and philosophy in 1976 with a dissertation on the poetics of Martin Opitz (with Karl Otto Conrady ). In 1984 he received his habilitation at the University of Cologne with an investigation into the puppet metaphor in texts from Goethe's time ; from 1985 to 1990 he taught modern German literature there as a temporary professor.

After substitute professorships in Mannheim, Kiel and Essen and a visiting professor in Sassari (Sardinia, It), he was appointed professor for German literature and cultural studies at the TU Darmstadt in 1992 , where he co-founded the graduate college 'Technification and Society'. In October 1996 he was appointed to the chair for modern German literary history at the University of Cologne , which he held until his retirement in 2014. During this period he also held a number of Erasmus lectureships in Wroclaw , Pl. And Venice , It and, in the fall semester of 2000, a visiting professorship at the University of Wisconsin in Madison , USA.

Furthermore, he has been involved in the Center for Modern Research at the Philosophical Faculty since 2002 as its deputy director, then from 2008 to 2011 as its managing director and until 2013 as a board member of the ARTES graduate school, headed its class 2 (dynamic networks of modernity).

He is a member of numerous national and international professional associations, including a. of the National and International Association of Germanists (IVG), the International Working Group for Baroque Research and various literary societies. From 2009 to 2015 he was chairman of the Lichtenberg Society , and since 2000 he has been a member of the board of the Goethe Society in Cologne .

research

His research areas include German poetry from the early baroque to the pre- March period and historical metaphorology , the history of material and motifs. The interdisciplinary nature of literature represents an essential aspect: He dealt with the interrelationships between poetics and rhetoric , poetry and music , and the history of culture and technology ; He pursues the latter with the phenomena of transport and nuclear energy, but above all with literary figurations of artificial humans, their technical models and their contemporary, social and cultural-historical discourses. A research project lasting several years resulted from this subject area, which was reflected in a number of publications (e.g. the anthology Menschen aus Menschenhand, 1988, and the anthologies The Creatures of Prometheus , 1994, and The Frankenstein Complex , 1999).

In further studies he devoted himself to self-reflection in the arts in the context of modernity using the example of literary comedy , satire and poetological poetry , the poet Winterreise from Goethe to Grass , diversity and change in the meanings and modes of representation of the Prometheus myth from antiquity to The present as well as the systematics and development of casual poetry with a focus on 'Silesia as a cultural landscape of the early modern era in the mirror of casual poetry'.

Fonts (selection)

Books (monographs, edited volumes, text editions)

  • Puppet human. A metaphor complex and its context from ETA Hoffmann to Georg Büchner. Munich: Fink 1986, ISBN 3-7705-2317-2 .
  • Martin Opitz and his poetic system of rules. Bonn: Bouvier 1976, ISBN 3-416-01288-7 .
  • The creatures of Prometheus. The artificial man from antiquity to the present. Edited by R. Drux. Exhibition catalog. Bielefeld: Kerber 1994, ISBN 3-924639-35-3 .
  • The Frankenstein Complex. Cultural-historical aspects of the dream of the artificial human. Edited by R. Drux. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1999, ISBN 3-518-39544-0 .
  • Unleashed powers. Technical disasters and their mediation. Edited by R. Drux et al. K. Kegler. Moers, Lüdenscheid: Brendow 2008, ISBN 978-3-86506-232-1 .
  • Human hand. On the history of the androids. Texts from Homer to Asimov. Edited by R. Drux. Stuttgart: Metzler 1988, ISBN 3-476-00642-5 .
  • The living doll. Stories from the romantic era. With notes and an afterword. Edited by R. Drux. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer 1986, ISBN 3-596-25728-X .

Essays on the main research areas (selection)

  • Machine fears. For the literary representation of a complex emotion and its historically real trigger. - In: man - machine. Ethical perspectives on a tension. Stuttgart, 2018, pp. 59–71, ISBN 978-3-515-12271-9 .
  • From life in the retort. Reproductive medicine in the literature under the historical, genre-poetic and rhetorical aspects. - In: Rhetoric. An international yearbook. Volume 37: Rhetoric and Medicine. Berlin / Boston 2018, pp. 52–67, ISSN 1865-9160.
  • Artificial human. - In: Fantastic. An interdisciplinary manual. Stuttgart 2013, pp. 391-401, ISBN 978-3-476-02341-4 .
  • Trope. - In: Historical dictionary of rhetoric. Vol. 9: St-Z. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2009, pp. 809-830, ISBN 3484681098 .
  • But apart from who is it? ". Goethe's Harzreise in winter and the rhapsody of Johannes Brahms. - In: www.goethezeitportal.de (2009).
  • Textures of romantic irony. Or from the birth of “modern poetry” from reading the metapoietic discourse. - In: The readability of romance. Material, medium, discourse. Berlin 2009, pp. 37-53, ISBN 978-3-11-021782-7 .
  • From the “office of right poetry”. Johann Christian Günther's casualty-poetic fight against his son and father Männling. - In: Cultural history of Silesia in the early modern period. Tübingen 2005, pp. 1061-1078, ISBN 9783110942545 .
  • On the splittability of the indivisible. Atomic physics and nuclear energy as reflected in literature from Bertolt Brecht to Christa Wolf. - In: Highlights of Science. An almanac. Stuttgart 1999, pp. 63-72, ISBN 9783110505580 .
  • Occasional poem (casual poetry). - In: Historical dictionary of rhetoric. Volume 3. Tübingen 1996, pp. 653-667, ISBN 9783110941326 .
  • “Actually nothing but rollers and wind hoses”. Approaches to a poetics of satire in Georg Büchner's work. - In: Second International Georg Büchner Symposium 1987. Frankfurt a. M. 1990, pp. 335-352, ISBN 3445089000 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Entry in the German Literature Lexicon , Das 20. Jahrhundert, p. 597, ISBN 3-908255-00-7 .
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Rudolf Drux. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  3. ^ Rudolf Drux: Martin Opitz and his poetic rule system . Literature and Reality, Vol. 18. Bouvier, Bonn 1976, ISBN 978-3-416-01288-1 ( dnb.de [accessed on April 28, 2020]).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Biographical. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  5. ^ Members. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  6. ^ University of Cologne (ed.): Artes yearbook 2008-2010. University of Cologne, April 2010.
  7. ↑ a b List of Germanists: Rudolf Drux. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  8. ^ Germanist index : Rudolf Drux. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  9. ^ Germanist index : Rudolf Drux. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  10. ↑ https://www.lichtenberg-gesellschaft.de/pdf/Lichtenberg-Mitteilungen_Nr._39_Dezember_2009.pdf
  11. ↑ https: //www.goethegesellschaft-köln.de/allgemeines
  12. ↑ Man as a construct. Festschrift for Rudolf Drux for his 60th birthday.
  13. ↑ a b c research. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Human hands : to the story d. Androids; Texts from Homer to Asimor . Metzler, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 978-3-476-00642-4 ( dnb.de [accessed on April 28, 2020]).
  15. ↑ The creatures of Prometheus. The artificial man from antiquity to the present. In: Rudolf Drux (Ed.): Exhibition catalog . Kerber, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-924639-35-3 .
  16. ↑ Rudolf Drux (ed.): The Frankenstein complex. Cultural-historical aspects of the dream of the artificial human. Orig. Edition, 1st edition Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, No. 3044 . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-39544-0 .
  17. ↑ a b c publications. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  18. ↑ More detailed in http://idsl1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/haben/professorenseiten/prof-dr-rudolf-drux/prof-dr-rudolf-drux/publikationen .
personal data
SURNAME Drux, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenheim