Sandro Zanetti

Sandro Zanetti (* 1974 ) is a Swiss literary scholar .

Life

Zanetti studied German literature , history and philosophy in Basel , Freiburg and Tübingen and was from 2008 to 2011 assistant professor of modern German literature - with a focus on production aesthetics of modernism and postmodernism - at the University of Hildesheim . From 2010 to 2014 he headed the DFG network "Improvisation and Invention: Finding Arts, Inventory Techniques, Idea Machines", which examined "in individual studies the interrelationship between improvisation and invention processes in literary and artistic projects from the early modern period to the present". From 2015 to 2019 he headed the SNSF project "The Dada Generation after 1945. Avant-gardism and Modernity in Post-War Literature".

Zanetti has been Professor of General and Comparative Literature (AVL) at the University of Zurich since 2011 , first as an assistant professor (2011–2015), and since 2015 as an associate professor. He is also a member of the Center for the History of Knowledge (ZGW) and the Center for Arts and Cultural Theory (ZKK). Since 2016 he has been co-editor of the online magazine Geschichte der Gegenwart .

Zanetti's research focuses on writing process research , poetry from the 18th century to the present day, media and literary theory, and avant-garde art and literature .

Publications

Monographs

• "Timeless". To the chronography of Paul Celan . (On the Genealogy of Writing, Vol. 6). Fink, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-7705-4300-7 .

• Avant-gardism of the old? Late works and their poetics. Fink, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7705-5163-7 .

Editorships

• 'I disgusted with this ink-splattering seculum'. Writing Scenes in the Age of Manuscripts. Together with Martin Stingelin with the assistance of Davide Giuriato. ( On the Genealogy of Writing, Vol. 1). Fink, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7705-3889-7 .
• 'Writing ball is one thing like me: from iron'. Writing scenes in the age of typescripts. Together with Davide Giuriato, Martin Stingelin. ( On the Genealogy of Writing, Vol. 2). Fink, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7705-4112-X .
• 'System without a general.' Writing scenes in the digital age. Together with Davide Giuriato, Martin Stingelin. ( On the Genealogy of Writing , Vol. 3). Fink, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-7705-4350-2 .
• Stars and literature in the 20th century. Together with Maximilian Bergengruen, Davide Giuriato. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-16780-7 .
• Writing means: reading yourself. Writing scenes as self-reading. Together with Davide Giuriato , Martin Stingelin. ( On the Genealogy of Writing , Vol. 9). Fink, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7705-4654-1 .
• Names. Naming - worship - effect. Positions in European Modernism. Together with Tatjana Petzer, Sylvia Sasse , Franziska von Thun-Hohenstein. Kadmos, Berlin 2009, ISBN 3-8659-9077-0 .
• Writing as a cultural technique. Basic texts . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-29637-0 .
• Words as Things / Wortdinge / Mots-choses (magazine figurationen 02/2013). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22132-4 .
• Improvisation and invention. Moments, models, media . Diaphanes, Berlin / Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03734-743-0 .
• Transactuality. Aesthetic permanence and volatility. Together with Stefanie Heine. Fink, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-6041-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Sandro Zanetti in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sandro Zanetti on the University of Zurich website
• Research project on the genealogy of writing

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sandro Zanetti: Brief Description. Retrieved November 17, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Overview of the editors on history of the present