Sikander Singh

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Sikander Singh (* 1971 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg ) is a German Germanist and comparativeist .

Life

He completed his habilitation in 2009 at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and has been head of the literature archive Saar-Lor-Lux-Alsace at the Saarland University and State Library in Saarbrücken since 2011 . As an adjunct professor , he teaches modern German literature at the Saarland University .

Publications (selection)

As a writer

  • Heinrich Heine's work in the judgment of his contemporaries 1821 to 1856. Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-476-02020-7 .
  • Hermann Hesse. Reclam, Stuttgart 2006 (Universal Library), ISBN 3-15-017661-1 .
  • Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. Wehrhahn, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-86525-171-8 .
  • Introduction to the work of Heinrich Heine. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-21945-2 .
  • Happiness is an allegory. Christian Fürchtegott Gellert and the European Enlightenment. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7705-5358-7 .
  • Hermann Hesse, "The Steppenwolf". Schroedel Verlag, Braunschweig 2017, ISBN 978-3-507-47740-7 .
  • Studies on the life and work of Gustav Regulator. Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7720-8658-8 .

As editor

  • Heinrich Heine's work in the judgment of his contemporaries. Vol. 7 to 12. Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 2002–2006.
  • “But death is no more poetic than life” - Heinrich Heine's 18th century. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89528-561-7 .
  • Heinrich Heine. Secular edition. Works. Correspondence. Life testimonies. Vol. 5: Travel pictures I. 1824–1828. Akademie Verlag and Editions du CNRS, Berlin and Paris 2009, ISBN 978-3-05-004567-2 .
  • “The foreign in its own right.” The role of translations in the process of German nation building. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8233-6634-8 .
  • “Magical harmony.” Dialogue of the arts in Hermann Hesse's work. Wallstein, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0969-2 .
  • “We are not skeptics, because we know.” Skeptical and antiskepticist discourses from the revolutionary period from 1770 to 1850. Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-86525-319-4 .
  • German exile literature 1933-1945. Perspectives and interpretations. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-534-26630-2 .
  • Transitions, breaks, approximations. Contributions to the history of literature in Saarland, Lorraine, Alsace, Luxembourg and Belgium. Universaar. Saarland University Press, Saarbrücken 2015, ISBN 978-3-86223-192-8 .
  • Literature as a philosophical model of knowledge. Literary-philosophical discourses in Germany and France. Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-7720-8587-1 .
  • Conjunctions - Yvan Goll in the Discourse of Modernity. Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-7720-8606-9 .
  • Limit as experience and discourse. Perspectives in literary and historical studies. Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7720-8638-0 .
  • Comments, fights, controversies. Literary and historical perspectives on Karl Marx. Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover 2019, ISBN 978-3-86525-752-9 .
  • 1968. Literature and Revolution. Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover 2019, ISBN 978-3-86525-753-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Singh, Sikander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and comparativeist, adjunct professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn-Bad Godesberg