Stefan Willer

Stefan Willer (* 1970 ) is a German literary scholar . He is professor of modern German literature with a focus on literature from the 17th to 19th centuries at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

After studying German, Romance languages ​​and musicology in Göttingen and Münster, he received his doctorate in 2001 from the Westphalian Wilhelms University . From 2001 to 2010 he was a research assistant at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) . In 2010 he qualified as a professor with the font inheritance. Theory and practice of cultural transmission in modern times at the TU Berlin .

In 2010 he was named Deputy Director at the ZfL. There he was in charge of the research projects "Security and Future. Cultural Studies Perspectives on Security Studies", "Translations in Knowledge Transfer" and "Forecasting and Literature".

After professorships and visiting professorships etc. a. in Stanford , Berlin and Munich he became professor for cultural research with a focus on the history of knowledge at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2014 .

Since 2018 he has held the professorship for Modern German Literature with a focus on literature from the 17th to 19th centuries at the Humboldt University of Berlin .

research

One of Willer's research focuses is on "future knowledge", which denotes knowledge about the future on the one hand and knowledge that will only be available in the future on the other.

An example of this is his examination of the concept of prevention, which he describes as a specific way of 'anticipating' the future so that certain future situations do not arise. According to Willer, this safety doctrine is increasingly being raised today as the standard for a responsible approach to one's own life and that of the next generation.

In his book "Poetik der Etymologie" Willer emphasizes the performative potential of etymology: "for the concrete materiality of language, for its ability to refer to knowledge, to represent knowledge, to operationalize it, but also: to disturb it".

Fonts

Monographs

• Inheritance. Theory and practice of cultural transmission in modern times. Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7705-5068-5 (also habilitation).
• (with Ohad Parnes and Ulrike Vedder ): The concept of the generation. A history of science and culture. Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-29455-0 .
• Poetics of Etymology. Textures of Linguistic Knowledge in Romanticism. Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-0500-3840-7 .
• Botho Strauss as an introduction. Hamburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-8850-6317-9 .

As editor

• (with Daniel Weidner ): Prophecy and prognosis. Dispositions on the future of science, religion and the arts. Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7705-5359-4 .
• (with Bernhard Jussen and Sigrid Weigel ): Erbe. Transfer concepts between nature and culture. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-29652-3 .
• (with Dirk Naguschewski): So we sing. 60 articles on the cultural history of music - Trajekte Extra. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86599-946-7 .
• (with Caroline Welsh): "Interest in conditional knowledge". Interrelationships between knowledge cultures. Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7705-4538-4 .
• (with Ohad Parnes, Ulrike Vedder and Sigrid Weigel): Generation. On the genealogy of the concept - concepts of genealogy. Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-7705-4082-2 .
• (with Stephan Jaeger): The thinking of language and the performance of the literary around 1800. Würzburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-8260-1854-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan Willer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Stefan Willer on his homepage at the HU Berlin
• Stefan Willer on his homepage at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research
• Interview on RBB Kulturradio

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Stefan Willer - ZfL Berlin. Retrieved January 16, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Lecture audio: What is future knowledge? (Stefan Willer) - ZfL Berlin. Retrieved January 16, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Stefan Willer: Poetics of Etymology. Textures of Linguistic Knowledge in Romanticism. Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-05-003840-7 , pp. 278 .