Steffen Martus

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Steffen Martus (2013)

Steffen Martus (* 1968 in Karlsruhe ) is a German literary scholar and professor of modern German literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Life

Steffen Martus studied German Philology , Social Studies , Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Regensburg from 1989 to 1994 . In 1998 he received his doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin , then was a postdoc at the DFG - Graduate College Coding of Violence in Media Change and research assistant at the Institute for German Literature. 2002 Martus was at the Humboldt University of Berlin the first holders of the Junior Professor of Modern German Literature at the Institute of German Literature (successor in 2007 Andrea Polaschegg ), 2006 he received before his Habilitation a professorship at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg as Professor of Modern German Literature Studies. In April 2007 he took over the chair for modern German literature / literary studies at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, succeeding Heinrich Detering . Since the summer semester 2010 he has been the founding owner of a newly established chair for modern German literature (18th century to the present day) at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

His main research interests include German literature from the 17th century to the present day, the interlinking of literature and the history of science, questions of literary theory (especially theories of authors and works), and the praxeology of the humanities and cultural studies.

Steffen Martus has been a literary critic for Die Zeit , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Berliner Zeitung since 1997 . His biography about the Brothers Grimm , published in 2009, was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair 2010 prize in the category “ Non-fiction and essay writing ” . It describes the life story of the Grimm brothers "with high precision and great legibility" and captivates "with its sumptuous wealth of details," praised Hans-Albrecht Koch .

Steffen Martus is co-editor of IASLonline , member of the editorial board of Text + Criticism and (advisory board ) member of the Humanities Network for German Literature and Philology (or H-Germanistik - Network for literary scientific knowledge transfer) as well as the Research Center for Historical Epistemology and Hermeneutics Berlin .

Awards

Publications

Monographs

  • Enlightenment. The German 18th Century. A picture of the epoch. rowohlt, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-871-34716-0 .
  • The brothers Grimm. A biography. rowohlt, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-87134-568-5 . 2nd and 3rd edition 2010.
  • Factory policy. On the literary history of critical communication from the 17th to the 20th century with studies on Klopstock, Tieck, Goethe and George. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019271-1 .
  • Ernst Jünger. Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-10333-1 .
  • Friedrich von Hagedorn. Constellations of the Enlightenment. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-016623-2 .

Editing

  • as ed. with Annika Hildebrandt and Charlotte Kurbjuhn: Topographies of antiquity in the literary enlightenment , Peter Lang, Bern 2016, ISBN 978-3-0343-2116-7 .
  • as ed. with Wilhelm Kühlmann a. A .: Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 13 volumes, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008–2011.
  • as editor with Andrea Polaschegg: The book of books - read. Peter Lang, Bern 2006, ISBN 3-03910-839-5 .
  • as ed. with Claudia Benthien : The Art of Sincerity in the 17th Century. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-484-36614-5 .
  • as editors with Stefan Scherer and Claudia Stockinger: Poetry in the 19th Century. Peter Lang, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-03910-429-2 .
  • as ed. with Marina Münkler and Werner Röcke : Schlachtfelder. On the coding of violence in media change. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-05-003587-1 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FAZ No. 58, March 10, 2010, p. 30.
personal data
SURNAME Martus, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe