Stephan Köhn

Stephan Köhn (born before 1989) is a German Japanologist .

Life

From 1989 to 1996 he studied Japanese studies, linguistics , religious studies and business administration in Frankfurt am Main . From 1991 to 1993 he had a Japan scholarship ( DAAD ). After completing his doctorate in Japanology in Frankfurt am Main in 1999 on Kanagaki Robun's earthquake report Ansei kenmonshi (1856), he worked as a research assistant in Japanology in Frankfurt from 1997 to 2000 and 2002 . From 2000 to 2001 he had a Japan scholarship (Japan Foundation). From 2003 to 2007 scientific assistant in Japanology in Würzburg . After completing his habilitation in Japanology in Würzburg in 2004 on the traditions of visual storytelling in Japan, he received a Japan scholarship (JSPS) in 2006. From 2007 to 2009 he was a research assistant in Japanology in Erlangen . From 2009 to 2010 he held the chair in Japanese Studies in Tübingen . From 2010 to 2011 he was senior academic councilor in Erlangen. In 2011 he was a professor in Modern Japan in Düsseldorf. From 2012 to 2013 he was a research associate in Japanology in Leipzig. In 2012 he received offers from the Universities of Erlangen- Nuremberg , Düsseldorf and Cologne . Since 2013 he has held the chair for Japanese Studies at the University of Cologne ; From 2015 to 2016 he had a Japan Scholarship (Japan Foundation). He has been managing director of the JaDe Foundation since 2015.

His main research interests are the popular and media culture of Japanese modernism (1600 to today); edo-temporal printing and publishing history; premodern and modern literature and nationality and identity discourses in Japan.

Fonts (selection)

• "Reports of what was seen and heard from the Ansei period". Kanagaki Robuns (1829–1894) report on the great Ansei earthquake in 1855 as a representative of the genre of "catastrophe representations" = (Ansei-kemmonshi) . Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04546-9 .
• Visual Storytelling Traditions in Japan. A paradigmatic investigation of the lines of development from the folding screen to the narrative manga . Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05213-9 .
• as editor with Michael Schimmelpfennig: China, Japan and the other. East Asian Identities in the Age of the Transcultural . Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-447-06254-1 .
• as editor: external images - self-images. Paradigms of Japanese-German Perception (1861–2011) . Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-447-06978-6 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Stephan Köhn