Stephan Kraft

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Stephan Kraft (* 1968 ) is a German literary scholar and university professor for modern German literature .

Life

Until 1998, Kraft studied German, Romance languages ​​and history in Göttingen , Pau and Bonn . He graduated with a Master of Arts (MA) . From 1998 to 2004 he was a research assistant at Harald Steinhagen in Bonn. He received his doctorate in 2002 with his thesis on the Roman Octavia by Anton Ulrich . Between 2004 and 2010 he worked as a research assistant at Eva Geulen's chair in Bonn and was editor of the magazine for German philology . A fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enabled him to do research at Indiana University Bloomington . In 2009/10 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the history of comedy theory . From 2010 to 2011 he worked on his own project at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to edit the letters from the patron Friedrich Wilhelm Oelze to the essayist Gottfried Benn . From 2011 to 2013 he was a professor at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Paderborn . In April 2013 he was appointed Professor of Modern German Literary History at the Institute for German Philology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Publications

As an author

  • Unity and openness of the “Roman Octavia” by Duke Anton Ulrich. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004.
  • At the end of the comedy. A theoretical story of the happy ending . Wallstein, Göttingen 2011.

As editor

  • The 'I' in the early modern period. Autobiographies - personal testimonies - ego documents from a historiographical and literary perspective . ed. by Stefan Elit, Stephan Kraft, Andreas Rutz, zeitenblicke 1, issue 2 (2002).
  • Limits in space - limits in literature . ed. by Eva Geulen, Stephan Kraft, Berlin: Erich Schmidt 2010 (= special issue on ZfdPh, vol. 129).

Articles in magazines

  • Galant passages in the courtly baroque novel - Aurora von Königsmarck as a contributor to the “Roman Octavia” by Duke Anton Ulrich. In: Daphnis 28 (1999), Rodopi, pp. 323-345.
  • "... sat; on a red bench that was painted green. ”Deceptive moon and the misleading of the reader as an element of novel poetics in the“ Stone Heart ”. A replica . In: Bargfelder Bote 249 (August 2000), edition text and criticism, pp. 3–7.
  • Courtly baroque novel and learned treatise: walking a tightrope between honnêteté and pedantry . In: leaps in time. Research on early modern times 4 (2000), Klostermann, pp. 211–229.
  • Literary life and lived literature - interferences between autobiography, letter culture and gallant novels around 1700 . In: The 'I' in the early modern period. Autobiographies - personal testimonies - ego documents in a historiographical and literary perspective, ed. by Stefan Elit, Stephan Kraft, Andreas Rutz, zeitenblicke 1, issue 2 (2002).
  • Reproduction as a State Action. Kleist's "Amphitryon" and the Holy Family. In: Weimarer contributions 52 (2006), Passagen Verlag, pp. 191–202.
  • Lost in the network. Thoughts on the illegibility of Duke Anton Ulrich's "Roman Octavia". In: Journal for German Philology 128 (2009), Erich Schmidt, pp. 163–178.

Essays in books

  • Pocahontas German. About trying to tell a story. In: Pocahontas Revisited. Cultural studies views of a complex of motifs, ed. by Sabine Kyora, Uwe Schwagmeier, Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2005, pp. 15–61.
  • Identifying laughing - distant laughing along. Trends in popular comedy around 1800. Iffland - Schröder - Kotzebue - von Steigentesch - von Voss. In: The entertainment piece around 1800. Configurations of the history of literature - Signatures der Moderne, ed. by Claude Conter, Johannes Birgfeld, Wehrhahn, Hanover 2006, pp. 208–229.
  • Hunold's "Thörichter Pritschmeister" and the Hamburg style dispute. In: Menantes. A poet's life between the Baroque and the Enlightenment, ed. by Cornelia Hobohm, quartus-Verlag, Bucha bei Jena 2006, pp. 108-137.
  • Art or life? On the texture of Alice Schmidt's diary from 1954. In: Complicated Gefilde. Contributions to Arno Schmidt, ed. by Guido Erol Öztanil, Bangert and Metzler, Wiesenbach 2007, pp. 9-18.
  • Epilogue. In: Johann Wilhelm Rose: Pocahontas. Play with singing, in five acts. Jamestown [d. i. Ansbach] 1784, ed. by Stephan Kraft, Hanover: Wehrhahn 2008, pp. 79–113.

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SURNAME Kraft, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor for modern German literature
DATE OF BIRTH 1968