Sven Kramer (literary scholar)

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Sven Kramer (* 1961 in Hamburg ) is a German literary and cultural scientist.

Life

Kramer studied modern German literature and political science in Hamburg and St. Louis , USA . He received his doctorate in 1995 from the University of Hamburg and completed his habilitation there in 2001.

Between 2002 and 2005, he was initially a DAAD Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Toronto , Canada , and then briefly as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne , Australia .

Since the end of 2005 he has been Professor of Modern German Literary Studies and Literary Cultures at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg .

research

His research interests include: coding of violence in literature and film; the Shoah in film and literature; Genre theory and history of the essay and the essay film; literary theoretical and aesthetic issues in the context of critical theory , deconstruction and critical hermeneutics.

Sven Kramer has been managing editor of the journal for critical theory since 2006 , which he co-founded in 1995.

Works

  • with Torben Fischer and Philipp Hammermeister (eds.): National Socialism and the Shoah in contemporary German literature. Amsterdam; New York 2014. ISBN 978-9042038509
  • with Martin Schierbaum (Ed.): Traces of contemporary history in the cultural area of ​​the Elbe. Springe 2012. ISBN 978-3866741652
  • with Thomas Tode (Ed.): The essay film. Aesthetics and topicality. Constance 2011. ISBN 978-3867641104
  • with Martin Schierbaum (Ed.): Nicolas Born and political literature, 1967-1982. Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3503122363
  • (Ed.): Image - Language - Culture. Aesthetic Perspectives of Critical Theory. Würzburg 2009. ISBN 978-3826041082
  • Torture in literature. Their representation in German narrative prose from 1740 to ›after Auschwitz‹. Munich 2004. ISBN 978-3770538959
  • Walter Benjamin as an introduction. Hamburg 2003 (2nd edition 2004, 3rd edition 2010, 4th edition 2013; translation into Chinese 2008). ISBN 978-3885066835
  • (Ed.): The Shoah in pictures. Munich 2003. ISBN 978-3883777252
  • Auschwitz in conflict. To portray the Shoah in film, philosophy and literature. Wiesbaden 1999 (2nd edition 1999). ISBN 978-3824443666
  • The subversion of literature. Christian Geissler's »kamalatta«, his complete works and a comparison with Peter Weiss. Stuttgart 1996.
  • (Ed.): The political in literary discourse. Studies on contemporary German literature. Opladen 1996.
  • Puzzle questions and cloudy spots. On Benjamin's Kafka essay. Lüneburg 1991. ISBN 978-3924245191
  • with Jürgen Garbers u. a. (Ed.): Aesthetics revolt resistance. On the literary work of Peter Weiss. Lueneburg; Jena 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Sven Kramer - Biography Homepage of Sven Kramer at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Retrieved July 14, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg