Thomas No.

Thomas Anz (born February 24, 1948 in Göttingen ) is a German literary scholar . Before his retirement , he was most recently Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Marburg .

Life

Anz studied modern German literature, linguistics and sociology in Munich. In 1976 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on early expressionism ; he was then a research assistant at Walter Müller-Seidel . In 1981/82 Anz worked as a feature editor for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1982 to 1990 he was an academic advisor at the University of Munich , after his habilitation from 1987 to 1990 private lecturer and head of the "postgraduate course in literary criticism " in Munich, then until 1998 professor for modern German literary studies and literature mediation at the University of Bamberg , since October 1998 professor for modernity German literature in Marburg. In 1999 he founded the online magazine literaturkritik.de , which is also published monthly in print .

According to his own statements, his work focuses on modern literary literature between 1900 and 1933, contemporary German-language literature after 1968, history of literature, medicine and psychology since the 18th century, history of literature and historical cultural anthropology , psychological aesthetics, literary criticism and literary evaluation, literary theory and methodology and literature mediation in the media.

Works

author

• Literature of existence. Literary psychopathography and its social significance in early expressionism . Metzler, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-476-00356-6 (also dissertation, University of Munich 1976).
• Healthy or sick? Medicine, morals and aesthetics in contemporary German literature . Metzler, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-476-00652-2 (plus habilitation thesis, University of Munich 1987).
• Franz Kafka . 2nd edition Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-33162-9 (Beck's series of authors' books; 143).
• Literature and lust. Happiness and unhappiness in reading . Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-42800-2
• Expressionist literature . 2nd edition Metzler, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-476-12329-9 (Metzler Collection; 329).
• Marcel Reich-Ranicki . Dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-31072-3
• Dislike and pleasure in the disgusting in literature and art. In: disgust. Representation and interpretation in the sciences and arts. Ed. Hermes A. Kick. Guido Pressler Verlag, Hürtgenwald 2003. pp. 148–159
• Franz Kafka. Life and Work (CH Beck Knowledge). New edition Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-56273-0
• Marcel Reich-Ranicki. His life Insel Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-458-68108-3

editor

Essays

• Literature and emotion . In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes , Vol. 54 (2007), no. 3, pp. 283–388, ISSN  0418-9426 (together with Martin Huber).
• Literature in the 21st Century . In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes , vol. 55 (2008), no. 2, pp. 113-218, ISSN  0418-9426 (together with Ellen Schindler-Horst).

Books

• Fantasies about madness. Expressionist texts . 2nd edition Hanser, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-446-12875-1 .
• The poets and the war. German poetry 1914-1918 . Hanser, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-446-13470-0 , 272 pages (together with Joseph Vogl ).
• Expressionism . Manifestos and documents on German literature 1910-1920 . Metzler, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-476-00412-0 (Epochs of German literature / material volume).
• “It's not about Christa Wolf ”. The literary dispute in a united Germany . New edition Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt / M. 1995, ISBN 3-596-12575-8 .
• The modernity of expressionism (Bamberg Symposium on Expressionism 1993). Metzler, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-476-01245-X (together with Michael Stark).
• Erich Kästner : Trojan donkeys. Theater, radio play, film (works; vol. 5). New edition Hanser, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-446-20486-5 .
• Psychoanalysis in Modern Literature. Cooperation and competition . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1727-7 (together with Christine Kanz).
• The Otto Gross case . A press campaign by German intellectuals in the winter of 1913/14 . Verlag LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2002, ISBN 3-936134-02-2 (together with Christina Jung).
• Literary criticism. History-Theory-Practice (Beck series; Vol. 1588). 5th edition. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-406-51095-7 (together with Rainer Baasner ).
• Caroline von Wolzüge : Agnes von Lilien. Novel. With reviews by Friedrich Schlegel and Wilhelm von Humboldt and an afterword . Verlag LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-936134-10-3 . 289 pp.
• Introduction and Viennese Modernism. Hermann Bahr , Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Arthur Schnitzler , Karl Kraus (Psychoanalysis in Modern Literature. A Documentation; Vol. 1). Verlag LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-936134-13-1 (together with Oliver Pfohlmann).
• Manual of literary studies. Objects, concepts, institutions . Metzler, Stuttgart 2007 (3 volumes).

1. Objects and basic concepts . 2007.
2. Methods and theories . 2007.
3. Institutions and fields of practice . 2007.

• The literature, a home. Talks about and by Marcel Reich-Ranicki . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-421-04380-1 .
• Sigmund Freud and the knowledge of literature (spectrum literary studies; 16). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020038-6 (together with Peter-André Alt ).
• Nature - culture. On the anthropology of language and literature . mentis Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-89785-682-0 (Deutscher Germanistentag; 2007).
• Literature as a game. Evolutionary, aesthetic and educational aspects (spectrum literary studies; 22). De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-022143-5 (together with Heinrich Kaulen).

literature

• Lutz Hagestedt (Hrsg.): Literature as pleasure. Encounters between poetry and science; Festschrift for Thomas Anz on his 60th birthday . Edition Belleville, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-936298-97-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Anz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Anz at the University of Marburg