Thomas Keller (Germanist)
Thomas Keller, (born May 28, 1954 in Osnabrück ,) is a German-French cultural scientist . The chair holder ( Aix-Marseille-Université ) is known for his research on the transfer of knowledge in the Franco-German relationship and for the establishment and management of Franco-German courses and cross-border research groups.
Life
Thomas Keller studied in Mainz, Berlin and Aix-en-Provence. He received his doctorate with a deconstruction of Adalbert Stifter's Nachsommer at the Free University of Berlin and with an analysis of the ideological systems of the Green Party at the University of Strasbourg . After his habilitation in Strasbourg on Franco-German Third Paths , he has broken down transmission processes in Franco-German résumés and (auto) biographies, in ethnological and anthropological discourses and in shared places of memory.
He was a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin (1979/80), lecturer at the University of Strasbourg (1981–88), Maître de conférences in Limoges (1988–1990) and Strasbourg (1990–1999); since 1999 he has been a professor at the University of Aix-en-Provence (retired since 2015).
Between 1993 and 2008, Keller headed the EUCOR research association “Interculturality in Theory and Practice” (Strasbourg-Freiburg-Basel-Mulhouse-Karlsruhe) and was responsible for the PROCOPE project “Ethnological and anthropological discourses between Germany and France” from 1999 to 2001 (Strasbourg-Freiburg-Paris) jointly responsible. In Aix, in partnership with Tübingen, he set up and managed the integrated course “Intercultural German-French Studies” and the “Doctoral College for Cultural Conflicts / Conflict Cultures” and assumed responsibility for the ECHANGES research group. He held visiting professorships at the University of Karlsruhe and the University of Tübingen; a research fellowship took him to the "Graduate College Friends, Patrons, Faithful" at the University of Freiburg.
Fonts
- The font in Stifter's 'Nachsommer'. Literal and imagery of the text of the novel , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne-Vienna 1982 (böhlau forum litterarum 12).
- Les Verts allemands. Un conservatisme alternatif , Paris, L'Harmattan 1993.
- Franco-German Third Way Discourses, Personalist Intellectual Debates of the Interwar Period , Fink, Munich, 2001.
- Ed. With Wolfgang Eßbach , Life and History. Anthropological and ethnological discourses of the interwar period , Fink, Munich, 2006.
- Edited with Freddy Raphaël , life stories, exile, migration , Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag Arno Spitz, Berlin, 2006.
- Lieux de migration / lieux de mémoire franco-allemands , in Cahiers d'Etudes Germaniques No 53, 2/2007.
- 'Vrais' and 'faux' médiateurs. La connaissance des lieux et ses équivoques , in Cahiers d'Etudes Germaniques N ° 60, 1/2011.
- Culture et violence. La Première Guerre mondiale un siècle plus tard , Cahiers d'Etudes Germaniques N ° 66, 1/2014.
- Embodiments of the third in the Franco-German relationship. The place of transmission , Fink Verlag, Paderborn, 2018.
Award
In 2014, Thomas Keller was awarded the Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize for his outstanding academic achievements and life's work .
Web links
- Homepage
- Literature by and about Thomas Keller in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keller, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-French cultural scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osnabrück |