Thomas Neukirchen (Germanist)

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Thomas Neukirchen (born 1. December 1961 in Aachen ) is a German Germanist and literary scholar . His main areas of work are the epics of the high Middle Ages and early modern literature from around 1400 to 1730.

Scientific career

In 1997 Neukirchen received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin under Conrad Wiedemann with a thesis on the literature of the 17th century. From 1996 to 2004 he was a research assistant at RWTH Aachen University . There habilitated to Neukirchen in 2004 with a thesis on a medieval epic poem from the field of Arthurian Gralsepik, the so-called younger Titurel , the only known work of the poet Albrecht ( Venia legendi : German literature of the Middle Ages and the early modern period).

Neukirchen then worked from 2004 to 2013 as a senior research assistant at RWTH Aachen University; Interrupted by substitute professorships at the University of Münster (summer semester 2009 and winter semester 2011/12) and at the University of Konstanz (winter semester 2009/10). In 2015, he was represented by another professor at the TU Braunschweig (summer semester 2015).

Neukirchen received two DFG scholarships : from the winter semester 1993/94 to the summer semester 1996 his research was funded by a doctoral grant and from the summer semester 2001 to the summer semester 2003 by a postdoctoral fellowship.

Publications

  • Inscriptio . Rhetoric and poetics of the astute inscription in the Baroque era (= Studies on German Literature , Vol. 152). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 978-3-484-18152-6 (also: dissertation, Technical University Berlin, 1997).
  • The whole 'aventiure' and its 'lere' . The younger Titurel Albrechts as a criticism and perfection of Parzival Wolfram von Eschenbach (= supplements to Euphorion 52). Winter, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-8253-5231-8 (also: habilitation thesis, RWTH Aachen, 2004).
  • Konrad von Würzburg : 'Pantaleon' . Corrected diplomatic reprint and translation (= texts of the late Middle Ages and early modern times , vol. 45). Edited, translated and with an afterword by Thomas Neukirchen. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-503-09848-4 .
  • Karsthans . Thomas Murner's Hans Karst and its impact in six texts from the Reformation period: Karsthans (1521); Conversation biechlin neüw Karsthans (1521); Divine Mill (1521); Karsthans, Kegelhans (1521); Thomas Murner: From the great Lutheran fool (1522, extract); Novella (approx. 1523) (= supplements to Euphorion 68). Edited, translated and commented by Thomas Neukirchen. Winter, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5976-8 .
  • Thomas Murner: From the great Lutheran fool (1522) (= supplements to Euphorion 83). Edited, translated and commented by Thomas Neukirchen. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6388-8 .
Selected essays and articles
  • Broken Knowledge . Critical remarks on Thomas Althaus: Epigrammatisches Barock. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. 1996 (Sources and research on literary and cultural history 9 (243)). In: Poetica 32 (2000), pp. 227-250.
  • Sît has changed diu zît . Old song and new song at the Burgrave of Rietenburg in the editorial team of the manuscript C (MF 19.7-19.27). In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 51 (2001), pp. 285–302.
  • Aloof from all supervision: Naso's self-evacuation and metamorphosis . Comments on the (free) death of the author in Christoph Ransmayr's novel The Last World . In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 52 (2002) (= Festschrift Conrad Wiedemann ), pp. 191–209.
  • Albrecht, author of the 'Younger Titurel' . In: Killy Literature Lexicon , Vol. 1. 2., completely revised edition, Berlin / Boston 2008, pp. 75–78.
  • At the zero point of literature . Heinrich Wittenwiler's ring and the tradition of contempt for literature. In: Euphorion 104 (2010), pp. 247-266.
  • Titurel . 1. The substance. 2. Perspectives of interpretation. 3. Bibliography on the 'Younger Titurel' 1807–2009. In: Joachim Heinzle (Ed.): Wolfram von Eschenbach . A manual. Berlin / Boston 2011, pp. 446-475, 502-522, 1307-1346.
  • Karsthans . In: Wilhelm Kühlmann et al. (Ed.): Early modern times in Germany 1520–1620 . Literary scholarly author's lexicon (VL 16). Berlin 2014, col. 506-514.
  • The entry of the Army Willehalms, the fear of Giburg and Wolfram Deutsch . To Willehalm 237.3-14 and Aliscans LXXXI-LXXXVI. In: Amsterdam Contributions to Older German Studies 76 (2016), pp. 15–30.
  • Edition and knowledge . For a new edition of the Younger Titurel by the poet Albrecht. In: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature 146 (2017), pp. 72–89.
  • About the beauty of the 'Younger Titurel' . In: Amsterdam Contributions to Older German Studies 79.2 (2019), pp. 178–226. ( Abstract and table of contents )

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the information in this section follows the data status for the entry Thomas Neukirchen, Dr. habil. in the directory of Germanists , as of 2020; accessed August 26, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Neukirchen, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen