Thomas Strässle

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Thomas Strässle (born April 13, 1972 in Baden , Switzerland ) is a Swiss literary scholar , author and flautist .

Life

Strässle studied German , philosophy and musicology at the University of Zurich from 1992 to 1997 . As a parallel course, he completed a music course from 1993 to 1998 with a major in flute . In 1997 Strässle received a licentiate from the University of Zurich and in 1998 the teaching diploma for music. From 1998 to 2005 Thomas Strässle was a student of the Swiss flautist Aurèle Nicolet . In 1999 he received a concert diploma and a doctorate from the University of Zurich with a dissertation on Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus Teutsch .

After receiving a Master of Philosophy in European Literature from the University of Cambridge (Gonville & Caius College) in 2000, Strässle worked as a post-doc assistant at the German Department of the University of Zurich until 2005. During this time, in 2003, he took on a guest professorship at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . As part of a research project by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Strässle worked at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris from 2005 to 2007 . In 2008 Thomas Strässle completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich in the subject of Modern German and Comparative Literature with a paper on the literary history of salt .

From 2008 to 2009 Strässle headed the research focus Intermediality at the Bern University of the Arts . In 2009 he took on a substitute professorship at the University of Zurich. This was followed by an SNSF professorship at the Bern University of the Arts from 2009 to 2013 and a visiting professor at the University of Siena in 2011 . Thomas Strässle has been head of the Y Institute for Transdisciplinarity at the Bern University of the Arts since 2013 (together with Andi Schoon ). In the autumn semester 2013 Strässle was also interim director of the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel and in the academic year 2014/15 he was interim head of the Design & Art department in Bern.

He is also adjunct professor at the German Department and the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the University of Zurich.

Since autumn 2014, Strässle has also been a member of the critics' panel of the literature club on Swiss television SRF and since 2013 President of the Max Frisch Foundation at ETH Zurich.

Awards

Memberships (selection)

  • President of the Max Frisch Foundation
  • President of the jury for the Max Frisch Prize
  • Literary advisory board of the Christine Lavant Society Vienna
  • Member of the jury for the Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing
  • Vice President of the Center for Artistic Legacies ZKN
  • Program committee of the festival «Zurich reads»
  • Member of the jury for the «Words to speak» literature prize of the Crespo Foundation Frankfurt
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma
  • Member of the jury for the Swiss Book Prize (2011-2013)
  • Member of the editorial board of the magazine Musik & Ästhetik
  • Member of the Grimmelshausen Society

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Artistic Research Manifesto. A defense against its advocates . With Silvia Henke, Dieter Mersch, Nicolaj van der Meulen, Jörg Wiesel. Diaphanes, Zurich 2020, ISBN 978-3-0358-0290-0 .
  • Fake and fiction. About inventing truth . Hanser, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-26229-4 .
  • Serenity. About a different attitude to the world. Hanser, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24183-1 .
  • Salt. A literary story. (Habilitation). Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23417-8 .
  • Salt. The white gold. With poems by Ralph Dutli . Hanser, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-23417-8 .
  • From lack of understanding to understanding through fire. Studies on Grimmelshausen's «Simplicissimus Teutsch». (Dissertation). Peter Lang, Bern 2001

Editorships

  • Max Frisch. Questionnaire. Extended edition . With Tobias Amslinger . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019
  • Max Frisch. How you get on me! Interviews and discussions . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017
  • Max Frisch. From the Berlin Journal . Employee Margit Unser. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014
  • With Christoph Kleinschmidt u. Johanne Mohs: The interplay of materials in the arts. Theories - Practices - Perspectives. Transcript, Bielefeld 2013
  • With Simon Zumsteg: drunkenness. Cultures of intoxication. Rodopi, Amsterdam 2008
  • With Barbara Naumann u. Caroline Torra-Mattenklott: fabrics. On the history of materiality in the arts and sciences. VDF Hochschulverlag at the ETH Zurich, Zurich 2006
  • With Caroline Torra-Mattenklott: Poetics of Matter. Fabrics and their qualities in literature, art and philosophy. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005
  • Shadows. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004

Discography

literature

  • Helmut Woll : We are faced with the decision to ask which things we let go of, what we allow and who do we leave ourselves to? Review of Thomas Strässle: Serenity. In: Das Goetheanum No. 4/2015, p. 11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ management. Center for Artistic Legacies (ZKN), accessed on February 13, 2020 (Thomas Strässle identified as Vice President).
personal data
SURNAME Strässle, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss literary scholar and flautist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden , Switzerland