Thomas Wegmann

Thomas Wegmann (* 1962 in Bochum ) is a German literary scholar and professor of modern German literary studies at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck .

Life

After completing his master's degree in German , English and philosophy in Essen, Dublin and Berlin from 1983 to 1991, Thomas Wegmann worked as a copywriter and conceptual designer at Cornelsen Verlag Berlin. From 1995 he was a research assistant for modern German literature at the Free University of Berlin . There he received his doctorate in 2000 with the thesis Exchange Relationships. On the economy of the literary and on the economic in literature from Gellert to Goethe . Scientific collaboration in the DFG project literature and marketing. Changes in literature and the literary market in a culture increasingly determined by marketing at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Institute for German Literature, followed by a habilitation in 2007. Wegmann was awarded the Wilhelm Scherer Prize in 2010 for his habilitation thesis Poetry and Trademarks: For the Observation and Processing of Advertising in the Literary Field 1850–2000 .

From 2008 to 2011 he took over a. Substitute professorships at the universities in Greifswald and Kiel , was visiting professor at the University of Virginia (USA) and researched at the SFB Aesthetic Experience in the Sign of the Dissolution of Boundaries at the Free University of Berlin. Since October 2011 Thomas Wegmann has held a professorship for modern German literary studies at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck.

His research area includes German-language literature from the 18th century to the present day. The focus is on a. Questions about the relationship between literature and economy, historical and theoretical conceptions of authorship, cultural techniques of writing, narrative entanglements of factual and fictionality as well as literary-historical aspects of living and the house.

Awards

• 2010 Wilhelm Scherer Prize of the Richard M. Meyer Foundation for the habilitation thesis

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Seal and trademark. Advertising in the literary field 1850–2000. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0908-1 .
• Exchange ratios. On the economy of the literary and on the economic in literature from Gellert to Goethe. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-8260-2213-0 .

Editorships

• High and low. On the interference between high and popular culture in contemporary literature. (= Studies and texts on the social history of literature, vol. 130). Edited with Norbert Christian Wolf. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-025560-7 .
• Walter benjamin. 3. Edition. New version. (Guest editor), Richard-Boorberg-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-88377-940-9 . (TEXT + CRITIC. H. 31/32)
• Market literary. (= Publications for the journal for German studies, vol. 12), Verlag Peter Lang, Bern et al. 2005, ISBN 3-03910-693-7 .
• The book market book. The literary business in basic terms. Edited with Erhard Schütz, Silke Bittkow, David Oels and Stephan Porombka. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 3-499-55672-3 .
• literatur.com: Trends in literature marketing. Edited with Erhard Schütz. Weidler, Berlin Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-89693-219-5 .
• Forms of communication and writing conditions. Media change as an object and condition of literature in the 20th century. Edited with Jörg Döring and Christian Jäger Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-531-12858-2 .

Individual evidence

• Press release of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin of July 17, 2010, accessed on October 19, 2012.

Web links

• Literature by Thomas Wegmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck
• Review of the habilitation thesis