Till Kinzel

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Till Kinzel (born October 30, 1968 in Berlin ) is a German historian and literary scholar .

Life and education

Kinzel studied from 1988 to 1997 at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1996 he passed his state examination in ancient history . In 2001 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Platonic cultural criticism in America . In 2005 he qualified as a professor in Modern English and American Literature. He was a private lecturer at the TU Berlin, held a teaching position on behalf of the University of Paderborn and worked at the TU Braunschweig from 2009 to 2018 .

His main research interests include the English-language literatures from the 16th to the 21st century, theories of intertextuality, literary concepts of inwardness and the relationship between literature and political philosophy. In addition, Kinzel has emerged as the editor and translator of the Colombian author Nicolás Gómez Dávila , on whom he has also written the only German-language monograph to date.

From 2002 to 2008, Kinzel lectured for the Institute for State Policy ( IfS ) and wrote articles for the IfS magazine Sezession (until 2008), for the magazine Eigenizensfrei and the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . From 2004 to 2008, Kinzel also worked for the Munich-based Foundation for Conservative Education and Research as co-editor of the in-house journal Our Agenda and gave a lecture series in the Library of Conservatism . He also worked as a translator for the IfS-related publishing house Antaios (at the time Edition Antaios). Kinzel was a member of the board of directors of the Berlin-Brandenburg section of the Freedom of Science Association .

Honourings and prices

  • 1995: Prize of the Federal Freedom of Science for the work of science as a way of life: freedom and responsibility
  • 1998 to 2000: Scholarship from the Berlin State of Berlin

Works

Non-fiction

  • Platonic cultural criticism in America. Studies on Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind , Berlin 2002.
  • The tragedy and comedy of American life. A study of Zuckerman's America in the America Trilogy by Philip Roth , Heidelberg 2006.
  • Michael Oakeshott. Philosopher of Politics , Schnellroda 2007.
  • 150 years of Herrigsche Gesellschaft. Anniversary publication of the Berlin Society for the Study of Modern Languages , Münster 2007.
  • (with Bianca Schwindt) Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden . Teaching model EinfachEnglisch, Paderborn 2008.
  • (with Cord-Friedrich Berghahn) (Ed.) Johann Joachim Eschenburg and the arts and sciences between the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Networks and cultures of knowledge (Germanic-Romanic monthly. Supplement 50). Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. ISBN 978-3-8253-6091-7 .
  • GWF Hegel, Hamann's writings . edited and commented by Till Kinzel, Karolinger Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85418-172-9 .
  • Johann Georg Hamann, To life and work . Karolinger Verlag, Vienna 2019 ISBN 978-3-85418-191-0 .
  • with Michael Rieger, Christoph Fackelmann (eds.): Lepanto-Almanach 1/2020. Yearbook for Christian literature and intellectual history , Lepanto Verlag, Rückersdorf 2020, ISBN 978-3-942605-12-0 .

Translations

  • John King, when does this shitty war end? , Translation from English, Edition Antaios, Schnellroda 2003, ISBN 3-935063-52-0 .
  • Nicolás Gómez Dávila, texts and other essays , translation from Spanish with Herminio Redondo, Vienna-Leipzig 2003.
  • Paul Edward Gottfried, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt , translation from English, Ares-Verlag, Graz 2004, ISBN 3-902475-00-5 .
  • Nils Fabiansson, The companion book to Ernst Jünger, In Stahlgewittern , translation from English, ES Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8132-0888-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Speit : The right edge: New right hinge. In: taz.de . January 29, 2009, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Till Kinzel: "The Magus in the North - Life and Work of Johann Georg Hamann" now online! In: bdk-berlin.org. March 10, 2020, accessed May 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kinzel, Till
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin