Tom Oliver Kindt
Tom Oliver Kindt (* May 1970 in Hamburg ) is a German germanistischer literary scholar .
Life
He completed his studies in German and philosophy at the University of Hamburg with a doctorate in 2001. From 2001 to 2003 he was a research associate in the DFG research group on narratology. From 2004 to 2010 he was a research assistant at the Department of German Philology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . After completing his habilitation in 2010, he was a professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen in 2010. From 2011 to 2014 he taught as a professor for modern German literature at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . From 2013 to 2014 he was a Lynen Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University . Since 2014 he has been Professor of German and General Literary Studies at the University of Friborg . Since 2015 he has been co-editor of JLT - Journal of Literary Theory . From 2017 to 2020 he worked on the SNSF project literary history, interpretation theory and narratology. About their interaction using the example of unreliable narration in the German-language post-war novel.
Fonts (selection)
- Unreliable narration and literary modernity. An examination of Ernst Weiss' novels . Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-484-18184-7 .
- Literature and comedy. On the theory of literary comedy and German comedy in the 18th century . Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005152-9 .
- with Tilmann Arndt Köppe : Narrative theory. An introduction . Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 3-15-017683-2 .
- Brecht and the consequences . Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-476-04576-8 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kindt, Tom Oliver |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kindt, Tom |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |