Ulrich C. Baer

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Ulrich Christian Baer (born February 15, 1966 in Saarbrücken ) is a literary scholar and journalist.

Life

Baer grew up in Germany, went to the USA as a schoolboy, graduated from high school in Berlin and returned to the USA. Baer studied literature at Berkeley , Harvard and Yale and is a professor at New York University in the German Department. He writes about literature and photography and about cultural-political issues, including in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . He has two children and now lives in New York.

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Baer deals with German literature, literary theory and the subject of trauma .

Four of his books deal with trauma in very different ways: In his dissertation, Baer focuses on literary form. Baudelaire and Celan are presented as authors who address experiences that ultimately remain unprocessed, i.e. traumatic, regardless of will or consciousness. Baer discusses the aesthetic form of these works as a model for the communicability of trauma in general.

The anthology "Nobody testifies for the witness", on the other hand, brings together psychoanalytic, literary and legal perspectives. The psychoanalytically inspired access to literature becomes comprehensible when Baer edits the volume "The Claims of Reading: The Shoshana Felman Reader" by the American theorist Shoshana Felman with Emily Sun and Eyal Peretz .

After September 11, 2001 , Baer published the volume "110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11", in which New York authors wrote as many contributions to the attack on the World Trade Center as the twin towers have stories. 'stories') had: 110 very different stories about terror. Finally, based on the literary sources, Baer presented those from photography in his volume "Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma".

Another area of ​​work for Baer is dealing with the poet Rilke . Here, too, Baer takes a more unconventional approach. He wrote “The Rilke Alphabet”, a collection of 26 rather surprising essays on the life and work of the poet, from B for Buddha, F for frogs, M for Mussolini or Z for number. He has also published five small Rilke volumes in Insel-Verlag and published an extensive anthology with his prose works on the 50th anniversary of Rilke's death.

Prizes and awards

  • Guggenheim Fellowship , 2006–2007;
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin, 2006;
  • Golden Dozen Teaching Award, 2004;
  • Getty Research Fellowship, 2001-2002;
  • Remarque Institute Faculty Fellow, Spring 1999; DAAD Research Fellowship, 1998;
  • Golden Dozen Teaching Award, 1998

Works

  • Trauma Interpretation. The experience of modernity with Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan . Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 2002, English: Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan . Dissertation Stanford University Press 2000.
  • Nobody testifies for the witness. Culture of remembrance and historical responsibility after the Shoah . Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 2000.
  • The Claims of Reading: The Shoshana Felman Reader . Fordham University Press 2007.
  • 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11 . New York University Press 2002.
  • Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma . MIT Press 2002.
  • The Rilke alphabet . Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 2006, English: The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke . New York: Random House 2005.
  • Rainer Maria Rilke : Because there is nowhere to stay ; You have to change your life ; There is only - love ; The divine consolation is in the human ; The transformation of the world into glory . All ed. by Ulrich C. Baer. Frankfurt a. M .: Insel-Verlag.
  • as editor: Rainer Maria Rilke: Die Prosa. Frankfurt a. M .: Insel-Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-458-17685-5 .
  • as translator: Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet. Berlin: Insel-Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-458-19450-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Baer, ​​Ulrich C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baer, ​​Ulrich; Baer, ​​Ulrich Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken