Ulrich Fleischmann

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Ulrich Fleischmann (born June 20, 1938 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber ; † February 7, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German Caribbean researcher who received international renown for his work .

life and work

Fleischmann studied Romance studies , sociology and ethnology in Munich and Paris . In 1967 received his doctorate he with a study of the literature of Haiti Dr. phil. In 1980 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the social history of the Creole languages . Fleischmann took on a substitute professorship at the University of Bayreuth from 1981 to 1982 . From 1982 he worked at the Institute for Romance Philology, from 1985 until his retirement in 2003 at the Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin. During his academic career, he held various visiting professorships, including at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria , the University of Warwick in England , the Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro , the Universidad de Costa Rica and the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico .

Fleischmann was one of the founding members of the Society for Caribbean Research, which he also chaired for many years. He was also a member of the German Latin American Research Working Group and the Comité International des Études Créoles and was chairman of the Asociación de Estudios de Literatura y Sociedad de América Latina.

In establishing the Caribbean region as a transdisciplinary research area, he made a significant contribution through his literary, linguistic and cultural studies. The studies he made on the literature and society of Haiti as well as on the Creole languages ​​and cultures are considered pioneering work in Caribbean studies in the German-speaking area. Further research dealt with the literatures of Hispanic America and Brazil .

Fleischmann died in early February 2011 after a brief serious illness at the age of 72. He was married and had two daughters. His daughter Stephanie was a lecturer in Spanish and Latin American cultural studies at the University of Mainz from 2005 to 2011 and has been a post-doctoral fellow at the graduate school “Between Spaces” on a project on emotional coldness in globalized textual worlds of new Latin American novels and narratives outdoors University of Berlin .

Works

science

  • Ideology and Reality in Haiti's Literature , Berlin 1969; French: Ecrivain et société en Haïti , Montréal 1976; Creole: Idéyoloji ak réyalité nan litérati ayisyèn , Geneva 1981 (dissertation)
  • Aspects of the social and political development of Haiti , Stuttgart 1971
  • French Creole in the Caribbean. On the function of language in social and geographical space , Tübingen 1986; Creole: Kreyòl fringe donnen nan Karayib la. Antanke lang anndan yon lespas sosyal ak jeyografik , Friborg 1987 ( habilitation thesis )
  • (Ed. With Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger) El Caribe y América Latina. Actas del III. Coloquio Interdisciplinary Colloquium sobre el Caribe efectuado el 9 and 10 de noviembre de 1984. 3rd Interdisciplinary Colloquium about the Caribbean , Frankfurt 1987
  • (Ed. With Thomas Bremer) History and histories in the Caribbean , Madrid / Frankfurt 2001
  • (Ed. With Gordon Collier) A Pepper-Pot of Cultures. Aspects of Creolization in the Caribbean (Matatu 27-28), Amsterdam 2004
  • (Ed. With Léon-François Hoffmann and Frauke Gewecke) Haïti 1804. Lumières et ténèbres. Impact et résonances d'une révolution , Madrid / Frankfurt am Main 2008

Travel guides and illustrated books

  • Dominican Republic , Cologne 1991, 1997, 2003; (with Stephanie Fleischmann) 2009 (DuMont-Reise-Taschenbücher 2034)
  • (with Eberhard B. Freise) Mauritius , Munich / Berlin 1991, 1995 (Bucher's Fernreisen 59)
  • Caribbean Islands , Munich 1991, 1993, 1996 (Bucher's Fernreisen 54)
  • Algarve , Munich 1993, 1995, 1998 (Bucher's Travel Guide 73) (English: Oxford 1992)
  • Costa Rica , Cologne 1995 (DuMont travel paperbacks 2105)
  • Portugal , Munich 1995, 1999
  • Ecuador and Galápagos Islands , Ostfildern 2000 (HB-Bildatlas, Special 63)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary for Prof. Dr. Ulrich Fleischmann  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.romanistik.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.romanistik.de  
  2. ↑ Dr. Stephanie Fleischmann on the official website of Freie Universität Berlin ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 30, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lai.fu-berlin.de
  3. ↑ Ulrich Fleischmann; Stephanie Fleischmann: Dominican Republic (2009)
personal data
SURNAME Fleischmann, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fleischmann, Ulrich Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Caribbean explorer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothenburg ob der Tauber
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2011
Place of death Berlin