Ulrich Johannes Beil

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Ulrich Johannes Beil (born June 24, 1957 in Munich ) is a German poet, essayist and literary scholar.

Live and act

Beil studied German language and literature , philosophy , theology and political science in Munich, where he received his doctorate in 1988. In 1984 he received the Poetry Prize from Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Vera Piller Poetry Prize from the Swiss publisher Orte. From 1995 to 2000 he was editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Das Gedicht published by Anton G. Leitner . Journal of poetry, essay and criticism . Since 1988 he has taught and researched at the University of Hokkaidō in Sapporo / Japan , at the Universities of Munich and Göttingen. From 2000 to 2004 he taught as a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo , Brazil. In 2003 he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich and has been working on a media science research focus at the University of Zurich since 2006 .

Beil's poems have appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and anthologies (including accents , sense and form , manuscripts and Merkur).

Works (selection)

  • This day goes, poems (Schneekluth, Munich 1985), ISBN 3-7951-0931-0
  • The return of the absolute. Studies on the symbolism of the crystalline and metallic in the literature of the turn of the century (Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 1988), ISBN 3-8204-1270-0
  • Aufgelassene Archives, Gedichte ( DuMont , Cologne 1998), ISBN 3-7701-4469-4
  • Rudolf Kurtz , Expressionism and Film. Edited together with Christian Kiening ( Chronos , Zurich 2011, 2nd edition), ISBN 978-3-0340-0874-7
  • The hybrid genus. Poetry and prose in the European novel from Heliodorus to Goethe (Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010), ISBN 978-3-8260-4300-0
  • Media, technology, science. Knowledge transfer with Robert Musil and in his time. Edited together with Michael Gamper, Karl Wagner (Chronos, Zurich 2011), ISBN 978-3-0340-1017-7
  • Primal scenes of the media. From Moses to Caligari. Together with Christian Kiening ( Wallstein , Göttingen 2012), ISBN 978-3-8353-1127-5

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personal data
SURNAME Beil, Ulrich Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, essayist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich