Uwe Japp
Uwe Japp (born June 26, 1948 in Verden an der Aller ) is a German literary scholar .
life and work
Uwe Japp studied German, philosophy and sociology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt / M from 1968–1974. There he received his doctorate in 1974. In his dissertation Hermeneutics The Theoretical Discourse, the Literature and the Construction of Their Context , which was published in 1977, Japp took up Peter Szondi's call for the development of a new form of text interpretation and assumed a fundamental difference between interpretation and literary work: The Accordingly, interpretation cannot catch up with the meaning of the work, but remains a construction.
Contrary to a philosophical hermeneutics in the sense of Hans-Georg Gadamer - according to Japp - the literary work cannot be reduced to a single valid meaning, since the linguistic ambiguity ( polysemy ) of poetry always produces multiple meaning and therefore requires a "hermeneutics of development".
In 1979 he completed his habilitation with the title Relationship Sense. A concept of literary history . Japp was a research assistant in Bonn, Siegen and Aachen, and also received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation. In 1988 Japp was appointed to a professorship at the University of Regensburg. In 1993 he was offered a chair for modern German and general literary studies at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)).
Other interests include the theory of literature, literary historiography and the history of drama.
Since 2010 he has been a member of the Joint Research Center for German Language and Culture in Beijing .
Fonts (selection)
- Uwe Japp: Hermeneutics. Theoretical discourse, literature and the construction of their connection in the philological sciences, Munich 1977.
- Uwe Japp: sense of relationship. A concept of literary history, Frankfurt am Main 1980.
- Uwe Japp: Theory of Irony, Frankfurt am Main 1983.
- Uwe Japp: Literature and Modernity, Frankfurt am Main 1987.
- Uwe Japp: The comedy of romanticism. Typology and overview, Tübingen 1999.
- Uwe Japp: The German artist drama. From the Enlightenment to the Present, Berlin / New York 2004.
Web links
- Literature by and about Uwe Japp in the catalog of the German National Library
- Uwe Japp , at the Institute for Literary Studies of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yep, Uwe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Verden on the Aller |