Volker Noelle

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Volker Nölle (* 1937 in Stettin ) is a German literary scholar and emeritus professor of German philology at the University of Basel

Life and professional history

Born in Stettin in 1937 as the son of the director of Kraftwerk Stettin AG, who was persecuted by the National Socialists , he experienced numerous changes of residence that continued after the war. After graduating from high school, he attended the Otto Falckenberg School ( Munich Kammerspiele ) from 1959 to 1961 . This was followed by piece contracts as an actor: Münchner Kammerspiele, Isalohner Schauspielstudio, Ateliertheater Bern, an engagement as an actor at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (Intentendanz Hans Schalla ) as well as collaboration with Fritz Kortner ( Timon von Athens ), Erwin Piscator ( Don Carlos ), Ernst's personal director's advisor Rope gangs ( Nathan the Wise , game for job ) on the stages of the city of Cologne (artistic director Oskar Fritz Schuh ); Director's advice, assistant director, evening director and member of the stage board at the Schauspielhaus der Wuppertaler Bühnen (Intendanz Grischa Barfuss ), early termination of the contract in order to expand and deepen his drama studies.

In 1964 he began studying German , philosophy and psychology (as a temporary supplementary course in Slavic studies ), doctorate with Wolfgang Binder in 1970; Habilitation scholarship from the University of Zurich , after which he continued his studies as long as it was compatible with teaching at a grammar school. 1986 habilitation in modern German literature at the University of Basel ; During his time as a private lecturer, he also took on deputy professorships in Basel and Zurich ; he was Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Basel from 1994 until his retirement in 2002. Volker Nölle is divorced and has three children; Tanja von Oertzen has been his partner since 1996.

research

In addition to testing different methodological approaches to eras such as the Enlightenment and Realism, works from the 20th century (primarily German and Russian literature, for the latter see above all in: The secret look. Motif and model. - A matrix of innovative perspectives, 2017) were the subject structuralist studies. Nölle has a constant interest in the development of an "alternative project" with which the supposed "so and not otherwise" status of texts is passed: The text enters the phase of potential changeability and posthumously involves the reader as a virtual co-creator. In association with this, an attempt is made to find the basis for comparisons between different European and non-European literatures. The main questions asked are convergences in the area of ​​microstructures. So far, Nölle has tried to determine the corpora of those authors whose production models or basic scenarios remain constant even in different development phases. Analyzes aiming at uncovering the structures and constants and thus relying on reconstructability should prove that a scientific approach is of eminently didactic relevance. At the same time, the prerequisites can be worked out under which the readers are stimulated to “creative reading”, as set out in the introductory chapters to his books on Hebbel, Kleist and Sternheim as well as in various articles, so u. a. in: The schizoid mouth. Aftermath of Ludwig Tieck's "Inverted World" on the production grammar of later authors , in: U. Japp / S. Scherer / C. Stockinger: The romantic drama. Productive synthesis between tradition and innovation, Tübingen 2000 (241–258.) In addition, Nölle has demonstrated the efficiency of basic scenarios for micro-comparative studies on the basis of works from world literature.

Publications (selection)

  • Subjectivity and reality in Lessing's dramatic and theological work , Berlin 1977, 311 pages, ISBN 978-3-503-01243-5
  • Hebbel's Dramatic Fantasy . Attempt of a categorical analysis, Bern / Tübingen. 1990, 506 pages, ISBN 978-3-7720-1667-7
  • Heinrich von Kleist. The decline and rise scenarios . Attempt of a phantasmata and model analysis. With an excursus on Hofmannsthal, Sternheim, Kafka and Horvath, Berlin 1997, 320 pages, ISBN 978-3-503-03738-4
  • Intruders. Sternheim in a new perspective . A basic model of the work and the imagination, Berlin, 2007, 532 pages, ISBN 978-3-503-09820-0
  • The secret look . Motif and model - a matrix of innovative perspectives, Würzburg, 2017, 644 pages, ISBN 978-3-8260-6334-3

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personal data
SURNAME Noelle, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and professor emeritus for German philology at the University of Basel
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin