Wilhelm Vosskamp

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Wilhelm Voßkamp (born May 27, 1936 in Osnabrück ) is a German Germanist and professor emeritus for modern German literature at the University of Cologne .

Career

Voßkamp studied German , philosophy and history in Münster , Munich , Göttingen and Kiel . In 1965 he was in Kiel with a thesis on the time and conception of history in the literature of the 17th century doctorate . The habilitation took place in Cologne in 1971/72 with a thesis on romantic theory in Germany.

From 1972 to 1987 he was professor for literary studies at Bielefeld University and in 1973/74 he was dean of the faculty for linguistics and literary studies. From 1978 to 1982 he was director at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University.

In 1987 he followed a call to the University of Cologne , where he took over a professorship for modern German literature and general literary studies. In 1994 and 1995 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne and from 1999 to 2004 he was director of the cultural studies research college "Media and Cultural Communication" at the University of Cologne.

Visiting and research professorships have taken Voßkamp to the USA , Israel , France , Australia , Brazil and Switzerland . In 1990/91 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and in 1995/96 a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. In the 2002/03 winter semester he was a fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen .

Memberships

Vosskamp has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences since 1994 .

Research priorities

Vosskamp's main research areas include utopia , romantic theory, classical music, as well as the history of science, media and cultural communication.

Publications (selection)

  • Dialogic visualization while writing and reading. On the poetics of the letter novel in the 18th century. In: DVjs 45 (1971), pp. 80-116.
  • Genres as literary-social institutions. (On problems of socially and functionally oriented genus theory and history). In: Textsortlehre - genre history. Edited by Walter Hinck . Quelle and Meyer, Heidelberg 1977, pp. 27-44.
  • Romantic theory in Germany. From Martin Opitz to Friedrich von Blanckenburg. Metzler, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-476-00255-1 .
  • Investigations into the conception of time and history in the 17th century by Gryphius and Lohenstein. Bouvier, Bonn 1967.
  • Utopia research. Interdisciplinary studies on modern utopia. Edited by Wilhelm Voßkamp. 3 vols. Metzler, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-476-00490-2 .
  • The Novel of Life: The Topicality of Education and Its History . Berlin University Press, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940432-42-1 .
  • Emblematic of the future. Poetics and history of literary utopias from Thomas More to Robert Musil , de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-036532-0 .

literature

  • Lorenz Jäger : Understanding the political island. For the eightieth birthday of the literary scholar Wilhelm Voßkamp. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 27, 2016, No. 121, p. 12.
  • Markus Schwering: On the trail of utopia. Portrait: Cologne literary scholar Wilhelm Voßkamp turns 80. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , 26./27. May 2016, No. 121, p. 20.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Kluge characterized the Bielefeld university professor in a prose sketch inserted into his novel Schlachtbeschreibung (extended edition from 1978): Alexander Kluge: Vosskamp's medium short grip and Pratschke's long grip. In: AK: Description of the battle. The organizational structure of a disaster. 3. Edition. Goldmann, Munich 1978, pp. 295-296.
personal data
SURNAME Vosskamp, ​​Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück