Willi Jasper

Willi Jasper (born June 11, 1945 in Lavelsloh ) is a German publicist . Until his retirement in 2010, he was professor for German-Jewish literary history at the University of Potsdam . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Life

Education

Willi Jasper studied from 1966 to 1970 at the Free University of Berlin (FU) German and political science and a doctorate there. From 1970 to 1980 he was a student trainee , lecturer in adult education , editor and lecturer.

politics

During his studies Willi Jasper was active in the extra-parliamentary opposition. He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD / AO) through the Socialist Workers' and Apprentices Center (SALZ) in 1970 , was a member of the Central Committee and for a time editor-in-chief of the Red Flag party organ . After the party, in which he was actively involved, dissolved, Jasper dealt scientifically with exile literature and topics of Jewish cultural history.

science

From 1980 to 1989 Willi Jasper worked as a freelance academic author and publicist (radio, television and print media). From 1989 to 1994 he worked in teaching and research at the University of GH Duisburg / “Salomon-Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History” (deputy director). Since 1994 he has been at the University of Potsdam ( habilitation and appointment as apl professor). Until 2005, Jasper worked at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies (focus on Russian-Jewish migration research), then as a professor for literary and cultural history at the institutes for German and Jewish studies.

Awards

• 2013 Johann Heinrich Merck Medal from the Darmstadt Goethe Society

Fonts (selection)

• The glass coffin. Matthes and Seitz, Berlin 2018.
• Lusitania. Cultural history of a catastrophe. be.bra verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89809-112-1 .
• Carla Mann. The tragic life in the shadow of the brothers. Propylaea Publishing House. Berlin 2012.
• Magic mountain Riva. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2011.
• (Ed.): How much transnationalism can culture tolerate? Berlin 2009.
• The hunt for love. Heinrich Mann and the women. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2007.
• (Ed. Together with Eva Lezzi, Elke Liebs, Helmut Peitsch): Jews and Judaism in German-language literature. Wiesbaden 2006.
• (Together with Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Paul Harris and others): Building a Diaspora. Russian Jews in Israel, Germany and the USA. Leiden / Boston 2006.
• German-Jewish Parnassus. Literary history of a myth. Propylaeen Verlag, Berlin / Munich 2004.
• (Ed. Together with Joachim H. Knoll): Prussia's sky spreads its stars ... Contributions to the cultural, political and intellectual history of modern times. Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2002, 2 vols.
• Lessing, enlightener and friend of the Jews. Biography. Propylaeen Verlag, Berlin / Munich 2001.
• (Ed.): Ludwig Börne : Berlin letters. Philo-Verlag, Berlin 2000.
• (Ed. With Julius H. Schoeps , Bernhard Vogt ): A new Judaism in Germany? Foreign and self-images of the Russian-Jewish immigrants. Publishing house for Berlin Brandenburg, Potsdam 1999.
• Faust and the Germans. Rowohlt-Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1998.
• (Ed. Together with Julius H. Schoeps): German-Jewish Passages - European urban landscapes from Berlin to Prague. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1996.
• (Ed. Together with Julius H. Schoeps, Bernhard Vogt): Russian Jews in Germany. Integration and self-assertion in a foreign country. Athenäum Verlag, Weinheim 1996.
• Hotel Lutétia - a German exile in Paris. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1994.
  • French edition: Un exil allemand à Paris. Paris 1995.
• (Together with Renate Lohse-Jasper): Festschrift for Alphons Silbermann on his 85th birthday. Reviews and interviews 1989-1994. Cologne 1994.
• The brother. Heinrich Mann, a biography. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1992.
• Ludwig Börne. Born to no fatherland. A biography. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1989.
• (Ed.): Ludwig Börne. About the pouting of women. Berlin letters to Jeannette Wohl and other writings. Leske Verlag, Cologne 1987.
• Heinrich Mann and the Popular Front Discussion. Peter Lang Verlag, Bern / Frankfurt 1982.

Editorial activity

• Since 1999 co-editor of Menora - Yearbook for German-Jewish History. Philo Verlag Berlin / Vienna.

Articles / book contributions

• German Jews as Goethe admirers - a “Faustian relationship story”? In: Jochen Golz, Justus H. Ulbricht (Hrsg.): Goethe in society. On the history of a literary union from the German Empire to divided Germany. Cologne 2005, pp. 113–123.
• Germany, Europe and the Russian-Jewish Diaspora. Comments on the identity problem in the research discussion. In: Menora - Yearbook for German-Jewish History 2004/2005, Vol. 15, pp. 133–150.
• Faust and the Germans. In: Peter M. Daly, Hans Walter Frischkopf: Why Weimar? Questioning the Legacy of Weimar from Goethe to 1999. New York 2003, pp. 177-190.
• “Berlin Alexanderplatz” - myth and literature of the metropolis. In: Manfred Görtemaker (Ed.): Weimar in Berlin. Portrait of an Era. Berlin-Brandenburg 2002, pp. 104-135.
• Enlightenment and the “Jewish question”. In: Menora - Yearbook for German-Jewish History 2001, Vol. 12, pp. 87–111.
• Hegel and the Jewish Intelligence - Notes on the Problems of a Philosophical History of Relationships and Concepts. In: Reinhard Blänkner u. a. (Ed.): Eduard Gans. Political professor between the Restoration and Vormärz. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2001, pp. 55–67.
• From myth to text. On the history of Jewish literature. In: Elke-Vera Kotowski , Julius H. Schoeps, Hiltrud Wallenborn (Hrsg.): Handbook on the history of the Jews in Europe. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2001, Vol. II, pp. 153–170.
• The emergence of a national image of Goethe in the 19th century and its role in anti-Semitic strategies of exclusion . In: Annette Weber (ed.): Besides, they were human too - Goethe's encounter with Jews and Judaism. Philo-Verlag, Berlin 2000, pp. 133-144.
• "Goethe is the rhymed servant, like Hegel the absurd". The German mandarins and Ludwig Börne's “Judenschmerz”. In: Menora - Yearbook for German-Jewish History 1999, Vol. 10, pp. 155–187.
• (together with Bernhard Vogt): Russian Jews in Germany - questions of integration and self-assertion. In: grandstand. Journal for Understanding Judaism , March 1999, pp. 152–172.
• A final judgment on history cannot be made arbitrarily . A conversation about Germany and Israel with Avi Primor . In: Menora - Yearbook for German-Jewish History (9/1998), pp. 338–349.
• (together with Julius H. Schoeps, Bernhard Vogt): Russian Jews in Germany. In: Ulf Haxen u. a. (Ed.): Jewish Studies in an New Europe. Copenhagen 1998, pp. 426-433.
• Faust and the Germans. On the history of the development of a literary and political myth. In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte , 48th Jg./Heft 3/1996, pp. 215–230.
• The Poliakov affair. The failure of liberal journalism. In: Menora - year book for German-Jewish history (7/1996), pp. 117–132.
• (together with Julius H. Schoeps, Bernhard Vogt): Anti-Semitism in Russia and Germany. Old and new enemy images. In: Tel Aviver Yearbook for German-Jewish History , XXIV / 1995, pp. 327–357.
• Heinrich Mann in Hollywood. From film poet to scriptwriter. In: Filmexile. Published by the Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation, 7/1995, pp. 5-19.
• The common angel. Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem. In: Thomas Karlauf (Ed.): German Friends - Twelve Double Portraits. Rowohlt-Berlin Verlag 1995, pp. 254-288.
• Heinrich and Thomas Mann. In: German Brothers. Twelve double portraits. Rowohlt-Berlin Verlag, 1994, pp. 197-228.
• “Write what you think of yourself.” Ludwig Börne and Sigmund Freud. A prehistory of psychoanalysis. In: Ludger Heid , Joachim H. Knoll (Ed.): German-Jewish history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Stuttgart / Bonn 1992, pp. 352-360.
• Epilogue to: Heinrich Mann: Mut-Essays (study edition in individual volumes). Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1991, pp. 305-316.
• Not only Maoism is leaving its children: the left helpless between the blocks. In: Karl Schlögel , Willi Jasper, Bernd Ziesemer : Party broken. The failure of the KPD and the crisis of the left. Olle & Wolter, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-88395-704-6 , pp. 40-62. ( Diversity edition ; 4. With short biographies of the authors)

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, 21st edition 2007, p. 1613
• Who is who? The German who's who . XLV 2006/07, p. 625

Web links

• Literature by and about Willi Jasper in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Willi Jasper. University of Potsdam

Individual evidence

1. ↑ goethe-gesellschaft-darmstadt.de
2. ↑ ullsteinbuchverlage.de ; Reviews Jörg Sundermeier : Early suffering of a man and actress . In: taz , February 2, 2013.
3. ↑ matthes-seitz-berlin.de ; Reviews: Florian Illies : Rowing helps . In: Die Zeit , No. 12/2011. Moritz Reininghaus: The time was nervous . In: Der Tagesspiegel , May 7, 2010.
4. ↑ fischerverlage.de ; Review by Wolfram Schütte : "My main interest was and remained the woman".