Winfried Fluck

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Winfried Fluck (born April 2, 1944 in Blumenfeld ) is a German Americanist and professor emeritus at the Free University of Berlin .

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Fluck studied English, American and German studies from 1963 to 1970 at the Free University of Berlin , Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley . In 1972 he did his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin on the subject of aesthetic pre-understanding and method. An investigation using the example of the American Huck Finn criticism . His habilitation followed in 1983, also at the Free University of Berlin. After holding positions at Harvard University and Yale University , Winfried Fluck was initially professor of English and American literary history at the University of Konstanz and has been professor of American culture at the Free University of Berlin since 1989. Among other things, he was visiting professor at Princeton and the Universidad Autonoma in Barcelona, ​​Research Fellow at the National Humanities Center, Chapel Hill, USA, the Advanced Study Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna. From 1997 to 2001 he was the spokesman for the graduate school “The USA and the Problem of Democracy” and from 2005 to 2008 he was the spokesman for the “Literary, Theater and Media Studies” expert group of the German Research Foundation . Since 2006, together with Ulla Haselstein, he has been spokesperson for the Graduate School for North American Studies, which is funded by the federal and state excellence initiative, and together with Don Pease he heads the Dartmouth Institute “The Futures of American Studies” at Dartmouth College , USA . He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2012 .

Publications

  • Aesthetic theory and literary method. An examination of their connection using the example of the American Huck Finn criticism . Metzler, Stuttgart 1975
  • Popular culture. Metzler, Stuttgart 1979
  • Theories of American Literature. University Press Konstanz , 1987
  • Staged reality. American Realism 1865-1900. Fink, Munich 1992
  • The cultural imaginary. Functional history of the American novel 1790-1900. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1997
  • How much inequality can democracy tolerate? Poverty and Wealth in the United States. Ed. W. Fluck and Welf Werner. Campus, Frankfurt 2003
  • Transnational American Studies. REAL - Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, 23, 2007. Ed. W, Fluck, Stefan L. Brandt , Ingrid Thaler
  • Chapter D, II: "Culture", in Peter Lösche , Ed .: Country Report USA. Federal Agency for Civic Education , BpB, 5th revised. Aufl. Bonn 2008, pp. 712–812, bibliography
  • Romance with America? Essays on Culture, Literature, and American Studies. University Press Winter, Heidelberg 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vita Winfried Fluck ( Memento from July 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 31, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Fluck, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Americanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Field of flowers