Wolf Schmid

Wolf Schmid (born March 24, 1944 in Teplitz (Bohemia) ) is a German Slavist .

Life

After studying Slavic Studies, German Studies and Philosophy at the Universities of Cologne , Prague and Bochum , Schmid passed the first state examination for the higher teaching post in Bochum in 1969 and received his doctorate in 1972 at the University of Munich with a dissertation on the subject of "Text structure in Dostoevski's stories " . From 1972 to 1976 he was a lecturer in Russian literature at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht (Netherlands). In 1976 Schmid took over a professorship at the University of Oldenburg and in 1978 took up a full professorship at the University of Hamburg , which he held until his retirement in 2009.

Schmid is particularly prominent as a narratologist and is active in many scientific organizations. At the University of Hamburg he founded the Narratology Research Group in 1998 and was its spokesperson. In 2004 he was director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Narratology and in 2009 he became chairman of the board of the European Narratology Network .

In 1989 and 2005 Wolf Schmid was a foreign member of the Commission for the Evaluation of Non-Western Philologies at the Universities of the Netherlands and from 1988 to 2005 a member of the German-Russian Board of Trustees of the Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS , whose chairmanship he held from 1993 to 2005. In 1997 Schmid was a foreign member of the jury of the Booker Russian Novel Prize and has been a member of the jury of the Efim Etkind Prize of the European University of St. Petersburg since 2005 .

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Schmid developed an alternative to the three-stage model of speech reproduction (quoted, transposed and narrated speech). His “text interference model” provides only two main types of speech reproduction: the figure speech and the narrator speech. As a figure speech, he only defines the figure's direct speech as a quotation, while all other parts of the text, including the figure's speech reproduced by the narrator in a different than direct manner, fall into the area of ​​the narrator's speech. The designation “text interference model” comes from the fact that any passage of the narrator's speech can always have both narratorial (referring to the narrator) and figural (referring to the figure) features, which Schmid refers to as Valentin Vološinov as “interference of narrative text and figure text ”or“ text interference ”for short.

In the history of science, Schmid's model of narrative transformation a. a. received by Martin Clauss .

As a Slavist, Schmid worked on the classics of Russian literature: Puškin, Dostoevskij, Chekhov and on Russian prose from the 1920s (Babel ', Oleša, Zamjatin) and on prose from the 1960s (Bitov, Trifonov).

Honors

• 2000: Honorary doctorate from the University of St. Petersburg .
• 2003: Certificate of honor from the governor of St. Petersburg for services in the development of the Hamburg-St. Petersburg .
• 2004: Festschrift for the 60th birthday: Lazar Fleishman, Christine Gölz, Aage A. Hansen-Löve (eds.): Analyzing as interpreting. Wolf Schmid on his 60th birthday . Hamburg: University Press 2004. ISBN 3-9808985-6-3 .
• 2007: Medal of the governor of St. Petersburg for the engagement in the city partnership Hamburg-St. Petersburg.
• 2008: Pushkin Medal of the President of the Russian Federation for merits in the fields of culture, humanities, literature and the arts.

Publications

• Wolf Schmid: The structure of the text in Dostoevskij's stories . 2nd edition Amsterdam: Verlag BR Grüner, 1986 (1st edition Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 1973).

• Wolf Schmid: The aesthetic content. On the semantic function of poetic processes, see Lisse: The Peter de Ridder Press, 1977.

• Wolf Schmid: Puškin's prose in poetic reading. Belkin's Tales . Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1991.
  • Russian: Проза Пушкина в поэтическом прочтении. Повести Белкина и Пиковая дама . 2., ext. St. Petersburg, 2013 (1st edition 1996)
  • Serbian: Poetsko čitanje Puškinove proze. Belkinove price . Preveo T. Bekić. Sremski Karlovac, Novi Sad, 1999.

• Wolf Schmid: Ornamental storytelling in Russian modernism. Čechov - Babel '- Zamyatin . Frankfurt am Main u. a. : Verlag Peter Lang, 1992.

• Вольф Шмид: Проза как поэзия. Пушкин - Достоевский - Чехов - авангард . 2., verb.u. essential exp. St. Petersburg, 1998 (1st edition 1994).

• Вольф Шмид: Нарратология . 2. verb. Edition Moskva: Изд. “Языки славянской культуры”, 2008 (1st edition 2003).
  • German: Elements of Narratology . 3., revised u. exp. Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter, 2013 (1st edition 2005).
  • English: Narratology. An Introduction . Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 2010.

• Wolf Schmid: Mental events. Changes in consciousness in European narratives from the Middle Ages to the modern age (= Narratologia 58). Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter, 2017.

Publication of narratological internet magazines

• Narratorium. Meждисциплинарный журнал . Russian-language internet journal on narratology (with Valerij Tjupa, Moscow). http://narratorium.rggu.ru/
• Amsterdam International Electronic Journal of Cultural Narratology (with Willem Weststeijn, Amsterdam). http://cf.hum.uva.nl/narratology/

Publication of scientific book series

• Narratologia. Contributions to Narrative Theory . Walter de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin & Boston (with Fotis Jannidis, Matías Martínez and John Pier). Published so far: 53 volumes, 2003–2016.
• Slavic literatures. Texts and treatises . Publishing house Peter Lang. Published so far: 47 volumes, 1992–2016.
• Петербургский сборник (with Vladimir M. Markovič †, St. Petersburg). Published so far: 5 volumes, 1993–2014.

Publication of anthologies

• Handbook of Narratology . 2nd edition, fully revised and expanded. Ed. Peter Hühn, Jan Christoph Meister, John Pier, Wolf Schmid. Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter, 2014 (1st edition 2009).
• Event and eventfulness. Papers of the conference “Event, Eventfulness, Tellability”, Ghent 2007. Ed. Wolf Schmid. In: Amsterdam International Electronic Journal for Cultural Narratology , Vol. 4 (2007).
• Mind - Narrative - Ethics. Proceedings of the Opening Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Hamburg 2009. Ed. Wolf Schmid. In: Amsterdam International Electronic Journal for Cultural Narratology , Vol. 5 (2008–2009). http://cf.hum.uva.nl/narratology/a09_index.html

• Slavic narrative theory. Russian and Czech approaches . Edited by Wolf Schmid. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 2009.
• Russian proto-narratology. Texts in annotated translations . Edited by Wolf Schmid. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 2009.
• Проблемы нарратологии и опыт формализма / структурализма [Problems of Narratology and the Experience of Formalism / Structuralism - Russian]. Edited by VM Markovič and W. Schmid. St. Petersburg, 2008.
• Point of View, Perspective, and Focalization. Modeling mediation in narratives . Ed. Peter Hühn, Wolf Schmid, Jörg Schönert. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 2009.
• Dialogue of the texts. Hamburg Colloquium on Intertextuality . Edited by Wolf Schmid and Wolf-Dieter Stempel. Vienna 1983.
• Событие и событийность [event and eventfulness - Russian]. Edited by V. Markovič and W. Schmid. Moskva: Intrada, 2010.
• Text - symbol - world model . Johannes Holthusen on his 60th birthday. Edited by Johanna Renate Döring-Smirnov, Peter Rehder and Wolf Schmid. Munich: Sagner, 1984.
• Myth in Slavic Modernism . Edited by Wolf Schmid. Vienna 1987.
• Русская новелла. Проблемы теории и истории [The Russian short story. Theory and History - Russian] . Edited by VM Markovič and W. Schmid. St. Petersburg, 1993.
• Автор и текст [author and text - Russian] . Edited by V. Markovič and W. Schmid. St. Petersburg, 1996.
• Парадоксы русской литературы [Paradoxes of Russian Literature - Russian] . Edited by V. Markovič and W. Schmid. St. Petersburg, 2001.
• Существует ли Петербургский текст? [Does the Petersburg text exist? - Russian] Ed. By VM Markovič and W. Schmid. St. Petersburg, 2005.
• Word art • Storytelling • Visual art. Festschrift for Aage A. Hansen-Löve . Edited by Rainer Grübel and Wolf Schmid. Munich: Sagner, 2008.
• Emerging Vectors of Narratology . Edited by Per Krogh Hansen, John Pier, Philippe Roussin, Wolf Schmid (= Narratologia 57). Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter, 2017.
• Storytelling (= basic topics of literary studies 1). Edited by Martin Huber and Wolf Schmid. Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter, 2017.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolf Schmid in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolf Schmid on the website of the University of Hamburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Silke Lahn and Jan Christoph Meister: Introduction to narrative text analysis. Stuttgart / Weimar: Metzler 2008, ISBN 978-3-476-02226-4 , p. 129.