Yahya Elsaghe

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Yahya Elsaghe (born June 23, 1960 in Nuremberg ) is an Australian-Swiss Germanist.

Life

Yahya Elsaghe studied classical and German philology in Zurich, Munich and Freiburg i. Br. And Basel and received his doctorate in 1990 from the University of Zurich . From 1989 to 1993 he was a research assistant there and in 1997 he received his habilitation there. From 1993 to 1995 he was a Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and then a lecturer at the University of Queensland until 1999 . In 2000 Elsaghe was an SNSF professor at the University of Zurich.

Elsaghe has been full professor for modern German literature at the University of Bern since 2001 . In 1998, 2007 and 2014 he was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Berlin. From 2010 to 2013 he headed the SNSF project Identity Constructions in Max Frisch's Narrative .

Publications (selection)

  • Philine Blaúte. On the genesis and function of mythological reminiscences in Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship years. In: Yearbook of the Free German Hochstift 1992, pp. 1–35
  • " Anni demunt". The three paraphrases of the man [s] of fifty years. In: Journal for German Philology 112, 1993, pp. 509-528
  • Saber and scissors . Goethe's revolutionization of the epic and the reception career of Hermann and Dorothea. In: Seminar 34.2, 1998, pp. 121-136
  • with Michael Böhler (ed.): Gottfried Keller: The people of Seldwyla . 2 volumes. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1990
  • Investigations into the function of the myth in Hölderlin's holiday hymn . Tübingen: Francke, 1998
  • The imaginary nation. Thomas Mann and the "German" . Munich: Fink, 2000
  • Thomas Mann and the small differences. For the narrative imagination of the "other" . Cologne: Böhlau, 2004
  • Sickness and matriarchy. Thomas Mann's betrayed in context . Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010
  • In the name of the mother? From poor BB as a " family novel" . In: Wirkendes Wort 61.1, 2011, pp. 63–87
  • with Luca Liechti; Oliver Lubrich (Hrsg.): WG Sebald: new ways of research . Darmstadt: Scientific Book Society, 2012
  • Max Frisch and the second commandment. Relreadings from Andorra and Homo faber . Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2013
  • Johann Jakob Bachofen: Mother Right and Original Religion. A collection of the most influential writings . 7th edition. Stuttgart: Kröner, 2015
  • with Ulrich Boss; Florian Heiniger (Ed.): Matriarchy fictions. Johann Jakob Bachofen and the German literature of the 20th century . Basel: Schwabe, 2018
  • with Hanspeter Affolter (ed.): Thomas Mann: Goethe . Frankfurt a. M .: Fischer, 2019
  • Thomas Mann on canvas and screen. On the German appropriation of his narrative work in the long post-war period . Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yahya Elsaghe ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at the University of Bern


personal data
SURNAME Elsaghe, Yahya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg