York-Gothart mix

York-Gothart Mix (born December 7, 1951 in Itzehoe ) is a German literary scholar and comparativeist .

Mix studied German , sociology and history at the Free University of Berlin and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. His habilitation thesis, published in 1995, deals with school literature from around 1900 and provided an impetus for research into this previously neglected literature. Since 2002 he has been Professor of Modern German Literature and Comparative Literature at the Philipps University of Marburg . He has published numerous monographs, edited volumes and essays on literary and media history.

Publications (selection)

• The Nation's Schools. Criticism of Education in Early Modern Literature. Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 1995, ISBN 978-3-476-01327-9 .

As editor

• with Ernst Fischer , Wilhelm Haefs: From almanac to newspaper. A handbook of the media in Germany 1700–1800. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-406-45476-9 .
• Naturalism, Fin de Siècle and Expressionism (1890–1918) (= Hanser's social history of German literature from the 16th century to the present day. Vol. 7). Hanser, Munich, Vienna, ISBN 978-3446127821 ; dtv, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3423043496 .
• with Konrad Feilchenfeldt , Ursula Hudson, Nicholas Saul: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism. New perspectives in research (= Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies London. Vol. 89). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 978-3826034329 .
• Art freedom and censorship in the Federal Republic of Germany. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-025999-5 .

Web links

• Brief introduction to the University of Marburg
• Literature by and about York-Gothart Mix in the catalog of the German National Library

supporting documents

1. ↑ Gwendolyn Whittaker: Overburdening - Subversion - Empowerment: School and literary modernity 1880-1918 (= literary and media history of modernism. Vol. 2). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8471-0095-9 (also dissertation, University of Konstanz 2012), p. 34 f.