Ottmar Ette

Ottmar Ette ( born December 14, 1956 in Gengenbach, Schwarzwald) is Romanist and comparatist (Professor of Romance Literature and General and Comparative Literature) at the University of Potsdam.

Life

Ottmar Ette his doctorate in 1990 at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on José Martí and his habilitation in 1995 at the Catholic University of Eichstätt- Ingolstadt Roland Barthes. He has had several guest lectures in various Latin American countries, Europe and the USA and understands Romance as promoting intercultural and transdisciplinary active science.

Ottmar Ette is since 2012 Chevalier of the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques and tidy since 2010 Member of the Academia Europaea. From 2004 to 2005 he was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. From April 2010 to July 2010 he was a Fellow at the FRIAS ( Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies). He is co-founder of ForLaBB ( Latin America Research Network Berlin- Brandenburg).

He is also founder and co-editor of the electronic journal HiN - Alexander von Humboldt in the Net ( ISSN: 1617-5239 ) and the Humboldt - platform avhumboldt.de - Humboldt information online, as well as co-editor of the journal Iberoamericana (Madrid - Frankfurt am Main). Since 2009 he is also co-editor of the electronic journal Istmo ( Revista de estudios virtual Literarios y culturales Centroamericanos, ISSN: 1535-2315 ).

Research

His research and teaching, the following priorities are: Alexander von Humboldt, literature as life science, convivence, trans Area Studies: poetics of movement and Literatures of the Francophonie and Hispanophonie ( in and outside Europe). There 's research profile Trans Area Studies since December 2011, a proprietary Internet platform ( POINTS - Potsdam International Network for Trans Area Studies ).

Effect

With the written by Ottmar Ette manifesto " Literature as Life Science - A program writing in the humanities, " a discussion was sparked, which went far beyond the humanities and cultural studies circles. Its publication was followed in the next issue of the quarterly magazine three more dossiers also numerous events and reviews, including the time. All contributions to the discussion showed that it is about fundamental questions of life and literature knowledge of literature and life science, and thus to high current problems of philological basic research in these booklets.

Awards and prizes

For the manuscript of his new edition of Alexander von Humboldt: journey to the equinoctial regions (ed., 2 vols island 1991) Ottmar Ette was awarded the 1987 Heinz Maier -Leibnitz Prize for José Martí ( Niemeyer 1991, Translator México: UNAM 1995) 1991 of the young Scientist award for Romance Literature at the University of Freiburg, Roland Barthes - An intellectual Biography ( Suhrkamp 1998) was awarded the 2001 Hugo Friedrich and Erich Köhler research Award. In 2013 he was elected to the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

Selected writings

Monographs (selection)

  • José Martí ( Niemeyer 1991, Translator México: UNAM, 1995)
  • Roland Barthes ( Suhrkamp 1998)
  • Literature in motion ( Velbrück Science 2001; Translator's Literature on the move New York, Amsterdam: . Rodopi 2003; Spanish:. Literatura en movimiento Madrid: CSIC, 2008)
  • World consciousness. Alexander von Humboldt and the unfinished project of a different modernity ( Velbrück Science 2002)
  • Survival knowledge. The task of philology (Berlin: Kadmos 2004)
  • Between world letters. Literatures of no fixed abode ( survival Knowledge II ) (Berlin: Kadmos 2005)
  • Alexander von Humboldt and globalization (Frankfurt: Insel 2009)
  • Del macro cosmos microrrelato al. Literatura y creación - nuevas perspectivas trans brain area (Guatemala: F & G Editores 2009)
  • Along life knowledge. List, load and lust literary convivence on a global scale ( knowledge of survival III ) (Berlin: Kadmos 2010).
  • Sign of life. Roland Barthes imposing. (Hamburg: Junius Verlag 2011 ).
  • Convivence. Literature and life for paradise. (Berlin: Kadmos 2012).
  • Trans Area. A literary history of globalization. (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012).
  • Much Logical philology. The Literatures of the World and the example of a trans- areal Peruvian literature. (Berlin: Walter Frey 2013).
  • Roland Barthes: landscape theory. (Paderborn: Konstanz University Press, 2013).

Anthologies (selection)

  • Views of America ( with W. Bernecker, 2001).
  • Cuba today. Politics, science and culture ( with M. Franz Bach, 2001).
  • Max Aub - André Malraux ( with J. Yurt and M. Figueras, 2005).
  • Intellectual honesty - Intellectual intégrité. Festschrift for Joseph Yurt ( with M. simplicity, U. Erzgräber, F. Sick, 2005).
  • Limits of power - power of limits ( with M. Braig, D. Ingenschay, G. Maihold, 2005).
  • ArabAmericas. Literary Entanglements of the American Hemisphere and the Arab World ( with F. Pannewick, 2006)
  • Carribeans on the Move - Archipiélagos Literarios del Caribe (2008).
  • Nano philology. Literary Short and shortest forms in Romania (2008).
  • Europ America. Transatlantic relations ( with D. Ingenschay, G. Maihold, 2008).
  • Humboldt and Spanish America. Past, present and future. / Humboldt e Hispano- America. Pasado, Presente y Futuro. ( Volume 1, HiN - Alexander von Humboldt in the network, with F. Holl and E. Knobloch, 2009).
  • Literature as life science. Program - Projects - Perspectives ( with W. Asholt 2010).
  • Trans * Chile. Cultura - Historia - Itinerarios - Literatura - Educación. Un Acercamiento trans areal. ( with H. Nitschack, 2010) and Humboldt and Spanish America. Past, present and future. / Humboldt e Hispano- America. Pasado, Presente y Futuro. ( Volume 2, HiN - Alexander von Humboldt in the network, with F. Holl and E. Knobloch, 2010).
  • Caleidoscopios coloniales. Transferencias culturales en el Caribe del siglo XIX. Kaleidoscopes coloniaux. Transferts culturels dans les Caraïbes au XIXe siècle ( with Gesine Müller, 2010).
  • Trans ( it) Areas. Convivencias en Centro América y el Caribe. Un simposio trans areal ( with W. Mackenbach, G. Müller, A. Ortiz Wallner, 2011).
  • El Caribe como paradigm. Convivencias y coincidencias históricas, culturales y Estéticas. Un simposio trans areal ( with A. Kraume, W. Mackenbach, G. Müller, 2012).
  • Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas ( with VM Kutzinski, L. Dassow Walls, 2012).
  • Worldwide. Archipelago de la mondialisation. Archipiélagos de la Globalization. A Trans Area Symposium ( with G. Müller, 2012).
  • Word power base. Racism and determinism in philology ( 18 / 19 century). Assisted by Philipp Kramer and Markus A. Lenz. ( with M. Measuring Ling 2013).
  • Food. Eating and Drinking in the arts and cultures. ( with Y. Sánchez, V. Sellier, 2013).
  • TransPacífico. Conexiones y Convivencias s AsiAméricas. Un simposio trans areal. ( with W. Mackenbach, H. Nitschack, 2013).

Text editions (selection)

  • Alexander von Humboldt, journey to the equinoctial regions (ed., 2 vols island 1991 Heinz Maier -Leibnitz Prize )
  • José Enrique Rodó, Ariel (1994 )
  • Alexander von Humboldt, Cosmos ( with O. Lubrich, 2004)
  • Alexander von Humboldt, Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the indigenous peoples of the Americas ( with O. Lubrich, 2004)
  • Alexander von Humboldt, over an attempt to climb the summit of Chimborazo ( with O. Lubrich, 2006)
  • Alexander von Humboldt, critical study of the historical development of the geographical knowledge of the New World and the progress of nautical astronomy in the 15th and 16th centuries (2009)
  • Roland Barthes, The pleasure of the text. From the French by Ottmar Ette. Comment by Ottmar Ette. (2010)
  • Alexander von Humboldt, Political Essay on the Iceland of Cuba. A Critical Edition. ( with V. M. Kutzinski, 2011)
  • Alexander von Humboldt, Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. A Critical Edition. ( with V. M. Kutzinski, 2012)

Interviews with and Ottmar Ette (selection)

  • Ette with Ralph Ludwig: "En guise d' introduction Points de vue sur l' évolution de la littérature avec les antillaise Entretien écrivains martiniquais Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant In: .. . Lendemains Études sur la France compareés Journal of comparative research on France, .. . 67 ( 17 born ) Heat Roth, Marburg 1992, ISSN 0170-3803 pp 6 -. 16
  • Elke Durak: Humboldt was " not a man of scientific ivory tower ". In: Germany radio on 6 May 2009, accessed on October 31, 2013
  • Marcus Engert: " hit the right one" - The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 goes to the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa. In: detektor.fm of 7 October 2010, accessed on October 31, 2013
  • Vivre dans une autre langue une autre réalité. Entretien avec Amin Maalouf, Ile d' Yeu, 15 septembre 2007 In: . Wolfgang & Ottmar Ette Asholt, eds. Literature as a life science. Program, projects, perspectives. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 2010, pp. 247-263
  • Trans Area: Ottmar Ette on Caribbean literature, fractal gardens and tropical microcosms. Video ( 12:23 min) on Vimeo, uploaded in January 2013, accessed on October 31, 2013

Meetings

  • Who declares to man? by Thomas Assheuer, zeit.de read, June 17, 2010.
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