Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit

Irmela Hijiya - Kirschnereit ( born August 20, 1948 in Korntal ) is a German Japanese Studies and translator. She received in 1992 the most important scientific award in Germany, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. She is a professor at the Free University of Berlin.

Life

Irmela Hijiya - Kirschnereit studied from 1967 to 1975 Japanese Studies, Chinese Studies, German Studies, Communication Studies and Sociology at the University of Hamburg, the Ruhr University in Bochum, as well as in Tokyo at Waseda University and the University of Tokyo. Subsequently, she completed her doctorate at the Faculty of East Asian Studies in Bochum to the doctor of philosophy, and lectured there 1977-1985. You habilitated in 1980 and was recorded the same year by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the Heisenberg Programme, which you played a five -year funding.

After the end of the promotion, she participated in an extraordinary professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, which lasted a year, until in 1986 she went to the University of Trier, there to take over the newly built C4 professor of Japanese studies. A professor at the Free University of Berlin, she followed in 1991., Where she is still working as a professor.

Irmela Hijiya - Kirschnereit 1993 belonged to the founding members of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. She received the Order of Merit in 1995. From 1996 to 2004 she became a director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo deserves to facilitate the exchange of German and Japanese culture, which the German Research Foundation in 2001 honored with the Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize. Also in the pan-European region she became a President of the European Association for Japanese Studies ( 1994-1997 ) a name.

Work

Among the key areas of work Hijiya - Kirschnereit include the Japanese literature of modernity and its comparative analysis with the works of modern European history. The relationship between Japan and Europe, it has often been studied, such as using the Japanese dialogue with the West and the struggle of the Japanese science with Western themes since the early Meiji period.

Especially at the heart of it is her, the West closer to the Japanese culture. One of her most famous works is the commonsense published in 2000 Japan - The other cultural guide (ISBN 3458170111 ). In Harrassowitz -Verlag she gave the textbook series Iaponia Insulation. Studies on Culture and Society of Japan out in the Insel Verlag, she released the Japanese library containing the German transmitted works of Japanese authors. Some books she translated it themselves, inter alia, Women, masks ( Fumiko Enchi ), The Counterfeiters ( Inoue Yasushi ) and dances, Schneck, dancing ( Oba Minako ). Literary criticism, she writes in German, Japanese and English, they also occurs on lectures as reciter of Japanese poetry.

  • Self-exposure rituals. Concerning the theory and history of the autobiographical genre shishosetsu in modern Japanese literature, Otto Harrogate joke, Wiesbaden 1981 ( 2nd.rev.ed.2005 )
  • The End of Exoticism, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1988
  • What does it mean to understand Japanese literature? Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1990
  • Overcoming of modernity? ', Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1996.
  • Cultural relations between Japan and the West since 1853, Iudicium, Munich, 1999
  • Japanese contemporary literature, Edition text and criticism, Munich, 2000
  • What was left of the Japanese who Iudicium ( Iaponia Insulation studies on culture and society of Japan Vol 26), Munich, 2013.
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