SFB 1472 - Transformations of the Popular
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Research profile
The team at the Chair of Modern German Philology, Media and Cultural Studies is investigating how literary texts are created, how they are edited, how they are performed and which media have enabled literary communication in the various epochs of literary history and continue to do so today. Even today, reading cultures make very different use of what is referred to as literature. The role and significance of literature for the general culture of the respective present is also subject to constant change. We examine the constitution of literature as a text as well as a work - both in its production and in its reception and distribution relationships.
Main research areas
- Transformations of the popular
- Pop, literature and the new sensibility: theories, modes of writing, experiments
- Science communication
- Acoustic literature after 2000
- Operative literature
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Practical forms of contemporary German-language poetry
Good advice
Why literary studies?
Literary studies is subversive for at least two reasons: 1) It does not deal with what is or was, but with what could be. Loosely based on Aristotle, the first Western literary scholar, it analyzes "the impossible that is probable." And 2) she teaches us the cultural technique of slow reading, which is extremely useful nowadays. Read twice as slowly from the very first week! It is the "goldsmith's art and connoisseurship of the word" (Nietzsche).
- Again and again
- Allessandro Manzoni: The Bride and Groom
- Irmgard Keun: The artless girl
- currently
- Peter Kurzeck: Frankfurt-Paris-Frankfurt. Frankfurt a.M.: Schöffling 2024
- Peter Kemper: The Sound of Rebellion. A political aesthetics of jazz. Stuttgart: Reclam 2023
- Barbara and Wilfried Junge: The story of Uncle Willy from Golzow
- Louis Malle: A Comedy in May
I recommend studying in Siegen in Faculty I,
because the university library in conjunction with the ZIMT media library offers you comparatively outstanding study conditions: the university library is brilliantly stocked for our subjects thanks to a generous acquisition policy, the media collection is if not the best in the whole of Germany, because film & TV have been recorded here for almost as long as the university has existed. Of course, you can find good collections in many places. But not with such opening hours, so concentrated in terms of space, little competition for use and almost negligently good service. The provinces also have their advantages. (Or try renting Godard's Weekend in Berlin's university facilities). As the great French philosopher Lyotard rightly said when he once visited our hill: "The result is that Siegen isn't sad" (In: "Ersiegerungen (1989)", in: Jean-François Lyotard: Political Writings, transl. by Bill Readings and Kevin Paul, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1993, pp. 77-82, here: S. 81.)