Bernd Fischer, Professor
415 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Phone: 614-688-4163
Fax: 614-292-8510
Office Hours:
T and Th 3:30-5:30
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http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/fischer5/
Bernd Fischer, Dr. phil. (Universität Siegen, 1982). Professor.
Department Chair, 1996-2008.
Visiting appointments: Universität Essen, Summer Semester 2005; Case Western Reserve University, Autumn Semester 1993; Universität Hamburg, Summer Semester 1992; Universität Siegen, Winter Semester 1986/87.
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, 1994 and 2005.
Editor: The German Quarterly, 1997-1999.
Specializations: 18th and 19th centuries and contemporary German literature and culture; literary and aesthetic theory; intellectual history; nationalism; transculturality; contemporary Germany.
Books: Das Eigene und das Eigentliche: Klopstock, Herder, Fichte, Kleist. Episoden aus der Konstruktionsgeschichte nationaler Intentionalitäten (1995); Christoph Hein: Drama und Prosa im letzten Jahrzehnt der DDR (1990); Ironische Metaphysik: Die Erzählungen Heinrich von Kleists (1988); Kabale und Liebe: Skepsis und Melodrama in Schillers bürgerlichem Trauerspiel (1987); Literatur und Politik: Die 'Novellensammlung von 1812' und das 'Landhausleben' von Achim von Arnim (1983).
Edited Books: Cultural Politics and the Politics of Culture. Essays to Honor Alexander Stephan, with Helen Fehervary (2007); A Companion to the Works of Heinrich von Kleist (2003); Neue Tendenzen der Arnimforschung: Interpretation, Biographie, Edition (mit neuen Dokumenten), with Roswitha Burwick (1990).
Articles on: national identity; transculturality; literary theory; Idealism; Kant; Mendelssohn; Herder; Fichte; Goethe; Schiller; H. v. Kleist; A. v. Arnim; Sealsfield; B. Traven; M. Walser; H. M. Enzensberger; de Bruyn; C. Hein; Turrini; Mitterer; Maturana.
Major courses taught: Religion and Enlightenment; Philosophy and Aesthetics of Nation; Aesthetic Theory (18th, 19th, and 20th centuries); H. v. Kleist and German Idealism; Bourgeois Tragedy; Romanticism, GDR Literature and Culture; Contemporary Germany.


