Paul Michael Lützeler
Paul Michael Lutzeler (born November 4, 1943 in Doveren, Germany) is a German-American German studies and comparative literature scholar. He teaches as Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the recipient of the Bundesverdienstkreuz and the Goethe Medal, among other awards.
Life
Lutzeler studied German and English Literature, Philosophy and History in Berlin, Edinburgh, Vienna and Munich. In 1968 he emigrated to the United States and in 1972 he defended his dissertation at Indiana University in Bloomington. In 1973 he moved to St. Louis, where he became a professor at Washington University. In 1985 he founded the European Studies Program at the Washington University, of which he was in charge for 20 years. Also in 1985 he founded the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature, which he still chairs. Since 1985 he has been inviting an author and a critic from one of the German speaking countries every year to St. Louis for teaching and researching. In 2002 he founded the yearbook Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch which he is editing together with Jennifer Kapczynski and Erin McGlothlin. Lutzeler is also engaged in exchange programs between Washington University and different European and Asian universities. He was guest professor in Princeton, Tübingen, Graz, Mainz, Greifswald, Freiburg, New Delhi, Beijing, Madrid, and Tokyo among others.
Lutzeler is President of the IAB (International Research Circle Hermann Broch) and was from 2005 to 2010 Vice-President of Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik. He is a member of the strategy commission of the Wissenschaftsrat der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Lutzeler is a German and American citizen and lives in St. Louis. He is married and has two adult children.
Work
Lutzeler's main research interests are contemporary German literature, the literary discourse about Europe, German speaking Exile-Literature in the U.S., and German and European Romanticism. Lutzeler is an expert for the Austro-American exile-author Hermann Broch, whose works he edited and whose biography he has written. Lutzeler also published essays and books about the discourses of postmodernism, postcolonialism, continentalization, and globalization. Several of his works were translated into foreign languages. He also writes for German newspapers and magazines like Die Zeit, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Die Welt, Frankfurter Rundschau, the Neue Rundschau and the Merkur.
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Bibliography
Books (Selection)
- Hermann Broch: Eine Biographie. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985.
- Geschichte in der Literatur. Studien zu Werken von Lessing bis Hebbel. Piper, München 1987.
- Die Schriftsteller und Europa. Von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart. Piper, München 1992.
- Europäische Identität und Multikultur". Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1997.
- Postmoderne und postkoloniale deutschsprachige Literatur. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2005.
- Kontinentalisierung: Das Europa der Schriftsteller. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2007.
- Bürgerkrieg global. Menschenrechtsethos und deutschsprachiger Gegenwartsroman. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München 2009.
- Hermann Broch und die Moderne. Wilhelm Fink, München 2011
Editions (Selection)
- Hermann Broch. Kommentierte Werkausgabe, 17 Bände. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1974-1981.
- Deutsche Literatur in der Bundesrepublik seit 1965 (mit Egon Schwarz). Athenaeum, Königstein 1980
- Romane und Erzählungen der deutschen Romantik. Neue Interpretationen. Reclam, Stuttgart 1981.
- Goethes Erzählwerk. Interpretationen (mit James E. McLeod). Reclam, Stuttgart 1985.
- Spätmoderne und Postmoderne. Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
- Hoffnung Europa. Deutsche Essays von Novalis bis Enzensberger. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
- Europe after Maastricht. American and European Perspectives. Berghahn Books, Providence, Oxford 1994.
- Poetik der Autoren. Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
- Hannah Arendt-Hermann Broch. Briefwechsel 1946-1951. Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
- Schreiben zwischen den Kulturen. Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
- Der postkoloniale Blick. Deutsche Autoren berichten aus der Dritten Welt. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1997.
- Räume der literarischen Postmoderne. Gender, Performativität, Globalisierung. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2000.
- Kleists Erzählungen und Dramen. Neue Studien (mit David Pan). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001.
- Hermann Broch. Visionary in Exile. The 2001 Yale Symposium (mit Matthias Konzett, Willy Riemer und Christa Sammmons). Camden House, Rochester, N.Y. 2003.
- Freundschaft im Exil. Thomas Mann und Hermann Broch. Klostermann Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
- Hermann Broch und die Künste (with Alice Staskova), DeGruyter, Berlin 2009.
- Verlorener Sohn? Hermann Brochs Briefwechsel mit Armand. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2011.
- Die Ethik der Literatur. Deutsche Autoren der Gegenwart (mit Jennifer Kapczynski). Göttingen, Wallstein 2011.
Editorial Work
Advisory Board
- The German Quarterly (1992-1994, 1998-2003)
- Jahrbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache (1986-1996)
- South Atlantic Review (1998-2001)
- Recherches Germaniques (since 2001)
- Literaturstrasse. Deutsch-Chinesisches Jahrbuch (since 2000)
- Comparative Literature Studies (since 2002)
- Moderne: Kulturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch (since 2005)
- Études Germaniques (since 2009)
- Revista de Filologia Alemana (since 2009)
- Palaestra (since 2010)
- Studia Theodisca (since 2011)
Literature
- Michael Kessler et al. (ed.): Hermann Broch - Neue Studien. Festschrift für Paul Michael Lützeler zum 60. Geburtstag. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2003 (mit Schriftenverzeichnis Paul Michael Lützeler)
- Mark W. Rectanus (ed.): Über Gegenwartsliteratur/About Contemporary Literature. Festschrift für Paul Michael Lützeler zum 65. Geburtstag. Bielefeld, Aisthesis 2008 (mit Schriftenverzeichnis Paul Michael Lützeler).
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