Gert Hofmann

1979-1986 studies in German and comparative literature, philosophy, pedagogy, social sciences and art history in Würzburg, Vienna and Münster/Westfalen. 1984-1986 research assistant at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Eckhard Heftrich, Germanistisches Institut, Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Collaborating in projects on Robert Musil, the Shakespeare reception in German literature and philosophy, Nietzsche. 1986 Universität Münster: graduation (State Exam/MA). 1986-1991 research assistant and part time lecturer at the Institut für deutsche Philologie (Ältere Abteilung), Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg: German literary mysticism of the Middle Ages (Prof. Dr. Horst Brunner). Doctoral studies and research: (anti-)classicism (Goethezeit), (post-)modernism, critical theory; phenomenology of art, ekphrasis; Hölderlin (Prof. Dr. Helmut Pfotenhauer). 1991-1994 Visiting Lecturer, 1994-1995 Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea (funded by the DAAD). Research on (anti-)classicism, idealism, inter-cultural and aesthetic communication. Teaching German language; history of German literature from the 18th to the 20th century: poetry, short prose; methodology of teaching foreign languages; Co-presenter in foreign language programmes of the Korean Education Channel (EBS, radio and television). 1995 PhD-graduation (Universität Würzburg). 1995-1999 Hochschulassistent (Assistant Professor) at the Seminar für deutsche Literatur und Sprache, Universität Hannover. Research and teaching: anthropology and aesthetics of the tragic, performance theory, Goethezeit, Lessing. Academic management: Executive Board of the Faculty of Linguistic and Literary Studies; Advisory Board at the Media Centre o

The overarching trajectory of our research is the discourse on the Ästhetik der Ohnmacht, the Poetik des Leibes and the construction/discussion of "syncopic subjectivity" as a post-deconstructive approach to literary and cultural aesthetics, which is focused on the fundamentals of the human condition. a) Dionysian Poetology: HölderlinFocussing on Hölderlin’s writings the study investigates the philosophical and literary renaissance of the Dionysos-mythology around the year 1800. Transcending the boundaries of classicist aesthetics and idealist philosophy Hölderlin, alongside with other authors such as Heinse, develops his own Dionysian poetology, which has an impact on (post-)modernist literary discourses up until today. Main book publication: Dionysos Archemythos. Hölderlins transzendentale Poiesis, Tübingen Basel: Francke 1996. (Review: Eckard Wolz in: Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 50/4 (1997), 352-355)b) Studien zu einer Ästhetik der Ohnmacht / Studies in the Aesthetics of Non-PowerThis project is compose

German and Comparative Literature, literary and cultural theory, border areas of literature and philosophy, law, visual and performance arts.