Bachelor's Degree Programme in
Linguistic and Cultural Mediation

Linguistic and Cultural Mediation [LT5-21-21]
Enrolled in a.y. 2021/2022

Claus Kurt ZITTEL

Qualifica
Professore Associato
Incarichi
Membro del Direttivo del Laboratorio Bembolab
Telefono
041 234 7870
E-mail
claus.zittel@unive.it
SSD
Letteratura tedesca [GERM-01/B]
Sito web
www.unive.it/persone/claus.zittel (scheda personale)
Struttura
Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati
Sito web struttura: https://www.unive.it/dslcc
Sede: Palazzo Cosulich
Research Institute
Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage

Education

1984-1994    Student of Philosophy, German Literature, History, Art History, and Psychoanalysis at the Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main and Pisa (Italy). Magister Thesis: Selbstaufhebungsfiguren bei Nietzsche (with excellence)
1999       PHD, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main. Doctoral Thesis: Das ästhetische Kalkül von Friedrich Nietzsches ‚Also sprach Zarathustra‘
2008 Habilitation Thesis: Theatrum Philosophicum: Descartes und die Rolle ästhetischer Formen in der Wissenschaft
2009 Habilitation, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

2023 Il 31 gennaio 2023 ha conseguito l'abilitazione scientifica nazionale alle funzioni di professore di prima fascia nel settore 10/M1 (Letteratura Tedesca).

Academic  Employment

1999-2008   Research Assistant at the Department of Philosophy at Goethe-University Frankfurt within the research project of the German Research Foundation (DFG): Culture of knowledge and social change.

2007-2008   Co-leader of the DFG Research Project: Aesthetic forms of Knowledge generation in Early Modern Europe, Goethe-Universität Francoforte
1999 - 2019 Professor of German Literature and Culture, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Polen
Januar 1 2007-december 31 2011: Co-Leader of the independent Max Planck Research Group: The conscious image. The Epistemological Foundations of Secular Representation 1400-1850, Kunsthistorisches Institut / Max-Planck-Institut, Firenze.
Since April 2009: Adjunct Professor (privatdozent) in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main.
October 1 2011- march 31 2014: Visiting professor of German literature at the Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, FU Berlin

Sept. /Oktober 2012: Visiting profesor at the Peking-University (Beida) / Visiting profess0r at Chongqing University for Foreign Languages
May 2013 Visiting Professor at the University of Trieste
November 2013: Visiting Professor at the University of Zagreb
Since April 2014: Deputy Director of the Stuttgart Research Centre for Text Studies
Since october 2015: Professor (apl.) of German Literature at the University of Stuttgart
October 2015- March 2016: Visiting Professor at the University of Padova (6 months)

Interim professorships (Vertretungsprofessuren)

April 2014- March 2015: Deputy Professorship at the University of Stuttgart (replacing Sandra Richter)
October 1 2011- March 31 2014: Visiting professor of German literature at the Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, FU Berlin (replacing Peter-André Alt)
March-September 2010: Visiting Professor of philosophy of science, TU Darmstadt (replacing Alfred Nordmann).

Languages           German, English, Italian, French, Polish, Russian, Latin (Latinum),  Ancient Greek (Graecum)

Grants/scholarships/fellowships

1990-1992: scholarship at the University of Pisa
June 1995-january 1998: PhD bursary (Graduate support from the German state Hessen)
Summer 2001: Research Fellow at the Department for Philosophy of the University of Berkeley
April 1999-2005: 6-Year travel-grant sponsored by the Georg und Maria Dietrich Stiftung
October 2010: Travel Grant, sponsored by the German Exchange Service (FU Berlin)
November /December 2009: Research Fellowship at the DFG Research Group Bildakt und Verkörperung, Humboldt-University Berlin
Sept. /October 2012: Visiting professorship at Peking University (Beida)
May 2013: Erasmus-Visiting Professorship at University of Trieste
November 2013: DAAD-Visiting Professorship at University of Zagreb
November 2014: Marbach-Stipendium, Research Fellowship at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
May 2015: Marbach-Stipendium, Research Fellowship at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
2015/2016: Visiting Professorship at the University of Padova

March 2017: Visiting Professorship at the University of Trento

Memberships

»    Member of the Consiglio scientifico, Istituto italiano di studi germanici, Roma https://www.studigermanici.it/istituto/il-consiglio-scientifico/

»    Member of the Stiftungsrat Nietzsche-Haus  Sils Maria

»    Associate Research Scholar at the Max Planck-Institut/ Kunsthistorisches Institut Firenze

»    Exzellenzcluster „Bild, Wissen, Gestaltung“, HU-Berlin

»    AIG Italia

»    Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Mittelalter - Renaissance - Frühe Neuzeit, FU Berlin,

»    Nietzschegesellschaft e.V. (Halle und Naumburg),

»    Hölderlingesellschaft e.V.,

»    International Nietzsche Research Group  (INRG, Groupe International de Recherches sur Nietzsche / Gruppo Internazionale di Ricerche su    Nietzsche, GIRN),

»    Vice President of the Carl Sternheim Gesellschaft e.V. Frankfurt a. M

Editorial Boards

»    Nietzsche-Studien. Internationales Jahrbuch für die Nietzscheforschung (Hrsg., ab 2017) [peer reviewed journal]

»    Intersections. Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture (mit Karl Enenkel et al.), Brill: Leiden und Boston (seit 2005 ff., bisher 87 Bände erschienen) [peer reviewed]

»    Zeitsprünge. Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit (seit 2006 ff.) [peer-reviewed journal]

»    Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (Hrsg., ab 2017)

»    Hyper-Nietzsche.org

»    Nietzsche-Online (De Gruyter)

»    Texte zur Wissensgeschichte der Kunst. Editionsreihe, Manutiusverlag: Heidelberg, 2008 ff.

»    Textologie der Philosophie, Literatur und der Wissenschaften (De Gruyter)

»    Oswald Spengler-Schriftenreihe (Verlag W. Leske), ab 2016

»    Jakob Böhme: Sämtliche Werke. Historisch-Kritische Ausgabe, ab 2020

 

Advisory boards

»    Biblioteca di saggi del ´900, Pisa: ETS

»    Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie occidentale (seit 2016)

»    Materiali di estetica

»    verum factum. https://verumfactum.it/boards

»    ODRADEK. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories

»    „Les éditions d'Ariane“. Gruppo Internazionale di Ricerche su Nietzsche

»    STEP (Scholarly Text-Editing Platform) / Digital Peirce Archive (DPA) Digitalisierung des Peirce-Nachlasses, Peirce-Archiv der University of Indiana.

»    Nietzsche-Lektüren (De Gruyter, 2017ff.)