Dissertations and habilitations
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- Current Supervision of Dissertations and Habilitations
- Annelie Bachmaier: "Die polnische und ukrainische Literatur in Argentinien (von der Zwischenkriegszeit bis ca. 1980): Identität, Interkulturalität, Intertextualität" (Habil.) (seit 4/2019, Habil.)"
- Dr. Tatiana Vaizer: "Intrusion into the Order: Phenomenon of the Russian Public Sphere in 2010-2020s"
- Vladislav Tarnopolski: "(Un)Politische Musik: Das Ökosystem der Neuen Musik in Russland von 1991 bis 2022 (since 12/2024, Diss.)"
- Yulia Penner: "Geometry of (urban) spatial modeling: Russian and Czech literature of limited sovereignty"
- Completed dissertations
- Current Supervision of Dissertations and Habilitations
Current Supervision of Dissertations and Habilitations
Annelie Bachmaier: "Die polnische und ukrainische Literatur in Argentinien (von der Zwischenkriegszeit bis ca. 1980): Identität, Interkulturalität, Intertextualität" (Habil.) (seit 4/2019, Habil.)"
© Annelie Bachmeier
Research Associate
NameDr. Annelie Bachmaier
Chair of Slavic Literatures
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Dr. Tatiana Vaizer: "Intrusion into the Order: Phenomenon of the Russian Public Sphere in 2010-2020s"
The work is devoted to grass-roots strategies of democratization of the public sphere in Russia during the third and fourth periods of Putin's rule, i.e. the period of hesitation from conditional liberalization to authoritarian monopolization or imitative democratization of the public sphere in Russia.
By public sphere we mean the space where socially significant discourses are articulated and where participants enter into public communication in order to express a situation that is significant for them, to identify the positions of the sides, to find a solution to a significant problem or to reach a consensus. Public spaces can be open urban spaces (parks, streets, squares, public halls), media / television platforms and media, internet portals and social networks.
The concept of the public sphere is primarily defined by the concept of politics according to Hannah Arendt: the public sphere is political per se because it transcends purely social and economic boundaries and aims to engage in an argumentative debate on generally significant problems. I show that the official public sphere of post-Soviet Russia has lost this political meaning because it excludes the voices of different social and political groups as insignificant. The aim of the research is to trace how the political (i.e. the ability to discuss socially significant issues from different perspectives on an equal footing) returns to the Russian public sphere through grass-roots democratization.
I also show that in modern Russia we can talk about different public spaces that are heterogeneous and in which socially heterogeneous participants form different discourses (on different topics, with different goals, different logical and expressive means, etc.). Within the framework of this heterogeneous public sphere, communication is formed that has political significance and is important for the formation of a new liberal-democratic political discourse in post-Soviet Russia. I follow:
- how are new alternative public spaces emerging, what is their relationship to the official public sphere;
- how the prevailing power relations are being redefined as a result (re-semantization of public space, choice of topics for public discussion, etc.);
- how do open, democratically oriented forms of communication appear against the background of authoritarian, closed, monocentric processes?
- how are the boundaries of previously stable dispositions of what is significant/non-significant in public discussion shifting?
- which values (dignity, freedom, right to vote, honesty, etc.) are preserved in the struggle between authorities and citizens through claims on the public?
- what genre and style characteristics are contained in public statements about what is politically significant.
I pay special attention to the elusive, non-obvious ethical implications or overtly formulated ethical values that define public communication in modern Russia. I analyze the empirical realities of the Russian public sphere 2010-2020 (street protests, public lectures and discussions, open correspondence of Russian intellectuals, etc.) in the light of Western and Russian theories of the public sphere and public communication.
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© Dr. Tatiana Vaizer
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NameDr. Tatiana Vaizer
Chair of Slavic Literatures
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Vladislav Tarnopolski: "(Un)Politische Musik: Das Ökosystem der Neuen Musik in Russland von 1991 bis 2022 (since 12/2024, Diss.)"
Die Weltanschauung und die künstlerischen Modelle, die die russische Kulturszene zwischen 1991 und 2022 prägten, waren nicht nur ein spezifisches Spiegelbild der widersprüchlichen politischen Prozesse dieser Zeit, sondern wurden auch Teil des Mechanismus, der sie hervorgebracht hat.
Ziel dieser Arbeit ist, die Funktionsprinzipien des „Ökosystems“ der neuen Musik in Russland im Zeitraum von 1991 bis 2022 im Kontext der kulturellen und politischen Ideologeme dieser Zeit zu beschreiben. Das Ökosystem wird als kumulative Aktivität von Musikinstitutionen, Gesellschaften und individuellen Schöpfern sowie deren Ergebnisse (Werke, Ideen, Projekte) verstanden. Neue Musik wird nach Adorno als eine Reihe von avantgardistischen und postavantgardistischen Praktiken interpretiert, die ihre Genealogie bis zur klassischen Musik zurückverfolgen.
Untersucht werden die wichtigsten Projekte und Dokumente der Kulturpolitik, Konzepte und Manifeste der Komponisten, um die sich Mikrogemeinschaften der Musiker gruppierten, sowie der Korpus der Musikwerke, die mit den politischen Inhalten der Epoche korrelieren. Die begriffliche Verallgemeinerung und politisch-diskursive Analyse dieses vielfältigen Materials erfolgt im Rahmen der Feldtheorie von Pierre Bourdieu. Eine der Hauptkategorien der Studie, der Habitus, wird als Mechanismus verstanden, der ideologische und musikalische Konzepte, Art und Weise von Kompositionspraktiken, kuratorische Strategien und soziale Vorlieben hervorbringt.
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Vladislav Tarnopolski
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Yulia Penner: "Geometry of (urban) spatial modeling: Russian and Czech literature of limited sovereignty"
The dissertation "Geometry of (Urban) Spatial Modeling: Russian and Czech Literature of Limited Sovereignty" combines scientific fields such as mathematics and geometry with those from the humanities that deal with literature, media, culture and history. It deals with literary and mathematical (drawing) methods as factors in the genesis of the texts and maps the literature with regard to a cultural-analytical history of science.
The dissertation examines the works of three authors - Iosif Brodskij (1940-1996) (Leningrad poetics), Dmitrij Prigov (1940-2007) (Moscow conceptualism) and Michal Ajvaz (1949) (Prague text). In particular, the notations of two systems are discussed - the notation systems of mathematics (mathematical theories, mention of scientists, use of mathematical form(s) and geometric signs) and geometric drawing as a special part of mathematics. Mathematical notations - letters, formulas, etc., which I would like to look at from a literary-scientific perspective, are separated from the geometric ones. I look at these in turn from a historical and cultural studies perspective. I will analyze how the works take up practices and aesthetics of the Russian avant-garde - by Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922), Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) and others - in different ways.
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Yulia Penner
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Completed dissertations
Dmytro Memari Fard: "The first German-language complete edition of F. M. Dostoyevsky's works and the politicization of world literature"
The works of Dostoyevsky published by the young Piper Verlag were not only the first German-language complete edition of the author's works, but also the most popular in the German-speaking world for decades. This study deals with a detailed analysis of the translation in the complete edition in direct comparison with the original. The prefaces and introductions, which were written by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck and Dmitrij Sergejevič Merežkovskij, among others, provide an insight into the personal level of the authors and their opinions on Dostoyevsky, Russia and Germany. In the course of the complete edition, negative descriptions of the Germans are embellished in many places, while the changes in the characteristics of the Russians can be placed in the phases before, during and after the First World War. In some places, entire paragraphs are missing, while some new ones have been added. Overall, the analysis reveals clear structures and trends. One of the main aims of this thesis is to prove the intentionality behind the individual conspicuous features.
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Dmytro Memari Fard
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Maksim Lepekhin: "Literary samizdat journals: communication and knowledge networks of the late Soviet underground"
Soviet unofficial literature existed to a large extent thanks to a ramified system of press and communication organs that has not been thoroughly researched to this day. As long as the individual facts have not been pieced together to form an overall picture, research must assume that each journal had its own clear subject matter and aesthetic or ideological position. However, this assumption needs to be re-examined: the samizdat periodical was a far more complex entity whose functioning depended on a multitude of facts and mechanisms: the politics of the editorial offices, short-term decisions and the struggle of values within the circles.
In my work, I will start from the existence of some, if not conflicting, then at least mutually corrective discourses in uncensored communities, which were transmitted via the medium of samizdat periodicals and changed over time. Researching them makes it possible to show the dynamics of aesthetic horizons and, more generally, the members' horizons of meaning, which in many respects determined the processes taking place within them (e.g. the dominance of some aesthetic systems over others).
In order to reconstruct today how the actors of unofficial literature themselves imagined the literary (and to the same extent - the socio-political) process in which they were involved and which they themselves established, it is essential to study not only manifestos in detail, but also, for example, reviews, polemical replicas, necrologies and many other genres and statements. This in turn allows us to determine the possible space of (artistic) expression in which the members of different communities operated and which influenced the development of poetic systems.
In my project, I plan to examine the following theses:
- The development of uncensored literature and the greater influence of these or other aesthetic systems did not depend as much on text-immanent characteristics of individual works as on their reception in the heterogeneous environment of the unofficial.
- The heterogeneity of the environment was due to the existence of several discursive formations that were founded and supported by members of the community. The members took different positions at different times and proposed alternative (both competing and complementary) projects for the organization of the groups;
- The unofficial communities, as well as the discourses they generated, were 'fluid' and not designed once and for all: In the unofficial environment, a constant development of new forms of speaking about the uncensored community itself took place;
- The samizdat journals enabled very different authors to convey diverse ideas about the uncensored community. However, these organs themselves were not neutral media; they influenced the development of statements - for example, through editorial policy and decisions not to print some authors and to print others.
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Maksim Lepekhin
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