Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette
Universität Potsdam
Postfach 60 15 53
D – 14415 Potsdam

  

Short Biographical Note with Publications 


     Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette, born in 1956, studied in Freiburg and Madrid. He wrote his
dissertation on José Martí in 1990 at the University of Freiburg and his Habilitation on Roland Barthes in 1995 at the Catholic University of Eichstätt.

     He taught at Eichstätt from 1987-1995, then became a Senior Professor of Romance Literature at the University of Potsdam. He received the Maier-Leibnitz Award in 1987 from the German Ministry of Culture and the German Research Association for his new edition of Alexander von Humboldt’s Relation historique (2 vols., Insel Verlag 1991). In 1991, he received the Award for Romance Literature from the University of Freiburg, Germany for a work on José Martí (German: Tübingen, Niemeyer 1991; Spanish: México, UNAM 1995).

     His other publications deal with Reinaldo Arenas (ed., Vervuert 1992), travel literature (co-ed., Dispositio 1992), the francophone Caribbean (co-ed., Lendemains 1992), again José Martí (co-ed., Vervuert 1994), and Roland Barthes (Suhrkamp 1998).

     He has performed literary translations since he was a student, most recently Ariel by José Enrique Rodó (Dieterich´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1995).

     He has published articles on literary theory and French and Latin American literature of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries, as well as the problem of the modern in fictional texts. 

 

Short Biographical Note 


     Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette is Senior Professor of Romance Literature at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He received the Maier-Leibnitz Award in 1987 from the German Ministry of Culture and the German Research Association for his new edition of Alexander von Humboldt’s personal narrative. In 1991, he received the Award for Romance Literature from the University of Freiburg, Germany.

     Prof. Ette’s research interests during the last years were focused on the Cuban poet and essayist, José Martí; on the French literary critic, philosopher, and writer, Roland Barthes; and on „literature in movement,„ space and dynamics of trangressional writing in Europe and America. He has also published extensively on French, Latin American and Caribbean literatures, literary theory in general, and Alexander von Humboldt. 

 

Publications 

Books and Reviews 

José Martí. Teil 1: Apostel, Dichter, Revolutionär. Eine Geschichte seiner Rezeption. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag (Reihe mimesis, Bd. 10) 1991 [467 p.]

·         Winner of the „Nachwuchswissenschaftler-Preis 1991 für Romanistische Literaturwissenschaft zu Ehren von Hugo Friedrich und Erich Köhler“ of the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg (Germany). 

Alexander von Humboldt: Reise in die Äquinoktial-Gegenden des Neuen Kontinents. Herausgegeben von Ottmar Ette. Mit Anmerkungen zum Text, einem Nachwort und zahlreichen zeitgenössischen Abbildungen sowie einem farbigen Bildteil. Frankfurt am Main – Leipzig: Insel Verlag 1991. 2 Vols. [1637 p.]

Jubilee Edition Frankfurt am Main – Leipzig: Insel Verlag 1999, 2 Vols.; second reprint 1999.                                                   

·         Winner of the „Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Preis“ 1987, Bundes-ministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft. 

Ottmar Ette (ed.): La escritura de la memoria. Reinaldo Arenas: Textos, estudios y documentación. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert Verlag (Reihe americana eystettensia, Serie A, vol. 3) 1992 [231 p.]

Second edition: Frankfurt am Main – Madrid: Vervuert – Iberoamericana 1996. 

Ottmar Ette / Andrea Pagni (eds.): „Crossing the Atlantic: Travel Literature and the Perception of the Other.“ Special issue of Dispositio. Revista Americana de Estudios Comparados y Culturales / American Journal of Comparative and Cultural Studies (Ann Arbor) XVII, 42-43 (1992) [321 + vi p.] 

Ottmar Ette / Ralph Ludwig (eds.): „Dossier: Littératures caribéennes – une mosaïque culturelle.“ In: Lendemains (Marburg) XVII, 67 (1992), pp. 5-67. 

Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, Alejandro de Humboldt y la imagen del hombre. Viajes y antropología a finales del siglo XVIII y principios del siglo XIX. Notas de apoyo a la docencia. Facultad de Antropología y Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades. Toluca: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México 1993 [75 p.] 

José Enrique Rodó: Ariel. Übersetzt, herausgegeben und erläutert von Ottmar Ette. Mainz: Dieterich’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Reihe excerpta classica, XII) 1994 [240 p.] 

Modernidad, Modernización, Postmodernidad. Notas de apoyo a la docencia. Facultad de Humanidades y Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades. Toluca: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México 1994 [71 p.] 

Ottmar Ette / Titus Heydenreich (eds.): José Martí 1895 / 1995. Literatura – Política – Filosofía – Estética. 10º Coloquio interdisciplinario de la Sección Latinoamérica del Instituto Central de la Universidad de Erlangen-Nürnberg. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert Verlag (Reihe Lateinamerika-Studien, Bd. 34) 1994 [298 p.] 

José Martí. Apóstol, poeta, revolucionario: una historia de su recepción. Traducción española de Luis Carlos Henao de Brigard. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Colección Nuestra América, 45) 1995 [507 p.] 

Roland Barthes oder Ein Weg der Moderne in der Postmoderne. Habilitationsschrift, Katholische Universität Eichstätt 1995 [487 p.] 

Roland Barthes. Eine intellektuelle Biographie. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag (edition suhrkamp 2077) 1998 [522 p.] 

Ottmar Ette / Martin Fontius / Gerda Haßler / Peter Jehle (eds.): Werner Krauss. Wege – Werke – Wirkungen. Berlin: Berlin Verlag (Reihe Aufklärung und Europa) 1999 [324 p.] 

Janett Reinstädler / Ottmar Ette (eds.): ‘Todas las islas la isla.’ Nuevas y novísimas tendencias en la literatura y cultura de Cuba. Frankfurt am Main – Madrid: Vervuert – Iberoamericana 2000 [218 p.]

 

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