Dr. Andrew John WEBBER

Geb. 1959, Professor seit 2010, Cambridge, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft - German Studies (Fachgebiet) - Modern German literature; European Modernism; Psychoanalytic theory; Film; Berlin/urban studies; digital humanities (Lehrgebiet)

Kontaktinformationen:

University of Cambridge - Department of German, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages - University of Cambridge - Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA

Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DS

Andere dienstliche Anschrift Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DS

Forschungsgebiete

Besondere Forschungsgebiete

#Modern German literature
European Modernism
Psychoanalytic theory
Film
#Berlin
#Digital Humanities

Monographien

Sexuality and the Sense of Self in the Works of Georg Trakl and Robert Musil (1990)
The Doppelgänger: Double Visions in German Literature (1996)
The European Avant-garde (2004)
Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography (2008/2011)

Aufsätze und Beiträge

'Mann's Man's World: Gender and Sexuality', in The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann (ed. R. Robertson) (2002)
'Georg Büchner: Woyzeck', in Landmarks in German Drama (ed. P. Hutchinson) (2002)
'Traumatic Identities: Race and Gender in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's Die Judenbuche and Freud's Der Mann Moses', in Harmony in Discord: German Women Writers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (ed. L. Martin) (2002)
'Costume Drama: Performance and Identity in the Works of Thomas Bernhard', in A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard (ed. M. Konzett) (2002)
'The Manipulation of Fantasy and Trauma in Orlacs Hände', in Words, Texts, Images, (ed. K. Kohl & R. Robertson) (2002)
'Kafka, Die Verwandlung', in Landmarks in German Short Prose, (ed. P. Hutchinson) (2002)
'The Afterlife of Romanticism' in Camden House History of German Literature, vol. 9, The Nineteenth Century (ed. E. Downing & C. Koelb) (2005)
'Pan-Dora's box: fetishism, hysteria, and the gift of death in Die Büchse der Pandora', International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 87 (2006)
'Inside Out: Acts of Displacement in Else Lasker-Schüler', Germanic Review, 81.2 (Spring 2006), 143-62
'Büchner, Leonce und Lena', in Landmarks in German Comedy (ed. P. Hutchinson) (2006)
'Falling Walls, Sliding Doors, Open Windows: Berlin on Film after the Wende', German as a Foreign Language (1, 2006), 5-23 (http://www. gfl-journal. de/ 1-2006/ webber. html)
'Else Lasker-Schüler', in Landmarks in German Women's Writing (ed. H. Brown) (2007), 122-38
'Eventidings: Georg Trakl and Else Lasker-Schüler', in Der Mnemosyne Träume: Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag von Joseph P. Strelka (ed. Ilona Slawinski) (2007), 459-71
'Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz', in Landmarks in the German Novel (1) (ed. P. Hutchinson) (2007), 167-82
'Worst of all Possible Worlds? Ingeborg Bachmann's Ein Ort für Zufälle', Austrian Studies 15 (2007), 112-29
'Introduction: Moving Images of Cities', in Cities in Transition: The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis (ed. Webber and E. Wilson) (2007)
'Symphony of a City: Motion Pictures and Still Lives in Weimar Berlin', in Cities in Transition (2007)
'Kafkas Verwandlungskunst', in Kafka: Schriftenreihe der deutschen Kafka- Gesellschaft, 2 (2008), 275-90
'Berlin is Running: Olympic Memories and Queer Performances', in Queer Cinema in Europe (ed. Robin Griffiths) (2008), 195-206
''Unbewohnbar und doch unverlaßbar': Brecht and Berlin', Bertolt Brecht: A Reassessment of His Work and Legacy (ed. R. Gillett and G. Weiss-Sussex) (2008), 153-67
'Berlin: A Topographical Case History', in The Politics of Place in Post-War Germany: Essays in Literary Criticism (ed. D. Clarke and R. Rechtien) (2009), 107-26
'Secrets and Keys: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and Film in the Curious Cases of Musil's Törleß and Pabst's Geheimnisse einer Seele', Oxford German Studies, special number on Curiosity (ed. C. Duttlinger and J. Birgfeld) (2009), 188-202
'Benjamin's Passage-work', in Passage-work: Walter Benjamin between the Disciplines, ed. Webber, Paragraph, 32.3 (2009), 265-72

'Other Places: Döblin's Berlin Topographies', in Alfred Döblin: Paradigms of Modernism, (ed. S. Davies and E. Schonfield) (2009), 261-75
'Freuds 'Leben' Schrebers', in Die Biographie - Beiträge zu ihrer Geschichte (ed. W. Hemecker and W. Kreutzer (2009), 155-78
‘Visiting Michael Hamburger on film’, in From Charlottenburg to Middleton: Michael Hamburger (1924-2007): Poet, Translator, ed. Joyce Crick, Martin Liebscher, and Martin Swales (London: IGRS/Judicium, 2010), 98–112
‘Psychoanalysis, Homosexuality and Modernism’, in The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing, ed. Hugh Stevens (Cambridge: CUP, 2010), 34–49
‘Sehen und Schreiben filmischer Körperteile bei und nach Balázs’, Grauzonen: Positionen zwischen Text und Film 1910-1960, ed. Stefan Keppler and Fabienne Liptay (Munich: text + kritik, 2010), 80–101
‘Threshold Conditions: Benjamin, Schnitzler and the Sleeping Disorders of Modernism’, in Die Halbschlafbilder in der Literatur, den Künsten und den Wissenschaften, ed. Roger Paulin and Helmut Pfotenhauer (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2011), 275–90
‘Topographical Turns: Recasting Berlin in Christian Petzold’s Ghosts’, in Debating German Cultural Identity Since 1989, ed. Anne Fuchs, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, and Linda Shortt (Rochester: Camden House, 2012), 67–81
‘About Face: E. T. A. Hoffmann, Weimar Film and the Technological Afterlife of Gothic Physiognomy’, in Popular Revenants: German Gothic and its International Reception 1800–2000, ed. Andrew Cusack and Barry Murnane (Rochester: Camden House, 2012), 161– 80
‘Wunderblock: Durs Grünbein and the Urban Arts of Memory’, in Durs Grünbein Today, ed. Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder and Chris Young (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), 145–62
‘The Case Study’, in A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture, ed. Laura Markus and Ankhi Mukherjee (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014), 34– 48
Slow Motion Pictures: Casting Inertia in Contemporary Berlin Films’, in Inert Cities: Globalization, Mobility and Suspension in Visual Culture, ed. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Christoph Lindner (London/New York: IB Tauris, 2014), 203–17
‘‘Visual Culture in the Berlin Republic: Memory Work and Arts of the Present’, in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary German Politics and Culture, ed. Sarah Colvin (London: Routledge, 2014), 163–77
‘“Good Work”: Speed, Slowness and Taking Care in Christian Petzold’s Barbara’, in Time in German Literature and Culture, 1900–2000: Between Acceleration and Slowness, ed. Anne Fuchs and Jonathan Long (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016), 173–88
‘Introduction’, Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin (Cambridge: CUP, 2017), 1–12
‘Charting Extraterritorial Identity in the Opening of Lenz’, in Georg Büchner: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Robert Gillett, Ernest Schonfeld and Daniel Steuer (Amsterdam: Brill/Rodopi, 2017), 244–260
‘Fassbinder: The Stylist’, Sight and Sound (May 2017)
‘Namens- oder Familienähnlichkeiten: Fallgeschichte und Falldrama bei Schnitzler und Freud’, in Textschicksale: Das Werk Arthur Schnitzlers im Kontext der Moderne, ed. Wolfgang Lukas and Michael Scheffel (de Gruyter, 2017), 77–92
‘Life-times: Digitality and Ontology in Christian Petzold’s Etwas Besseres als den Tod’, for Oxford German Studies 46.4 (2017), 345–59
‘The City’, in Kafka in Context, ed. Carolin Duttlinger (Cambridge: CUP, 2017), 233–40
‘Inextinguishable Fire, or How to Make a Film in Berlin in 1968’, in Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City circa 1968, ed. Mark Shiel (Temple University Press, 2018), 91–111
‘Introduction: Being in Place’, in Placing Schnitzler, Austrian Studies 27 (2019), ed. Beniston and Webber, pp. 1-12
‘Travelling Cases: Figures of Displacement in and around Schnitzler’s Das weite Land’. in Placing Schnitzler, Austrian Studies 27 (2019), ed. Beniston and Webber, pp. 179-94

Übersetzungen Freud, The Schreber Case (2002)

Herausgebertätigkeit

Eight German Novellas (1997)
Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies (with C. Duttlinger, L. Ruprecht) (2003)
Cities in Transition (with E. Wilson) (2007)
Memory Culture and the Contemporary City (2009)
Passage-work: Walter Benjamin between the Disciplines (Paragraph, 2009)
Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin (2017)
South and North: Contemporary Urban Orientations (with Kerry Bystrom, Ashleigh Harris) (2018)
Placing Schnitzler (with J. Beniston) (Austrian Studies, 27 (2019))

Forschergruppen, Forschungsprojekte Principal Investigator, Digital Critical Edition of Middle-Period Works of Arthur Schnitzler (AHRC) 2014-19 (https://www. arthur-schnitzler. org/ )

Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften Fellow of the British Academy

Stipendien DAAD Senior Academic Research Award; AHRB Research Leave Award; Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen MA, PhD (Cantab); Fellow of Churchill College; Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair of Global Literature (Tubingen, 2015-16)

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