Heinrich von Kleist and Modernity

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BERND FISCHER is Emeritus Academy Professor at the Ohio State University. BERND FISCHER is Emeritus Academy Professor at the Ohio State University. CHRISTIAN MOSER is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn. HELMUT J. SCHNEIDER is Professor (emeritus) für neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Bonn. He has also held positions at the University of California Irvine und Davis. He has published widely on German literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries on the European pastoral tradition utopian landscapes the literature of the Enlightenment and on German neoclassicism (in particular on Lessing Kleist Goethe). His most recent monograph is Genealogie und Menschheitsfamilie: Dramaturgie der Humanität von Lessing bis Büchner (Berlin: Berlin University Press 2011). JEFFREY L. HIGH is Professor of German Studies at California State University Long Beach SEÁN ALLAN is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. He studied at Emmanuel College Cambridge and at the Humboldt Universität in what was then East Berlin. From 2001-2016 he worked at the University of Warwick before moving to St Andrews in 2016 as Professor of German. His main research areas regard the culture of the European Enlightenment interdisciplinary approaches to the mediation of music and the visual arts as well as translation and translation studies. He is the author of The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist: Ideals and Illusions (1996) and The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist: Fictions of Security (Camden House 2001). He is the co-editor of a special edition of German Life and Letters entitled Heinrich von Kleist: Performance and Performativity (2011); the co-editor of the volumes Kleist Education and Violence: The Transformation of Ethics and Aesthetics and Konstruktive und destruktive Funktionen von Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2012) and Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts (2016); and the co-author of the monograph Unverhoffte Wirkungen: Erziehung und Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2014). His most recent book Screening Art: Modernism and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema (2019) investigates questions of intermediality and spans not only film but also literature music and the visual arts in post-war cinema. WOLF KITTLER is Professor of German and Comparative Literature Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. He has published widely with monographs on Franz Kafka and Heinrich von Kleist. Recent publications on Impressionism as an effect of the chemical dye industry on the history of the Greek alphabet from Euripides to Plato on early wireless technology on music in Jean Jacques Rousseau's work on the history of the concept of risk and on transformations in perspective painting from Leon Battista Alberti to Salvador Dalí. Works in progress include: On Wings of Light: A Cultural History of Telecommunication from Antiquity to the Present and Echo's Echoes: From Freud to Lacan.