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Pier Carlo Bontempelli

Institution : Università di Cassino 

Email : pcbontempelli 'at' fastwebnet.it

Curriculum Vitae :

Pier Carlo Bontempelli (Viterbo, 1947) graduated from Università di Roma 'La Sapienza'. He taught German language and literature at Università 'G. D’Annunzio' in Pescara, and is currently Associate professor of German literature at Università di Cassino. From 1986 he has participated to several research groups funded both by CNR and at university level. His scholarly interests have been mainly focused on German literary culture in the nineteenth century and in the Weimar Republic, with several books and essays published on Weber, Scherer, Mann, Juenger, Brecht, and the naturalist movement in Germany. In the last five years, his main field of investigation has been the relation of knowledge to power within the disciplinary field of German Studies, whose history and constitution from the early nineteenth century to these days he has reconstructed through an analysis of the writings and institutional discourses concerning it. The outcome of this research was recently published in the USA as a volume: Knowledge, Power, and Discipline. German Studies and National Identity (Minnesota University Press 2004). His interest in transnational and comparative German studies is further documented by essays published both nationally and internationally and papers presented at conferences both in Italy and abroad. A volume on the cultural policy of Nazism, with special reference to the interventions of the SS in the field of the humanities, is forthcoming at the end of 2005. His present research interests address the relations between disciplinary fields and the transfer of competences and cultural capital in the humanities between German and Austria on the one hand and the USA on the other from the 1930s onwards, with particular reference to the rise of American comparative literature.

Bibliography :

Books and edited books:

1. La Cultura di Weimar. Materiali . Pier Carlo Bontempelli and Paolo Chiarini, eds. Roma: Bulzoni, 1979. 2. La Cultura di Weimar. Materiali II. Pier Carlo Bontempelli and Paolo Chiarini, eds. Roma: Bulzoni, 1980. 3. La Cultura di Weimar. Materiali III. Pier Carlo Bontempelli and Paolo Chiarini, eds. Roma: Bulzoni, 1980. 4. La Germania Federale. Roma: Editori Riuniti, 1981. 5. I manifesti letterari del naturalismo tedesco, edited and translated by Pier Carlo Bontempelli. Roma: Nuova Arnica Editrice, 1990. 6. Karl-Markus Gauss, Cara Patria. Studi scelti su passato e futuro della letteratura mitteleuropea, ed. by Pier Carlo Bontempelli. Milano: Marcos y Marcos, 1997. 7. Storia della germanistica: dispositivi e istituzioni di un sistema disciplinare. Roma: Artemide, 2000 8. Knowledge, Power, and Discipline. German Studies and National Identity, (transl. by Gabriele Poole). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003 (English edition of the 2000 volume, revised, enlarged, and with a new introduction). 9. Meine geträume Wortwirklichkeit. Römisches Symposion 1999 und andere Texte. Pier Carlo Bontempelli and Helmut Braun, eds.. Jahrbuch 2000. Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch der Rose-Ausländer-Stiftung. Berlin: AphorismA Verlag, 2004.

Essays:

1. “Le contraddizioni della coscienza tedesca ( Th. Mann, M. Weber, W. Rathenau)”. La Cultura di Weimar. Pier Carlo Bontempelli and Paolo Chiarini, eds. Roma: Bulzoni, 1979. 147-194. 2. “La ‘rivoluzione conservatrice’ ( Jünger e Spengler)”. La Cultura di Weimar III. Pier Carlo Bontempelli and Paolo Chiarini, eds. Roma: Bulzoni, 1980. 439-488. 3. “Storia e ideologia nel metodo positivistico di Wilhelm Scherer”. Annali dell’Istituto di Filologia Moderna, Facoltà di Lettere-Università degli Studi di Roma 2 (1979): 243-262. 4. “Riviste letterarie in Germania (1945-1949) : tra rinnovamento e restaurazione”. Studi Germanici. 21-22 (1983-1984): 343-367. 5. “La crisi del liberalismo austriaco in due novelle di fine secolo : ‘Leutnant Burda’ di Ferdinand von Saar e ‘Reitergeschichte’ di Hugo von Hofmannsthal”. Merope 1:1 (1989): 121-132. 6. “La letteratura tedesca giovanile degli anni Ottanta: tra ‘Erfahrung’ e ‘Erlebnis’”. La Questione dell’esperienza. Valeria E. Russo, ed. Firenze: Ponte alle Grazie, 1991. 214-218. 7. “Riviste in lingua tedesca-Repertorio”. In/forma di rivista. Comune di Roma-Assessorato alla cultura, ed. Roma: Carte Segrete, 1991. 261-264. 8. “Dilthey e la ‘Literaturwissenschaft’ liberale in Germania (Gervinus e Danzel)”. Atti del Convegno Internazionale Nazione, storia e scienze sociali fra Otto e Novecento, Pescara, 9-10 aprile 1991. Gustavo Corni, ed. Special issue of Itinerari 2 (1992): 149-168. 9. “La caduta del Muro e la filologia: note e osservazioni sulla germanistica tedesca”. Igitur 4: 2 (1992 ): 43-64. 10. “Die Rolle der Zeitschrift ‘Quaderni Piacentini’ bei der Verbreitung der deutschen Literatur und Kultur in Italien”. Germanistik in Italien. H. G. Grüning, ed. Macerata: Nuove Ricerche, 1995. 305-315. 11. “Die Rolle der ‘Göttinger Universitäts-Zeitung’ und der ‘Hamburger Akademischen Rundschau’ in der Erneuerung der Universität, im literarischen Leben und im Selbstverständnis der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft der ersten Nachkriegsjahre”. Igitur 7:1 (1995): 55-72. 12. “Gli itinerari periferici di K.-M. Gauß”. Introduction to Karl-Markus Gauss, Cara Patria. Studi scelti su passato e futuro della letteratura mitteleuropea. Pier Carlo Bontempelli, ed. Milano: Marcos y Marcos, 1997. 11-21. 13. “Profilo storico della germanistica (1800-1990)”. Storia della civiltà letteraria tedesca. Marino Freschi, ed., vol. 2. Torino: UTET, 1998. 664-681. 14. “Peter Handke in Serbia”. Camminare scrivendo. Il reportage narrativo e dintorni. Nicola Bottiglieri, ed. Cassino: Edizioni dell’Università degli Studi di Cassino, 2001. 181-194. 15. “La fortuna di Céline in Germania. L.F. Céline. L’arte della scrittura. Gianfranco Rubino, ed. Cassino: Laboratorio di comparatistica, 2001. 155-169. 16. “Rileggere, oggi, le Elegie di Buckow,” in Studi in onore di Paolo Chiarini. Mauro Ponzi and Aldo Venturelli, eds., vol. 2. Roma: Bulzoni, 2003. 521-538. 17. “Teatro naturalista tedesco, ordine pubblico e censura: i Weber di Gerhart Hauptmann,” in Teatro e censura. Annalisa Goldoni and Carlo Martinez, eds. Napoli: Liguori, 2003. 71-86. 18. Entries for “Adrian Leverkühn,” “Aschenbach, Gustav von,” “Bäumer, Paul,” “Bauschan,” “Biberkopf, Franz,” “Buddenbrook, Thomas,” “Dreissiger,” “Emanuel Quint,” “Emil Tischbein,” “Fabian, Jakob,” “Felix Krull,” “Francesco Vela,” “Giuseppe,” “Hans Castorp,” “Heinrich,” “Henschel, Wilhelm,” “Hessling, Diederich,” “John, Frau Henriette (Jette),” “Klaus Heinrich,” “Magda Schwartze,” “Orla, Thomas von,” “Ottone, Fratello,” “Pinneberg, Johannes,” “Rose Bernd,” “Selicke, Toni,” “Tonio Kröger,” “Unrat,” “Wolff, Frau.” Dizionario dei personaggi letterari. Da Abbondio a Živago: Cinquemila ritratti della letteratura mondiale. 3 vols. Torino: UTET, 2003, pp.24-5, 159, 207-8, 208, 250-1, 294-5, 545, 591, 592, 656-7, 680, 718, 826, 878-9, 890, 899, 902, 1010-1, 1061, 1192, 1458, 1468, 1560, 1686-7, 1746-7, 1895-6, 1937-8, 2029-30. 19. “Goethe durante il Terzo Reich”, Studi Germanici 40:2 (2002): 1-16. 20.“Thesen zu einer Transnationalen Germanistik', Germanistentreffen Deutschland-Italien. Bonn: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, 2004. 45-58. 21. 'Wilhelm Scherer und die Bildung des Habitus in der deutschen Germanistik'. Stil, Schule, Disziplin. Lutz Danneberg, Wolfgang Höppner and Ralf Klausnitzer, eds. Frankfurt am Main: Lang- Verlag, 2005.

Fields of interest :

German and European literary culture in the second half of the nineteenth century and during the Weimar Republic (Weber, Scherer, Thomas Mann, Jünger, Brecht, German naturalism). Relations between power and knowledge within the disciplinary field of German Studies. Cultural policies of the SS Secret Service and of cultural institutions during the Third Reich, and their relations with academia. Analysis of the relations between different disciplinary fields and of the transfers of cultural capital in the humanities between Germany and Austria and the USA during the 1930s.