Prof Dr Jochen Mecke
Contact: jochen.mecke(at)ur.de
Further information about the person
Academic career
Studies and professional career
| since 04/2023 | retired |
| 2005 | Call to the University of Freiburg (declined) |
| 2004-2023 | Visiting professorships at the Universities of Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, Limoges and Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| 1996-2023 | Chair of Romance Languages and Literature at the Institute of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Regensburg |
| 1995 | Appointment as Professor of Romance Literature and Regional Studies (specialising in France - Spain) at the University of Passau |
| 1994 | Appointment as university lecturer (C2) at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Heidelberg |
| 1994 | Habilitation at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Heidelberg |
| 1988-1994 | Assistant lecturer at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Heidelberg |
| 1986-1988 | Research assistant at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Heidelberg |
| 1986 | Doctorate (Dr Phil.) at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature at the University of Mannheim |
| 1985-1986 | Assistant position at the Chair of Romance Studies III at the University of Mannheim |
| 1985 | Assistant professor at the Europa-Institut of the University of Mannheim: research project "Aesthetics of European Mass Communication" |
| 1982-1984 | Assistant professor in the DFG project on the research of narrative structures in French literature "Semiotics of Depth" of the German Research Foundation (headed by Prof. Dr Rolf Kloepfer) |
| 1982 | First State Examination in German language and literature, Romance languages and literature, fundamental philosophical issues in theology Master's degree in German language and literature, Romance studies, fundamental philosophical issues in theology |
| 1979-1982 | research assistant at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Mannheim |
| 07/1979 | Licence de Lettres Modernes (Romance Studies) at the Université Provence Aix-en-Provence (Aix-Marseille III) |
| 07/1979 | Licence de Lettres Modernes (German language and literature) at the Université Provence Aix-en-Provence (Aix-Marseille III) |
| 1977-1978 | Foreign language assistant at the Lycée d'État Polytechnique St. Charles (Marseille) |
| 1978-1979 | Member of the teaching staff for German at the Goethe-Institut in Marseille |
| 1975-1980 | Studied German language and literature, Romance studies and philosophy of science at the University of Mannheim |
Publication list
- (ed. with Anne-Sophie Donnaireix / Morgane Kieffer / Dominique Viart) La machine à histoires - Le romanesque dans les écritures contemporaines. coll. Perspectives. Paris: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion 2022.
- (ed. with Pierre Schoentjes / Anne-Sophie Donnaireix). Esthétique de la guerre - Éthique de la paix: Littérature de la Grande Guerre. Paris: Garnier 2021.
- (ed. with Maxime Décout): Figures du mensonge et de la mauvaise foi dans le romance contemporain, in: Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine, No 22 (2021).
- (ed. together with Ralf Junkerjürgen / Hubert Pöppel / Dagmar Schmelzer) La crisis
española diez años después - balance y perspectivas. Estudios Culturales Hispánicos 1, 2020.
Teaching
Completed habilitations:
Greilich, Susanne. " The Struggle for the Nation and the 'National' Romance. Discourses of the Restoration Period and Literary Practice in Juan Valera" (2015).
Hertrampf, Marina Ortrud: The '(un)holy' space. The dimensions of space in "auto sacramental". A (space-theoretical) genre history from the early modern period to postmodernism.
Schmelzer, Dagmar : Performative space. Identity construction via spatial designs in the travel reports of François de Chateaubriand.
Von Tschilschke, Christian: Identity of the Enlightenment / Enlightenment of Identity. Literature and identity discourse in 18th century Spain.
Winter, Ulrich. 'The 'Principle of Friendship'. Recognition, care and dialogue ethics in literary anthropologies of the French 17th century (Mlle de Scudéry, La Rochefoucauld, Mime de Lafayette and others).
Completed dissertations:
Arnold, Markus. Écritures de violences - violences d'écriture: conflit, contestation et anti-troicalisation dans le romance contemporain muaricien d'expression française et anglaise. (cotutelle)
Bauer, Elisabeth. The francophone digital literature. History, structures and aesthetics of a new media genre.
Blancher, Marc. " Fonctions et objectifs du détournement postmodernism du référent social dans le romance policier " (cotutelle)
Brandstetter, Nicole. Strategies of staged inauthenticity in the contemporary French romance: Marie Redonnet, Patrick Deville, Jean-Philippe Toussaint.
Donnarieix, Anne-Sophie. Réenchanter le monde? Formes et enjeux poétologiques du surnaturel dans le romance français contemporain. Antoine Volodine, Sylvie Germain, Alain Fleischer, Marie NDiaye, Christian Garcin. (Cotutelle)
Fexer, Petra. Spatial cultures. A comparison between Germany and Spain.
Hertrampf, Marina Ortrud. The photographic romance in contemporary French literature. Photography and photographic modes of writing in the work of Patrick Deville.
Hiergeist, Teresa. Exquisite experiences. Forms of participation of recipients in narrative texts.
Kienberger, Antonia. Landscape as a lie? Function and effect of the literary description of the Castilian landscape by Azorín and Antonio Machado in the context of the definition of Spanish national identity.
Klein, Johannes. Recordar para contarla. Testimonial literature, conflict and collective memory in Colombia.
Mancas, Magdalena. Pour une esthétique du mensonge: Nouvelle Autobiographie et postmodernisme. (cotutelle)
Schmelzer, Dagmar. Film and filmic writing in the Spanish avant-garde novel of the 1920s: Azorin and Benjamin Jarnés.
Steinlein, Almut. Une esthétique de l'authentique: les films de la Nouvelle Vague. (cotutelle)
Witting, Heidi. Ästhetik des Werbefilms: Entwicklung ästhetischer und narrativer Verfahren im frz. Werbefilm des 20. Jahrhunderts.