Eugen Zentner
Eugen Zentner

Eugen Zentner
Ammerländer Heerstraße 114-118
D-26129 Oldenburg
Germany
Building A3, Room A3 1-105
Tel.: +49 441 798-2366
PHD-Project
The Hybrid Author. Subject-Making and the Practice of Autofictional Self-Staging in the German-speaking Contemporary Literature
Abstract
The PhD-project investigates practices of subject-making in terms of literary 'self'-staging in seven works of contemporary literature. Those very different authors and works are symptomatic for a subject-concept which I call “entrepreneur of his self” and which is of crucial importance in contemporary literature and culture. Economics has – by now – become the hegemonic discourse of subject-making as well as the guideline for actors in the literary field. By focusing on literary stagings of authors, my project, hence, makes an interdisciplinary feasible contribution to the research training group. more...
Brief Vita
since 10/2013 | Member of the DFG Research Training Group: “Self-Making. Practices of Subjectivation in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective” |
since 04/2013 | Associated Member at the PhD-Net “The Knowledge of Literature” at the HU, Berlin |
since 2012 | PhD-Student at the Department of Literary Studies at the HU, Berlin |
2005 - 2011 | Study of Philosophy and German Literature at the University of Leipzig. Title of the Magister Thesis: “The Financial Crisis in the Context of Post-Modernity” |
Further Academic Functions
06/2013 | Teilnahme an der Merkur-Frühlingsakademie in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Peter- Szondi- Institut |
06/2013 | Teilnahme am Workshop „Wissensorganisation ist ein Programm“ an der Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin |