Dr. Nicholas Martin

Director of the Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham

German Studies

University of Birmingham, UK

Department of Modern Languages, Ashley Building, University of Birmingham

GB

B15 2TT Birmingham

n.c.martin@bham.ac.uk

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/german/martin-nicholas.aspx

+44 121 414 6176

Forschung und Projekte

Derzeitige Position(en)

Reader in European Intellectual History, University of Birmingham

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

German First World War writing

Frühere Position(en)

Junior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford (1990-94)

Theodor Heuss-Forschungsstipendiat der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (1994-95)

Lecturer in German, University of St Andrews (1995-2004)

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

Martin, Nicholas, Nietzsche and Schiller: Untimely Aesthetics (OUP, 1996)

Martin, Nicholas, German First World War Writing: Literature and the Politics of War Memory, 1919-1933 (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan)

Artikel

JOURNAL ARTICLES

‘Nietzsche under fire', Times Literary Supplement, 5 Aug. 1994, 11-12.

‘“We Good Europeans”: Nietzsche's New Europe in Beyond Good and Evil', History of European Ideas 20 (1995), 141-144.

‘Nietzsche's “Schillerbild”: A Re-evaluation', German Life and Letters 48 (1995), 516-539.

‘“Fighting a Philosophy”: The Figure of Nietzsche in British Propaganda of the First World War', Modern Language Review 98 (2003), 367-380.

‘Rocking the Boat? - Victims, Perpetrators and Günter Grass', Forum for Modern Language Studies 41 (2005), 187-199.

‘“Ewig verbundene Geister”: Thomas Mann's Re-Engagement with Nietzsche, 1943-1947', Oxford German Studies , 34 (2005) 197-203.

'"Aufklärung und kein Ende": The Place of Enlightenment in Friedrich Nietzsche's Thought', German Life and Letters, 61 (2008), 78-96.

‘Nietzsche’s Goethe: In Sickness and in Health’, Publications of the English Goethe Society, 77 (2008), 113–24.

‘Literature and Gossip: An Introduction’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 50 (2014), 135‒41.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

‘Nietzsche in the GDR: History of a Taboo', in Nietzsche and the German Tradition , ed. Nicholas Martin (Oxford and Berne: Lang, 2003), pp. 263-286.

‘Extremes of Nietzsche: “Wo sind die Barbaren des 20. Jahrhunderts?”', in Ecce Opus. Nietzsche-Revisionen im 20. Jahrhundert , ed. Rüdiger Görner and Duncan Large, Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies, 81 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003), pp. 25-35.

‘Breeding Greeks: Nietzsche, Gobineau and Classical Theories of Race', in Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition , ed. Paul Bishop (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004), pp. 40-53.

‘Thomas Manns Nietzsche im Lichte der eigenen Erfahrung: Einkehr, Abrechnung, Selbstkritik', in Thomas Mann (1875-1955) , ed. Walter Delabar and Bodo Plachta (Berlin: Weidler, 2005), pp. 239-254.

‘Inviting Barbarism: Nietzsche's Will to Russia', in Germany and the Imagined East [Proceedings of the 12 th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley, March 2004 ], ed. Lee M. Roberts (London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005), pp. 80–93.

‘Introduction: Schiller After Two Centuries’, in Nicholas Martin (ed.), Schiller: National Poet - Poet of Nations. A Birmingham Symposium (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006), pp. 7–21.

‘Images of Schiller in National Socialist Germany', in Schiller: National Poet – Poet of Nations. A Birmingham Symposium , ed. Nicholas Martin, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, 61 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006), pp. 275-299.

‘Playing with the Rules: Schiller’s Experiments in Short Prose Fiction, 1782–1789’, in Jeffrey L. High (ed.), Schiller’s Literary Prose Works: New Translations and Critical Essays (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2008), pp. 188–201.

‘Thomas Mann’s Mario und der Zauberer: “Simply a Story of Human Affairs”’’, in Nigel Harris and Joanne Sayner (eds), The Text and Its Context: Studies in Modern German Literature and Society Presented to Ronald Speirs on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (Oxford and Berne: Peter Lang, 2008), pp. 165–76.

‘The Reluctant Recruit? Schiller in the Trenches, 1914–1918’, in Jeffrey L. High, Nicholas Martin and Norbert Oellers (eds), Who Is This Schiller Now? Essays on His Reception & Significance (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011), pp. 351–66.

(with Tim Haughton) ‘The Long Shadows and Mixed Modes of History: Concluding Reflections on the Aftermath and Legacies of War’, in Nicholas Martin, Tim Haughton, Pierre Purseigle (eds), Aftermath: Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 1918–1945–1989 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 199–212.

‘War in Peace: Pacifist and Anti-War Writing in the Battle for Control of German Great War Memory, 1927–1930’, in Pacifist and Anti-Militarist Writing in German, 1889–1929: From Bertha von Suttner to Erich Maria Remarque, ed. by Ritchie Robertson and Andreas Kramer (Munich: Iudicium, 2018). Forthcoming.

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

Nietzsche and the German Tradition (Oxford and Berne: Lang, 2003).

‘Literary Reflections of Modern War' (Special Issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies ), FMLS 41, no. 2 (April 2005).

Schiller: National Poet – Poet of Nations. A Birmingham Symposium , Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, 61 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006).

Nicholas Martin, Jeffrey L. High, Norbert Oellers (eds), Who Is This Schiller Now? Essays on His Reception and Significance (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011).

Nicholas Martin (ed.), Literature and Gossip. Special Issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies. Volume 50, Issue 2. April 2014.

Nicholas Martin, Tim Haughton, Pierre Purseigle (eds), Aftermath: Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 1918–1945–1989 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).

Publikationsliste (Url)

https://bham.academia.edu/NickMartin/CurriculumVitae

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

German history, 1870-; German intellectual history; Nietzsche; cultural history of the First World War; National Socialism; Terrorism and Political Violence