Peter Höyng
Biographic Data
| ID | 7453004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Höyng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Höyng |
| SIGNATURE | HÖYNG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dramatiker, Dichter, Philosoph? Schillers philosophisches Schaffen im zeitgenössischen Urteil. Von Maria Koch. Bielefeld
Dramatiker, Dichter, Philosoph? Schillers philosophisches Schaffen im zeitgenössischen Urteil. Von Maria Koch. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2023. 247 Seiten. €40,00 broschiert oder eBook. Maria Kochs überarbeitete Fassung ihrer Dissertation an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena liefert
Elfriede Jelineks Theater des (Post-)Politischen
Reviewed by: Elfriede Jelineks Theater des (Post-)Politischen: Agonistik der Gegenwartsliteratur by Irene Husser Peter Höyng Irene Husser, Elfriede Jelineks Theater des (Post-)Politischen: Agonistik der Gegenwartsliteratur. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2023. 282 S. Der Titel von Irene Hussers Dissertation kündigt die vier verwobenen Themenkomplexe ihrer Arbeit an. Als ihr erstes Anliegen sieht Husser ganz allgemein die deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur…
More Than Mere Spectacle
Reviewed by: More Than Mere Spectacle: Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries ed. by Klaas Van Gelder Peter Höyng Klaas Van Gelder, ed., More Than Mere Spectacle: Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New York: Berghahn, 2021. 326 pp. Klaas Van Gelder’s new edited volume offers a first-rate exploration of what its subtit…
Franz Kafkas akustische Welten by Rüdiger Görner
Reviewed by: Franz Kafkas akustische Welten by Rüdiger Görner Peter Höyng and Jessie Zhao Rüdiger Görner, Franz Kafkas akustische Welten. Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte 156. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019. 183 pp. Franz Kafkas akustische Welten is a short, tightly organized guide to the role of sound in Kafka's oeuvre. Ever since sound studies have become established within the last decade, this particular angle seems ripe for analysi…
Alban Berg. Biographie by Barbara Meier
Reviewed by: Alban Berg. Biographie by Barbara Meier Peter Höyng Barbara Meier, Alban Berg. Biographie. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2018. 342 S. Alban Bergs Lebensbeschreibung (1885–1935) von Barbara Meier besticht durch ihre Sachlichkeit. Diese Biographie verdient auch unter KollegInnen, die sich normalerweise nicht mit moderner Musik auseinandersetzen oder Musikerbiographien abgeben, Aufmerksamkeit. Denn für Literaturwissenschaft lerInnen…
Forging a Multinational State
Reviewed by: Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War by John Deak Peter Höyng John Deak, Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2015. 355 pp. While John Deak's thorough study was not written to coincide with this year's commemoration of Francis Joseph's demise one hundred years ag…
Music in Vienna, 1700, 1800, 1900 by David Wyn Jones
Reviewed by: Music in Vienna, 1700, 1800, 1900 by David Wyn Jones Peter Höyng David Wyn Jones, Music in Vienna, 1700, 1800, 1900. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2016. 277 pp. David Wyn Jones’s stupendous study manages to have the reader learn anew many facets of the seemingly standard musical fare of classical music in Vienna, albeit now through the lens of history, politics, and sociology. After all, when interpreting compositions by Mozart an…
Deaths in Venice. The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach
In times when the humanities face headwinds that help to thrust a dystopian mindset on its proponents, Philip Kitcher's study on Thomas Mann's best-known novella Der Tod in Venedig (1911) carries utopian qualities (as far as scholarship in the humanities is concerned) of which a few are worth highlighting. As a starter, the book, published first in 2013, was reissued as paperback in 2016, a feat that is in and of itself a remarkable success given…
Der Notlicht-Skandal als Backstage-Nachspiel. Beobachtungen zu Bernhards Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige anhand von Hennetmairs Tagebuch
Based on the diary of Karl Ignaz Hennetmair, the essay re-examines the scandal around Thomas Bernhard’s second play Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige at the Salzburg Festival in 1972. Claus Peymann, the stage director, not only demanded that the theater should be dark, as Bernhard’s play states, but in addition asked to have the emergency lights completely turned off. This last-minute request escalated into a public scandal and ultimately led to t…
Wiener Urbanitäten
Reviewed by: Wiener Urbanitäten: Kulturwissenschaftliche Ansichten einer Stadt ed. by Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber et al. Peter Höyng and Hiram Maxim Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber, Klara Löffler, Ana Rogojanu, and Jens Wietschorke, eds., Wiener Urbanitäten: Kulturwissenschaftliche Ansichten einer Stadt. Ethnographie des Alltags 1. Vienna: Böhlau, 2013. 389 pp. The coeditor Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber, in her brief introduction, is persuasive in her conviction t…
Lies and Epiphanies
Reviewed by: Lies and Epiphanies: Composers and Their Inspiration from Wagner to Berg by Chris Walton Peter Höyng Chris Walton,Lies and Epiphanies: Composers and Their Inspiration from Wagner to Berg. Rochester: U of Rochester P, 2014. 168 pp. As slim this volume might be, potent indeed it is. For Chris Walton captivates the reader in a concisely written English by cunningly deconstructing a major myth of a long-lasting Romantic paradigm by which…
‘Vaterland, Unsinn’. Thomas Bernhards (ent-)nationalisierte Genieästhethik zwischen Österreich-Gebundenheit und Österreich-Entbundenheit by Tim Reuter (review)
Reviewed by: ‘Vaterland, Unsinn’. Thomas Bernhards (ent-)nationalisierte Genieästhethik zwischen Österreich-Gebundenheit und Österreich-Entbundenheit by Tim Reuter Peter Höyng Tim Reuter, ‘Vaterland, Unsinn’. Thomas Bernhards (ent-)nationalisierte Genieästhethik zwischen Österreich-Gebundenheit und Österreich-Entbundenheit. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2013. 360 pp. Im Anspruch und Umfang durchaus vergleichbar mit Anne Thills 2011 publiziert…
Die Begräbnisfeier für Otto Habsburg aus der “Fenstersicht” von Thomas Bernhards Auslöschung. Ein Zerfall (1986)
Otto Habsburg, the oldest child of the last reigning Austrian emperor Karl I and nephew of Franz Joseph I, passed away in July 2011. His momentous and highly public funeral simultaneously catalyzed and presented as farce nostalgia for the bygone Habsburg dynasty, since only its Auslöschung enabled a Republican tradition in Austria. The essay scrutinizes the public ambivalence toward the funeral by utilizing Thomas Bernhard’s novel Die Auslöschung…
Return to Vienna
Reviewed by: Return to Vienna: A Journal by Hilde Spiel Peter Höyng Hilde Spiel, Return to Vienna: A Journal. Trans. Christine Shuttleworth. Afterword Jacqueline Vansant. Riverside: Ariadne, 2011. 128 pp. After the racially motivated killing of her renowned philosophy professor Moritz Schlick at the University of Vienna in June 1936, Hilde Spiel’s decision to emigrate to London, along with her husband and author Peter de Mendelssohn, [End Page 20…
Plays of Domination and Submission in Thomas Bernhard's "Ritter", "Dene", "Voss" (1986) and Werner Schwab's "Die Prasidentinnen" (1990)
Plays of Domination and Submission in Thomas Bernhard's "Ritter", "Dene", "Voss" (1986) and Werner Schwab's "Die Präsidentinnen" (1990), The German Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Summer, 2003), pp. 300-313
"Nathans Ende? Von Lessing bis Tabori. Zur deutsch-judischen Rezeption von "Nathan der Weise
Verkorperte Geschichtsentwurfe
Hoyng, Peter, ed. Verkorperte Geschichtsentwurfe: George Taboris Theaterarbeit. Embodied Projections on History: George Tabori's Theater Work. Tubingen: Francke, 1998. 219 pp. DM 78.00. Since the late 1960s, the playwright, director, and actor George Tabori has emerged as an important figure in German and Austrian theater. This collection of essays in German and English brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars to expl…
Vorstellungen vom Holocaust. George Taboris Erinnerungs-Spiele
Von der Idee des Menschen. Über Friedrich Schiller
Hinderer, Walter. yon der Idee des Menschen. Uber Friedrich Schiller. Wurzburg. Konigshausen and Neumann, 1998. 351 pp. DM 78.00 paperback. Walter Hinderer's book is a culmination of over thirty years of research on the work of Friedrich Schiller. It is composed of no fewer than thirteen articles published between 1974 and 1996. Hinderer is part of a select group of American Schiller scholars that has been at the forefront of Schiller scholarship…
"Aus einem unbekannten Zentrum, zu einer nicht erkennbaren Grenze." Chaos Theory, Hermeneutics and Goethe's Die Wahlverwandschaften
Literatur und Quantentheorie
Arbeitsfelder der Theaterwissenschaft
Kurze Geschichte des deutschen Theaters
A History of Histories of German Literature 1835-1914
Aufbezehren der Natur. Das Schicksal der vergesellschafteten Seele in Georg Buchners Werk
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The German Nachspiel in the Eighteenth Century
Elias Canetti
Der Findling
Kurze Geschichte des deutschen Theaters
A History of Histories of German Literature 1835-1914
Aufbezehren der Natur. Das Schicksal der vergesellschafteten Seele in Georg Buchners Werk
Arbeitsfelder der Theaterwissenschaft
Literatur und Quantentheorie
"Aus einem unbekannten Zentrum, zu einer nicht erkennbaren Grenze." Chaos Theory, Hermeneutics and Goethe's Die Wahlverwandschaften
Verkorperte Geschichtsentwurfe
Hoyng, Peter, ed. Verkorperte Geschichtsentwurfe: George Taboris Theaterarbeit. Embodied Projections on History: George Tabori's Theater Work. Tubingen: Francke, 1998. 219 pp. DM 78.00. Since the late 1960s, the playwright, director, and actor George Tabori has emerged as an important figure in German and Austrian theater. This collection of essays in German and English brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars to expl…
Vorstellungen vom Holocaust. George Taboris Erinnerungs-Spiele
Von der Idee des Menschen. Über Friedrich Schiller
Hinderer, Walter. yon der Idee des Menschen. Uber Friedrich Schiller. Wurzburg. Konigshausen and Neumann, 1998. 351 pp. DM 78.00 paperback. Walter Hinderer's book is a culmination of over thirty years of research on the work of Friedrich Schiller. It is composed of no fewer than thirteen articles published between 1974 and 1996. Hinderer is part of a select group of American Schiller scholars that has been at the forefront of Schiller scholarship…
"Nathans Ende? Von Lessing bis Tabori. Zur deutsch-judischen Rezeption von "Nathan der Weise
Plays of Domination and Submission in Thomas Bernhard's "Ritter", "Dene", "Voss" (1986) and Werner Schwab's "Die Prasidentinnen" (1990)
Plays of Domination and Submission in Thomas Bernhard's "Ritter", "Dene", "Voss" (1986) and Werner Schwab's "Die Präsidentinnen" (1990), The German Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Summer, 2003), pp. 300-313
Return to Vienna
Reviewed by: Return to Vienna: A Journal by Hilde Spiel Peter Höyng Hilde Spiel, Return to Vienna: A Journal. Trans. Christine Shuttleworth. Afterword Jacqueline Vansant. Riverside: Ariadne, 2011. 128 pp. After the racially motivated killing of her renowned philosophy professor Moritz Schlick at the University of Vienna in June 1936, Hilde Spiel’s decision to emigrate to London, along with her husband and author Peter de Mendelssohn, [End Page 20…
Die Begräbnisfeier für Otto Habsburg aus der “Fenstersicht” von Thomas Bernhards Auslöschung. Ein Zerfall (1986)
Otto Habsburg, the oldest child of the last reigning Austrian emperor Karl I and nephew of Franz Joseph I, passed away in July 2011. His momentous and highly public funeral simultaneously catalyzed and presented as farce nostalgia for the bygone Habsburg dynasty, since only its Auslöschung enabled a Republican tradition in Austria. The essay scrutinizes the public ambivalence toward the funeral by utilizing Thomas Bernhard’s novel Die Auslöschung…
‘Vaterland, Unsinn’. Thomas Bernhards (ent-)nationalisierte Genieästhethik zwischen Österreich-Gebundenheit und Österreich-Entbundenheit by Tim Reuter (review)
Reviewed by: ‘Vaterland, Unsinn’. Thomas Bernhards (ent-)nationalisierte Genieästhethik zwischen Österreich-Gebundenheit und Österreich-Entbundenheit by Tim Reuter Peter Höyng Tim Reuter, ‘Vaterland, Unsinn’. Thomas Bernhards (ent-)nationalisierte Genieästhethik zwischen Österreich-Gebundenheit und Österreich-Entbundenheit. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2013. 360 pp. Im Anspruch und Umfang durchaus vergleichbar mit Anne Thills 2011 publiziert…
Der Notlicht-Skandal als Backstage-Nachspiel. Beobachtungen zu Bernhards Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige anhand von Hennetmairs Tagebuch
Based on the diary of Karl Ignaz Hennetmair, the essay re-examines the scandal around Thomas Bernhard’s second play Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige at the Salzburg Festival in 1972. Claus Peymann, the stage director, not only demanded that the theater should be dark, as Bernhard’s play states, but in addition asked to have the emergency lights completely turned off. This last-minute request escalated into a public scandal and ultimately led to t…
Wiener Urbanitäten
Reviewed by: Wiener Urbanitäten: Kulturwissenschaftliche Ansichten einer Stadt ed. by Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber et al. Peter Höyng and Hiram Maxim Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber, Klara Löffler, Ana Rogojanu, and Jens Wietschorke, eds., Wiener Urbanitäten: Kulturwissenschaftliche Ansichten einer Stadt. Ethnographie des Alltags 1. Vienna: Böhlau, 2013. 389 pp. The coeditor Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber, in her brief introduction, is persuasive in her conviction t…
Lies and Epiphanies
Reviewed by: Lies and Epiphanies: Composers and Their Inspiration from Wagner to Berg by Chris Walton Peter Höyng Chris Walton,Lies and Epiphanies: Composers and Their Inspiration from Wagner to Berg. Rochester: U of Rochester P, 2014. 168 pp. As slim this volume might be, potent indeed it is. For Chris Walton captivates the reader in a concisely written English by cunningly deconstructing a major myth of a long-lasting Romantic paradigm by which…
Forging a Multinational State
Reviewed by: Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War by John Deak Peter Höyng John Deak, Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2015. 355 pp. While John Deak's thorough study was not written to coincide with this year's commemoration of Francis Joseph's demise one hundred years ag…
Music in Vienna, 1700, 1800, 1900 by David Wyn Jones
Reviewed by: Music in Vienna, 1700, 1800, 1900 by David Wyn Jones Peter Höyng David Wyn Jones, Music in Vienna, 1700, 1800, 1900. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2016. 277 pp. David Wyn Jones’s stupendous study manages to have the reader learn anew many facets of the seemingly standard musical fare of classical music in Vienna, albeit now through the lens of history, politics, and sociology. After all, when interpreting compositions by Mozart an…
Deaths in Venice. The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach
In times when the humanities face headwinds that help to thrust a dystopian mindset on its proponents, Philip Kitcher's study on Thomas Mann's best-known novella Der Tod in Venedig (1911) carries utopian qualities (as far as scholarship in the humanities is concerned) of which a few are worth highlighting. As a starter, the book, published first in 2013, was reissued as paperback in 2016, a feat that is in and of itself a remarkable success given…
Alban Berg. Biographie by Barbara Meier
Reviewed by: Alban Berg. Biographie by Barbara Meier Peter Höyng Barbara Meier, Alban Berg. Biographie. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2018. 342 S. Alban Bergs Lebensbeschreibung (1885–1935) von Barbara Meier besticht durch ihre Sachlichkeit. Diese Biographie verdient auch unter KollegInnen, die sich normalerweise nicht mit moderner Musik auseinandersetzen oder Musikerbiographien abgeben, Aufmerksamkeit. Denn für Literaturwissenschaft lerInnen…
Franz Kafkas akustische Welten by Rüdiger Görner
Reviewed by: Franz Kafkas akustische Welten by Rüdiger Görner Peter Höyng and Jessie Zhao Rüdiger Görner, Franz Kafkas akustische Welten. Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte 156. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019. 183 pp. Franz Kafkas akustische Welten is a short, tightly organized guide to the role of sound in Kafka's oeuvre. Ever since sound studies have become established within the last decade, this particular angle seems ripe for analysi…
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