Claus Kurt ZITTEL

Position
Associate Professor
Roles
Member of the Bembolab Laboratory Board of Directors
Telephone
041 234 7870
E-mail
claus.zittel@unive.it
Academic discipline
German Literature [GERM-01/B]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/claus.zittel(personal record)
Office
Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dslcc
Where: Palazzo Cosulich
Research Institute
Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage

Office hours

Reception hours a.y. 2024-25:
the reception is held in-person or also online, on Fridays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm.
Interested students can send an email to the professor, indicating the reason for the meeting, and will receive the exact time for consultation or a link to connect to an online meeting.

Teaching activity current year

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LMR3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

Teaching activity previous years

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LMR3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Letteratura tedesca [GERM-01/B]
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
ESTETICA [M-FIL/04]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Europa
Known languages
tedesco (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Italiano (scritto: avanzato parlato: intermedio)
Francese (scritto: avanzato parlato: intermedio)
Polacco (scritto: intermedio parlato: base)
Latino (scritto: intermedio parlato: base)
Greco antico (scritto: intermedio parlato: base)
Russo (scritto: base parlato: base)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
Co-Curatore e membro del comitato editoriale di "Nietzsche-Studien. Internationales Jahrbuch der Nietzscheforschung"
Co-Curatore e membro del comitato editoriale di "Intersections. Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture"
Co-Curatore e membro del comitato editoriale di "Zeitsprünge" Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit"
Comitato scientifico: Studi germanici
Comitato scientifico di: Materiali di Estetica
Co-Curatore della collana: Monographien und Texte zur Nietzscheforschung
Co-Curatore della collana: Kometen der Moderne
Co-Curatore della collana: Textologie der Literatur und Wissenschaften
Co-Curatore della collana: Texte zur Wissensgeschichte der Kunst
Comitato scientifico: Collana: Nietzsche lesen
Comitato scientifico: Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories
Comitato scientifico: Itineranze: Etiche, filosofie e impegno civile
Comitato scientifico: Biblioteca di saggi del '900
Comitato scientifico: Hyper-Nietzsche.org
Comitato scientifico: Nietzsche-Online (De Gruyter)
Comitato scientifico: Oswald Spengler-Schriftenreihe
Comitato scientifico: Jakob Böhme: Sämtliche Werke. Historisch-Kritische Ausgabe
Comitato scientifico: verum factum. https://verumfactum.it/boards
Comitato scientifico: „Les éditions d'Ariane“. Gruppo Internazionale di Ricerche su Nietzsche
Comitato scientifico: L'idea. Testi - Fonti -Lessico - Disegni https://lidea.abaroma.it/
Participation as referees of national and international research projects
Reviewer per:
DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
ESF European Science Foundation
SNSF Swiss National Foundation
FWF (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung) Austria
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Österreichisches Ministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft
National Science Centre Poland
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung (BMWF), Germany
CSC China Scholarhip Council
CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil
Humboldt-Stiftung
Thyssen-Stiftung
DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
NIAS (Netherland Institute for Advanced science)
Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes
Villigst: Evangelisches Studienwerk
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Werner-Ross-Stipendien
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Filologia e Lingua Linea: Filologia moderna e critica del testo
Area: Filologia e Lingua Linea: Informatica umanistica
Area: Filologia e Lingua Linea: Linguistica storica
Area: Filologia e Lingua
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Ermeneutica
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Estetica
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Filosofia della scienza
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Filosofia politica
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Storia della filosofia
Area: Informatica Linea: PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Area: Informatica
Area: Letteratura Linea: Critica del testo
Area: Letteratura Linea: Letteratura e arti
Area: Letteratura Linea: Letterature comparate
Area: Letteratura Linea: Teoria della letteratura
Area: Letteratura
Area: Lingue e letterature europee Linea: tedesca
Area: Studi culturali Linea: Studi culturali
Storia della letteratura
Description:
History of Literature
Keywords:
Literature, German literature, European literature
ATECO code:
[58.1] - edizione di libri, periodici ed altre attività editoriali
Filosofia e Teoria della letteratura
Description:
Philosophy and theory of literature
Keywords:
Comparative literature, Aesthetics, Literary criticism
ATECO code:
[72] - ricerca scientifica e sviluppo
Informatica umanistica
Description:
Digitial Humanities
Keywords:
Humanities, Computer technology, Comparative literature
ATECO code:
[58] - attività editoriali
Interazioni tra letteratura, arte e scienza
Description:
Interactions of literature, art and science
Keywords:
Comparative literature, Art history, History of science
ATECO code:
[72] - ricerca scientifica e sviluppo
Storia della letteratura e cultura tedesca, svizzera e austriaca
Description:
History of german literature and culture
Keywords:
Germanic philology, Aesthetics, History of philosophy
ATECO code:
[72.20] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze sociali e umanistiche
Circolazioni, configurazioni, innovazioni: Il dramma europeo della prima età moderna
SSD:
L-LIN/13
Other members of the research group:
Maria Ida BIGGI
Franz FISCHER-SCHOLZ
Cristina FOSSALUZZA
Maria Del Valle OJEDA CALVO
Adrian Jesus SAEZ GARCIA
Pier-Mario VESCOVO
Comete della modernità: edizioni critiche di autori modernisti dimenticati
SSD:
L-LIN/13
Fenomenologia e letteratura: Modernismo a Praga
SSD:
L-LIN/13
Goethe: "Venezianische Epigramme. Edizione digitale e commentario
SSD:
L-LIN/13
Other members of the research group:
Franz FISCHER-SCHOLZ
Il carteggio di Nietzsche. Edizione digitale e commentario
SSD:
L-LIN/13
Incommensurabilità e comprensione
SSD:
L-FIL-LET/14
La porta del libro: frontespizi nel primo periodo moderno
SSD:
L-FIL-LET/14
Letteratura e filosofia
SSD:
L-LIN/13
Nietzsche come scrittore
SSD:
L-LIN/13
Nikodemus Frischlin: Deutsche Komödien - edizione storico-critica
Textologia della letteratura e delle scienze
SSD:
L-LIN/13
Ästhetische Formen der Wissensgenerierung in der Frühen Neuzeit
SSD:
M-FIL/06
Nietzsches Briefwechsel. Digitale Referenzausgabe und Kommentar
Funding body:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2024 Length in months: 36
Adorno: edizione critica dei dattiloscritti di un capitolo della Ästhetische Theorie
Funding body:
BWMF
Type:
Altri programmi ministeriali
Role in the project:
LD
Sito di progetto:
https://www.creta.uni-stuttgart.de/forschungsschwerpunkte/#Fachgruppe_%C2%BBAesthetische_Theorie%C2%AB
Starting date:
Year: 2016 Length in months: 48
COSMOPOLITANISM: Justice, Democracy and Citizenship without Borders
Funding body:
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Foundation for Science and Technology, Public Institution, Portugal)
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
PT
Sito di progetto:
https://cosmopolites.wixsite.com/cosmopolitanism
Starting date:
Year: 2017 Length in months: 60
CRETA -- Center for reflected text analytics
Funding body:
German ministry of education and research (BMBF)
Type:
Bando Cluster Tecnologici Nazionali
Role in the project:
NS
Sito di progetto:
https://www.creta.uni-stuttgart.de/en/
Starting date:
Year: 2016 Length in months: 48
Ecce Sub-jectum: Aesthetic, Narratology and Ethics after Nietzsche.
Funding body:
DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Type:
Altri programmi ministeriali
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2012 Length in months: 24
Formen und Funktionen ästhetischer Wissensgenerierung in der Frühen Neuzeit: Descartes und sein wissenskultureller Kontext (D 04)
Funding body:
DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Sito di progetto:
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/5448167?language=en
Starting date:
Year: 2005 Length in months: 48
GIP Germanistische Institutspartnerschaft UWM Olsztyn - FU Berlin
Funding body:
DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2003 Length in months: 120
Goethes "Venezianische Epigramme". Digitale Edition
Funding body:
Istituto italiano di studi germanici
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2023 Length in months: 48
Ludwik Fleck's scientific practice and historic epistemology: Edizioni critiche
Funding body:
Polish Academy of Science, MPIWG Berlino, DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2005 Length in months: 60
Narrative Identity: Nietzsche's autobiographical writings
Funding body:
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2012 Length in months: 18
Philosophy and Textuality. Meaning and interrelationships of textuality, aesthetics and argumentation in the writings of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein
Funding body:
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2012 Length in months: 18
Secular images and their epistemic configurations in Early Modern Europe
Funding body:
Max Planck Society
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
PT
Sito di progetto:
https://www.khi.fi.it/de/forschung/abgeschlossene-projekte/das-wissende-bild-epistemologische-grundlagen-profaner-bildlichkeit-vom-15-bis-19-jahrhundert.php
Starting date:
Year: 2007 Length in months: 60
TOPTEXT. Un modello algebrico-topologico per l'analisi di argomenti trattati nei testi
Funding body:
promosso dal programma "Terra Incognita" dell'Università di Stoccarda
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Sito di progetto:
https://www.srcts.uni-stuttgart.de/abteilungen/hermeneutik/toptext
Starting date:
Year: 2025 Length in months: 12
Technology as Cultural Heritage / La Storia del Disegno Technico del Rinascimento e della Prima Modernità come Patrimonio Comune Europeo.
Funding body:
EU - Programma: Cultura 2000
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
PT
Sito di progetto:
https://www.leonardodigitale.com/en/browse/codex-atlanticus/0001-r/
Starting date:
Year: 2000 Length in months: 24
The heritage and future of humanism
Funding body:
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Germany
Type:
Altri programmi ministeriali
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2015 Length in months: 6
Wissenkulturen in der antiken und frühneuzeitlichen Philosophie
Funding body:
DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
SB
Sito di progetto:
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/5482936
Starting date:
Year: 2000 Length in months: 60
„Literarische und philosophische Texttheorie und Ästhetik: interdisziplinäre Methoden, Interpretations- und Editions-Konzepte in Philosophie und Literaturwissenschaft“:
Funding body:
QSM Quality Inssurance fond - University of Stuttgart
Type:
Progetti di Ateneo
Role in the project:
LD
Sito di progetto:
https://www.srcts.uni-stuttgart.de/forschung/lehrprojekt-texttheorie-und-aesthetik/
Starting date:
Year: 2015 Length in months: 24

Publication highlights

Zittel, Claus Romansymphonik. Adornos 'Theorie des Romans' , Heidelberg, Universitätsverlag Winter, vol. 3, pp. 1-227
2026, Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5110631


Claus Zittel; Laura Friedrichsohn Max Brod: Schloss Nornepygge , Düsseldorf, C. W. Leske, vol. 6, pp. 1-536 (ISBN 978-3-946595-49-6) (ISSN 2627-1710)
- URL correlato 2026, Critical edition of texts/Critical edition of excavation - ARCA card: 10278/5110630


Zittel, Claus; Fabian Mauch Nicodemus Frischlin: Band IV,1: Deutsche Dichtungen und Entwürfe , Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt, Frommann-Holzboog, vol. IV, 1, pp. 1-363 (ISBN 978-3-7728-2804-1)
- URL correlato 2026, Critical edition of texts/Critical edition of excavation - ARCA card: 10278/5110632


Zittel, Claus; Friedrichsohn, Laura DAS »MODERNSTE DER MODERNEN BÜCHER«. Max Brods wilder Erstling Schloss Nornepygge , Max Brod: Schloß Nornepygge, Düsseldorf, C. W. Leske, vol. 6, pp. 483-534 (ISBN 978-3-946595-49-6) (ISSN 2627-1710)
2026, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5120700


Zittel, Claus; Fischer, Franz; Fusi, Daniele; Baldelli, Giulia; Zupancic, Matteo In Search of Lost Time:
an Innovative Model for Representing Autograph Texts , Proceedings del XV Convegno Annuale dell’Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD), Bologna, Fondazione Bologna University Press, pp. 567-572, Convegno: Digitale e Public Engagement: pratiche e prospettive nelle Digital Humanities XV convegno annuale dell’Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD), 03/06/2026–05/06/2026 (ISBN 9791298618817)
- URL correlato 2026, Article in Conference Proceedings - ARCA card: 10278/5117047


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Education

1984-1994    Student of Philosophy, German Literature, History, Art History, and Psychoanalysis at the Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main and Pisa (Italy). Magister Thesis: Selbstaufhebungsfiguren bei Nietzsche (with excellence)
1999       PHD, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main. Doctoral Thesis: Das ästhetische Kalkül von Friedrich Nietzsches ‚Also sprach Zarathustra‘
2008 Habilitation Thesis: Theatrum Philosophicum: Descartes und die Rolle ästhetischer Formen in der Wissenschaft
2009 Habilitation, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

2023 On January 31, 2023, he was awarded the national scientific qualification for the positions of first-rank professor in the field 10/M1 (German Literature) (l'abilitazione scientifica nazionale alle funzioni di professore di prima fascia nel settore 10/M1 (Letteratura Tedesca)).

Academic  Employment

1999-2008   Research Assistant at the Department of Philosophy at Goethe-University Frankfurt within the research project of the German Research Foundation (DFG): Culture of knowledge and social change.

2007-2008   Co-leader of the DFG Research Project: Aesthetic forms of Knowledge generation in Early Modern Europe
1999 - 2019 Professor of German Literature and Culture, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Polen
Januar 1 2007-december 31 2011: Co-Leader of the independent Max Planck Research Group: The conscious image. The Epistemological Foundations of Secular Representation 1400-1850, Kunsthistorisches Institut / Max-Planck-Institut, Florence, Italy.
Since April 2009: Adjunct Professor (privatdozent) in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main.
October 1 2011- march 31 2014: Visiting professor of German literature at the Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, FU Berlin

Sept. /Oktober 2012: Visiting profesor at the Peking-University (Beida) / Visiting profess0r at Chongqing University for Foreign Languages
May 2013 Visiting Professor at the University of Trieste
November 2013: Visiting Professor at the University of Zagreb
Since April 2014: Deputy Director of the Stuttgart Research Centre for Text Studies
Since october 2015: Professor (apl.) of German Literature at the University of Stuttgart
October 2015- March 2016: Visiting Professor at the University of Padova (6 months)

Interim professorships (Vertretungsprofessuren)

April 2014- March 2015: Deputy Professorship at the University of Stuttgart (replacing Sandra Richter)
October 1 2011- March 31 2014: Visiting professor of German literature at the Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, FU Berlin (replacing Peter-André Alt)
March-September 2010: Visiting Professor of philosophy of science, TU Darmstadt (replacing Alfred Nordmann).

Languages           German, English, Italian, French, Polish, Russian, Latin (Latinum),  Ancient Greek (Graecum)

Grants/scholarships/fellowships

1990-1992: scholarship at the University of Pisa
June 1995-january 1998: PhD bursary (Graduate support from the German state Hessen)
Summer 2001: Research Fellow at the Department for Philosophy of the University of Berkeley
April 1999-2005: 6-Year travel-grant sponsored by the Georg und Maria Dietrich Stiftung
October 2010: Travel Grant, sponsored by the German Exchange Service (FU Berlin)
November /December 2009: Research Fellowship at the DFG Research Group Bildakt und Verkörperung, Humboldt-University Berlin
Sept. /October 2012: Visiting professorship at Peking University (Beida)
May 2013: Erasmus-Visiting Professorship at University of Trieste
November 2013: DAAD-Visiting Professorship at University of Zagreb
November 2014: Marbach-Stipendium, Research Fellowship at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
May 2015: Marbach-Stipendium, Research Fellowship at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
2015/2016: Visiting Professorship at the University of Padova

March 2017: Visiting Professorship at the University of Trento

Memberships

»    Member of the Consiglio scientifico, Istituto italiano di studi germanici, Roma https://www.studigermanici.it/istituto/il-consiglio-scientifico/

»    Member of the Stiftungsrat Nietzsche-Haus  Sils Maria

»    Associate Research Scholar at the Max Planck-Institut/ Kunsthistorisches Institut Firenze

»    Exzellenzcluster „Bild, Wissen, Gestaltung“, HU-Berlin

»    AIG Italia

»    Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Mittelalter - Renaissance - Frühe Neuzeit, FU Berlin,

»    Nietzschegesellschaft e.V. (Halle und Naumburg),

»    Hölderlingesellschaft e.V.,

»    International Nietzsche Research Group  (INRG, Groupe International de Recherches sur Nietzsche / Gruppo Internazionale di Ricerche su    Nietzsche, GIRN),

»    Vice President of the Carl Sternheim Gesellschaft e.V. Frankfurt a. M

Editorial Boards

Co-Curatore e membro del comitato editoriale di "Nietzsche-Studien. Internationales Jahrbuch der Nietzscheforschung"
Co-Curatore e membro del comitato editoriale di "Intersections. Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture"
Co-Curatore e membro del comitato editoriale di "Zeitsprünge" Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit"
Comitato scientifico: Studi germanici
Comitato scientifico di: Materiali di Estetica
Co-Curatore della collana: Monographien und Texte zur Nietzscheforschung
Co-Curatore della collana: Kometen der Moderne
Co-Curatore della collana: Textologie der Literatur und Wissenschaften
Co-Curatore della collana: Texte zur Wissensgeschichte der Kunst
Comitato scientifico: Collana: Nietzsche lesen
Comitato scientifico: Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories
Comitato scientifico: Itineranze: Etiche, filosofie e impegno civile
Comitato scientifico: Biblioteca di saggi del '900
Comitato scientifico: Hyper-Nietzsche.org
Comitato scientifico: Nietzsche-Online (De Gruyter)
Comitato scientifico: Oswald Spengler-Schriftenreihe
Comitato scientifico: Jakob Böhme: Sämtliche Werke. Historisch-Kritische Ausgabe
Comitato scientifico: verum factum. https://verumfactum.it/boards
Comitato scientifico: „Les éditions d'Ariane“. Gruppo Internazionale di Ricerche su Nietzsche

 

 

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