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Peter-André Alt was born on 16 May, 1960 in Berlin, Germany, is a German literary scholar (born 1960). Discover Peter-André Alt's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?
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Peter-André Alt (born 16 June 1960 in Berlin) is a German literary scholar, former president of the Freie Universitaet of Berlin and, since August 2018, president of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK).
Alt is married to the writer Sabine Alt (Eva Ehley) and has two adult sons.
Among the first authors Alt read was Karl May: at the age of eight he read Winnetou I. Following his Abitur, Alt studied 1979 to 1984 German, political science, history and philosophy at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1984 and accomplished his habilitation in 1993.
Alt's publications since 1985 include 19 monographs, more than 100 essays, 25 reviews, several editions, six anthologies on German-language and European literature of the 17th to 18th and 20th centuries.
Special historical foci are the early modern period, Weimar Classicism and the literature of classical modernism.
From 1987 to 1992 he was a research assistant at the chair of Hans-Jürgen Schings at the Freie Universitaet, from 1992 to 1993 he held a habilitation fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG), and from 1994 to 1995 he was a Heisenberg Fellow of the DFG.
1995 he was appointed to a full professorship of Modern German Literature at the Ruhr University in Bochum; 2002 he moved to a chair at the University of Würzburg.
Since 2005, he has been Professor of Modern German Literature at Freie Universitaet Berlin, succeeding his teacher Schings.
Since 2005, Alt has regularly published articles on issues of science and education policy in regional and national daily newspapers, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Berliner Tagesspiegel.
In 2005, Alt received the Schiller Prize of the City of Marbach am Neckar for his two-volume biography of Schiller (2000).
Alt was director of the Dahlem Research School (Center for Graduate Studies) at the Freie Universitaet Berlin from 2008-2010, and also directed the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies from 2007-2010 (excellence funding from the German federal and state governments).
He is and has been a member of numerous advisory boards (German Literature Archive Marbach, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography) and a reviewer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
He has held guest lectureships in Trieste (Italy), among other places; research stays have taken him as a visiting scholar to the University of Cambridge, the USA (Princeton University), Italy (Rome, La Villa, Como) and the Czech Republic (Prague).
From 2008 to 2020, Alt was on the board of the German Schiller Society (supporting association of the German Literature Archive), and acted as its president from 2012 to 2020.
In 2008, he was awarded the Opus Magnum scholarship from the Volkswagen and Thyssen foundations as part of the "Pro Geisteswissenschaften" initiative for the completion of his book project Aesthetics of Evil.
12 May 2010, Alt was elected President of Freie Universitaet Berlin.
His term of office began on 3 June 2010.
He was re-elected for a second term on 30 April 2014.
He wrote a weekly column for the Berliner Morgenpost between 2014 and 2017; November 2017 to March 2021 he was a columnist for the Berliner Zeitung.
His research focuses on questions of the historicity and normativity of poetological and aesthetic systems of order, the history of tragedy, the relationship between knowledge and literature in the early modern period (dream, imagination, hermetism, paradox) and the reflection of political theology in texts of the 17th century.
An important area of Alt's work is also literary biography, both in terms of its specific methodology and in relation to problems of literary authorship.
Following is presidency at Freie Universitaet Alt was elected president of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK) in April 2018, succeeding Horst Hippler.
Alt took office on 1 August 2018.
On 27 April 2021, Alt was re-elected by the HRK General Assembly for a further three years as President from 1 August 2021.
