David Alvarado has a master’s degree on Literature by the Universidad de los Andes as well as a major in Literature from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He has worked as coordinator of Spanish courses at the Universidad de los Andes as well as a translator of German literature. At the Universität zu Köln, he is carrying out his PHD on German Studies. He also works as a Spanish lecturer at the University of Bonn, at the Technische Hochschule Köln as well as Spanish teacher at the VHS at Cologne.
Research Areas
Friedrich Hölderlin
Neuere Deutsche Literatur (Modern German Literature)
Theory and history of drama
Literature and philosophy
Foreign language teaching
Research Project
The subject of the present research is Hölderlin's development of a theory of tragedy between 1790 and 1803, yet this thesis does not intend to consider Hölderlin's perspective on tragedy as part of the discourse on the role of theater in the moral education of society. In contrast, this research argues that Friedrich Hölderlin's conceptualization of tragedy departs from the Aristotelian reinterpretation of this genre around 1800, in that the poet conceives of tragedy as part of a theory of knowledge. As becomes clear here, for Hölderlin tragedy is not an imitation of an action, but a metaphor based on a paradox: Tragedy is meant to bring to light what is actually invisible. Namely: an intellectual view.
Publications
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