Dr Jonathan Otto Wipplinger
Assistant Professor
- Website: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jowippli/
- Email: jowippli@ncsu.edu
Biography
I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and received my undergraduate degrees in German and History from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (1999). I have traveled extensively in Germany and studied at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg im Breisgau. I received my Ph.D. in German from the University of Michigan in 2006. My dissertation "The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany" argues that American jazz music was of fundamental significance to German culture during the period between 1918 and 1933. Before joining NC State, I was a visiting assistant professor in German at the College of the Holy Cross.
Interests
19th and 20th century literature and culture; the Weimar Republic; images of America; race; music; media, especially sound and recording technologies; popular culture; Frankfurt School critical theory
Publications
“‘Ich schnitt in seine Rinde so manches liebe Wort.’ Liebe zum Grammophon und grammophonische Liebe bei Thomas Mann.” Thomas Mann. Neue kulturwissenschaftliche Lektüren, ed. Stefan Börnchen. Munich: Fink Verlag. Forthcoming 2012.
“Performing Race in Ernst Krenek’s Jonny spielt auf.” In Blackness in Opera, eds. Naomi André, Karen Bryan, Eric Saylor. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. Forthcoming 2012.
“The Racial Ruse: On Blackness and Blackface Comedy in fin-de-siècle Germany.” German Quarterly Volume 84, Number 3 (Fall 2011): tbd.
“Bridging the Great Divides: Cultural Difference and Transnationalism at Frankfurt’s Jazzklasse.” In From Black to Schwarz: Cultural Crossovers between African America and Germany, eds. Maria I. Diedrich and Jürgen Heinrichs. Berlin: LitVerlag, 2010/East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2011. 119-138.
“The Aural Shock of Modernity: Weimar’s Experience of Jazz.” Germanic Review. Volume 82, Number 4 (Fall 2007): 299-320.
Presentations
“April 1933: Adorno and Jazz.” German Studies Association Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, September 2011.
“‘Ich schnitt in seine Rinde so manches liebe Wort:’ Liebe zum Grammophon und grammophische Liebe bei Thomas Mann.” German Studies Association Conference, Oakland, California, October 2010.
“Music and Illness in Thomas Mann Tristan.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2009.
“Thomas Mann’s Phonograph,” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Greenville, South Carolina, October 2009.
“Phonographic Culture: The Technological Reception of African American Music in Early 20th Century Germany,” German Studies Association Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 2008.
“Jazz World: Weimar Music Between High and Low,” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 2006.
“We Wear The Mask: Blackface and German Modernism,” German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 2006.
“Bridging the Great Divide(s): Cultural Difference and Transnationalism at the Hoch Conservatory Jazzklasse in 1928,” Crossovers: African Americans and Germany, Muenster, Germany, March 2006.
“‘Auf die Frage: Was ist Deutsch(rap)?’ Language and Nation in Recent German Popular Music,” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters, Oakland, Michigan, March 2006.
“Girlkultur: Colonial Masculinity in the Metropolis,” German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 2005.
“Predestined to Ambiguity: Freud's Jewish Identity in The Interpretation of Dreams,” Germany and the European Context. New Perspectives in Graduate Studies, Toronto, Canada, March 2001.
Responsibilities
German Studies Adviser, 2008-present
Exit Interview Committee, 2008-2011
Education
- Ph.D. in German from University of Michigan, 2006
- B.A. in German from University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1999
- B.A. in History from University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1999
