Richard E. Schade
Professor
734 Old Chemistry Building
513-556-2756
richard.schade@uc.edu
Professional Summary
Richard Schade has published on the interplay of the graphic arts andliterature during the period from 1500-1750, with special attention tothe frontispieces of Grimmelshausen's novels. He also has focused hisresearch on the life and works of the Neo-Latin scholar and dramatistNicodemus Frischlin, on the early modern traditions of comedy, on courtfestival conventions and on the Faust-tradition in literature, art andmusic, as well as aspects of German-American literary culture. Asmanaging editor of the Lessing Yearbookfor many years, he has an abiding interest in Gotthold E. Lessing andin issues of the German Enlightenment. His current project examines therelationship between literary and visual texts in the works of GüntherGrass. An award-winning teacher at the university, he teaches in hisareas of expertise and in the history of German culture from Medievalto the 20th century. He serves the Greater Cincinnati community as Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany.
About the Honorarkonsul
There has been a representative of Germany in Cincinnati, Ohio, ever since 1847. Back then, the Consul served the needs of an emerging German-American community in the city. Over the years, there have been many changes and ups-and-downs affecting Germany's foreign relations to the United States of America and Cincinnati, but diplomatic ties have continued. Since World War II, Honorary Consuls have served the interests of Germany in the Greater Cincinnati and Tristate area.
Education
PhD, Yale,
1976.
Research Interests
Richard Schade has published on the interplay of the graphic arts and literature during the period from1500-1750, with special attention to the frontispieces of Grimmelshausen's novels. He also has focused his research on the life and works of the Neo-Latin scholar and dramatist Nicodemus Frischlin, on the early modern traditions of comedy, on court festival conventions and on the Faust-tradition in literature, art and music, as well as aspects of German-American literary culture. As managing editor of the Lessing Yearbook for many years, he has an abiding interest in Gotthold E. Lessing and in issues of the German Enlightenment. An award-winning teacher at the university, he teaches in his areas of expertise and in the history of German culture from Medieval to the 20th century. He serves the Greater Cincinnati community as Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Peer Reviewed Publications
"Layers of Meaning, War, Art: Grass’s Beim Häuten der Zwiebel." German Quarterly (2007): 279 – 301.
"Der englischredende Logau: Zur Rezeption der Sinngedichte im amerikanischen Sprachbereich." Chloe (2006): 465-487.
"Günter Grass’s Mein Jahrhundert: Histories, Paintings and Performance." Monatshefte (2004): 409-421.
"Court Festival Culture during the Reign of Duke Friedrich of Württemberg (1593-1608)." Daphnis (2003): 83-118.
"Der Geislinger Karl Friedrich Adae als deutscher Konsul in Cincinnati/Ohio (1847-1868)." Historisches Jahrbuch für den Kreis G—ppingen (2003): 125-134.
"A War Story of Deceit, Gambling, and Sex: Simplicissimus at the Siege of Magdeburg (1636)." Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift (2003): 155-181.
Books
Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment. Festschrift for John A. McCarthy. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.
Lessing Yearbook XXXVII. 2007.
Poetic Aphorisms from the Sinngedichte of Friedrich von Logau [H.W. Longfellow’s translations of Logau epigrams]. Lexington: Polyglot Press, 2005.
Lessing Yearbook XXXVI. 2005.
Mit Lessing zur Moderne. Kamenz: Lessing, 2004.
Lessing Yearbook XXXV. 2003.
Lessing Yearbook XXXIV. 2002.
Book Chapters
"Introduction." Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 13 – 19.
"Keine Grenzen: Minna in Charleston (1794-95), Nathan in New York (2002)." Lessings Grenzen. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2005. 223-232.
"Lessings Werk in der Bildenden Kunst des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts." Mit Lessing zur Moderne. Kamenz: Lessing Museum, 2004. 179-189.
"Sense and Intellect: Logau’s Epigrams." A New History of German Literature. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004. 280-286.
Reviews
Kühlmann. "Lyrik." GQ 80. (2006): 248-250.
"Lessing." Monatshefte 99. (2005): 225-226.
Erlin. "Berlin’s Forgotten Future." GQ 77. (2004): 492-494.
Nivre. "Representations of Women." GQ 78. (2004): 249-250.
"Fecal Matters." Daphnis 34. (2004): 377-378.
Roper. "Witch Craze." GQ 78. (2004): 381-383.
Editorials
"Forum." Editorial GQ 80 2007: 100.
Other Publications
"Carl Friedrich Adae (1815-1868): A Cincinnati German as Konsul." Cincinnati: German-American Studies Program (2006): 34.
"From Germany to America: The Papers of Gerhard Rudolf Schade (1906 – 1999), ” Parts 1 & 2." Cincinnati: German-American Studies Program (2006): 22, 30.
"Günter Grass in Ohio." Cincinnati: German-American Studies Program (2004): 27.
