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Wilhelm Voßkamp (University of Cologne) was visiting professor of German Literature at the University of Säo Paulo during the first semestre of 1997. This interview, given to Willi Bolle (USP), focuses on the following questions: 1. His most important professional and historical experiences; 2. the concept of formation (Bildung); 3. comparison of trends in Philosophy and the Humanities in Germany and France in the last decades; 4. the crisis cf education in the 60s, its causes and attempted solutions; 5. the history and tradition of Literary Studies and the Humanities; 6. modernization and interdisciplinarity; 7. scientific language: English v German; 8. deutsche Germanistik and German Studies; 9. Estudos Germánicos in Brazil; 10. utopia and tradition in Brazil and Germany; 11. institutional utopias; 12. Transformation of the humanities in Germany after unification.
Two tableaux de la nature, two descriptions of the sunrise in the Amazon, from the travel journals of Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1819) and Mário de Andrade (1927), are discussed from the perspective of Goethe's 'Theory of colours' (1810). While Martius' text is obliged to the Naturalist and Romantic tradition, Mário de Andrade, one of the voices of the avant-garde in the 20th century, expresses a "new aesthesia", within a conjunction of aesthetic and anthropological materialism. In this paper I intend to find out the extent to which the Naturalist Martius, the Poet Mário de Andrade and the scientist-and-poet Goethe propose a vision, in which Nature, far from being dominated, is respected as the true Partner of Civilization.
Ethnopoesie und Ethnographie
(2001)
This paper is a comparative investigation of two kinds of anthropological fieldwork – ethnopoetry and ethnography – made by two authors on the same subject, at the same place and time: the Afro-Brazilian temple Casa das Minas, in São Luis do Maranhão, in 1981-1982. The analysis focuses on the work of the German writer Hubert Fichte(1935-1986), 'Das Haus der Mina in São Luis do Maranhão (l989), and on the study of the Brazilian anthropologist Sergio FERRETTI, 'Querenbentã de Zomadônu. Etnografia da Casa das Minas do Mamnhão' (1983 and 1996). The comparison of methods and results reveals, on the one hand, advantages of the ethnopoetical approach in the art of interview, priority given to the informants' discourse, and the interpretation of religious rituals, from a general point of view. On the other hand, the special qualities of the ethnographical approach are the theoretical understanding and the didactic transmission of the other culture, combined with the translation of basic concepts through a glossary. – See also, in this number of Pandaemonium Germanicum, Sergio Ferretti's complementary article on "Ethnography and Ethnopoetry".