Büchner’s Animals: A Bestiary

在比什内尔的短短的作品中，可以发现非常多的动物。动物被明确提到了近250次，总共有100种不同的动物物种被提到。这些动物使得一个同时连贯和差异化的问题领域被束缚在比什内尔的作品中，人类学、政治学、物种政治学和美学的元素在其中相遇：通过这些动物，比什内尔的文本反映了人类的不安全地位、社会等级制度的暴力机制以及生物和审美的政治化--特别是怪诞的阶段。比什内尔没有将这些问题作为一个精心设计的理论来呈现，而是在他的文学文本中将它们分散在他的各种动物术语和物种中。计划的项目旨在将这些分散的影射收集在一个综合研究中，但通过这样做，可以适当地关注比什内尔提到的每一个特定的动物。《兽医》的形式旨在实现多样性中的统一概念，从A Wie Affe(Eng：A代表猿)到Z Wie Zweifüumberler(Eng：两足动物)的83个条目分别解释了比什内尔作品中的动物，并将其集中在一本专著中，试图实现完整性。这项事业一方面植根于比什内尔研究领域。通过这种方式，它与Marburger Büchner Ausgabe(MBA 2000-2013)的注释传统以及近20年来出现的对Büchner的文化研究和认识论研究方法相联系。另一方面，这项工作是在文化和文学动物研究的框架内进行的。通过这种方式，它与一种新的研究范式联系在一起，在过去的10年里，它以自己的具体话语和一套理论和方法确立了自己。因此，拟议的项目最终旨在将两个差异很大的领域结合在一起：作者研究和动物研究。该项目可以综合利用前人对PI的研究。关于比什内尔，有一本手册、一本专著、一本文集和15篇论文可供使用，关于动物研究有一本手册、三本文集和83篇论文，其中五本特别关注乔治·比什内尔作品中的动物。在这五篇论文以及三个学期的演讲和讲稿中，83个计划参赛作品中的42个已经起草完毕；其余41个参赛作品的准备工作(研究、论证)已经完成。

In Büchner’s short work there are remarkably many animals to be found. Animals are mentioned explicitly nearly 250 times, with altogether one hundred different animal species being mentioned. These animals enable a simultaneously coherent and differentiated field of questions to be bound to Büchner’s work, in which elements of anthropology, political theory, Species Politics and aesthetics meet: Through these animals Büchner’s texts reflect on the insecure position of the human, the violent mechanisms of social hierarchies and the politicisation of the biological and its aesthetic - in particular, grotesque - stagings. Büchner does not present these questions as an elaborate theory, rather scatters them throughout his varied animal terms and species within his literary texts. The intended project aims to collect these scattered insinuations within one integrative study, yet by so doing dedicate suitable attention to each of Büchner’s particular animal mentions. The format of the Bestiary aims towards this concept of unity in variety, with the animals found in Büchner’s works to be individually interpreted across in 83 entries from A wie Affe (Eng: A for Ape) to Z wie Zweifüßler (Eng: Bipeds) and brought together within a monograph in an attempt at completeness. This undertaking is on one hand anchored within the field of Büchner research. In this way it is linked to the tradition of annotation of the Marburger Büchner Ausgabe (MBA 2000-2013) as well as to the cultural studies and epistemological studies approaches to Büchner that have emerged within the last 20 years. On the other hand, the undertaking is situated within the framework of Cultural and Literary Animal Studies. In this way it is linked to a new research paradigm which established itself with its own specific discourse and set of theories and methods within the last 10 years. Thus, the proposed project ultimately aims towards bringing together two otherwise widely differentiated fields: Author studies and Animal Studies. The project can make use of a comprehensive body of previous research of the PI. With regards to Büchner, there are, among others a handbook, a monograph, a collected volume and 15 essays to make use of, and with regards to Animal Studies a handbook, three collected volumes and 83 essays of which five have a special focus of animals in the works of Georg Büchner. In these five essays, as well as in presentations and lecture scripts from three semesters, 42 of the 83 planned entries have already been drafted; the preparatory work (research, argumentation) for the remaining 41 entries is already complete.