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OKAMOTO KAZUKO
 
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Undergraduate School School of Arts and Letters Professor
Title
Professor
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Degree

  • Doctor of Letters ( 2003.3   The University of Tokyo )

Research Interests

  • Modern german Literature, Berlin Literature, Walter Benjamin

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / Literature - European  / German modern Literature

Education

  • The University of Tokyo   Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology   European and American Studies

    1998.4 - 2003.3

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    Country/Region: Japan

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Professional Memberships

Papers

  • Resistance to Singing - On the Attitude of "Asking Myself in Solitude" in Yo Henmi's "1★9★3★7"

    Kazuko Okamoto

    ( 150 )   63 - 87   2023.3

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  • ふさがれた記憶への旅—ドイツ経由で日本に帰る

    岡本和子

    文芸研究(明治大学文芸研究会)   ( 147 )   31 - 38   2022.3

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  • Berlin, the uninhabitable city. An Approach from modern German literature Reviewed

    Kazuko Okamoto

    Literary Studies (Meiji University)   ( 143 )   27 - 64   2021.3

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  • An Attempt at comedy in German Romanticism. Clemans Brentanos "Poce de Leon" Reviewed

    Kazuko Okamoto

    Aurora (Eichendorff-Gesellschaft Japan)   ( 37 )   60 - 73   2020.4

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  • Die Darstellung der Kindheit in der neueren deutschen Literatur - mit Fokus auf Berlin Reviewed

    Kazuko Okamoto

    Memoirs of the Institute of Cultural Sciences, Meiji University   80   55 - 95   2017.3

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  • Colleced Letters as Testimony of the German Bourgeoisie - An Attempt at an Approach to Benjamin's German People Reviewed

    Kazuko Okamoto

    Neue Beiträge zur Germanistik   155   74 - 94   2017

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  • A northern city Berlin as scene of remembering by Walter Benjamin Invited

    Kazuko Okamoto

    Report collection of Symposium "Memory as materia" (Language and Culture Centre at Hosei University)   2016

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  • Die Idee der „Sprache des Kindes“ und die Poetologie bei Clemens Brentano

    Kazuko Okamoto

    Study of the 19th century scholarship   ( 7 )   109-119   2013.3

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  • Live, Walk and Write: On Walter Benjamins Imitative gestures

    Kazuko Okamoto

    Literary Studies (Meiji University)   ( 120 )   125-142   2013.3

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  • The Idea of "the Language of Children" in Clemens Brentanos "Gockel Märchen"

    Kazuko Okamoto

    Studienreihe der JGG   ( 84 )   51-62   2012.10

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  • Children and Language in "children's songs" of "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" Reviewed

    Kazuko Okamoto

    Aurora (Eichendorff-Gesellschaft Japan)   ( 28 )   1-15   2011.4

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  • An archive of language. On Walter Benjamins Consept of Collection

    Kazuko Okamoto

    Study of the 19th century scholarship   ( 5 )   57-75 - 75   2011.3

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  • 韻と名-ヴァルター・ベンヤミンにおける抒情詩という形式について

    文芸研究(明治大学文芸研究会)   ( 94 )   43 - 69   2009.4

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  • The narrative as an artistic organon of transformation. C. Brentanos „Die Schachtel mit der Friedenspuppe" Reviewed

    Kazuko Okamoto

    Neue Beiträge zur Germanistik   ( 138 )   204-217   2009.3

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  • ベンヤミンにおける子ども―言語と物

    『大東文化大学紀要 人文科学』   ( 45 )   49 - 65   2007.3

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  • 「芸術形式としての象徴―W・ベンヤミン『ゲーテの「親和力」』を手がかりとして」 Reviewed

    『詩・言語』(東京大学大学院ドイツ語・ドイツ文学研究会)   ( 58 )   59 - 79   2003.1

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  • Körperliches Erzählen ― Zu Walter Benjamins Erzähler-Aufsatz. Reviewed

    『詩・言語』(東京大学大学院ドイツ語・ドイツ文学研究会)   ( 57 )   43 - 53   2002.7

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  • W・ベンヤミン『ドイツ悲劇の根源』における<時間的なものの空間化> Reviewed

    『詩・言語』(東京大学大学院ドイツ語・ドイツ文学研究会)   ( 56 )   23 - 46   2002.1

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Books

  • Spazieren in Berlin

    ( Role: Sole translator ,  Original_author: Hessel, Franz)

    2025.6  ( ISBN:9784588011818

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    Total pages:408p, 図版8p(ページ付なし)   Language:Japanese  

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  • Repräsentationsräume der Gewalt --- Krisen in Europa im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert.

    ( Role: Edit)

    2024.2  ( ISBN:9784588130403

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    Total pages:386, 3p   Language:Japanese  

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  • Doitsubungakuno Michishirube. From Nibelungen to Yoko Tawada

    Hiroshi Hatakeyama, Toshiki Yoshinaka, Kazuko Okamoto( Role: Joint editor)

    2021.4  ( ISBN:9784623090785

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    Total pages:vi, 257p   Language:Japanese  

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  • Berlin, a Metropole on the sand

    Kauzko Okamoto( Role: ContributorMagnetic fields created by foreigners. Berlin literary scene before and after the Napoleonic occupation)

    Chikurinsha  2015.6  ( ISBN:9784902084672

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    Total pages:478p   Language:Japanese  

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  • Benjamin Collection 7. "Shi" ki kara cho "Shi" ki he

    Kenjiro Asai, Fumio Doai, Tetsuiji Kubo, Hironobu Uchimura, Kazuko Okamoto( Role: Joint translator ,  Original_author: Walter Benjamin)

    2014.7  ( ISBN:9784480095985

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    Total pages:654p   Language:Japanese  

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  • Benjamin Collection 6. Danpen no Chikara

    Kenjiro Asai, Tetsuji Kubo, Kazuko Okamoto, Makiko Antoku( Role: Joint translator ,  Original_author: Walter Benjamin)

    2012.9  ( ISBN:9784480094643

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    Total pages:702p   Language:Japanese  

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  • Die Kinder der Toten

    Keiko Nakagome, Tsuneo Sunaga, Kazuko Okamoto( Role: Joint translator ,  Original_author: Jelinek, Elfriede)

    2010.12  ( ISBN:9784862652829

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    Total pages:744p   Language:Japanese  

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  • Benjamin Collection 5. Shiko no Spectrum

    Kenjiro Asai, Fumio Doai, Tetsuji Kubo, Kazuko Okamoto( Role: Joint translator ,  Original_author: Walter Benjamin)

    2010.12  ( ISBN:9784480093165

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    Total pages:615p   Language:Japanese  

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  • Kulturfaktor Schmerz : Internationales Kolloquium in Tokyo 2005

    平野, 嘉彦, Ivanović, Christine( Role: Contributor)

    Königshausen & Neumann  2008  ( ISBN:9783826038013

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    Total pages:251 p.   Language:German  

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  • Benjamin Collection 4. Hihyo no Shunkan

    Kenjiro Asai, Fumio Doai, Tetsuji Kubo, Kazuko Okamoto( Role: Joint translator ,  Original_author: Walter Benjamin)

    2007.3  ( ISBN:9784480090256

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    Total pages:670p   Language:Japanese  

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  • ベンヤミンー救済とアクチュアリティ

    ( Role: Contributor主要著作・論文解題『ドイツ・ロマン主義における芸術批評の概念』,『ゲーテの「親和力」』,論考「ベンヤミンの星」)

    河出書房新社  2006.6  ( ISBN:430974012X

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    Total pages:224   Language:Japanese  

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  • Ästhetische Subjektivität : Romantik & Moderne

    Knatz, Lothar, 小田部, 胤久( Role: Contributor„Das Kunstwerk und der Begriff des Lebens bei Walter Benjamin“,pp.119-130.)

    Königshausen & Neumann  2005  ( ISBN:3826031075

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    Total pages:290 p.   Language:German  

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  • The great experimental spirit for the modern German language - About the Complete Klopstock Historical Critical Edition Invited

    Kazuko Okamoto

    25   49 - 53   2021.3

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  • Talking about Psychosis, Talking about Germany - About Oskar Pnizza's Psichopatia criminalis. Invited

    Kazuko Okamoto

    The Book Review Press   ( 3386 )   2018.12

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  • Rezension. Yasumasa OGURO: Die Wasserfrau. Eine Schiffreise nach Topos

    AURORA   ( 30 )   19 - 22   2012.4

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  • Reading Childhood - Against decluttering

    Kazuko Okamoto

    117   140 - 144   2012.3

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Presentations

  • Werkstattgespräch. Jelinek übersetzen in Japan Invited

    Kazuko Okamoto

    SPRACHE.MACHT.GEWALT Elfriede Jelinek im globalen Kontex. Iinternationales Symposium Tokyo.  2024.11 

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  • ロマン派による喜劇の試みとその射程― クレメンス・ブレンターノ『ポンセ・デ・レオン』をめぐって

    日本独文学会春季研究発表会シンポジウム「ロマン派における「遊戯/劇(Spiel)」の理念とその表現」  2019.6  日本独文学会

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    Venue:成城大学  

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  • Ein Häretiker in der Benjamin-Forschung? – Das Schöne an der Wiederholungsmacht der Natur – International conference

    Humboldt-Kolleg, Tokio 2019  2019.5  Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

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    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo  

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  • 北方の都市ベルリン―ベンヤミンの追想の舞台 Invited

    法政大学言語・文化センター公開シンポジウム「マテリアとしての記憶」  2015.12  法政大学言語・文化センター

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    Venue:法政大学  

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  • „Zum Bilde Benjamins – übersetzt und zitiert ins Japanische“

    Benjamin Lektüren. Zur internationalen Rezeption. Ein Symposium des Walter Benjamin Archivs in der Akademie der Künste  2013.9  Akademie der Künste

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    Language:German   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Venue:Berlin  

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  • Die Idee der „Sprache des Kindes“ und die Poetologie bei Clemens Brentano“

    新潟大学人文学部共催国際シンポジウム「ドイツ・ロマン派の時代の危機意識とユートピア」(19世紀学学会・19世紀学研究所)  2012.2 

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    新潟大学

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  • クレメンス・ブレンターノにおける「子どもの言語」の理念と詩論

    日本独文学会秋季研究発表会シンポジウム「ロマン派の時代の危機意識とユートピア」日本独文学会  2011.10  日本独文学会(金沢大学)

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    金沢大学

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  • 言語というアーカイヴ―ベンヤミンの「蒐集」をめぐって

    19世紀学学会シンポジウム「近代とミュージアムの成立」  2010.1  19世紀学会

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    新潟大学

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  • ベンヤミンと子どもの本

    科研研究発表会「ドイツ近・現代文学における〈否定性〉の契機とその働き」  2009.9  基盤研究B

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    九州大学

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  • ヴァルター・ベンヤミンにおける小さいものの理論

    科研研究発表会「ドイツ近・現代文学における〈否定性〉の契機とその働き」  2008.9  (基盤研究B)九州大学

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Awards

  • Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Germanistik in Japan e.V.

    2004.6  

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Research Projects

  • 戦間期ベルリン文学における新進性と第一次大戦と第二次大戦との連続性

    Grant number:23K00446  2023.4 - 2027.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(C)

    岡本 和子

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    Grant amount:\2340000 ( Direct Cost: \1800000 、 Indirect Cost:\540000 )

    2023年度は、主としてフランツ・ヘッセルの都市論エッセイ(『ベルリン散歩』1929)の読解、分析を行った。
    1920年代末は、ヴァイマール共和制の後期で、消費文化・大衆文化が成熟してきていたものの、貧困という大きな問題は解決されないままで、街頭でもナチスと共産主義者との抗争が目にされるような時代だった。しかし、しばらくベルリンを去り、パリやミュンヒェンで過ごしていたヘッセルは、目の前にある同時代のベルリンを描写すると同時に、そこに、歴史の層も見出す。
    ヘッセルは、みずからが同時代の都市を見る際の態度を「学ぶ」と呼んでいる。このとき彼の叙述は、それまでの慣習に反するような新しい現象に対して価値判断を下すのではなく、それらをニュートラルなまなざしで受け止めるものになっている。
    また、ヘッセルが目の前の都市のなかに歴史的重層性を見る際の態度も、やはり「学ぶ」と呼べるものである。だがここでは、それが書物に依拠しているという意味では、「読む」とも呼べる。彼は決して、歴史を既成事実としてとらえているのではなく、そのつどの都市の風景を眼前にして、そこから浮かび上がる歴史を叙述している。
    ヘッセルは、ベルリンという都市がまだまだ発見されていない、見られていない、と結論づけているが、それはつまり、ベルリンに住む住民が、いまだに自身が何者であるかを知らない、ということでもある。一見、温和な叙述に見えるヘッセルの都市論であるが、そこには、この都市の住民とはどんな存在なのか、という大きな問いが含まれている。
    以上のことを、論考としてまとめ、今後発表する予定である。

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  • Representation Space of Violence

    2018.4 - 2021.3

    Meiji University  Humanities and Social Studies

    Takuji Iwano, Osamu Seki, Masaichiro Onishi, Shinya Miyamoto, Futoshi Kamasaki, Tsuyoshi Saito, Tetsuya Suzuki

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  • Descriptability of the city Berlin in modern German literature

    2016.4 - 2020.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 

    Kazuko Okamoto

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    Grant amount:\2860000 ( Direct Cost: \2200000 、 Indirect Cost:\660000 )

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  • Describability of early childhood in modern German literature

    2010.4 - 2014.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) 

    OKAMOTO Kazuko

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    Grant amount:\2990000 ( Direct Cost: \2300000 、 Indirect Cost:\690000 )

    My research verified that the childhood, a kind of nonverbal sphere, becomes describable, when it is described as language acquisition. My research achievements are focused on following three points. 1. Analysis of Walter Benjamins oeuvre: In his works, the modern children are surrounded by many things from material culture. They acquire language by mimicking and collecting them. 2. Analysis of the child in Clemens Brentanos works: The child is an existence which are just in learning language. 3. The translation of Benjamins works. With this experience, I talked on the translation and reception of Benjamin in Japan at a symposium held in Berlin by Walter Benjamin archive.

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  • The meaning of the childhood in modern German philology and art theory-from the romanticism to Walter Benjamin.

    Grant number:19720067  2007 - 2009

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)  Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

    OKAMOTO Kazuko

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    Grant amount:\2360000 ( Direct Cost: \2000000 、 Indirect Cost:\360000 )

    This study has indicated that there is a relationship between the image of childhood in the works of Clemens Brentano, a romantic author, and the one of a modern critic Walter Benjamin. Both of them regard children as a figur which has lost the paradise and their language as marked by negativity. Brentano's image of the child is different from so-called "romantic child", namely a symbol of sacredness. It represents a pioneering modell for the concept of the child and language in modern literature theory.

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  • Das Moment der "Negativitat" und seine Funktionen in der deutschen modernen Literatur

    Grant number:18320050  2006 - 2009

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    ASAI Kenjiro, SUGITANI Kyoichi, OGAWA Sakue, MASUMOTO Hiroko, KUWAHARA Satoshi, TSUNEYOSHI Norimi, HIGASHIKUCHI Yutaka, FUKUMOTO Keita, SAKAMOTO Takashi, HAMANAKA Haru, YAMAMOTO Kayo, OKAMOTO Kazuko, KITAJIMA Reiko, KLAWITTER Arne, OTTMER Eva

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    Grant amount:\11130000 ( Direct Cost: \9300000 、 Indirect Cost:\1830000 )

    Im deutschsprachigen Raum begann die literarische Moderne mit einer zugespitzten Sprachskepsis, dass die bisherige Sprache prinzipiell versage. Unser Forschungsprojekt setzte sich mit der literarischen "Negativitat", vor allem bei Hofmannsthal, Musil und Kafka, und den Vor-und Nachstufen in der deutschen Literatur auseinander.

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