Friedrich Beissner

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Friedrich Beißner (born December 26, 1905 in Hameln , † December 29, 1977 in Tübingen ) was a German specialist in German .

Career

Beißner was the son of a railway official. After graduating from the German studies with a doctorate, he joined in 1933 after the " seizure " of the Nazis in both the Nazi Teachers League and in the SA one. In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP and the NS-Studentenkampfhilfe .

He first became an assistant at the German seminar at the University of Giessen and in 1940 private lecturer at the University of Jena . At the same time, he got a job at the Goethe and Schiller Archive Weimar, where he worked on the Schiller National Edition; In the autumn of 1942, at the mediation of Leo Killy and his son Walther Killy , Beißner was given his habilitation in Tübingen, where he began work on the new historical-critical Hölderlin edition suggested by Walther Killy in time for the anniversary year 1943. Since Hölderlin was well-liked in the Nazi Reich, this enterprise received broad state funding.

After the end of the Second World War , Beißner continued his career in Tübingen as an associate professor from 1946 , where he was professor for German language and literature from 1961 until his retirement in 1970. Since 1970 he has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Beißner was best known for his work on German classical music. He is the editor of a scientific edition of the complete works of Friedrich Hölderlin , the so-called "Stuttgart Edition".

student

Friedrich Beißner's students include Siegfried Unseld , Walter Jens , Gerhard Storz , Johannes Poethen and Martin Walser , who attended his doctoral college , among others .

Publications

  • Holderlin's translations from the Greek. Metzler, Stuttgart 1933. (Dissertation: Göttingen 1932)
  • History of the German Elegy. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1941.
  • Klopstock's patriotic dramas . Böhlau, Weimar 1942.
  • The narrator Franz Kafka. A lecture , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1952.
  • Wieland. Four Biberach Lectures , Insel, Wiesbaden 1954.
  • Kafka the poet. A lecture , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958.
  • Holderlin. Speeches and essays , Böhlau, Weimar 1961. (2nd complete edition: Böhlau, Cologne & Vienna 1969)
  • The Bay of Babel. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1963.

editor

  • Christoph Martin Wieland:  Retirement Works ; in: Collected Writings . Edited by the Dt. Come on the royal Prussia. Akad. Der Wissenschaften, Dept. 1, Vol. 20, Weidmann, Berlin 1939.
  • Friedrich Hölderlin: Hölderlin field selection , on behalf of the Hölderlin Society. Cotta, Stuttgart 1943
  • (together with Adolf Beck ) Friedrich Hölderlin: Complete works . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1943–1985. (8 vols., "Large Stuttgart Edition")
  • Friedrich Hölderlin: Complete Works . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1944–1962. (6 vols., "Small Stuttgart Edition")
  • Friedrich Hölderlin: Peace celebration . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1954. (Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, 4)
  • Friedrich Hölderlin: Complete Works . Insel, Frankfurt a. M. 1961.
  • Friedrich Hölderlin: Odes, elegies, chants . Insel, Frankfurt a. M. 1964. ( Insel-Bücherei 807)
  • Christoph Martin Wieland: Selected works in 3 volumes . Winkler, Munich 1964–1965.
  • (together with Jochen Schmidt ) Friedrich Hölderlin: Works and letters . Insel, Frankfurt a. M. 1969. (3 vol.)
  • Poets on their poems , vol. 11: Friedrich Hölderlin , Heimeran, Munich 1973.
  • (Adult and edited by Bernhard Böschenstein ) Friedrich Hölderlin. The poet on his work , 2., corr. and additional ed., Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 55, there called “Friedrich Bißner”.
  2. ↑ Christoph König , Hans-Harald Müller , Werner Röcke (ed.): History of science in German studies in portraits . Berlin 2000, p. 229f.
  3. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Friedrich Beißner. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Beißner, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1977
Place of death Tübingen