Gerhard Scholz (philologist)

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Gerhard Scholz (born October 1, 1903 in Liegnitz , Silesia , † August 31, 1989 in Berlin ) was a German philologist , Germanist and literary historian .

Life

The teacher's son Gerhard Scholz devoted himself to the studies of German , history , art and religious history in Tübingen , Heidelberg , Berlin and Breslau from 1924 after having passed the Abitur at the secondary school in Liegnitz . In 1932 he entered the higher education service as a trainee lawyer, in 1933 he who joined the SPD in 1925 was dismissed from school service because of his commitment to the association and educational work of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ). Scholz then worked as a teacher at the adult education center and as a freelance researcher at the University of Breslau, at the same time he participated in the illegal resistance with groups of the SAJ .

In 1936 Scholz escaped imminent arrest by the Gestapo for “preparation for high treason” by emigrating to Prague , where he worked as a language teacher and for the magazine “Maß und Wert” . He became a member of the Prague study group for emigrated students and worked for the Thomas Mann Society . Feidel-Mertz and Schnorbach mention his membership in the Association of German Migrant Teachers , but leave open whether he already joined it in Prague or later in Sweden , where he fled via Warsaw and Riga in 1938 . There Scholz worked as a journalist and as a lecturer at the Social Science Institute at Stockholm University and was a member of the Free German Cultural Association .

After his return to Berlin in 1946, Scholz joined the SED and worked from 1947 to 1949 as a consultant in the German Central Administration for National Education before being appointed director of the Goethe and Schiller Archives in 1949 and of the classical sites in Weimar in 1950 Office he resigned in 1953. In the following period Scholz operating private research on classical German literature and held a visiting professorship in Leipzig , in 1958 he was at the University of Rostock Erich Kühne to Dr. phil. PhD. In the same year he received a teaching position for modern German and Scandinavian literature at the German Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he was appointed professor in 1959, shortly before his retirement in 1969 as full professor .

Along with Georg Lukács and Werner Krauss, Gerhard Scholz is one of the founders of Marxist German literary studies.

Publications

  • The dramatic style of Sturm und Drang in the light of the dramaturgical work of the young Schiller. Stuttgart essay 1782 and Mannheim speech 1784. Interpretation taking into account the early dramas of the so-called “classical period”. 1958.
  • With Ursula Püschel: Faust Talks. Scientific collaboration. Young World Publishing House, Berlin, 1967.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hildegard Feidel-Mertz / Hermann Schnorbach : teachers in emigration. The Association of German Teacher Emigrants (1933–39) in the traditional context of the democratic teachers' movement , Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel, 1981, ISBN 3-407-54114-7 , p. 234
personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, Germanist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1989
Place of death Berlin