Hans Jürgen Geerdts

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Hans Jürgen Geerdts (born February 16, 1922 in Danzig ; † June 11, 1989 in Greifswald ) was a German literary scholar and writer .

Life

Hans Jürgen Geerdts was the son of an employee . After graduation he began in Gdansk , a study of German language and literature , history , theater studies and philosophy , which he in Konigsberg and Vienna continued. Since 1940 he was a member of the NSDAP . In 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht ; as a soldier, he stood before a court martial for “ undermining military strength ” . After the end of the Second World War , he finished his studies in Jena . From 1947 he was a lecturer at the German Theater Institute in Weimar . In 1952 he received his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on Gerhart Hauptmann . In 1958 he was sponsored by the party leadership as the successor to Hans-Friedrich Rosenfeld, professor of modern German literature at the University of Greifswald, who had been expelled because of his “bourgeois attitude” .

In addition to his academic work as a literary scholar , Hans Jürgen Geerdts wrote novels , short stories and essays . He became best known for the two novel biographies "Rheinische Overture" (about Georg Forster ) and "Hope behind the horizon" (about Georg Büchner ).

Hans Jürgen Geerdts was awarded the Lessing Prize of the GDR in 1973 and the National Prize of the GDR in 1976 . In 1965 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

Works

  • Die Nachtnovellen , Knabe Verlag Weimar 1948
  • Gerhart Hauptmann, Die Weber , Jena 1951
  • Jena: new culture in the making , Erfurt 1951
  • The red and the green fires , Erfurt 1951
  • Rhenish Overture , Knabe Verlag Weimar 1954
  • Hope behind the horizon , Knabe Verlag Weimar 1956
  • The IV German Writers' Congress and its significance for the people's book trade , Leipzig 1956
  • Goethe's novel “The Elective Affinities” , Weimar 1957
  • Wanderer in the Harz Mountains , Dresden 1958
  • Leonhard Frank , Berlin 1960 (together with Heinz Neugebauer and IM Lange)
  • Literature of our time , Rudolstadt 1961
  • Students , Dresden 1961 (together with Willy Pritsche)
  • Wave on wave , Dresden 1962 (together with Max Ittenbach)
  • The Harz , Leipzig 1965
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe , Leipzig 1972, 4th edition 1985
  • Changing times in a city , Greifswald 1977
  • To Goethe and others , Leipzig 1982

Editing

  • Greifswald writers and journalists say: We choose peace , Greifswald 1958
  • Friedrich Maximilian Klinger : Klinger's works , Weimar
    • Vol. 1. The twins. Sturm und Drang , 1958
    • Vol. 2. Faust's life, days and journey to hell. History of a modern German , 1958
  • German literary history , Berlin 1965
  • Literature of the GDR in individual representations (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 416). Kröner, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-520-41601-7 .
  • Literature of the German Democratic Republic , Berlin
    • Vol. 1 (1974)
    • Vol. 2 (1979)
    • Vol. 3 (1987)
  • Brief History of German Literature , Berlin 1981 (edited together with Kurt Böttcher)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 99.
  2. ↑ See the documentation of the case in Petra Boden, Rainer Rosenberg: Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft 1945–1965: Case studies on institutions. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 1997 ISBN 9783050072456 , pp. 145ff
personal data
SURNAME Geerdts, Hans Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1989
Place of death Greifswald