Wolf Düwel

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Wolf Düwel (born October 2, 1923 ; † 1993 ) was a German Slavist .

Life

Wolf Düwel joined the newly founded Kulturbund in Rostock at the end of 1945 at the age of 22 (which did not yet have the addition "GDR" due to the fact that the GDR state was only founded in 1949 ). In early 1946 he began studying at the Institute for Slavic Studies at Rostock University . As early as 1947 he gave his first public lectures on Russian literary classics and in 1948/49 he worked on publications on revolutionary Russian writers. He later went to Berlin to the Humboldt University , where he studied English , comparative linguistics and philosophy until 1951 . From November 1950 to August 1951 he was, like Ralf Schröder , a participant in a one-year “Special Course for Young Scientists in Slavic Studies” for quick qualification for academic teaching, set up due to the lack of Slavic teaching staff in the GDR.

At the 1st Federal Congress of the Kulturbund in May 1947 he was elected as a representative of the student body to the Presidential Council of the Kulturbund. From then on he remained on the committee almost continuously. At the Second Federal Congress in 1949, he gave a speech reproduced in the press in which he vowed to fight unceasingly for the national unity of Germany . In his review in 1981 he quoted his speech differently (and thus in accordance with the changed guidelines of his government): "Forward for the strengthening of the German Democratic Republic , for our national independence [...]."

Wolf Düwel became a member of the German Writers' Association in 1955 . On the occasion of Anton Chekhov's 100th birthday, a Chekhov Committee was formed at the end of 1959, and he was appointed scientific secretary .

Düwel was a university professor: first at the Humboldt University in Berlin, then from 1966 to 1970 he was a lecturer in Russian at the Güstrow University of Education . From 1970 to 1979 he taught Russian and Soviet literature at the Clara Zetkin College of Education in Leipzig. Here he was appointed full professor in 1974. He gave up this position because of an illness.

He also conveyed his specialist knowledge in book form. So in 1965 the student standard work , which also received international attention, called the History of Classical Russian Literature . He was instrumental in the history of Russian literature from its beginnings to 1917 , published in 1986. In a sense, this publication replaced the former as an internationally recognized standard work. Düwel was - and not this only in his temporary role as head of the editorial department of Slavic Studies and deputy chief editor build-Verlag Berlin - involved in a number of publications on the life and work of Anton Chekhov. The monograph Anton Chekhov was outstanding . Poets of Dawn (1961), which impresses with scientific meticulousness and essayistic brilliance, and the eight-volume Chekhov edition (1964–1969), which was reprinted in the FRG and Switzerland .

The mediation between German and Soviet culture and science is Düwel's greatest achievement. It covered a spectrum, from studies on reception problems, appearances at international congresses, involvement in the Textological Commission of the International Slavist Committee to close, productive cooperation with the Universities of Moscow and Saratov , the Gorky Institute for World Literature in Moscow and the Musej Pushkinskij Dom (Museum of Russian Literature) in what was then Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg ).

Awards

Own works (selection)

  • Anton Chekhov. Poets of the Dawn (= Paths to Literature ; Monographs ; Volume 7). Language and Literature Publishing House, Halle (Saale) 1961.

Afterwords (selection)

  • Epilogue. In: Ivo Andrić : Das Fräulein. Roman (= AV paperback ; No. 5). Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1958, pp. 239–243.
    • Also in: Das Fräulein. Roman (= Reclams Universal Library ; No. 8957-60). Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1961, pp. 291-295.
  • Respective epilogue . In: FM Dostojewski in individual volumes. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1956–1971.

Editions (selection)

  • Tribune of humanity. Russian democrats on Schiller (= writings to the German nation ). Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1957.
  • History of Classical Russian Literature. Edited by Wolf Düwel, Eberhard Dieckmann [u. a.]. Edited in the Slavic Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin in cooperation with the Institute for Slavic Studies of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin and the Slavic Institutes of the Universities of Greifswald , Halle , Jena , Leipzig , Rostock and the Potsdam University of Education . Construction publishing house, Berlin / Weimar 1965.
  • Anton Chekhov: Collected Works in Individual Volumes. 8 volumes. Edited and translated by G. Dick and W. Düwel. With comments on the text. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1964–1969.
  • History of Russian literature from its beginnings to 1917. 2 volumes. Published by Wolf Düwel / Clara Zetkin University of Education, Leipzig. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1986.
  • Anton Chekhov: A reading book for our time (= reading books for our time ). Selection and introduction by Wolf Düwel. Translated from Russian by Gerhard Dick, Gudrun Düwel, Wolf Düwel, Hertha von Schulz, Georg Schwarz. 2nd, revised edition 1987. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1987, ISBN 3-351-00577-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h G. Dudek: Wolf Düwel for his 60th birthday . In: Journal for Slavic Studies . Vol. 28, Issue 4-6. Akademie-Verlag, June 1983, ISSN  0044-3506 , p. 940-942 .
  2. ↑ a b c Wolf Düwel: As a student in the Kulturbund . In: Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED , Kulturbund der DDR (Ed.): … The beginning of a new era. Memories of the beginnings of our cultural revolution 1945–1949 . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1981, p. 124-137 .
  3. ^ Fritz Mierau : My Russian Century. Autobiography. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-89401-386-8 , p. 53.
  4. ↑ The big program for the future. Kulturbund Congress ended. Reception at the President of the Republic . In: New Germany . No. 279/1949 , November 29, 1949, pp. 3 .
  5. ↑ Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1973 . Fifty-sixth vintage. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1974, ISBN 3-11-002068-8 , Düwel, p. 187 .
  6. ↑ (ND): Chekhov Committee founded . In: New Germany . No. 359/1959 , December 31, 1959, pp. 2 .
  7. ^ BZ: Old birch manuscripts and other discoveries. BZ discussion on the “History of Russian Literature from its Beginnings to 1917” . In: Berliner Zeitung . No. 294/1986 , December 13, 1986, Kulturpolitik, p. 7 .
personal data
SURNAME Düwel, wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1923
DATE OF DEATH 1993