Albrecht Schöne

Albrecht Schöne, 2014 with the order Pour le Mérite for the sciences and the arts

Albrecht Schöne (born July 17, 1925 in Barby ) is a German specialist in German .

Life

Albrecht Schöne passed his Abitur in 1946 at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium in Bünde . After studying in Freiburg, Basel, Göttingen and Münster and completing his doctorate in Münster , Schöne completed his habilitation at the Georg-August University in Göttingen with a thesis on the topic: “Secularization as a language-forming force. Studies on the Poetry of German Pastors' Sons ”. From 1958 to 1960 he was associate professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , then from 1960 until his retirement in 1990 he was full professor of German Philology (Modern German Literature) in Göttingen.

Schöne has presented important works and editions on the literature of the Baroque era ( Emblematics ), the Enlightenment ( Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ) and Goethe . One of his most outstanding achievements is the new edition and commentary on Goethe's Faust published in 1994 .

From 1980 to 1985 he was President of the International Association for Germanic Linguistics and Literature Studies (IVG). With the VII. Congress of this society he organized from 25 to 31 August 1985 in Göttingen the first (and so far only) international Germanist congress in Germany.

Albrecht Schöne is the brother of the bishop emeritus of the independent Evangelical Lutheran Church Jobst Schöne .

Honors

• Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (1990)
• Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art (1993)
• Member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (since 1966), honorary member since 2016
• Member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry (1980)
• Member of the PEN Center Germany
• Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
• Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1992)
• Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA)
• Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for literary criticism and essay (1983)
• Carl Zuckmayer Medal (1991)
• Reuchlin Prize of the City of Pforzheim (1995)
• Medal of Honor of the City of Göttingen (2015)
• Einhard Prize (2017)

Works (in selection)

Monographs

• Secularization as a language-forming force. Studies on the poetry of German pastors' sons. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1958 (2nd edition 1968). Digitized version of the work, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ( Digi20 project ), accessed November 28, 2015.http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fdaten.digitale-sammlungen.de%2Fbsb00055272%2Fimage_1~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~ LT% 3DDigitalisat% 20des% 20Werks% 2C% 20Bayerische% 20Staatsbibliothek% 20% 28Projekt% 20% 27% 27Digi20% 27% 27% 29% 2C% 20 retrieved% 2028.% 20November% 202015. ~ PUR% 3D
• Emblematic and drama in the Baroque era. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1964 (3rd edition 1993), ISBN 978-3-406-37113-4 .
• Pumpkin hut and Königsberg. Model attempt at a socio-historical decipherment of poetic texts. Using the example of Simon Dach. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-406-05878-7 (2nd edition 1982).
• Enlightenment from the spirit of experimental physics. Lichtenberg's subjunctive. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-406-09087-7 (3rd edition 1993).
• Signs of gods, love spells, satanic cult. New insights into old Goethe texts. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1982 (3rd edition 1993, ISBN 3-406-37331-3 ).
• Goethe's color theology. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-32361-8 .
• Schiller's skull. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2002 (3rd edition 2005), ISBN 3-406-52855-4 .
• Ulrich Joost, Jürgen Stenzel, Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg (eds.): From entering the lawn. Seventeen speeches on literature. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2005 (2nd edition 2006), ISBN 3-406-52889-9 .
• The letter writer Goethe. Verlag CH Beck, Munich (1st to 3rd ed.) 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67603-1 ; 1st reviewed edition, CH Beck Paperback, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73967-5
• Ulrich Joost, Thedel v. Wallmoden (Ed.): No chants from the ivory tower. Six little things, a reference and the list of scriptures. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1806-9 .

Editions

• The age of the baroque. Texts and certificates (= The German literature. Volume 3). Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1963 (3rd edition 1988, ISBN 3-406-33418-0 ).
• Emblemata. Handbook on the symbolic art of the XVI. and XVII. Century. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1967 (supplemented new edition 1976, special edition 1978, pocket edition 1996), special edition (2013), ISBN 978-3-476-02537-1 , supplement to the first edition (1990), ISBN 978-3- 476-00326-3 (Ed. Together with Arthur Henkel )
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Correspondence. Commissioned by the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Volume 1–4, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1983–1992, ISBN 978-3-406-53155-2 (edited together with Ulrich Joost ).
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Faust. Texts and comments (= all works, letters, diaries and conversations, 1. Dept. Volumes 7/1 and 7/2; = Library of German Classics. Volume 114). Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1994, ISBN 3-618-60270-7 (various revised and added new editions; last eighth, revised and updated edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-618-68052-9 ).

Autobiographical

• Memories. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-8353-3811-1 .

bibliography

• Ulrich Joost: Bibliography of Albrecht Schöne's publications. Darmstadt 2000. (private print)
• Ulrich Joost: Directory of the writings of Albrecht Schöne. In: Albrecht Schöne: No chants from the ivory tower. Six little things, a reference and the list of scriptures. Edited by Ulrich Joost and Thedel v. Wallmoden, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015, pp. 49–86.

Web links

Commons : Albrecht Schöne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Albrecht Schöne in the catalog of the German National Library