Arno Hochmuth

Arno Hochmuth (center) with Sándor Ék and Lea Grundig (1970)

Arno Hochmuth (* 27. February 1930 in Berlin , † 16th June 2012 ) was a German literary scholar and high SED - cultural functionary .

Life

Arno Hochmuth's tombstone in the Stralau cemetery

Hochmuth comes from a working-class family. After graduating from high school in 1948, he completed a teaching degree in German and history at the East Berlin Pedagogical University by 1951 and was a lecturer at the Institute for Teacher Training from 1951 to 1957 . In 1952 Hochmuth became a member of the SED. 1958-1962 he was aspirant at the Institute of Social Sciences (IFG) at the SED Central Committee , in July 1962 he was with the theme "The rottenness of the imperialist system as a social basis of the apologetics of decadence in West Germany" doctorate . Until 1966 he worked as a lecturer at the chair for literature and art studies at the IfG. 1966 to 1972 he was head of the culture department of the Central Committee . In 1972, Hochmuth became a full professor at the Aesthetics and Art Studies section of the Humboldt University in Berlin . His habilitation ( dissertation B ) did not follow until 1987 with the topic of "Development stages of the theoretical approach to contemporary non-socialist literature in GDR literature" . Between 1979 and 1981 he was also editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Temperamente , from 1963 until its dissolution in 1990 he was also a member of the presidential council of the Kulturbund , and from 1977 to its district management chair in Berlin. PDS member since 1990 , Hochmuth took early retirement as a professor in September 1990.

Publications (selection)

• Literature and decadence. Critique of the literary development in West Germany. Dietz, Berlin 1963.
• (Ed.): Literature in focus. On the image of man in the literature of the two German states. Dietz, Berlin 1965.
• The "second culture" in imperialist society. Academy for Further Education at the Ministry of Culture, Berlin 1979, DNB 810083264 .

literature

• Bernd-Rainer Barth:  Hochmuth, Arno . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Hochmuth, Arno. In: Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED. History, organization, politics. A manual. Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 978.

Web links

Commons : Arno Hochmuth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Arno Hochmuth in the catalog of the German National Library
• obituary