Arnold Hückstädt

Arnold Hückstädt (born January 27, 1935 in Köstin , Randow district ) is a German literary scholar and Reuter researcher.

Life

Arnold Hückstädt lived in Glasow , Pasewalk district , from 1946 on , and graduated from high school in Torgelow in 1953 . From 1953 to 1958 he studied German and (from 1956) Nordic studies at the University of Greifswald . In 1958 he passed his diploma in both subjects. In 1958 he moved to Stavenhagen. In 1976 Hückstädt was at the University of Rostock with a dissertation on Fritz Reuter in the judgment of contemporaries and contemporary literature. - On the role of the Reuter criticism in the process of bourgeois ideology formation between 1853 and 1874/75 for Dr. phil. PhD.

On October 1, 1958, Hückstädt became a research assistant at the Fritz Reuter Literature Museum in Stavenhagen and, in 1959, director of the museum. In 1960 he was appointed director and in 1986 a museum councilor. On October 1, 1991, Hückstädt moved into early retirement at his own request. In addition to his museum work, he was for many years a member of the editorial board of the Low German literary magazine “ Kikut ”. Hückstädt is considered the best expert on Fritz Reuter and his work, which earned him the honorary name of "Reuter Doctor".

Hückstädt worked for the Ministry for State Security as an unofficial employee for almost three decades , from 1960 to 1979 as "IM Wilhelm Scherer " and in the eighties as "IM Wolfgang Stammler ".

Works

Arnold Hückstädt is editor and author of numerous books and other publications by and about Fritz Reuter, his work and family environment, about Rudolf Tarnow and other Low German authors. His vita currently (2014) has more than 230 publications.

Honors

• 1960 Fritz Reuter Prize for Art and Literature 2nd class of the council of the Neubrandenburg district (collectively)
• 1971 Johannes R. Becher Medal in silver
• 1980 Medal of Merit of the GDR
• 1982 Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (collectively)
• 1987 Johannes R. Becher Medal in gold
• 1991 Johannes Gillhoff Prize
• 2004 Fritz Reuter Literature Prize of the City of Stavenhagen and the Fritz Reuter Literature Museum
• 2009 Annalize Wagner Prize
• 2010 Fritz Reuter Prize of the Carl Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg
• 2019 Letter of Honor from the Fritz Reuter Society

literature

• Contributions by the Fritz Reuter Society, vol. 21, 2011, p. 166.
• Reutermuseum: once a nest full of false and real Germanists. The research project aims to clarify which role the Stasi played in the Fritz Reuter Literature Museum . In: Mein Mecklenburg - The magazine for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania No. 2 (2015), p. 53.

Web links

• Literature by and about Arnold Hückstädt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Arnold Hückstädt in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Arnold Hückstädt in the state bibliography MV
• Website Fritz Reuter Literature Museum: [1]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Arnold Hückstädt. In: Erika Becker / Heidemarie Molnár, writer of the district of Neubrandenburg, members and candidates of the Writers' Association of the GDR, District Association of Neubrandenburg, Neubrandenburg: Literature Center / City and District Library 1988, pp. 13-14.
2. ↑ Many meetings with Stasi people in the Reuter Museum , in: Nordkurier, Neubrandenburg, March 14, 2016, p. 24.
3. ↑ Christiane Baumann: The Literature Center Neubrandenburg 1971-2005: Literary Policy Between Promotion, Control and New Historicity, Robert Havemann Society, 2006, p. 96, ISBN 978-3938857038 .