Barbara Gentikow

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Barbara Gentikow (born March 12, 1944 in Bärwalde in der Neumark , † May 4, 2014 in Bergen , Norway) was a German Scandinavian who researched and taught in Scandinavia since the late 1970s . Most recently she was professor of media studies at the University of Bergen .

Life

education

Barbara Gentikow grew up in Schleswig-Holstein after the end of the Second World War . After graduating from the State High School in Niebüll she began a study of medicine at the University of Kiel , then moved on pedagogy and psychology at the University of Hamburg and finally to the subjects German and Romance languages . After the intermediate examination , she returned to Kiel to also study Scandinavian Studies. As a research assistant in the “ Collaborative Research Center for Scandinavia and Baltic Sea Research ”, she worked on a “ Bibliography of writings on literary, historical and cultural-historical interrelationships” between Scandinavian and German literature. With the support of two scholarships from the DAAD and the Norwegian state, she was able to do her doctorate in 1972 . Her dissertation on Norwegian literature was published in Norwegian in 1974.

Political activity

Barbara Gentikow was a member of the Communist League of West Germany (KBW). In her articles and literary reviews for the Communist People's Newspaper (KVZ) and Communism and Class Struggle (KuK), she took a dogmatic stance on issues of culture and art , which she however revised in the dissolution phase after the split of the KBW from 1981.

job

At the end of the 1970s, Barbara Gentikow moved to Aarhus University , where she did her doctorate again in 1993 with a thesis on a media science topic. In the meantime she had started to publish mainly in Scandinavian languages , from which she also translated literature.

Barbara Gentikow has been a professor at the Institutt for medienvetenskap at the University of Bergen since the 1990s . In Norway she is counted among the "well-known Norwegian media scholars".

Fonts

  • Moralists versus immoralists; On the forbidden and incriminated erotic literature of Norway , Kiel 1972 (dissertation, contains a curriculum vitae)
    • En skitten strøm: samfunnskritikken i den "umoralske" literatures i Norge 1880-1960 [Norwegian translation: Kari Haave], Oslo: Gyldendal 1974 (Fakkel-bøkere; F 287) ISBN 82-05-06412-1
  • Scandinavian and German literature: bibliography of the writings on literary, historical and cultural-historical interrelationships , Neumünster: Wachholtz 1975 (Scandinavian studies; 3) ISBN 3-529-03303-0
  • Scandinavia as a pre-capitalist idyll: Reception of socially critical literature in German magazines 1870 to 1914 , Neumünster: Wachholtz 1978 ( on the reception of Scandinavian literature in Germany 1870 to 1914; Part 3 ; Scandinavian Studies; 9) ISBN 3-529-03309-X
  • Appropriations: foreign television and national culture , Aarhus: Aarhus Universitets Forlag 1993 (second dissertation) ISBN 87-7288-408-8

Web links

Literature by and about Barbara Gentikow in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lt. Information in her dissertation "Bärwalde, Neumark district in Brandenburg "
  2. ↑ In her early days in Aarhus she was the “foreign correspondent” of the KVZ for north-western Scandinavia with the abbreviation bag
  3. ↑ (bg / bw) [Barbara Gentikow / Bernd Wagner]: “ Werkkreis Literatur der Arbeitswelt ”: literary attempts to mock and divide the working class , in: KuK No. 9/1978, pp. 26–35; (bg): Alfred Döblin's “ November Revolution 1918” A counter-revolutionary feat , in: KuK No. 1/1979, pp. 28-29; z.bag: Pacifism à la Böll : Defense of unjust wars. Heinrich Böll: "Where were you, Adam?" , In: KVZ No. 2 of January 8, 1979, p. 20
personal data
SURNAME Gentikow, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Scandinavian and media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bärwalde in the Neumark
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 2014
Place of death Bergen , Norway