Beate Kennedy

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Beate Kennedy (born 1962 ) is a German high school teacher and German studies specialist who has made a name for herself in particular through her research on the German author Irmgard Keun . In addition to her dissertation on narrative processes and literary authorship in Keun's complete works, she published this, together with Heinrich Detering , in a new edition with commentary. Since 2013 she has been federal chairwoman of the German Association of Germanists and chairwoman of the Wilhelm Lehmann Society.

Life

After training as a Waldorf pedagogue and working in this area, Beate Kennedy studied German and English for teaching at high schools at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In the minor subjects she took philosophy and pedagogy , as an additional subject literature communication and cultural management . After completing her studies, she worked as a lecturer at the Institute for Modern German Literature and Media. On February 5, 2005, on Irmgard Keun's 100th birthday, she realized a literary revue with students and took on the conception of an accompanying exhibition on Keun's life and work in the Kiel city library . Since 2006 Beate Kennedy has been teaching at the Regional Vocational Training Center (RBZ) Economics in Kiel. a. in the media profile. Since 2012 she has also been a member of the management team at the vocational high school. From 2010 to 2013 she was the second chairwoman of the German Association in Schleswig-Holstein .

2013 doctorate Beate Kennedy with a thesis on the author Irmgard Keun at the Georg-August University of Goettingen . Rolf Löchel described the 2014 from the publisher De Gruyter published monograph in his review for literaturkritik.de as "enrichment of Keun-research". Beate Kennedy "freed Keun's work from the biographical corset [...] into which it was forced by too many literary scholars until the recent past." In 2017, Kennedy gave, together with her doctoral supervisor , the literary scholar Heinrich Detering , on behalf of German Academy for Language and Poetry and the Wüstenrot Foundation published the complete works of Irmgard Keun in three volumes. This new edition, which is the first complete and annotated edition of the work, brings together all of the author's texts that have survived from the Weimar Republic to the 1960s. In a comprehensive commentary, Kennedy and Detering trace the genesis and reception history, contextualize Keun's texts and describe their narrative processes. It is a standard work that has been recognized in the feature sections of the major German-language newspapers such as the Frankfurter Rundschau , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Der Welt .

In her role as federal chairwoman of the German Association of Germanists (since 2013), Beate Kennedy is co-editor of the communications of the German Association of Germanists . In addition to her work as a teacher, she also offers advanced training courses for teachers in German. She helped organize the Germanistenage in Kiel (2013), Bayreuth (2016) and Saarbrücken (2019). Since 2013 she has been chairwoman of the Wilhelm Lehmann Society and the jury of the Wilhelm Lehmann Literature Prize of the city of Eckernförde , which is awarded every two years. Kennedy is also responsible for the Lehmann Days, which are held annually in May, and for organizing readings. In 2018, an anniversary event and special exhibition for the 50th year of Wilhelm Lehmann's death took place in cooperation with the Museum Eckernförde .

Beate Kennedy is married to the architect Dietrich Fröhler and is the mother of four children.

Publications

monograph

  • Irmgard Keun: time and quote. Narrative processes and literary authorship in the complete works . de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-05-006464-2 (also: University of Göttingen, Diss., 2013).

Editorships

Announcements from the German Association of Germanists (V & R unipress, Göttingen):

  • Vol. 62/3: storytelling . Edited by Martin Huber and Beate Kennedy (Sept. 2015).
  • Vol. 63/3: Professional storytelling . Edited by Beate Kennedy and Christian Plien (Oct. 2016).
  • Vol. 65/4: Time . Edited by Beate Kennedy and Nine Miedema (Nov. 2018).

The work. Irmgard Keun . Ed. I. A. the German Academy for Language and Poetry and the Wüstenrot Foundation by Heinrich Detering and Beate Kennedy. With an essay by Ursula Krechel . 3 volumes. Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-1781-9 .

  • Vol. 1: Texts from the Weimar Republic: 1931–1933
  • Vol. 2: Texts from Nazi Germany, texts from exile: 1933–1940
  • Vol. 3: Texts from the post-war period and the Federal Republic: 1946–1962

Exhibition catalog

  • Dorothee Bieske, Beate Kennedy, Wolfgang Menzel: The Wanderer and the Path: Wilhelm Lehmann (1882–1968) . Museum Eckernförde, October 28 to January 6, 2019.

Article (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dr. Beate Kennedy - Kiel. In: Kulturvermittler SH. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Beate Kennedy: Irmgard Keun: Time and Quote. Narrative processes and literary authorship in the complete works . de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-05-006464-2 , p. 14 (footnote 1) (also: University of Göttingen, diss., 2013).
  3. ↑ a b Rolf Löchel: Liberation from the corset. Beate Kennedy's investigation into Irmgard Keun's narrative method contradicts biographical interpretations. In: literaturkritik.de. January 30, 2015, accessed April 26, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Irmgard Keun. The work. In: Wallstein Verlag. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Irmgard Keun: The work. In: Pearl Divers. The culture magazine. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
  6. ^ Wilhelm Lehmann in Eckernförde: The city honors its poet. In: Eckernförder Zeitung. October 26, 2018, accessed April 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Beate Kennedy: Irmgard Keun: Time and Quote . 2014, p. 11 .
personal data
SURNAME Kennedy, Beate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962