Benno von Wiese

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Benno von Wiese , own Benno Georg Leopold von Wiese and Kaiserswaldau (born September 25, 1903 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 31, 1987 in Munich ), was a German specialist in German .

life and work

Benno von Wiese was born the son of the sociologist Leopold von Wiese , who had been professor of sociology at the University of Cologne since 1919 . After attending grammar school in Cologne and Görlitz he studied in Leipzig (1923-1924), Vienna (1924), again in Leipzig (1924-1925) and then from 1925 to 1927 in Heidelberg with Friedrich Gundolf and Karl Jaspers , with whom he Doctorate in 1927. After a short study visit to Berlin (1927–1928) , von Wiese completed his habilitation in Bonn in 1929 .

From 1929 to 1932 Benno von Wiese worked as a private lecturer at the University of Bonn, before he was appointed to the University of Erlangen in 1932, where he was associate professor for German literary history from 1932 to 1943 . In 1943, von Wiese was offered a professorship at the University of Münster, where he became professor in 1945. From 1957 to 1970 von Wiese taught as a full professor for modern German language and literature at the University of Bonn and headed the studio stage there for over 10 years . In 1970 he retired .

In 1964, von Wiese became a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . From 1958 to 1978 he was co-editor of the Schiller National Edition. His continuation of the collection of German poems also enjoys great popularity . From the beginning to the present , which was originally edited by Theodor Echtermeyer and which he looked after from 1954 until his death.

Period of the Third Reich

After the National Socialists came to power , von Wiese joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 ( membership number 3.177.157) and became a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association on July 1, 1933 , and the Nazi Lecturers Association the following year . Since July 1, 1937, he has held the position of block leader in the NSDAP (also called "block warden" in everyday language). Von Wiese was an author in Goebbels' prestigious paper Das Reich and from 1936 worked as a lecturer in Alfred Rosenberg's literary commission in the main editing department of German literary history. On February 1, 1943, von Wiese was drafted into the Wehrmacht , but in 1944 the Führer decree "Sonderelbe" and "Sonderelbe Wissenschaft" declared it to be indispensable ("UK") so that there was no front deployment.

At the beginning of the Nazi era , he wrote apologetic statements on German studies under National Socialism . For Hannah Arendt , who was friends with him, one of the reasons for her early emigration in 1933 was the behavior of Wieses, willing and willing to commit herself to National Socialism without external pressure .

Due to an exonerating report, Benno von Wiese was able to continue working as a university teacher after 1945.

Works

Own publications

  • Herder. Basics of his worldview . Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1939
  • Chr. Dietrich Grabbe . Hohenstaufendramen: Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa and Heinrich the sixth. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1943
  • The German tragedy from Lessing to Hebbel . 2 vols. Hoffmann u. Campe, Hamburg 1948; New edition 1961.
  • Eduard Mörike . Rainer Wunderlich / Hermann Leins , Tübingen a. a. 1950
  • The Man in Poetry - Studies on German and European Literature. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1958
  • Friedrich Schiller . Metzler / Poeschel, Stuttgart 1959 (3rd, revised edition 1963)
  • The human being as a fellow human being. Francke, Bern a. a. 1964
  • The German novella . Bagel, Düsseldorf 1974
  • I tell my life . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1982. ISBN 3-458-14006-9

Editorial activity

  • The German lyric. Form and history. Interpretations. 2 vols. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1957
  • German literature in our time , ed. together with Wolfgang Kayser . Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1959
  • The German novel. Interpretations . Bagel, Düsseldorf 1963
  • The German drama. Interpretations . 2 vols. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1964
  • 19th century. Texts and testimonials (= Die deutsche Literatur, Vol. 6) Beck, Munich 1965
  • The legacy of German poetry. From Martin Luther to Thomas Mann. 6 vols. Verlag Das Beste, Stuttgart 1965
  • The poem - a collection by B. von Wiese , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1977

literature

  • Literature and Society from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century. Festgabe for Benno von Wiese on his 60th birthday on September 25, 1963 , ed. v. Hans Joachim Schrimpf. Bouvier, Bonn 1963.
  • Studies on literature as history. Festschrift for Benno von Wiese , ed. v. Vincent J. Günther. Schmidt, Berlin 1973. ISBN 3-503-00755-5
  • Konrad Repgen : In memoriam Benno von Wiese. Speeches held on June 25, 1987 at the academic commemoration of the Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn. Bouvier, Bonn 1987. (Alma mater, 66) ISBN 3-416-09161-2
  • Helmut Koopmann : Commemorative speech for Benno von Wiese. In: Droste-Jahrbuch 2. 1988/90 (1990), pp. 188-203.
  • Gerhard Lauer : Benno von Wiese (1903–1987). In: History of Science in German Studies in Portraits, ed. v. Christoph König. Berlin u. a., de Gruyter 2000. ISBN 3-11-016157-5
  • Klaus-Dieter Rossade: “ Succumb to the spirit of the times”. Benno von Wiese and National Socialism . Synchron, Heidelberg 2007. ISBN 978-3-935025-81-2 (Studies on the History of Science and University, Vol. 9)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Schlegel. A contribution to the history of romantic conversions
  2. ↑ Herder and the historical world with Oskar Walzel.
  3. ↑ Echtermeyer. German poems. From the beginning to the present. Edited by Elisabeth K. Paefgen and Peter Geist, Cornelsen Verlag, Berlin 2005, foreword, p. XXXV.
personal data
SURNAME Wiese, Benno von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiese and Kaiserswaldau, Georg Leopold von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1987
Place of death Munich