Bernd Kortländer

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Bernd Kortländer (born December 8, 1947 in Münster ) is a German literary scholar .

Life

From 1968 to 1973 Kortländer studied German , philosophy , pedagogy , Romance studies , journalism and musicology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg . In 1977 he received his doctorate from the Westphalian Wilhelms University with a thesis on Annette von Droste-Hülshoff .

Since October 1979 he has worked at the Heinrich Heine Institute in the state capital Düsseldorf , from 1986 to 2012 as its deputy head, where he was responsible in particular for the “Legacies and Manuscript Collection” department. He was also a lecturer in German literature at the Universities of Osnabrück and Münster (until 1985) and lecturer in the departments of Romance and German at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , from 2004 to 2013 as an honorary professor.

As editor and researcher, Kortländer has dealt in particular with the works of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Heinrich Heine . At the Heinrich Heine Institute he examined the transfer of culture between Germany and France in a series of exhibitions, colloquia and publications . In addition, with the establishment and expansion of the “Rhenish Literature Archive”, he created a focus for regional literary research.

From 1978 to 2010 he was a board member of the Annette-von-Droste-Gesellschaft, Münster, from 1987 to 1997 managing director of the Friedrich-Spee-Gesellschaft, Düsseldorf and from 2004 to 2010 chairman of the NRW Literature Council. Since 2001 he has been a member of the literature commission in the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe and since 2006 also on the board. In 1990 the Republic of France awarded him the “Ordre des Palmes académiques” for his services to Franco-German cultural relations.

Publications (selection)

author

  • Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and German literature. Knowledge - judgment - influencing. Aschendorff Verlag , Münster 1978 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia, 34)
  • Heinrich Heine. Reclams Universal Library , Stuttgart 2003

Editor and co-author

  • Interference. Germany and France. Literature science language. Droste, Düsseldorf 1983. With Lothar Jordan, Fritz Nies (Series: Publications of the Heinrich Heine Institute)
  • French literature in German. A critical balance. Droste, Düsseldorf 1985. With Fritz Nies (Series: Publications of the Heinrich Heine Institute)
  • Young Germany. Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 1986 (with Joseph Anton Kruse) (= Heine studies).
  • Literature next door 1900 - 1945. Sixty portraits of authors from the area of ​​today's North Rhine-Westphalia. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 1995 ISBN 3895281131
  • Interpretations. Poems by Heinrich Heine. Reclams Universal Library, Stuttgart 1995
  • National borders and international exchange. Literature - Historiography - Science. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995. With Lothar Jordan (= Communicatio. Studies on European literary and cultural history, 10)
  • Literary prizes. Literary politics and literature using the example of the Rhineland - Westphalia region. Metzler, Stuttgart 1998 (= Heinrich Heine Institute. Archive, library, museum, 7)
  • "Rheinisch". A region's self-image. Metzler, Stuttgart 2001. With Gunter E. Grimm (= Heinrich Heine Institute. Archive. Library. Museum, 9); again Grupello, Düsseldorf 2005
  • Baudelaire and Germany - Germany and Baudelaire. Narr, Tübingen 2005 (with Hans T. Siepe) (= Transfer. Düsseldorf materials for literary translation, 19)
  • Transitions. Between arts and cultures. International congress on the 150th year of the death of Heinrich Heine and Robert Schumann . Metzler, Stuttgart 2007. With Henriette Herwig, Volker Kalisch, Joseph Anton Kruse , Bernd Witte

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personal data
SURNAME Kortländer, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster