Bettina Clausen

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Bettina Clausen , b. Feddersen , (born August 16, 1941 in Böhlitz-Ehrenberg , Saxony , † May 9, 2018 in Hamburg ) was a German literary scholar . She was a professor at the University of Hamburg .

Life

As a child, Bettina Clausen fled with her parents and siblings from the Soviet to the American occupation zone in 1949 and went to school in Augsburg and Hamburg . At the age of 16, she began studying at the Hamburg University of Music . In 1964 she married the sociologist Lars Clausen . After seven years of stage experience as an actress under her maiden name she put special Begabtenprüfung to university in Hamburg and studied literature and sociology at the University of Hamburg, where she in 1985 with a thesis on Leopold Schefer Dr. phil. PhD . Since 1994 she has been a professor for modern German literature at the University of Hamburg.

Services

Clausen's research focus was on the theory and practice of narratology , in particular on the narrative art of the literary avant-garde . She also taught and researched contemporary German literature, Romanticism and the Enlightenment . The authors she researched include above all Brigitte Kronauer , Arno Schmidt , Leopold Schefer , ETA Hoffmann , Christoph Martin Wieland and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing .

Since 2012 she has mainly worked as an editor, u. a. on Ferdinand Tönnies ' Community and Society and the Ferdinand Tönnies Complete Edition (FTG). She managed the estates of her mother-in-law, the photographer Rosemarie Clausen , and her husband Lars Clausen.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Leopold Schefer bibliography. Work and reception 1799–1985 . Bangert & Metzler, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-924147-10-8 .
  • 1985: (with Lars Clausen ) Capable of anything. An attempt at a socio-biography to understand the poet Leopold Schefer , 2 vols., Bangert & Metzler. Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-924147-09-4 .

Essays

  • (with Harro Segeberg) Automation without any practical constraints . Workers' writers, industrial sociologists and the "control room". In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie , 1977, 29th year, H 1, pp. 95–117.
  • Robin Crusoe or The LORD just believed in Me. To a literary permanent model . In: Freibeuter , Vol. 9, 1981, pp. 101 ff.
  • (with Harro Segeberg) Technology and mastery of nature in conflict. To rectify some pictures, also about Kleist and Goethe . In: Text & Context , (10.1), 1982, p. 47 ff. - Reprint in: Harro Segeberg (Hrsg.): Technik in der Literatur . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-518-28255-7 , p. 33 ff.
  • Completely correct in gray. " The School of Atheists " at first glance . In: Zettelkasten H. 1, 1984, p. 210 ff.
  • Completely correct in gray. "The School of Atheists" in continued reading . In: Zettelkasten , H. 3, 1984, p. 34 ff.
  • Ideomotoric Vita Nova. Work, technology and paradise in Eckhard Henscheid's novels . In: Harro Segeberg (ed.): Technology in literature . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-518-28255-7 , p. 483 ff.
  • In dubio pro publico. Small echo on the Rühmkorf sound . In: Akzente , 1987, 34th vol., H. 1, pp. 41-47.
  • For beginners. As a Heino Jaeger homage . In: Ralf Busch (ed.), Heino Jaeger . Christians, Hamburg 1988 Hamburg, ISBN 3-7672-1072-X , p. 29 ff.
  • "She came to me for being like a queen". On the nature poetry of Councilor Barthold Heinrich Brockes . In: Inge Stephan, Hans-Gerd Winter (eds.), Hamburg in the Age of Enlightenment . Reimer, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-496-00975-6 , p. 161 ff.
  • The metalanguage of the structure. Brigitte Kronauer's "Rita Münster". In: The German Quarterly , 1990, p. 437 ff. - Reprint in: Paul Michael Lützeler (Ed.): Spätmoderne und Postmoderne . Fischer TB, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-596-10957-4 , p. 157 ff.
  • Writer's work around 1825. Autonomous and copied understanding of values ​​based on the Wilhelm Hauffs model . In: Harro Segeberg (Ed.): From the value of work. On the literary constitution of the complex of values ​​"work" in German literature (1770–1930). Documentation of an interdisciplinary conference in Hamburg from March 16 to 18, 1988 . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-484-35034-2 , p. 159 ff.
  • An amazing fall, and ascent. On the prose of Brigitte Kronauer . In: Merkur , H. 506, 1991, p. 442 ff.
  • Metamorphosis and transition. On the avant-garde of Arno Schmidt's procedures . In: Hefte zur research , volume 1: Maybe there are still other ways , Bargfeld ( Arno Schmidt Foundation ) 1992, p. 65 ff.
  • (with Karsten Singelmann): Avant-garde today? In: Klaus Briegleb / Sigrid Weigel (eds.): Contemporary literature since 1968 ( Hanser's literary history of German literature from the 16th century to the present , vol. 12), Hanser, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-446-12787-9 , p. 455 ff.
  • The homecoming novel . In: Mittelweg 36 , vol. 5, 1992/93, p. 57 ff.
  • Shipwreck in the salon (on a seascape by Iwan Konstantinowitsch Aiwasowski ). In: Der Rabe , No. 39, 1994, p. 111 ff.
  • “'Tautra' etc.” Observations on Arno Schmidt's early PHAROS In: Hefte zur Forschung . H. 2: Ponds between North and South Seas , Bargfeld (Arno Schmidt Foundation) 1994, p. 31 ff.
  • "A life for science". On a model by the writer, actuary and probability theorist Leo Perutz : “The day without evening” (1925). In: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (Ed.): New Science and Old Poetry? Berlin 1994.
  • Of fabricating monstrous incidents. Writer to read again: Ror Wolf . In: Handelsblatt of March 24, 1995.
  • Declining youth. Comments on Borchert and the early Borchert success . In: Gordon Burgess, Hans Gerd Winkler (ed.): "Pack life by the hair". Wolfgang Borchert in a new perspective . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930802-33-3 , p. 224 ff.
  • Coitus in the factory. On the metaphor. In: Hefte zur Forschung 5, Bargfeld (Arno-Schmidt-Stiftung) 1998, p. 53 ff.
  • Private prose self-understanding. Arno Schmidt with his capriccio " Tina or about immortality ". In: Bargfelder Bote , Liefer 234-236, 1998, p. 48 ff.
  • Brigitte Kronauer. In: Frank Rainer Max, Christine Ruhrberg (Ed.): Reclams Romanlexikon , Vol. 5: 20th Century III . Reclam, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-15-010474-2 . P. 329 ff.

Editions

  • (with Lars Clausen) Spectrum of literature . Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh 1975, ISBN 3-570-08935-5 , numerous revised editions up to the 15th, 1990.
  • (with Harro Segeberg) Social machines. Literary and sociological texts on industrial work and technology . 2 vol., JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-476-30093-5 .
  • Leopold Schefer: Thirteen poems and songs. For the 200th birthday of the Muskau poet on July 30, 1984 . Bangert & Metzler, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-924147-08-6 .
  • Materials for the novel by Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer . In: Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer , The split . Vol. 2, Stromfeld, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-87877-771-X .
  • (with Thomas Kopferrmann and Uta Kutter) Literary portrait Brigitte Kronauer. With two stories by Brigitte Kronauer . Association of Friends of the Academy for Spoken Word, Stuttgart 2004
  • Lars Clausen, My Introduction to Sociology. 15 lectures in free speech. Ed. with Jan-Frederik Bandel and Klaus R. Schroeter . Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-86600-245-6 .
  • (with Dieter Haselbach ) Ferdinand Tönnies Complete Edition Volume 2: Community and Society. 1880–1935 , De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bettina Clausen at the University of Hamburg
  2. ^ Bettina Clausen in the online directory of the university German studies
  3. ↑ The Tönnies-Forum , vol. 27, 2/2018, contains memories of Bettina Clausen by Ann Kathrin Scheerer, Sebastian Klauke, Dieter Hasselbach and Jan Philipp Reemtsma as well as obituaries by Cornelius Bickel , Claudia Knauer and Karsten Schlüter-Knauer, Klaus R. Schroeter , Jörg Schönert and Alexander Deichsel .
personal data
SURNAME Clausen, Bettina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feddersen, Bettina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Böhlitz-Ehrenberg , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 2018
Place of death Hamburg