Carsten Dürkob

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Carsten Dürkob (born February 11, 1963 in Wedel ) is a German non-fiction author and literary journalist .

Life

Education and professional career

After graduating from high school, Dürkob studied German and American literature as well as German linguistics at the University of Paderborn from 1983 and graduated in 1989 with a master's degree. In 1996 he did his doctorate there with Eckhardt Meyer-Krentler and, after his death, with Hartmut Steinecke with a thesis on the life and work of Emil von Schoenaich-Carolath , which was published in an expanded form in 1998 by Igel Verlag . At the same time he worked as a freelance journalist, completed a traineeship in 2000 and wrote as a local editor for a Schleswig-Holstein daily newspaper. Until the end of 2019 Carsten Dürkob worked for a company in Wedel in the area of ​​public relations.

Activity as an author and journalist

Carsten Dürkob's publications (see below) deal with three different subject areas. In addition to von Schoenaich-Carolath, he has also republished works by Helene Böhlau , Ida Boy-Ed and Gabriele Reuter on modernist literature around 1900 . Another focus of his writing activity is the history of his place of birth and other aspects of Schleswig-Holstein's regional history. After all, he has been involved - since his student days - with the text analysis of rock and pop music , which he regards as "a legitimate and inherent cultural form of expression" and "since the 1960s at the latest [as] the literary genre with the largest quantitative distribution" . From a two-semester seminar with the Paderborn Anglicist Erhard Dahl , Dürkob's first co-editor of a book on rock texts arose in 1989, which includes an early essay by Thomas Collmer on the Doors song " The End ". A reviewer judged the importance of this collection at the beginning of the 1990s with the words that, due to the "[...] heterogeneity of the approaches chosen, it gave an impression of the scope and potential of the research work to be carried out [on this subject] (including English-American research)".

At the end of 2015, Carsten Dürkob's second volume on song poetry in its contemporary historical context was published, dealing with the pop music of 1966. He then turned to publications on the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Publications

As an author

  • “The shadowy wreath not fulfilled.” The life, work and literary history of Prince Emil von Schoenaich-Carolath (1852–1908). Oldenburg 1998, ISBN 3-89621-085-8
  • Frond. A city story. Eutin 2000, ISBN 3-923457-52-9
  • 125 years Stadtsparkasse Wedel. o. O. [Wedel] 2001, ISBN 3-923457-57-X
  • (with Uwe Pein) “All hands up at the Sprütt!” 125 years of the Wedel volunteer fire department. Wedel 2002, ISBN 3-00-010242-6
  • Friedrich Eggers (1902-1932). The commoner. In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wedeler Stadtgeschichte (Ed.): Revered - misunderstood - defamed. The mayors of Wedels from 1902 to 1971 (= contributions to the history of Wedel 7), 2008, ISBN 978-3-00025-525-0
  • "Words are flying out ...". The text history of the Beatles. (= The Sixties, vol. 1), Igel Verlag Literatur und Wissenschaft, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86815-554-9
  • "World-rich province." Wedel in literature. In: Anke Rannegger, Stadtarchiv Wedel (ed.): “The horror of Wedel” and other remarkable stories. (= Contributions to Wedel city history 10), Wedel 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-043536-2
  • A change is gonna come. Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and others in 1966. (= The Sixties, vol. 2), Igel Verlag Literatur und Wissenschaft, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86815-599-0
  • Dithmarschen. An invitation. Boyens, Heide 2018, ISBN 978-3-8042-1496-5
  • Feel at home in Schleswig-Holstein. Space - time - culture - everyday life. Boyens, Heide 2019, ISBN 978-3-8042-1520-7

As editor

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ "Words are flying out ...". The text history of the Beatles. Hamburg 2012, p. 8
  2. ↑ Alexander Brock in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Americanistik , 39th year (1991), H. 3/4, p. 347
personal data
SURNAME Dürkob, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German non-fiction author and literary journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH frond