Claus Friedrich Köpp

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Claus Friedrich Köpp (born March 5, 1929 in Marienburg ( West Prussia ), † February 24, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German literary scholar and poet .

Life

From 1936 to 1948 Claus Friedrich Köpp attended elementary and high school, but in January 1945 his family fled from Marienburg via Berlin to Lichtenstein / Sa. There he attended nursing school from 1948 to 1950 and, after successfully completing his degree, worked as a nurse. From 1951 to 1954 Köpp was a teaching assistant and lecturer at the Jena Medical School. He breaks off early attempts, some of which have been published. From 1956 to 1960 Köpp studied German , history and education at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . From 1960 to 1967 he worked as a university assistant, publishing editor and radio journalist. From 1967 he attended theGerman Academy of Sciences in Berlin . In 1968 he received his doctorate with a work on Friedrich Hölderlin's concept of beauty.

From 1971 to 1974 Köpp was head of the information and documentation department at the Central Institute for the History of Literature, and from 1972 to 1974 he was also the chief editor of the department for literary studies. In 1975 he finally presented his habilitation thesis literary studies. Theory of literary studies, research systematics and technical language at Akademie-Verlag Berlin finished; as a result of his position against the expatriation of Wolf Biermann's habilitation, this did not take place until December 1979. From 1980 to 1992 he conducted research on the tendency towards classicalism and poeticism in world history ; the resulting work was published in 1996 by Aisthesis Verlag .

After individual lyrical works at the end of the 1970s, Köpp increasingly turned to poetic creation in the last two decades of life. In 2008 and 2009, his collection Dialogue for Three and the Songs of the Sun finally appeared . With a draft memorandum: About existence on our earth .

Lyric and scientific reference

“I go deep into ancient times, classified antiquity, middle age, / to calculate the present more precisely into the future, / the pieces of the finished piece, / remnants which I add to whom, / that those who find it easier to suit themselves / in perfections their own. Of a work? / In terms of the present / invent contemporaneity to last the genre. //

I stretch sails my skins, / to capture the wind, the stormy senses of all, / valleys, from peaks to peaks, / thinking, hands heavily my to rethink, to do over. / When I went to Sun Phaidriads of Parnassus / Delphis street holy to the temple of Apollon, / on which, eye in the charioteer's eye, / Pindaros like me the sentence / IT IS IMPORTANT TO SEE YOURSELF ALWAYS IN EVERYTHING, / sang Aphrodite, Pheidias the public beautiful / [...] "

- Claus Friedrich Köpp, from: Profiles: Future . In: Ders .: Dialogue for three . Aachen: Deutscher Lyrik Verlag 2008.

"Claus Friedrich Köpp, concentrating on the venerable category" classical ", took this very epistemological task more seriously than any other scholar before him. At the same time, he has been eager to develop tenable systematic categories from his historical analysis, which is both unsurpassably deep and unsurpassably comprehensive. [...] a genius book [...] From this point of view I would not hesitate to compare what Köpp has achieved with literary works such as those by Proust, Joyce or Arno Schmidt - or, on a scientific level, with the great works of Arnold Hauser or Ernst Robert Curtius [...] This book will represent a milestone in literary criticism and literary theory; it is a necessity for German literary studies as a whole. "

- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht on the tendency towards classicalism and poeticism in world history , report, 1995.

“Your chants from the sun find their way into the great classical chants. Accessing words is radical and conservative, playing with vocabulary - its continuation. Chains of words appear logical, as if one were mute without them, agreement and also playing the lyre. "

- Martin Anders, poet, on Gesänge von der Sonne , in a letter to the author, 2009.

Publications

science

  • Realism in ETA Hoffmann's story "Princess Brambilla" . In: Weimar Contributions XII (1966) 1, 57-80.
  • Ludwig Tieck: fairy tales and stories. Epilogue . Berlin, Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag 1968, 587–610.
  • The concept of the beautiful in Hölderlin's poetry and theory of poetry . Phil. Diss. University of Greifswald 1968.
  • A song sleeps in all things. Romantic poems . Selection. Berlin: Rütten & Loening 1970.
  • Holderlin's concept of historicity and the conception of poetic structure . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Society and Linguistics Series XXI (1972) 3, 421–426.
  • On questions of literary information . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen LXXXVI (1972) 7, 409f.
  • Literary studies and specialist information . In: Weimarer Contributions XX (1974) 4, 96-110.
  • On the basics of literary theory. Research management and language development . In: Weimarer Contributions XXII (1976) 5, 97-113.
  • Literary studies. Theory of literary studies, research systematics and technical language . Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1980.
  • The classicistic tendency and poeticity in the process of world literature history. Theses . In: Weimarer Contributions XXVIII (1982) 3, 101-124.
  • Tieck's works in two volumes . Berlin, Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag 1985. Selection and introduction, V-XLVI.
  • Librarian-bibliographical classification . Adapted version. Vol. 5, 2: 93 literary studies. Berlin 1988, 33–40 (specialist research).
  • On the ideality in Homer's epics . Lecture by Radio DDR II, June 4, 1984.
  • French Revolution and Literature or Individual and Utopia . Lecture Radio DDR II, November 20, 1989. (The two radio lectures are editorially edited chapters from the scientific project Classical tendency and poeticism in world history .)
  • Classical tendency and poeticism in world history , vol. 1 u. 2. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 1996. [1]

Poetry

  • "Wake up damn you ..." . In: We love life. Anthology of new German poetry. Weimar: Thüringer Volksverlag 1953.
  • Profiles: future . In: Poetry and prose of our time. New episode vol. 6. Aachen: Karin Fischer Verlag 2007, 233-271.
  • Dialogue for three . (Poems, 1977 to 2008). Aachen: Deutscher Lyrik Verlag 2008. 1st edition 2004 self-published, Norderstedt: Books on Demand.
  • Chants from the sun. With a draft memorandum: About existence on our earth . Aachen: Deutscher Lyrik Verlag 2009.
  • Holderlin . In: Hölderlin-Jahrbuch (HJb) 37, 2010–2011, Tübingen / Eggingen 2011, 285–297.

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personal data
SURNAME Köpp, Claus Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienburg (West Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2010
Place of death Berlin