David Pike (literary scholar)

David Pike (born August 9, 1950 ) is an American literary scholar.

Life

David Pike studied German and received his doctorate from Stanford University . Pike researches German literature and cultural politics in the 20th century. In 1976 he was able to inspect the archives of German literary emigrants for twelve months in Moscow and for six months in 1979 in East Berlin . The research stay was funded by the Hoover Institution and the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX). He dedicated the study published in 1980 to Katharina Mommsen and Momme Mommsen . The first part of his work on Bertolt Brecht first appeared in 1982 in the Brecht Yearbook , published together with the Lukács portrait , he dedicated the book to the writer Franz Fühmann, who died in 1984 . During his work on Soviet cultural policy in the Soviet Zone , the archives in the GDR were closed to him; he was only able to take a look at and revise his work after the political changes in 1989. In 2001, Pike was involved in an international project at the Center for Contemporary History Research in Potsdam to open up the files of the Soviet military administration in Germany .

Pike taught 20th Century Literature as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

Fonts

• Prolegomena to the study of german writers in Soviet exile, 1929–1945 . 1979
• German writers in Soviet exile 1933–1945 . Chapel Hill; Univ. of North Carolina Press; 1982 ISBN 0-8078-1492-X
  • German writers in Soviet exile: 1933–1945 . Authorized translation from the American by Lore Brüggemann. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1981 ISBN 3-518-03855-9
• Lukács and Brecht . Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1985 ISBN 0-8078-1640-X
  • Lukács and Brecht . Translation by Lore Brüggemann. Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, 1986 ISBN 3-484-35016-4
• The Politics of Culture in Soviet-Occupied Germany, 1945–1949 . Stanford University Press, 1992 ISBN 0-8047-2093-2

literature

• Ursula El-Akramy: Transit Moscow - Margarete Steffin and Maria Osten . European Publishing House, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-434-50446-7

Web links

• Literature by and about David Pike (literary scholar) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• David Pike , presentation of his research projects at UNC (no year)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Detlev Brunner ; Elke Scherstjanoi : Moscow's Traces in East Germany 1945 to 1949. File indexing and research plans . Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-040253-7 , p. 9
2. ↑ David Pike , at UNC