Dieter Borchmeyer
Dieter Borchmeyer (born May 3, 1941 in Essen ) is a German literary scholar and was President of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts from 2004 to 2013 .
Life
Dieter Borchmeyer is the son of Joseph Borchmeyers , politician of the German National People's Party (DNVP), and Bärbel Borchmeyers, née. Schulten.
He began studying German and Catholic theology in 1961 at the University of Munich . After the state exams and his doctorate , he taught at a Munich comprehensive school from 1972 to 1979 and was also a lecturer at the university's German department. After completing his habilitation in 1979, he took over professorship at the universities in Erlangen and Würzburg . In 1982 he was appointed professor of theater studies at the University of Munich. Since 1988 he has been full professor for modern German literature and theater studies at Heidelberg University . From 1991 to 1993 he was dean of the Faculty of Modern Philology. His time in Heidelberg was repeatedly interrupted by visiting professorships at numerous universities in France , Austria and especially the USA .
Borchmeyer is professor emeritus at the University of Heidelberg and honorary professor at the University of Graz . He continues to teach at Heidelberg University as part of the endowed lectureship on “Heidelberg Lectures on Cultural Theory”. From 2004 to 2013 he was President of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . His field of work is primarily German literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries and music theater with monographs on Goethe , Schiller , Mozart , Richard Wagner , Nietzsche and Thomas Mann .
When asked "What is German?" He stated to @mediasres that "Political and intellectual Germany [...] never [was]".
Borchmeyer drew heavy criticism in connection with the invitation from Siegfried Mauser as part of a planned event to the Heidelberg lectures on cultural theory. The university refused to use the old auditorium, which was otherwise made available, as a venue, and the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung rode a violent attack on him and the co-organizer Thomas Hampson in the feature pages.
Honors
- Since 2000 honorary member of the Hungarian Goethe Society
- 2000 Awarded the Bavarian Literature Prize ( Karl Vossler Prize ) by the Bavarian State Minister for Science, Research and Art
- Since 2002 full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- Since 2004 President of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation (until 2013)
- 2005 Award of an honorary doctorate by the Université Paul-Valéry , Montpellier III
- 2007 appointment as honorary professor at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
- 2009 Award of the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in silver by the President of the Bavarian State Parliament
- 2017 Awarded the Golden Goethe Medal by the Goethe Society Weimar
- 2017 Awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit by the Bavarian Prime Minister
Publications (selection)
- I. Book publications
- Tragedy and public. Schiller's dramaturgy in the context of his aesthetic-political theory and the rhetorical tradition. Munich 1973 (Wilhelm Fink).
- Court society and the French Revolution in Goethe. Noble and bourgeois value system in the judgment of the Weimar Classic. Kronberg / Ts. 1977 (Athenaeum).
- Richard Wagner's theater. Idea - poetry - effect. Stuttgart 1982 (Reclam).
- Richard Wagner - Theory and Theater. Oxford 1991 (Oxford University Press).
- Weimar Classic. Portrait of an Era. Weinheim 1994. Revised edition. 1998 (Beltz / Athenaeum).
- "Sweetness of horror". Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. Munich 1997 (Hanser). New edition: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. May only secretly loosen my hair. Munich 2003 (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag).
- Goethe. The temporary citizen. Munich 1999 (Hanser).
- Richard Wagner. Ahasver's changes. Frankfurt am Main 2002 (island).
- Power and melancholy. Schiller's Wallenstein. Revised new edition with a foreword v. Raymond Klibansky . Neckargemünd and Vienna 2003 (Edition Mnemosyne).
- Drama and the World of Richard Wagner. Princeton University Press 2003.
- Goethe. (DuMont crash course). Cologne 2005.
- Mozart or the discovery of love. Insel, Frankfurt a. M. 2005.
- Nietzsche, Cosima, Wagner; Portrait of a friendship. Insel, Frankfurt 2008.
- Richard Wagner. Work - life - time. Reclam, Ditzingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-010914-4 .
- What is German? - A nation's search for itself. Rowohlt, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-87134-070-3 .
- II. Editions
- Richard Wagner: Seals and Writings. Anniversary edition in 10 volumes. Ed. [And commented] by Dieter Borchmeyer Frankfurt a. M. 1983 (island)
- Goethe: Dramas 1765–1775. With the collaboration of Peter Huber ed. [and commented] by Dieter Borchmeyer. In: Goethe: Complete Works. Letters, diaries and conversations. I. Dept. Vol. 4. Frankfurt a. M. 1985 (German Classic Publishing House)
- Modern literature in basic terms. Edited by Dieter Borchmeyer and Viktor Žmegač . Koenigstein / Ts. 1987 (Athenaeum). Second, revised edition, Tübingen 1994 (Niemeyer)
- Goethe: Dramas 1776–1790. With the collaboration of Peter Huber ed. [and commented] by Dieter Borchmeyer In: Goethe: Complete works. Letters, diaries and conversations. I. Dept. Vol. 5. Frankfurt a. M. 1988 (German Classic Publishing House)
- Goethe: works. 6 vols. Winkler Weltliteratur, thin print edition [new ed., With preface and afterwords by Dieter Borchmeyer] Munich 1992 (Artemis & Winkler)
- Goethe: Dramas 1791-1832. Edited by Dieter Borchmeyer and Peter Huber. In: Goethe: Complete Works. Letters, diaries and conversations. I. Dept. Vol. 6. Frankfurt a. M. 1993 (German Classic Publishing House)
- Nietzsche and Wagner. Stations of an epochal encounter. 2 vol. Edited by DB and Jörg Salaquarda . Frankfurt a. M. 1994 (island)
- Richard Wagner. The Ring of the Nibelung. Views of Myth. Edited by Udo Bermbach and Dieter Borchmeyer. Stuttgart 1995 (Metzler)
- Richard Wagner and the Jews. Edited by Dieter Borchmeyer, Ami Maayani u. Susanne Vill . Stuttgart / Weimar 2000 (Metzler)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust. All seals. With an afterword by Dieter Borchmeyer. Düsseldorf u. Zurich 2003 (Artemis & Winkler)
- The emergency. Martin Walser's “ Death of a Critic ”. Edited by Dieter Borchmeyer / Helmuth Kiesel . Hamburg 2003 (Hoffmann & Campe)
- Mozart's operas. The manual. Edited by Dieter Borchmeyer and Gernot Gruber . 2 volumes. Laaber 2007 (Laaber), ISBN 978-3-89007-463-4
- Franz Wilhelm Beidler : Cosima Wagner. A portrait. Richard Wagner's first grandson: Selected writings and correspondence with Thomas Mann . Ed., Come on. u. with a biographical essay v. Dieter Borchmeyer 3rd edition. Würzburg 2011 (Königshausen & Neumann)
- III. Festschrift
- Baptized to music. Edited by Udo Bermbach and Hans Rudolf Vaget (with selected bibliography). Würzburg 2006 (Königshausen and Neumann)
Borchmeyer is also editor of the book series “Heidelberg Contributions to German Literature” (since 1998), and co-editor of the book series “Theatron. Studies on the history and theory of the dramatic arts ”(since 1988), the magazine“ Wagnerspectrum ”and the book series“ Wagner in Discussion ”(since 2005). Approx. 300 contributions in compilations and essays deal mainly with German literature and theater history from the 18th to the 20th century. He is the program booklet author u. a. the Bayreuth Festival and for the Bavarian State Opera . His journalistic work appears in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Zeit and other newspapers and magazines.
Article (selection)
- From the kiss of love and death , 2008
- What is German? Variations on a theme from Schiller via Wagner to Thomas Mann , 2009
Web links
- Literature by and about Dieter Borchmeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of Dieter Borchmeyer
- "Rapid course Goethe" by Dieter Borchmeyer
- alpha-Forum: Dieter Borchmeyer literary scholar (4.5 2017)
- Dieter Borchmeyer: What is German? Tichy's insight (interview with Wolfgang Herles ), April 15, 2017
- Dieter Borchmeyer on the debate about "German Culture" LISA Science Portal Gerda Henkel Foundation September 22, 2017
- What is the German soul about? Süddeutsche Zeitung February 20, 2017
- Thomas Mann's "Joseph and His Brothers". Interview with Dieter Borchmeyer: "This novel is full of the present" Frankfurter Neue Presse April 27, 2018
- The German thinker Dieter Borchmeyer on a people that wrestles with its history - to the point of self-hatred. Basler Zeitung July 22, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Borchmeyer. Vita
- ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/was-ist-deutsch-politisches-und-geistiges-deutschland-war.694.de.html?dram:article_id=435443
- ↑ From Christine Lemke-Matwey: Bavaria: Spezl under Spezln. Retrieved December 6, 2018 .
- ↑ From Christine Lemke-Matwey: Siegfried Mauser: Pretty unholy alliances. Retrieved December 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Mauser fails with revision . In: sueddeutsche.de . September 21, 2018, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed December 6, 2018]).
- ↑ Enzensberger's “treacherous plate mines” | Laut & Luise. Retrieved December 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Volker Austria: Now he has the salad. The Siegfried Mauser case spilled over into Heidelberg University. It is also hotly debated by RNZ readers . In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . November 21, 2018.
- ↑ Winner of the Karl Vossler Prize ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art
- ↑ Goethe Society in Weimar e. V. - Honors. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Appointment notice Prime Minister Seehofer awards 49 personalities with the Bavarian Order of Merit / Seehofer: "Thanks and recognition for outstanding services / distinguished personalities are the source of strength and engine for our homeland" | Bavarian state portal. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Salzburg Festival because strong as the love is death , from the Song of Songs , motto of the Salzburg Festival in 2008, PDF 53KB.
- ↑ SWR Tele Akademie Lecture from 2009 at the Konstanz University of Music
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SURNAME | Borchmeyer, Dieter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1941 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |