Dieter Mehl

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Dieter Mehl (born on September 21, 1933 in Munich ; died on September 3, 2018 ) was a German Anglist and professor emeritus for the English language in Bonn.

Life

Dieter Mehl grew up in Munich and went to school. He studied English, German and history at the universities of Munich, Durham and Göttingen, graduated as a teacher in Munich in 1958 and received his doctorate in 1960 from the University of Munich on the subject of the function of the dumb show in Elizabethan drama . He then worked as a research assistant in Munich and, after completing his habilitation for the subject of English, from 1966 on, academic counselor. After substitute professorships in Erlangen and Bonn, he was appointed to the chair for English studies in Bonn in 1968, where he taught until his retirement in 1998. He was a fellow at Clare Hall College , Cambridge in 1972 and at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington in 2011 . He was President of the German Shakespeare Society from 1993–2002 , a member of the Executive Committee of the International Shakespeare Association (ISA) and Honorary President of the ISA from 1996–2006 . Since 1995 he has been a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , where he is director of the Commission for English Philology and a member of the Commission for Musicology. His main interests were Geoffrey Chaucer , Shakespeare and DH Lawrence and translated works by Chaucer, Jonathan Swift and Charles Dickens . In addition to medieval literature and Renaissance drama, he was also interested in the history of reception. Dieter Mehl understood his work in the tradition of the Englishists Levin Ludwig Schücking , Wolfgang Clemen and Clifford Leech .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • The Function of the 'Dumb Show' in Elizabethan Drama. PhD, Munich 1960.
  • The pantomime in Shakespearean drama. Series of publications by the German Shakespeare Society West. Heidelberg 1964.
  • The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. London 1968, ISBN 978-0415610797 .
  • Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction to his Narrative Poetry. Cambridge 1986, ISBN 978-0521268394 .
  • Shakespeare's Tragedies: An Introduction. Cambridge 1986, ISBN 978-0521316903 .
  • DH Lawrence: The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of DH Lawrence. Cambridge 1992, ISBN 978-0140187793 .
  • With Christa Jansohn : DH Lawrence: The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of DH Lawrence. Cambridge 1995, ISBN 978-0521294300 .
  • With Christa Jansohn: DH Lawrence: The First and Second Lady Chatterley Novels. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of DH Lawrence. Cambridge 1999, ISBN 978-0521007153 .
  • English Literature in the Age of Chaucer (= Longman Literature in English Series. ) London 2001.
  • With Christa Jansohn: The Reception of DH Lawrence in Europe, The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe. London 2007, ISBN 978-1472535924 .
  • With Hans Bungert, Christa Jansohn: What should English and Americanists read? Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3503037124 .
  • Shakespeare's Hamlet. Beck knowledge. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3406536274 .

Editorships

  • The English drama. From the Middle Ages to the present. 2 vols. Düsseldorf 1970.
  • English Literature in the Age of Chaucer . New York 2001, ISBN 978-0582492998 .
  • Studies in English literature. Munster 1990.
  • With Wolfgang Clemen , Wolfgang Weiß : Interpretations of English literature. Munster 1991.
  • With Wolfgang Weiß: Shakespeare's sonnets in European perspectives. Munster 1993.
  • With Jonathan Bate , Jill L. Levenson: Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century. The Selected Proceedings of the Shakespeare Association World Congress. Newark / London 1998, ISBN 978-0874136524 .
  • With Angela Stock, Anne-Julia Zwierlein : Plotting Early Modern London. New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy. Aldershot, Hampshire 2004, ISBN 978-0754640974 .

Translations

  • Charles Dickens: The Bagman's Tales / The Salesman's Tales. dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3423094184 .
  • Geoffrey Chaucer: Five Canterbury Tales / Five Canterbury Stories; Middle English / German. Edition Langewiesche, Ebenhausen 1958, 2nd edition 1964.
  • Jonathan Swift: A Voyage to Liliput / Gulliver's Journey to Liliput. Edition Langewiesche, Ebenhausen 1959, dtv bilingual, 1977, revised edition 1983.

Cooperation

  • Chaucer's Poetic Style. In: Piero Boitani, Jill Mann: The Cambridge Chaucer Companion. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1986, ISBN 978-0521316897 .
  • Shakespeare Reference Books. In: Margareta de Grazia, Stanley Wells: The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001, ISBN 978-0-521-65881-2 .

literature

  • Christa Jansohn, Lena Cowen Orlin, Stanley W. Wells: Shakespeare Without Boundaries: Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl. University of Delaware Press, Delaware 2010, ISBN 978-1-61149-026-8 .
  • Christa Jansohn: Obituary for Dieter Mehl. In: Yearbook of the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz. 69th year, 2018, pp. 64–66.

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personal data
SURNAME Flour, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English studies and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2018