Dieter Richter

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Dieter Richter (2006)

Dieter Richter (born December 24, 1938 in Hof , Bavaria) is a German Germanist and author .

Life

Richter studied German , classical philology and theology at the University of Munich and the University of Göttingen . After doing his doctorate with Hans Neumann and working as an assistant in Göttingen , he was appointed professor for critical literary history and literary methodology at the University of Bremen in 1972 . The initial focus of his scientific work was the German philology of the Middle Ages (especially sacred literature). In connection with the re-establishment of the University of Bremen, he dealt with problems of university reform and a critical redefinition of German studies and its fields of work and methods. This meant that previously scientifically neglected, but socially influential text genres (especially children's and popular literature) became interesting. Works on fairy tale research and the history of childhood were created . Since the 1990s and in connection with various guest professorships at Italian universities and the collaboration in southern Italian research institutions, Richter has increasingly been concerned with topics of the Grand Tour , the history of German-Italian relations and regional studies of southern Italy, especially the Naples area . The methodological starting point of his more recent work is an integrative concept of cultural history in which approaches from literary and art history, ethnology and material historical research merge.

In addition to his work as an author and translator (including the Neapolitan fairy tales by Giambattista Basile ), Richter is also known as a curator of various cultural and historical exhibitions in Germany and Italy. He is one of the founding members of the group The Red Elephant .

Richter has been retired and freelance since 2004. He was married and has two children, lives in Bremen and is an honorary citizen of the city of Amalfi . On June 2, 2008, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic . For his book The South. History of a Cardinal Direction , he received second place in the 2009 NDR Culture Non-Fiction Prize .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The German tradition of Berthold's sermons from Regensburg. Investigations into the spiritual literature of the late Middle Ages . Munich (CH Beck) 1969.
  • Fairy tales, imagination and social learning . Berlin (Basis) 1974 (together with Johannes Merkel).
  • Land of milk and honey. Story of a popular fantasy . Cologne (Diederichs) 1984, ISBN 3-424-00789-7 . Frankfurt (S. Fischer) 1995.
  • The strange child. On the emergence of childhood images of the bourgeois age . Frankfurt (S. Fischer) 1987.
  • La luce azzurra. Saggi sulla fiaba . Milano (Mondadori) 1995.
  • Pinocchio or From Childhood Novels . Frankfurt (S. Fischer) 1995. UdT Carlo Collodi and his Pinocchio , Berlin (Wagenbach) 2004.
  • Il mito della Grotta Azzurra. La nascita di un luogo romantico tra folklore, letteratura e viaggio . Napoli (Electa) 1995.
  • Il giardino della memoria. Il Cimitero acattolico di Capri . Capri (La Conchiglia) 1996.
  • Napoli cosmopoly. Viaggiatori e comunità straniere nell´Ottocento . Napoli (Electa) 2002.
  • Jean Paul and Italy. Joditz (Jean-Paul-Edition) 2002.
  • Naples - biography of a city . Berlin (Wagenbach) 2005.
  • Vesuvius. Story of a mountain . Berlin (Wagenbach) 2007.
  • The South. Story of a direction . Berlin (Wagenbach) 2009.
  • From court to Rome. Johann Christian Reinhart. A German painter in Italy. A biography . Berlin (Transit Verlag) 2010, ISBN 978-3-88747-245-0 .
  • Goethe in Naples . Berlin (Wagenbach) 2012.
  • Jean Paul. A travel biography . Berlin (Transit Verlag) 2012, ISBN 978-3-88747-280-1 .
  • Ocean. History of the oldest landscape . Berlin (Wagenbach), 2014, ISBN 978-3-8031-3648-0 .
  • The island of Capri. A portrait . Berlin (Wagenbach), 2018, ISBN 978-3-8031-2795-2 .
  • Fontane in Italy . Berlin (Wagenbach), 2019, ISBN 978-3-8031-1348-1 .
  • Visioni del Sud. Scritti interculturali 1988-2018 . Amalfi (CCSA) 2019 ISBN 978-88-88283-62-3

Editorships

  • Not secretly and not cool. Responses to service and other gentlemen . Berlin (aesthetics and communication) 1977 (together with Heiner Boehncke ).
  • Tourism and local culture. Cultural anthropological studies on the Amalfi coast . Bremen (KEA) 1999.
  • La scoperta del Sud. Il Meridione, l´Italia, l´Europe . Geneve (Slatkin) 1994.
  • Bremen and Italy. About the history of a relationship . Bremen (Temmen) 1994 (together with Christian Marzahn).
  • Voyage. Travel & Tourism Research Yearbook . Berlin 2001–2009 (together with Hasso Spode and others).
  • Model Herculaneum. Roman Bavaria and reception of antiquities in the north . Munich 2006 (together with Ludwig Wamser ).

Editions and Anthologies

  • Berthold von Regensburg: German sermons . Munich (Fink) 1968.
  • The political children's book. Current historical documentation . Darmstadt (Luchterhand) 1973.
  • Carl Dantz: Peter Stoll. A child's life told by himself [1925]. Munich (Weismann) 1978 (together with Johannes Merkel).
  • Wilhelm Lamszus: The human slaughterhouse. Pictures from the coming war [1912]. Munich (Weismann) 1980.
  • Childhood in poem. German verses from eight centuries . Frankfurt (S. Fischer) 1992.
  • August Kopisch: Discovery of the Blue Grotto on the island of Capri [1838]. Berlin (Wagenbach) 1997. 2009.
  • Naples. A literary invitation . Berlin (Wagenbach) 1998. 2008.
  • Brigands on the way. German travelers and the adventure of Italy . Frankfurt (island) 2002.
  • Pompeii and Herculaneum. A travel companion . Frankfurt (island) 2005.
  • Stefan Andres: Terraces in the light. Italian stories . Göttingen (Wallstein) 2009.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Alla ricerca del Sud. Tre secoli di viaggio ad Amalfi nell'immaginario europeo. Firenze (La Nuova Italia) 1989. [Amalfi, Antichi Arsenali].
  • Hunger for sweetness. On the cultural history of the sweet. Bremen (Gasseleder) 1990 [Überseemuseum Bremen].
  • I profumi di Reid. Uno scavo archeologico a Villa Rufolo e la vita di un inglese nella Ravello dell'Ottocento. Napoli (Electa) 1999 [Ravello, Villa Rufolo] (together with Matilde Romito).
  • Stefan Andres and Positano. A writer and artist “on the edge of the world”. Salerno 2000 [Positano, Museo del Duomo].
  • The last hours of Herculaneum. Mainz (Zabern) 2005 [Roman Museum Haltern, Pergamon Museum Berlin, Archaeological State Collection Munich] (together with Josef Mühlenbrock).
  • Views of Rome / Sguardi su Roma. To the German-Roman Johann Christian Reinhart on his 250th birthday. Rome, Casa di Goethe February 2, 2011 - May 15, 2011.
  • Lady Hamilton. Eros and attitude. The cult of beauty and the reception of antiquity in Goethe's time. Rome Casa di Goethe September 24, 2015 - January 17, 2016. Wörlitz, House of the Princess, June 4 - September 18, 2016. Petersberg catalog (Verlag Michael Imhof) 2015.

literature

  • Michael Nagel (Ed.): Travel, Explore, Tell. Images from European ethnology and literature. Dieter Richter on his 65th birthday . edition lumière, Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-934686-18-4 , ( Press and History New Articles 10).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NDR Kultur Non-Fiction Book Prize 2009 for Jürgen Osterhammel . NDR Kultur on October 25, 2009, accessed on January 4, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hof (Saale)