Dieter Schiller (Germanist)

Dieter Schiller (* 1933 in Eisenach ) is a German literary scholar and Germanist .

Life

Dieter Schiller was born in 1933 in Eisenach (Thuringia), studied from 1951 to 1955 at the Humboldt University in Berlin (East) German and worked there from 1955 to 1965 as an assistant and senior assistant in the field of modern German literature, especially German literature 1770 until 1830. At the same time, critical texts on contemporary literature were written .

In 1965 he moved to the Institute for German Language and Literature of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, later the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , as research group and department head for German literature in the 20th century. After founding the Central Institute for the History of Literature, he mainly worked as a research group leader for German literature in exile and as deputy director of the institute (1976/80 and 1986/90). He received his doctorate in 1965, completed his habilitation in 1973 and was appointed professor at the academy in the same year.

From 1977 to 1990 he headed the editorial board of the literature service published by the Central Institute .

As co-editor and co-author he was at the Lexicon of Socialist German Literature (lead: Silvia Schlenstedt, Halle / Saale 1963) and at the Lexicon of Socialist Literature (lead: Simone Barck, Stuttgart 1994) as well as on the history of German literature from its beginnings to the present , Volumes 6 to 10 (edited by Hans-Günther Thalheim, Berlin: Volk und Wissen Volkseigener Verlag 1973–1979) involved. In 1978 he prepared an international colloquium on “German literature in international anti-fascist resistance” on behalf of the institute and was co-author of volume 7 on art and literature in anti-fascist exile (director: Werner Mittenzwei, Verlag Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig 1981).

From 1975 to 1990 he headed the Johannes R. Becher Central Working Group in the Kulturbund of the GDR and, together with Hans-Peter Klausnitzer, edited the newsletter efforts .

He researches and publishes on German literature in the 20th century, his specialties are German literature in exile 1933–1945 and German socialist literature.

Dieter Schiller lives as a private scholar in Berlin. He has been married to the Germanist Leonore Krenzlin since 1979 .

Publications (selection)

• Erich Mühsam : Selected works in individual editions . Edited by the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin. On the basis of the work of FA Hünich, newly compiled, expanded and with afterwords v. Dieter Schiller. Volume 1 and 2. Berlin: People and World 1961
• About the intelligibility of poems . In: Forum 1966/12
• Co-editor and co-author of “ The German-language Roman in the 20th Century. Considerations, analyzes, lines of development ”. Volume 1 and 2nd ed. By the Institute for German Language and Literature of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (Dieter Schlenstedt, Manfred Hahn and Dieter Schiller) and by the German Institute of the Humboldt University of Berlin (Inge Diersen and Klaus Hermsdorf). Berlin and Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag 1969 (The publication of the two volumes was prohibited.)
• On the concept and problem of the literary society . In: Studies on literary history and literary theory. Edited by Hans-Günther Thalheim and Ursula Wertheim. Berlin: Rütten and Loening 1970
• Co-author of " History of German Literature 1917 to 1945 ". By an author collective under the direction of Hans Kaufmann in collaboration with Dieter Schiller. (History of German literature from its beginnings to the present. Volume 10). Berlin: People and Knowledge Volkseigener Verlag 1973
• Different from the ground up. The program of literature in the anti-fascist struggle during the thirties. Berlin: Akademie Verlag 1974
• Elective Affinities. Comments on the relationship between film and book. In: Film und Fernsehen 1974/12
• Co-editor and co-author of “ Dialogue on Tradition and Heritage. An interdisciplinary colloquium of the social sciences research area of ​​the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in March 1973 ”. Edited by Dieter Schiller and Helmut Bock. Berlin: Akademie Verlag 1976
• Rosa Luxemburg 1871–1919. In: Position determinations. On the history of Marxist theory of literature and culture at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century . Edited by Dieter Schlenstedt and Klaus Städtke . Leipzig: Reclam 1977
• Erich Mühsam : Selected Works Volume 1 u. 2. Ed. By Christlieb Hirte with the collaboration of Roland Links and Dieter Schiller. With an afterword by Dieter Schiller. Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt 1978
• In the chaos of disguised voices. Development novel as a novel of consciousness. Johannes R. Becher's “Farewell”. In: Experience of Exile. Antifascist novels 1933–1945. Analyzes. Edited by Sigrid Bock and Manfred Hahn. Berlin and Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag 1979
• Literary process and literary debates. Notes on the differentiation and unity of anti-fascist literature. In: Weimar contributions 6/1979
• Dieter Schiller, Karlheinz Pech , Regine Herrmann, Manfred Hahn: Exile in France (art and literature in anti-fascist exile 1933-1945 in seven volumes, volume 7). Leipzig: Verlag Philipp Reclam jun. 1981
• Intellectual difference and political discipline. Klaus Mann between 1930 and 1935. In: Who writes, acts. Strategies and procedures of literary work before and after 1933. Ed. By Silvia Schlenstedt. Berlin and Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag 1983
• Rainer Maria Rilke : The notes of Malte Laurids Brigge . Novel. Epilogue and attachment by Dieter Schiller. Leipzig: Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1984 (second edition 1990).
• Writer in the battle against the Saar . In: Weimar Contributions 1/1985
• The " Free Artists Association 1938 ". An anti-fascist cultural organization in exile in Paris . In: Fine Arts 1987/11
• Drama between God and Satan. Confrontation with fascism . Elisabeth Langgässer: The indelible seal In: Experience Nazi Germany . Novels in Germany 1933–1945. Edited by Sigrid Bock and Manfred Hahn. Berlin and Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag 1987
• With his mouth shut. The dilemma of the poet Johannes R. Becher . In: Wochenpost 1991/22
• Co-editor and co-author of: Lexicon of socialist literature: their history in Germany until 1945. Edited by Simone Barck , Silvia Schlenstedt, Tanja Bürgel, Volker Giel, Dieter Schiller with the assistance of Reinhard Hillich. Metzler, Stuttgart-Weimar 1994.
• Everyday life, resistance and Jewish fate. Aspects of dealing with the Third Reich in the literary public of the Soviet Zone and the early GDR . In: Werner Bergmann, Rainer Erb, Albert Lichtblau (eds.): Schwieriges Erbe. Dealing with National Socialism and Anti-Semitism in Austria, the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt / Main; New York 1995
• The absent teacher. Georg Lukács and the beginnings of Marxist literary criticism and German studies in the Soviet Zone and early GDR . (Pankower Lectures, Issue 9). Helle Panke eV Berlin 1998
• “Cultural Organizations” and “Publishers”. Two articles in: Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration 1933–1945. Edited by Claus-Dieter Krohn , Patrik von zur Mühlen , Gerhard Paul and Lutz Winckler in collaboration with the Society for Exile Research. Darmstadt: Scientific Book Society 1998
• Arnold Zweig in the Academy of Arts . (Pankower lectures booklet 29). Helle Panke eV Berlin 2000
• Kurella's Culture Commission - Mission and Failure 1957–1962 . (Booklets on GDR history 74). Helle Panke eV Berlin 2001
• Letters from exile to Moscow. The correspondence between Anna Seghers and the editors of the Moscow magazines “Das Wort” and “Internationale Literatur” between 1933 and 1945. (With preliminary remarks and explanatory remarks by Leonore Krenzlin and Dieter Schiller). In: Argonaut ship . Yearbook of the Anna Seghers Society Berlin and Mainz eV 11/2002
• Hope for a thaw. From the Critics 'Conference to the Writers' Congress (April 1955 to January 1956). (Booklets on DDR history 78). Helle Panke eV Berlin 2003
• The refused dialogue. On the relationship between the party leadership of the SED and writers in the crisis year 1956/57 . Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin 2003
• A book as a nuisance . Stefan Heyms "The Day X" and the party celebrities of the SED. (Issues on DDR history 83). Helle Panke eV Berlin 2003
• The Day of the Burned Book and the German Liberty Library . On the 70th day the German Freedom Library was founded in May 1934 (Pankower Lectures, Book 62). Helle Panke e. V. Berlin 2004
• Voice from Germany. The union of proletarian revolutionary writers in Berlin and Paris 1933–1935 (Pankower lectures, volume 72). Helle Panke e. V. Berlin 2005
• Reason of state and dialogue. For the restructuring of the Kulturbund in the first fifties . In: Siegfried Prokop , Dieter Zänker (Ed.): Lost dreams. On the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Kulturbund . (Writings on the history of the Kulturbund Volume 1). Kai Homilius Verlag Berlin 2007
• The dreamer and politics. Louis Fürnberg on the 50th anniversary of his death . (Pankower lectures booklet 103). Helle Panke e. V. Berlin 2007.
• Written in conflict. Mixed texts 1966–2006 (explorations - drafts - experiences 3) . Berlin: Edition Schwarzdruck 2008.
• Non-partisan, not neutral. Fragments on the political history of the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany . Edited by Siegfried Prokop and Dieter Zänker on behalf of the Kulturbund e. V. Kai Homilius Verlag Berlin 2009
• Erich Mühsam . Writer, anarchist, anti-fascist. Three studies (Pankower lectures booklet 140). Helle Panke eV Berlin 2010
• “ You want something with history ”. History novel and contemporary novel in German exile literature 1933–1945 (Pankower lectures booklet 142). Helle Panke eV Berlin 2010
• The dream of Hitler's fall. Studies on German exile literature 1933–1945 . Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna 2010.
• Alternative to bourgeois literature? Review of the proletarian-revolutionary literature of the 20s / 30s in Germany (Pankower lectures booklet 147). Berlin 2010.
• Is the Third Reich coming? - Three pamphlets against the Nazis at the beginning of the thirties . In: Friedhelm Greis and Ian King (eds.), With the typewriter against the catastrophe. Literary journalism against National Socialism . Documentation of the 2009 conference "Kiss the fascists wherever you meet them!" (Series of publications by the Kurt Tucholsky Society, Volume 5). St. Ingbert 2010
• Oskar Maria Graf and the German-American Writers Association (GAWA) 1938 to 1940 . In: Yearbook 2011 of the Oskar Maria Graf Society , ed. by Ulrich Dittmann and Hans Dollinger. Munich 2011
• About the Institute for the Study of Fascism in Paris 1934/35 . In: Weimar Contributions 2011/3, pp. 370–394.
• "Hitler drives to war." War and peace in the literary discourse of the anti-fascist exile of the thirties (Pankower lectures, issue 165). Berlin 2012.
• Details and examples. Forty years of reading and writing. Edition Schwarzdruck, Gransee 2012.
• "Inheritance of this time"? Ernst Bloch and his Moscow opponents 1935/36 . Lecture by Prof. Dr. Dieter Schiller on his 80th birthday (Pankower lectures, booklet 182). Berlin 2013.
• Get close to the masses! or reading is a party obligation! Critical considerations on the features section of the "Rote Fahne" Berlin 1920-1932 (Pankower lectures, issue 192). Berlin 2014.
• Munzenberg and the intellectuals. The years in the Weimar Republic 1921-1933 (Pankower lectures booklet 193). Berlin 2014.
• "Do not wait!" Tucholsky's contributions to the Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung. With two further studies, compiled on the occasion of his 125th birthday (Pankower lectures booklet 194). Berlin 2015.
• Answer to some questions from a West German about GDR literature. In: Andreas Heyer (Hrsg.): Discussions from the GDR. Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Siegfried Prokop, Volume 2. Norderstedt 2015, pp. 11–39.
• (together with Leonore Krenzlin :) Review of a lost country. Studies and sketches on the literature of the GDR (= explorations - drafts - experiences, vol. 22). Edition Schwarzdruck , Gransee 2019, ISBN 978-3-96611-000-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Schiller in the catalog of the German National Library