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Dietger Pforte (born January 22, 1940 in Prague ) is a German literary scholar . From 1994 to 2009 he was Professor of Modern German Literature at the Free University in Berlin .

Life

Pforte studied German , philosophy and theater studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the University of Cologne and the Technical University of Berlin . From 1965 to 1969 he was an employee of the Literary Colloquium Berlin and from 1969 to 1971 editor and presenter in the third TV program of the ARD ( Sender Freies Berlin , Radio Bremen and Norddeutscher Rundfunk ). 1974 doctorate he attended the Technical University of Berlin in Höllerer to Dr. phil. with the dissertation from below. Study of the literary educational work of the early German social democracy and the relationship between literature and the working class. In the same year, until 1977, he became a research assistant at the University of Education in Berlin. From 1977 to 1996 he was in charge of the literature department in the Berlin Senate Cultural Administration . From 1994 to 2009 Pforte was honorary professor for modern German literature at the Free University of Berlin.

Pforte was active in numerous foundations and boards of trustees. In 1992 he was a member of the advisory board of the magazine Sinn und Form . From 1994 to 1996 he was a member of the board of trustees of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and then from 1996 to 2006 on the board or managing director of the Kulturfonds Foundation. From 2003 to 2004 Pforte was the spokesman for the jury of the German Schiller Foundation , since 2005 as a member of the board of directors and from 2006 to 2011 as chairman of the board of the German Schiller Foundation. From 1995 to 2016 he was chairman of the Anna Seghers Foundation and from 1997 to 2016 chairman of the Freie Volksbühne Berlin . In 2011 he became a member of the board of the Inge Deutschkron Foundation in Berlin, from 2014 to 2017 he was a member of the board of the Christa Wolf Society. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Berlin Literary Colloquium since the mid-1990s.

Pforte is also a member of the PEN Center Germany , honorary member of the International Stefan Heym Society in Chemnitz , the Johannes Sassenbach Society in Berlin, Kulturkind - support group for art and culture for children and young people in Berlin and the Free Volksbühne Berlin. In 2010 he received the Rahel Varnhagen von Ense Medal , a Berlin literary prize , for his services . Dietger Pforte is the author of numerous publications and editor or co-editor of, among others, Heinrich Vogeler's Das Neue Leben. Writings on the proletarian revolution and art and travel through Russia. The Birth of the New Man , published in 1973 and 1974, as well as by Georg Weerth nonsense of German newspapers and other things that he published in 1970. The complete facsimile print Fontana Martina by Fritz Jordi and Heinrich Vogeler from 1931/32 was published by Pforte in 1974. In 1985 the colored, widely visible signal sign he published appeared. The correspondence between Carl von Ossietzky and Kurt Tucholsky from 1932.

Publications (selection)

author

  • The literary situation in West Berlin in the 70s and 80s. MuK, Siegen 1988.
  • From the bottom up. Study of the literary educational work of the early German social democracy and the relationship between literature and the working class. Dissertation . Anabas, Giessen 1979.

editor

  • The special library or the fascination of book collections. with Antonius Jammers and Winfried Sühlo, Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2002. ISBN 978-3-598-11625-4 .
  • Free Volksbühne Berlin 1890–1990. Contributions to the history of the Volksbühne movement in Berlin. Argon, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-87024-168-3 .
  • Suddenly off. Prose. Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-926178-04-3 .
  • 61 ° above the horizon. Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, 1986. ISBN 978-3-920392-98-1 .
  • Colored, widely visible signal signs. The correspondence between Carl von Ossietzky and Kurt Tucholsky from 1932. Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-88331-942-2 .
  • Report on the situation of literature in Berlin. Senator for Cultural Affairs, Berlin 1983.
  • On the archeology of popular culture. with Ludwig Fischer a. a., Techn. Universität Berlin, 1979, ISBN 978-3-7983-0694-3 .
  • Comics in aesthetic lessons. Athenaeum, Frankfurt 1974, ISBN 3-7610-0355-2 .
  • Views of a Future Futurology. with Olaf Schwencke. Hanser Munich, 1973, ISBN 978-3-446-11696-2 .
  • The German-language anthology. with Joachim Bark. 2 volumes, Klostermann, Frankfurt 1969–1970.

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personal data
SURNAME Gate, Dietger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague