Dirk Hoeges

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Dirk Hoeges (born July 27, 1943 in Lindlar ; † January 30, 2020 in Cologne ) was a German Romance scholar , historian , translator and publisher .

Life

Dirk Hoeges graduated from the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne in 1964 . He received the Scheffel Prize for his achievements in German . From 1964 to 1972 he studied history, German, philosophy, then law, political science, sociology and Romance studies in Cologne, Besançon , Siena and Paris . In 1972 he passed the state examination and doctorate in ancient and modern history and Romance studies at the University of Cologne. He received a doctoral scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The topic of his dissertation with Fritz Schalk , Theodor Schieder and Eberhard Müller-Bochat is François Guizot and the French Revolution .

From 1972 to 1977 he was assistant to Wolf-Dieter Lange at the Romance Department of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He received a two-year habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation . He received his habilitation in 1977 in Bonn with the text: Literature and Evolution. Studies of French literary criticism in the 19th century: Taine-Brunetière-Hennequin-Guyau . From 1978 onwards, he was deputy professor and lecturer in Bielefeld , Siegen and Essen . In 1980 he received a professorship in Bonn, followed by a Heisenberg scholarship . Since 1988 he has been professor for Romance literature and cultural studies at the Leibniz University in Hanover . In 1992 he turned down a call to Chemnitz. In 1989 he organized a series of lectures on the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution and later on science-art-media at the University of Hanover. This was followed by expert opinions, including for the German National Academic Foundation, for which he also held summer academies.

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The work includes French and Italian literature, culture and history, and philosophy of science; so to the paradigm shift in the literature and humanities in the 19th century through the influence of the evolution theory of Darwin , Spencer and Haeckel . The topics apply particularly to the complex productive relationships between literature / art and history / politics / technology and their analysis. The focus was initially on the period from the 16th to the 19th century.

History and literature in the 20th century, such as the Weimar Republic up to 1933, the exemplary intellectual debates and ideological controversies between the Romanist ER Curtius and the sociologist Karl Mannheim offered new fields of work in research and teaching . In addition, Hoeges intervened with essays in the epistemological debates on literary theory (Lucien Goldmann, Robert Escarpit) and postmodernism (Lyotard).

Since 1998 he has been doing intensive renaissance research, including a. Lorenzo Valla, Francesco Petrarca , Pico della Mirandola , on the situation of women in the Quattro- and Cinquecento ( women of the Italian Renaissance , 2nd edition 2002) and translations of the poems by Vittoria Colonna (for the exhibition of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien) and especially of works Niccolò Machiavellis . After the prose translation of the novella The Life of Castruccio Castracani from Lucca , the presentation and analysis of Machiavelli's conception of power and rule in the book Niccolò Machiavelli followed in 2000 . The power and the appearance . It opens up a fundamentally new perspective on the Principe and its author, not least through its integration into the overall works of poetry and prose.

In 2006 the first complete German translation of the poems was published in a bilingual edition as a methodological consequence of the foundation of the new view: Niccolò Machiavelli. Poet poeta. With all poems German-Italian. Con tutte le poesie tedesco / italiano . In the context of a comprehensive presentation he has reinterpreted Machiavelli's oeuvre in the interplay of history and fiction in prose and poetry by Dirk Hoeges. Like the concept of Machiavellianism , he subjected the conventional reductions to the Principe to a critical revision. The Machiavelli trilogy was followed by new translations of the Principe and other works by Machiavelli. In 2015, the satirical parable L'Asino / Der Esel was published in a bilingual edition. The public and research discuss Hoeges' new conception in the press, specialist journals, anthologies and the Tutzing conference (Hoeges, Il Principe, Karriere eines Artworks, 2007).

Most recently, there was again work on the German Empire and the Weimar Republic using the example of the historians-dominated debate about a German special path . In 2013 it was published: Human rights and their enemies. German profiles between the German Empire and the Federal Republic and 2015 Theodor Heuss. One vote for Hitler. European literature and the Islamic challenge followed in 2017 . Kampf um Europa , and in 2018 the translation Niccolò Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia was published. How the Duke of Valentinois proceeded in the murder of Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, Mr. Pagolo and the Duke of Gravina Orsini. Detective novella.

Memberships

Prizes and awards

  • 1973: Strasbourg Prize (Prix Strasbourg) from the FVS Foundation (Hamburg) for his dissertation
  • 2004: On the occasion of his 60th birthday, Dirk Hoeges received a commemorative publication: Literary autonomy and intellectual commitment. The contribution of French and Italian literature to European history (15th – 20th centuries) . Frankfurt 2004

Publications

Monographs

  • Enlightenment and the cunning of form. On the magazine Il Caffè and on the strategy of Italian and French Enlightenment , Krefeld 1978 (48 pages) Writings and lectures of the Petrarca Institute Cologne No XXVIII, 1979.
  • Literature and evolution. Studies of French literary criticism in the 19th century. Taine - Brunetière - Hennequin - Guyau , Heidelberg 1980, ISBN 3-533-02856-9 .
  • François Guizot and the French Revolution , (Romance Studies and Preliminary Work 44), Bonn 1973; 2nd edition Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-8204-5937-5 .
  • Emile Hennequin, La critique scientifique (with an afterword by D. Hoeges, “L'oeuvre d'art en tant que signe” and register), Heidelberg 1982, ISBN 3-533-03069-5 .
  • Everything velociferous. The railway - from the beautiful monster to the aesthetics of speed , Rheinbach-Merzbach 1985, ISBN 3-922584-34-9 .
  • Controversy on the brink: Ernst Robert Curtius and Karl Mannheim. Intellectual and "free-floating intelligence" in the Weimar Republic , Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-10967-1 .
  • Niccolò Machiavelli. Die Macht und der Schein , Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-45864-5 , 2nd edition Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-61701-4 .
  • Niccolò Machiavelli. Poet - Poeta. With all poems, German / Italian. Con tutte le poesie, tedesco / italiano , Frankfurt am Main 2006, new edition Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-9815560-3-2 .
  • Human rights and their enemies. German profiles between the German Empire and the Federal Republic. Thomas Mann, Ernst Jünger, Martin Heidegger, Gottfried Benn, Carl Schmitt, Rudolf Borchardt, Stefan George, Rainer Maria Rilke, Alfred Toepfer. New dangers , Cologne 2013; 2nd edition, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-9815560-0-1 .
  • Theodor Heuss. A voice for Hitler , Cologne 2nd edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-9815560-1-8 .
  • European literature and the Islamic challenge. Fight for Europe , Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-057570-9 .

Translations

  • Niccolò Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia. How the Duke of Valentinois proceeded in the murder of Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, Mr. Pagolo and the Duke of Gravina Orsini. Detective novella. Translated and commented by Dirk Hoeges, machiavelli edition, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-9815560-4-9 .
  • Niccolò Machiavelli: La vita di Castruccio Castracani / The life of Castruccio Castracani from Lucca . Italian German. Translated and with an essay “On the Aesthetics of Power” edited by Dirk Hoeges, CH Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-43357-X .
  • Vittoria Colonna. Selected poems in a new translation by Dirk Hoeges, in: Catalog Vittoria Colonna , Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1996, and in: Dirk Hoeges (ed.), Women of the Italian Renaissance Poet - Painter - Composer - Ruler - Patron - Order Foundress - Courtesan . Volume 4 of the series Dialoghi / Dialogues. Literature and culture of Italy and France, 2nd revised and supplemented edition, Frankfurt am Main 2001, pp. 9–37.
  • Niccolò Machiavelli: Descrizione del modo tenuto dal duca Valentino nello ammazzare Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, il signor Pagolo e il duca di Gravina Orsini / Description of how the Duke of Valentinois in the murder of Vitellozzo Vitellis, Oliverottos da Fermo, of Mr. Pagolo and Mr. of the Duke of Gravina Orsini , translated by Dirk Hoeges and with an essay "The Principe Complex", in: Romanist magazine for literary history / Cahiers d'histoire des littératures romanes , Heidelberg, issue 3/4, 2013, p. 455– 475.
  • Niccolò Machiavelli: The Donkey / L'Asino. Bilingual edition. Translated, commented on with an essay: Literary Eseleien by Dirk Hoeges , machiavelli edition, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-9815560-2-5
  • Niccolò Machiavelli: The decennials. The Great European War , in: Romance Journal for Literary History 40 / 1-4 2016, pp. 395–421, Heidelberg 2016.
  • Niccolò Machiavelli: Decennali II. The Great European War II , in: Romance Journal for Literary History 43 / 3-4 2019, pp. 389–406, Heidelberg 2019.

Lexicon article

  • Niccolò Machiavelli , in: (Ed.) M. Landfester, Renaissance Humanism, Lexicon for Antike Reception Series: Der Neue Pauly - Supplement, Vol. XV, Metzler, Stuttgart, 2014.

Editing

  • Series: Dialoghi-Dialogues. Literature and culture of Italy and France, of which seventeen volumes have appeared from 1995 to the present day.
  • Women of the Italian Renaissance. Poet - painter - composer - ruler - patroness - founder of the order - courtesan . Volume 4 of the series Dialoghi / Dialogues. Literature and culture of Italy and France, Frankfurt / M. 1999; 2nd revised and supplemented edition, Frankfurt / M. 2001, ISBN 3-631-36753-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Hoeges: Obituaries: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ in: Dirk Hoeges, Literature and Evolution , 1980 and in Dirk Hoeges (ed.), Emile Hennequin, La critique scientifique, 1982, the founder of reception aesthetics
  3. ↑ ( Everything Velociferous. The Aesthetics of Speed , 1982)
  4. ^ Including Montaigne , the Italian educational magazine Il Caffè, the materialist Lamettrie, the historians Guizot , Michelet , Tocqueville , as well as problems of historiography and prose of the 19th century; Balzac , The woman of thirty years (La femme de trente ans), Mérimée , Colomba, Verne , The 500 million of the Begum.
  5. ↑ Thesis: The intellectual-ideological style of debate, characterized by the will to annihilate, prefigures the political will to annihilate Hitler and National Socialism before and after 1933
  6. ↑ On this, Hoeges, Deutsche Sonderwege or nothing new in the west? Stefan George, Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Nietzsche and the "Blockade of Modernity".
personal data
SURNAME Hoeges, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies (literature and cultural studies) and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindlar
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2020
Place of death Cologne