Eberhard Haufe

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Eberhard Haufe (born February 7, 1931 in Dresden ; † March 26, 2013 in Weimar ) was a German specialist in German studies and editor , who became known for his extensive work as an editor, primarily of classical German literature. In Weimar, for example, he worked as editor of the Schiller national edition and as editor and administrator of the estate of Johannes Bobrowski .

Life

Haufe grew up in Großröhrsdorf and went to school in Radeberg . From 1950 to 1954 he studied German, history and art history at the University of Leipzig , and until 1958 he was assistant to Hermann August Korff and Hans Mayer .

In 1958 he was at the University of Leipzig for "political nonconformity" relegated , the promotion was refused. In 1958 he was a short-term German lecturer at the Leipzig mission seminar , from 1959 to 1971 he worked for the all-German national Schiller edition at the Goethe and Schiller Archives in Weimar.

In 1962, Haufe met Johannes Bobrowski, who at the time was an editor at Union Verlag in East Berlin . In 1964 Haufe was finally admitted to the doctorate. In 1971 he suffered a stroke, as a result of which he was disabled. Since 1972 he has worked as a freelance editor and literary critic. He also worked for the daily newspaper of the GDR CDU , the Thüringer Tageblatt , in which he published over 150 reviews on current GDR literature. At the same time, Haufe developed an extensive editorial activity and published works by Schiller , Goethe , Klopstock , Jochmann and Bobrowski.

Political commitment

From 1989 to 1991 Haufe was a founding member of the Independent Committee of Inquiry of the Weimar Citizens' Movement, and from 1990 he was a member of the Weimar City Council , of which he was the first vice-president. In 1991 he suffered a second stroke, and in 1993 he gave up parliamentary activity. In 1992 Haufe was politically rehabilitated and was awarded a professorship by the University of Leipzig, which had once expelled him.

A student of Haufe, the philosopher Manfred Riedel , later stated that for Haufe, despite many political problems, leaving the GDR was never "up for discussion". With regard to “relatives and friends, the like-minded group of quiet people in the country, (the) Christian people and (other) guardians of the tradition of intellectual Germany”, Haufe remained in the GDR.

Awards (selection)

Publications as editor (selection)

  • Collected works by Johannes Bobrowski in six volumes (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt)
  • Vol. 1. The Poems (1998)
  • Vol. 2. Poems from the estate (1998)
  • Vol. 3. The Novels (1999)
  • Vol. 4. The stories, mixed prose and personal testimonies (1999)
  • Vol. 5. Explanations of the poems and the poems from the estate (1998)
  • Vol. 6. Explanations of the novels and stories, the mixed prose and self-testimonies (1999)
  • Carl Gustav Jochmann : The untimely truth. Aphorisms, glosses and the essay "On the Public" . Edited and explained by Eberhard Haufe. Weimar: Kiepenheuer 1976. (Gustav Kiepenheuer Bücherei) - 2nd, improved and expanded edition 1980. - 3rd, revised. and edition increased by one register. 1990. ISBN 3-378-00398-7
  • German Marian poetry from nine centuries . Berlin: Union Verlag 1960
  • We pass like smoke from strong winds. German poems of the 17th century . 2 volumes. Berlin: Rütten & Loening / Munich: Beck 1985
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt on Schiller and Goethe: Wilhelm von Humboldt. From the letters and works collected by Eberhard Haufe , Weimar: Kiepenheuer 1963

Anthology of the essays

literature

  • Jan Röhnert: The incorruptible view beyond the edge of the plate of expert knowledge (review of the volume "Writings on German Literature"), in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung February 7, 2011, page 26
  • Wulf Kirsten : A self-thinker in dark times - Eberhard Haufe. Word of friend for goodbye . Warmbronn: Keicher 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Haufe, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist, author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2013
Place of death Weimar