Eckhard Breitinger

Eckhard Breitinger (born May 4, 1940 in Ebingen ; † August 15, 2013 in Bayreuth ) was a German English and associate professor at the University of Bayreuth .

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Eckhard Breitinger studied English philology and history at the University of Tübingen , in Bangor and Geneva . He passed the first state examination in 1965 and the second state examination in 1975. In Tübingen he obtained in 1971 with a thesis on Death in the English novel in 1800 the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In 1987 he completed his habilitation in Bayreuth with a paper on the history of the American radio play. From 1965–1968 Breitinger taught at the Department of Modern Languages ​​at the University of the West Indies in Kingston (Jamaica). Between 1968 and 1978 he taught English at the University of Tübingen, before switching to school for a short time (1978–1979). In 1980 Breitinger was Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Kumasi (Ghana) . Eckhard Breitinger taught English studies with a focus on the literatures of Anglophone Africa at the University of Bayreuth from 1981 until his retirement in 2005. Since 1983 he has held several short-term lectureships and visiting professorships, including a. 1984 at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) , 1991 and 1993 at the Université Yaoundé I (Cameroon), 1998 at the Kenyatta University Nairobi (Kenya), 2003 and 2004 at the Chancellor College of the University of Malawi , 2006 at the Jagiellonian University Krakow (Poland) and in 2008 at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo (Mozambique). From 1992 to 1995 Eckhard Breitinger was a visiting professor at the University of Leipzig.

As a researcher, university professor and publisher, he played a key role in promoting Anglophone literatures and theater in the Caribbean and Africa. His Bayreuth African Studies Series (BASS), which he served as a small publisher, is an important reference for scientific analysis and critique of the anglophone literatures of Africa and the Caribbean and other related issues of African Studies. As a high school teacher Eckhard Breitinger coordinated interdisciplinary postgraduate course " Africanology “At the University of Bayreuth. He was a member of various research groups, u. a. of the DFG Special Research Area (SFB 214) “Identity in Africa” (1984 to 1998) and the DFG Graduate School “Intercultural Relations in Africa” (1990–1999). Breitinger supervised countless doctoral theses by young German and African scientists, and he himself reviewed almost twenty doctoral theses by African scientists. Some of the resulting monographs have appeared in the BASS series. Breitinger retired at the end of 2005, but subsequently continued his diverse activities. As a visiting scholar, Breitinger had lectureships and research stays at various universities in Africa, North America, Europe and most recently in India.

Also in 2005 was a commemorative publication in Breitinger's honor: “Creative Africa”, edited by Susan Arndt and Katrin Berndt in Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal, ISBN 3-7795-0028-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Eckhard Breitinger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Breitinger, Eckhard ( Memento from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) mediaculture-online.de, accessed on September 8, 2014.