Erich Trunz

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Erich Trunz (1975)

Erich Trunz (born June 13, 1905 in Königsberg i.Pr .; † April 27, 2001 in Kiel ) was a German specialist in German .

Life

Trunz was a son of August Trunz (1875–1963), who was then an agricultural councilor in East Prussia . After studying German in Munich , Königsberg and, above all, Berlin, Erich was initially a lecturer for the German language at the University of Amsterdam in 1933 . In 1934 he became a member of the NSDAP at the request of the German Legation, which co-financed the editorial office. Later he became NSDAP trainer for North Holland. In 1939 and 1943/44 he did military service as a soldier, from 1940 he was deputy lecturer leader in the Nazi lecturers' association. In 1942 he was appointed "Head of the Science Office" in Prague. Starting in 1943/44, the first withdrawals from the Nazi regime can be seen. In 1945 he escaped from Prague. After the Second World War , his book German Poetry of the Present (1937) was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone .

Between 1931 and 1933 Trunz was an assistant at the German Department of the University of Berlin and from 1933 to 1935 assistant at the Department of Literary History at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1940 he followed the call of the German University in Prague to the chair for Modern German Literature , where he taught until 1945.

After the war, Trunz financed himself from publishing the Goethe edition by Christian Wegner Verlag , before becoming a visiting professor in Munich in 1950 . From 1952 to 1972 he was an expert reviewer at the German Research Foundation . In 1954 Trunz was elected as a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . Its membership was converted into a corresponding one in 1974. In 1955 he received a chair at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . From 1957 to 1970 he taught German literary history at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

His research focused on Baroque poetry and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . He was best known as the editor of the Hamburg edition of Goethe's works.

Honors

Publications

  • Weimar Goethe Studies (= writings of the Goethe Society. Vol. 61). Weimar: Böhlau, 1980.
  • Johann Matthäus Meyfart. Theologian and writer during the Thirty Years' War , Beck, Munich 1987.
  • Science and art in the circle of Emperor Rudolf II: 1576 - 1612 , Wachholtz, Neumünster 1992 (Kiel studies on German literary history, volume 18).
  • Worldview and Poetry in the Age of Goethe . Weimar: Böhlau, 1993.
  • German literature between late humanism and baroque . Munich: Beck, 1995.
  • A day in Goethe's life: eight studies on life and work . Munich: Beck, 1999 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • (Ed.) Goethe's works. Hamburg edition in 14 volumes. Hamburg: Christian Wegner Verlag , 1948–60. In addition: Register tape, 1964. Since 1972 Munich: Beck.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Mähl (Hrsg.): Studies at the time of Goethe. Erich Trunz on his 75th birthday, Winter, Heidelberg 1981 (Euphorion, supplements, volume 18).
  • Dietrich Jöns (Ed.): Festschrift for Erich Trunz on his 90th birthday. Fourteen articles on the history of German literature , Wachholtz, Neumünster 1998 (Kiel Studies on the History of German Literature, Volume 19) (with bibliography, pp. 257–277).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Trunz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 2001 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b Hans Peter Herrmann: Trunz, Erich. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 3: R-Z. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 1909–1911, here: p. 1910.
  3. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 621.
  4. ^ Letter T, List of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. In: polunbi.de. April 1, 1946, accessed January 18, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Trunz, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2001
Place of death Kiel