Erich Unbelief

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Erich Johann Unglaub (born September 2, 1947 in Friedberg , Bavaria ) is a German literary scholar and comparativeist .

Life

Erich Unglaub has his biographical origins in old Austria. In 1946 the family came to Bavaria as displaced persons. He attended elementary school in Friedberg from 1953 to 1957, then until 1966 the upper secondary school and the mathematical and natural science high school of the Marist school brothers in Mindelheim . After serving in the armed forces, he studied German, history and social studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1968 to 1974, completing the state examination for teaching at grammar schools. The doctoral studies with the subjects Modern German Literature, Older German Literature and Modern History were completed in 1983 with a dissertation on the reception history of the poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz . The supervisor of the work was Prof. Dr. Roger Bauer (Modern German Literature, General and Comparative Literature Studies) at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Munich.

After his legal traineeship and second state examination, Erich Unglaub was a teacher at the state grammar school in Friedberg (1980–1995) and the ministry representative for school theater in Bavaria. At the same time he was a volunteer archive manager in the Aichach-Friedberg district . A teaching position (1980–1996) in the field of general and comparative literature (comparative literature) at the Institute for German Philology at LMU Munich concerned not only the technical basics, but also relationships with Scandinavian literature and the visual arts and theater.

Between 1984 and 1986 he was a lecturer at the Institut for germansk filologi at the University of Aarhus (Denmark), and in 1991 he was a professor for comparative literature at the University of Innsbruck . In 1995 he was appointed to the University of Flensburg . Erich Unglaub received the professorship for German literature at the (then) Institute for German Studies, and in 2001 the chair for German literature and its didactics at the Technical University Carolo Wilhelmina in Braunschweig . He held this position until his retirement in 2012. Erich Unglaub has been married since 1987 and has a son, Julian Unglaub.

Act

Erich Unglaub published around 200 articles on German and European literature and culture, often with comparative and sometimes didactic questions. One focus is research on German-Scandinavian literary relations, as well as the work and biography of Rainer Maria Rilke and Hans Carossa .

Erich Unglaub was a member of the board of the Philosophical Faculty Conference from 2008–2012 . From 2008–2012 he was President of the Lessing Academy Wolfenbüttel and until 2016 a member of the Board of Directors and the jury of the Lessing Prize for Criticism .

Since 2002 he has been a member of the board of the international Rainer Maria Rilke Society (Bern), its President since 2014, and since 2008 also co-editor of the papers of the Rilke Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • The public pointing with fingers. The image of the poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz in the literary public 1770–1814. Frankfurt am Main and Bern 1983. Dissertation, Munich 1982.
  • 'Ancestor' critical intention. Hans Carossa's autobiographical storytelling under the conditions of the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, New York 1985.
  • The noble savage in 'Sturm und Drang'. A teaching project. Munich 1987. In: Manz teaching aids German 2.
  • Rises and falls. The myth of Icarus. Frankfurt am Main et al. 2001.
  • Rilke work. Frankfurt am Main et al. 2002.
  • Panthers and Ashanti. Rilke poems from a cultural studies perspective. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Brussels, New York, Oxford, Vienna 2005.
  • Brecht's sons. Topography, biography, work. Unglaub, E., Conrad, W., Pinkert, E.-U. In: Center for dansk-tysk culture transfer 16. Frankfurt am Main et al. 2008.
  • Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a young poet. With the letters from Franz Xaver Kappus . Ed .: Erich Unglaub. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3425-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unglaub, E .. In Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online (nd). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter on degruyter.com
  2. ↑ Unglaub, E .. In DAAD Deutscher Germanistenverband on germanistenverzeichnis.de
  3. ↑ a b Unglaub, E .. TU Braunschweig, Institute for German Studies on tu-braunschweig.de
  4. ↑ International Rilke Society on rilke.ch
personal data
SURNAME Unbelievable, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Unbelievable, Erich Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and comparativeist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedberg , Bavaria