Ernst Erich Metzner

Ernst Erich Metzner , also E. E. Metzner (born February 23, 1938 in Hillersdorf , Sudetenland , today Holčovice, Czech Republic ) is a German Germanic, Scandinavian and historical Medievalist . He was a professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main .

Live and act

Ernst Erich Metzner spent his early childhood in his birthplace, a mountain village near Opava is located and then to the former Sudetenschlesien belonged. After the Second World War , the Beneš decrees resulted in the expulsion of the German population. The Metzner family also had to leave their homeland; In 1946 Ernst Erich Metzner came to West Germany with his mother and sister, who was twelve years older than him .

After finishing school, Metzner studied German , history , political science and Scandinavian studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He passed the state examination for high school teaching and then worked as a lecturer in Aarhus , Denmark . In 1969 he received his doctorate in Frankfurt with a thesis on the earliest history of European ballad poetry .

From 1972 he was Professor of German Philology at the Institute for German Language and Literature II at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . His main focus areas included medieval literature and historical linguistics . From 1999 to 2001 he was managing director of the Institute for Scandinavian Studies. Several visiting professorships took Metzner to Florence , Lublin and Lyon . In 2001 he retired from active university operations, but has continued to devote himself to science ever since.

As a linguist and historian, Metzner dealt with, among other things, "older and newer literature , German-Scandinavian literary relations in the Middle Ages and modern times" as well as "linguistic, naming and historical topics, especially from the Rhine-Main area and East German Slavic penetration area ". Influenced by his personal biography, he placed his research in a European context and was committed, among other things, to contacts with Scandinavia , especially Denmark and Norway , for maintaining the Scandinavian Institute at Frankfurt University at the end of the 1990s and for the German-Slavic cultural exchange. In addition, the Rhine-Main area as his “new home” was repeatedly the subject of Metzner's linguistic historical research and benefited from it.

Metzner published several specialist books and also made his research results known in regional and national newspapers and university publications with numerous articles, lectures and interviews.

Ernst Erich Metzner lives in Rüsselsheim am Main .

Memberships (selection)

• Metzner was appointed to the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts , Munich , in 2000 and is a member of the humanities class there and one of the three class representatives.
• From 2006 to 2018 Metzner was chairman of the Adalbert Stifter Verein e. V., Munich, which, as a state-financed cultural institute, promotes cultural exchange between Germany and the Czech Republic .

Awards and honors

• 2003: The University of Frankfurt am Main honored Metzner on his 65th birthday with a ceremony and honored his many years of commitment with the publication of a commemorative publication .
• 2006: Culture Prize of the City of Rüsselsheim

literature

• Andrea Hohmeyer, Jasmin S. Rühl and Ingo Wintermeyer (eds.): Searching for traces in linguistic and historical landscapes. Festschrift for Ernst Erich Metzner . Lit Verlag , Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6565-7 .

Publications (selection)

Non-fiction

• On the earliest history of European ballad poetry. The dance in Kölbigk. Legendary news. Social background. Historical requirements . Athenäum-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972 (= Frankfurt contributions to German studies; Vol. 14), without ISBN. (also dissertation; University of Frankfurt am Main, Philos. Fac .; 1969)
• The medieval “castle” towns of the central Oder region (Lebus, Niederlausitz, Sternberg, Neumark). Further information on the word history of mhd. Burc and stat, on the formation of old German place names and on the early days of East German urbanism . Carl Winter-Verlag, Heidelberg 1979, without ISBN.
• Past am Untermain - present. 20 times history brought to language and language to speak . Verlag der Theaterwerkstatt, Rüsselsheim 1982, without ISBN.
  • The old “royal cities” between the river and the highway since the Alemannic era - a medieval administrative center and the associated central meeting place . Revised Contribution from: Past am Untermain - present . Rüsselsheim 1982. (as digitized freely available online)
  • Why people from Frankfurt had to go to court near Rüsselsheim . Revised Contribution from: Past am Untermain - present . Rüsselsheim 1982. (as digitized freely available online)
• Freiburg, Friborg and its namesakes . Universitätsverlag, Freiburg 1983, without ISBN.
• Problems of local history research in our area . Verlag der Theaterwerkstatt, Rüsselsheim 1984, without ISBN.
• The Lorscher Reichsurbar against its German and French background. A misunderstood language and history document from the years 764/5? In: Contributions to the exploration of the Odenwald and its peripheral landscapes ; 5; 1992, without ISBN.

Editions

• The old centers and the new media. On the role of dialect and high culture in modern times. Topics of the honoring symposium on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Robert Stromberger in the University and State Library Darmstadt on February 10, 2006 . Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 2007 (= Darmstädter Schriften; 89), ISBN 978-3-87390-222-0 .
• Rüsselsheim circular routes. With an introduction to the landscape and the history of the urban area . Magistrate of the City of Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim 1987, without ISBN (5 publications in cassette).

items

• The 'Herzog-Ernst-von-Baiern'-Historia C of the ambitious Slavic-German court of the Silesian dukes Heinrich I and Heinrich II. Before 1241. In: Eduard Hlawitschka (Ed.): Research contributions of the humanities class. (= Writings of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts. Volume 32), pp. 51–93.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Erich Metzner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Information about Ernst Erich Metzner at the Adalbert Stifter Association ( Memento from May 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Interview with Ernst Erich Metzner by Jitka Mladkova at Radio Praha on January 7, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Sader , Anette Wörner (Ed.): Transgressions. Dialogues between literary and theater studies, architecture and the fine arts. Festschrift for Leonhard M. Fiedler . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-8260-2262-9 , p. 347 (short biography of Ernst Erich Metzner)
2. ↑ Andrea Hohmeyer u. a. (Ed.): Searching for traces in linguistic and historical landscapes. Festschrift for Ernst Erich Metzner . Münster 2003, Introduction , pp. 1–3.
3. ↑ Publications by Prof. Dr. Ernst Erich Metzner (selection)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Listing of a total of 75 publications by the Adalbert-Stifter-Verein e. V., Munich (last call: April 28, 2009).  
4. ↑ Information about the member Ernst Erich Metzner ( Memento of the original dated August 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Sudeten Academy of Sciences and Arts e. V., Munich (last call: April 28, 2009). 
5. ^ Adalbert Stifter Verein e. V .: Chair of the Adalbert Stifter Association. In: stifterverein.de. Retrieved January 24, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Andrea Hohmeyer u. a. (Ed.): Searching for traces in linguistic and historical landscapes. Festschrift for Ernst Erich Metzner . Münster 2003. (see literature)
7. ↑ Winner of the Culture Prize of the City of Rüsselsheim ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the culture portal of the city of Rüsselsheim am Main (last access: April 28, 2009).