Frank Möbus (literary scholar)

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Frank Möbus

Frank Möbus (born March 23, 1958 in Göttingen ; † July 10, 2015 ) was a German literary scholar , Nazi looted property researcher, exhibition organizer and writer .

Life

Möbus studied German , sociology , political science and journalism in Göttingen from 1978 to 1985 . In 1993 he did his doctorate with Albrecht Schöne with a thesis on Franz Kafka; Followed in 1999 by the habilitation at Wilfried Barner a study on Faust -Thematik in the literature of the 16th to 20th centuries.

In 2004 he was appointed adjunct professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , and in 2007 he was appointed a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Durham in England .

He taught in Göttingen, where from 2008 to 2012 he was in charge of a position for the investigation of Nazi-looted property in the university's institute libraries .

Möbus was a founding member of the Joachim Ringelnatz Foundation and was on the board of trustees of the Joachim Ringelnatz Museum in Cuxhaven , which it maintains ; He was also chairman and spokesman for the jury for the award of the Joachim Ringelnatz Prize for Poetry. He was chairman of the Göttinger Kulturpforte and the advisory board of the Göttinger Kulturstiftung . In local politics he was involved in the SPD , among other things as deputy chairman of the city council.

He was a member of the German section of the PEN Club .

Fonts

Möbus is the author of numerous articles on literary and cultural history from the 16th to the 21st centuries (including Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg , Johann Wolfgang Goethe , Arno Holz , Robert Walser , Franz Kafka , HC Artmann , Elias Canetti , Ernst Jünger , Peter Rühmkorf ), also on literary theory and the problem of Nazi looted property research. As editor he is responsible for editions of the texts by Christian Morgenstern , Friederike Kempner , Joachim Ringelnatz and Franz Kafkas , as well as for several anthologies and illustrated books.

In 2011, with a study of Heinrich Sohnrey's National Socialist past , he renamed several schools and streets named after the writer.

In addition, Möbus has written a number of books on fly fishing .

Exhibitions

Möbus curated together with his wife, the doctorate art historian Friederike Schmidt-Möbus u. a. Exhibitions on the Faust theme, on Joachim Ringelnatz, on the book burning of 1933 and, most recently, on life in exile, 1933–1945 ; He also took part in a number of smaller exhibitions on literature and contemporary art in various cities.

Works (in selection)

Reference books

  • Together with Anne Bohnenkamp: “With grace and permission!” Traveling craftsmen: tradition and alternative. Göttingen: Wallstein 1989 (2nd edition 1992; 3rd, comprehensive and combined edition 1995; 4th edition 1997; 5th edition 2000; 6th edition 2003; 7th, completely revised edition 2012)
  • SIN FALLS. The sexuality in stories by Franz Kafka. Göttingen: Wallstein 1994
  • Faust - Approaching a Myth. Catalog for the exhibition in Göttingen, Düsseldorf, Weimar [u. ö.]. Edited by Frank Möbus, Friederike Schmidt-Möbus and Gerd Unverfetern. Göttingen: Wallstein 1995 (2nd edition 1996)
  • Together with Friederike Schmidt-Möbus: A short cultural history of Weimar. Weimar: Böhlau 1998
  • Together with Friederike Schmidt-Möbus: Who is Who in Goethe's Faust? Small encyclopedia of persons and mythological figures in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust I and II. Leipzig: Edition Leipzig 1999
  • Swell. Germanistic explorations of a metaphor. Files of the Congress Thresholds - Seuils. Trinity College Dublin / Mount St. Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, May 15-18, 1997. Edited by Nicholas Saul, Daniel Steuer, Frank Möbus and Birgit Illner. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 1999
  • Together with Friederike Schmidt-Möbus: Joachim Ringelnatz. Text + criticism X / 2000, Heft 148
  • Together with Friederike Schmidt-Möbus and Frank Woesthoff: Joachim Ringelnatz, traveling artist. Prinzenstrasse. Hanoverian books on theater history. Issue 8/2001. Lower Saxony State Theater GmbH: Hanover 2001
  • Small border traffic. Contributions to the interdisciplinary student colloquia of the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the Schiller Days in Weimar (1998/99). Edited by Frank Möbus et al. Norderstedt: libri 2001
  • Paths to Weimar. Contributions to the student colloquia at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and the Schiller Days in Weimar (1996/97). Edited by FM, Ulrike Mälzig, Stefanie Stockhorst and Volker Zimmermann. Giessen: litblockin 2001
  • Ringelnatz! A poet paints his world. Edited by Frank Möbus, Friederike Schmidt-Möbus, Frank Woesthoff and Indina Woesthoff. Göttingen: Wallstein 2000 (2nd edition 2001)
  • Poet pictures. From Walther von der Vogelweide to Elfriede Jelinek. Edited by Frank Möbus and Friederike Schmidt-Möbus. Stuttgart: Reclam 2003
  • Old love. Joachim Ringelnatz Prize for Poetry from the City of Cuxhaven 2002–2010. Speeches and laudations. Edited by Frank Möbus. Cuxhaven 2011

Text output

  • Joachim Ringelnatz: poems, prose, paintings. Edited and with a foreword by Friederike Schmidt-Möbus and Frank Möbus. Stuttgart: Reclam 2005
  • A hundred poems by Joachim Ringelnatz. Edited and with an afterword by Frank Möbus. Berlin: construction 2005
  • A hundred poems by Christian Morgenstern. Edited and with an afterword by Frank Möbus. Berlin: Structure 2002 (2nd edition 2004)
  • Do you know the land where the lianas bloom? " Poems by the Silesian swan Friederike Kempner. Ed. And introduced by Frank Möbus Stuttgart: Reclam 2009
  • Ringelnatz: To Berlin, to Berlin, to Berlin! Poems, prose and documents from the Berlin time. Edited by Frank Möbus. Berlin: Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg 2009
  • in memoriam Joachim Ringelnatz. Reprint of the first edition from 1937. Ed. By Frank Möbus. Berlin: Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg 2010
  • Kafka for pleasure. Edited and provided with a foreword by Frank Möbus. Stuttgart: Reclam 2011
  • Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: New views through the old holes. Ed. And with a preliminary remark by Frank Möbus. Stuttgart: Reclam 2014

Fiction

  • iMago. Fly fishing stories . Riehen 2007
  • The fishing wonder of Buchstadt an der Simse. Riehen 2010
  • Spring water. A scary story for fly fishermen (and other anglers) . Riehen 2010
  • The Fly Fishing Forum Book 1: Many Stories Beyond Angler's Latin . Riehen 2010

In addition, numerous publications have appeared in specialist journals, edited volumes, encyclopedias, daily newspapers, etc.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Möbus: SIN FALLS. The sexuality in stories by Franz Kafka. Göttingen: Wallstein 1994
  2. ^ Habilitation thesis: From Faust to Faust. Interplay between fiction and facticity. Göttingen 1999, unprinted.
  3. ↑ http://www.dur.ac.uk/ias
  4. ↑ Download
  5. ↑ 1994 ff. In Göttingen, Düsseldorf , Weimar and Altenburg : Faust - approaching a myth. Catalog for the exhibition in Göttingen, Düsseldorf, Weimar. Edited by Frank Möbus, Friederike Schmidt-Möbus and Gerd Unverfetern. Göttingen: Wallstein 1995 (2nd edition 1996)
  6. ↑ 1999 ff. In Göttingen, Cuxhaven , Hanover and Wurzen near Leipzig : Ringelnatz! A poet paints his world. Edited by Frank Möbus, Friederike Schmidt-Möbus, Frank Woesthoff and Indina Woesthoff. Göttingen: Wallstein 2000 (2nd edition 2001)
  7. ↑ http://www.euchzumtrotz.de/
  8. ↑ http://www.artgoespublic.de/termin_detail.php?termin_id=2511

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personal data
SURNAME Möbus, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2015