Frauke Gewecke

Frauke Gewecke (born July 2, 1943 in Lithuania , Reichskommissariat Ostland ; † July 13, 2012 in Cyprus ) was a German Romance and Hispanicist .

life and work

Frauke Gewecke received her doctorate in 1971 at the University of Hamburg with the thesis thematic investigations on the pre-Calderonian "Auto sacramental" (Geneva 1974). From 1974 to 1984 she was an assistant at the University of Cologne at Horst Baader's chair . There she completed her habilitation with the work How the New World Came into the Old (Stuttgart 1986, Munich 1992). From 1984 to 2008 she was Professor of Romance Literature and Cultural Studies (with a research focus on Latin America and the Caribbean) at the Romance Department at Heidelberg University . She was co-editor of the magazine Iberoamericana (since 2001).

Other works

• The caribbean. On the history, politics and culture of a region , Frankfurt a. M. 1984, 1988, 2007
• (Ed.) Estudios de literatura española y francesca siglos XVI y XVII. Homenaje a Horst Baader , Frankfurt a. M. 1984
• (Ed.) Death and life. Dominican tales of the present , Frankfurt a. M. 1989
• The will to the nation. Nation building and drafts of national identity in the Dominican Republic , Frankfurt a. M. 1996
• Puerto Rico between the two Americas (1898-1998), 2 vol., Frankfurt a. M. 1998
• Christopher Columbus , Frankfurt a. M. 2006
• (Ed. With Léon-François Hoffmann and Ulrich Fleischmann ) Haïti 1804. Lumières et ténèbres. Impact et résonances d'une révolution , Madrid / Frankfurt a. M. 2008

Web links

• Works by and about Frauke Gewecke  in the German Digital Library
• uni-heidelberg.de: Obituary
• uni-heidelberg.de: Speech at the funeral of Frauke Gewecke on July 27, 2012
• Literature by and about Frauke Gewecke in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)