Friedrich Albrecht (literary scholar)

Friedrich Albrecht (born October 25, 1930 in Stolp, Pomerania, today Slupsk ; † August 16, 2020 ) was a German literary scholar , essayist and editor.

Career

As the only son of the bank clerk Joachim Albrecht and his wife Ilse, Friedrich Albrecht was the third of four siblings. The family lost their East Pomeranian homeland in 1945 and settled in Mecklenburg . The father died a year later and the mother died in 1948. Largely left to his own devices, Friedrich Albrecht graduated from the Goethe High School in Rostock in 1950 and began studying German at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig (today: Leipzig University ) in 1952 . His teachers included scholars such as Hans Mayer , Ernst Bloch , Theodor Frings and Hermann August Korff . In 1956 he finished his studies with a thesis on Anna Seghers'Roman The dead stay young .

He then worked for four semesters as a research assistant for new German literature and began work on a dissertation, which Hans Mayer supervised as a doctoral supervisor before moving to West Germany. The work The Narrator Anna Seghers 1926–1936 was first published in 1965 by the Berlin publishing house Rütten und Loening after a successful defense .

At this time Albrecht had been working for five years in a Leipzig research group led by Alfred Klein at the German Academy of the Arts (later the Academy of the Arts of the GDR ) - subject of research: The German socialist literary tradition in the Weimar Republic and in exile. His extensive habilitation thesis German writers in the decision. Paths to the Working Class 1918–1933 was published in 1975 by Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and Weimar. He published numerous works on the work of Anna Seghers. At the same time he devoted himself primarily to the work of Klaus Mann , whose most important novels and letters he published with afterwords in the Aufbau-Verlag. His articles and essays have appeared in magazines such as Sinn und Form and Weimar Contributions .

In 1977 he moved to the Johannes R. Becher Institute for Literature at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig, where he initially worked as a lecturer. Four years later he was appointed full professor. Up-and-coming authors sat in his seminars. a. Werner Brückner , Ralph Grüneberger , Kerstin Hensel , Angela Krauss , Katja Lange-Müller , Thomas Rosenlöcher . From 1991 to 1994 he taught German literary history of the 20th century as a visiting professor at the University of Metz until his retirement .

Friedrich Albrecht lived in Leipzig , was married and had a son and a daughter.

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Books (selection)

• The narrator Anna Seghers 1926–1932 , Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1965 (2nd, complete edition 1975)
• German writers in the decision. Paths to the working class 1918–1933 , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1970 (2nd, complete edition 1975)
• Association of proletarian-revolutionary writers in Germany: 1928–1935 , (together with Klaus Kellers), Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1978
• Efforts: Works on the work of Anna Seghers 1965–2004 , Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern 2005
• Do you know Anna Seghers - The adventurous life of an important narrator , Bertuch Verlag, Weimar 2007
• Klaus Mann der Mittler: Studies from four decades , Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern 2009
• Streiflichter: German literature and journalism between the Empire and the 1960s , Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern 2014

Editions (selection)

• Klaus Mann: The volcano, novel among emigrants , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1969
• Klaus Mann: The turning point, a life report , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1974
• Klaus Mann: Last conversation. Stories , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1986
• Klaus Mann: Briefe , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1988

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Albrecht in the catalog of the German National Library
• Contributions 1966-1991 in sense and form

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Culture blog “Leipzig Reading” by Bertuch-Verlag