Fritz Stroke

Fritz Strich (born December 13, 1882 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † August 15, 1963 in Bern ) was a German-Swiss Germanist.

Life

Strich was a student of Franz Muncker and in 1910 became a lecturer at the University of Munich . In 1915 he was appointed associate professor in Munich and in 1929 full professor at the University of Bern . In doing so, he escaped persecution of the Jews in the German Reich. In 1941, Strich was granted Swiss citizenship and was a full professor until his retirement in 1953 .

Strich received the Goethe Medal in 1932 , the City of Bern Prize for Literature in 1951 and the Goethe Plaque in 1953 . Strich was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Strich's estate in the Burgerbibliothek Bern documents "above all [his] scientific work".

Fonts

• Franz Grillparzer's Aesthetics , Berlin 1905; Reprint: Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1977, ISBN 3-8067-0619-0
• The mythology in German literature. From Klopstock to Wagner , Halle 1910; Reprint: Francke, Bern 1970
• German classic and romantic or perfection and infinity. A comparison . Meyer & Jessen, Munich 1922; 5. A. Francke, Bern 1962
• Poetry and civilization . Meyer & Jessen, Munich 1928
• Schiller. His life and his work . German Book Community, Berlin 1928
• The poet and time. A collection of speeches and lectures . Francke, Bern 1947
• Goethe and world literature . Francke, Bern 1946; 2. verb. A. ibid. 1957
• Art and life. Lectures and treatises on German literature . Francke, Bern 1960
• Goethe's Faust . Francke, Bern 1964

literature

• Carmen Furger: Dash, Fritz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
• Dash, Fritz. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 19: Sand – Stri. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22699-1 , pp. 588-597.

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Strich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Fritz Strich in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Meyer's New Lexicon. Bibliographisches Institut Mannheim, 1980. Volume 7: Ru – Td, p. 560.
2. ^ Fritz Strich's estate in the Bern Burger Library catalog