Günter Helmes

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Günter Helmes (2015)

Günter Helmes (born July 19, 1954 in Birlenbach ) is a German literary scholar, media scientist and publisher who also works as a casual carminist under a pseudonym . From 2003 until his retirement in August 2018 he was university professor for modern German literature, media studies and their didactics at the European University of Flensburg .

Life

After elementary school in Birlenbach (1961–1965), Günter Helmes attended the Fürst-Johann-Moritz-Gymnasium in Weidenau (Siegen) . There he passed the Abitur in 1973. In the same year he began to study German, philosophy, history and educational science at the University of Siegen , furthermore he studied in Iowa City , at the Ruhr University Bochum and in Madison (Wisconsin) , among others with Moltke S. Gram , Jost Hermand , Johannes Janota , Jürgen Kühnel , Karl Prümm , Jochen Schulte-Sasse , Klaus Vondung and Christoph Wulf . In 1980 he passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in Siegen. In 1985 he received his doctorate on the journalistic work of the Viennese expressionist and literary manager Robert Müller (1887–1924), which was supervised by Helmut Kreuzer (Siegen) and supported by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes . It was the first monograph on the long-forgotten author who, together with Kurt Hiller (Berlin), represented activism and who is now counted among the narrowest circle of - German-speaking - modernism.

From 1984 to 1986 Günter Helmes was lecturer at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at University College London , then until 1994 research assistant / assistant at the University of Paderborn . During this time, visiting professorships at the University of Auckland and at the TU Dresden fall . In Paderborn he completed his habilitation in 1994 with a study on the poetics of the naturalistic novel, from which essay publications emerged, as well as further research. The re-habilitation at the University of Siegen took place in 1998 under the dean's office of Burkhard Schaeder . In 2001 he was appointed adjunct professor in Siegen.

After completing his habilitation, Günter Helmes held substitute professorships, guest lectureships and research assistants at universities in Guangzhou / PR China and Szeged / Hungary as well as at the universities in Halle (Saale) , Kassel and Siegen. In addition, he built up Carl Böschen Verlag since 1996 (closed in 2014), which published fiction (including Kay Hoff , Theodor Weißenborn and Camilla Collett ) as well as literary, media and cultural studies.

At the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Günter Helmes, as a long-time member of the Academic Senate, was primarily responsible for strengthening teaching-related subjects, integrating media studies into German and other courses, developing and expanding German studies and extracurricular master’s courses as well as international contacts . He initiated, e.g. Sometimes together with other colleagues, cooperations with universities in Adana , Fez , Istanbul , Moscow , Pensa , Valencia , Winneba and Wrocław and taught at some of these universities as part of short-term lectureships.

In addition to this commitment to university self-administration, Günter Helmes also wanted to give university teaching the high priority in Flensburg, which it is taken for granted, especially at Anglo-American universities, but seldom in the German academic world.

Günter Helmes' teaching and research are the expression of diverse, interdisciplinary interests. They focus on different time periods and cultures, on the so-called E and U culture, on different media and on the adult world as well as on that of children and young people. Questions about peculiarities and peculiarities play a role as well as those about influence, interaction, exchange and mixture. These interests result in the self-image of wanting to make a contribution to collective memory based on individual and social practice.

Günter Helmes is (co-) editor of the works of Richard Beer-Hofmann , Robert Müller, Gerson Stern and Theodor Weißenborn. In addition, he has published works by Hermann Bahr , Gabriele Reuter and Johannes Schlaf and an anthology with 50 German-language Don Juan texts as well as numerous anthologies and essays on the history and theory of literature, media and culture, especially from the 18th to the 21st century (with ) submitted. Together with Stefan Greif ( University of Kassel ), he publishes the series SchriftBilder at Igel-Verlag in Hamburg . Studies in media and cultural studies , together with the Heimatverein Birlenbach Os Dorfbläddche .

Günter Helmes has been married to Julia Ricart Brede , who teaches and researches German as a second and foreign language at the University of Passau, since 2015 . He is the father of three daughters and the grandfather of two grandchildren and lives in Schärding am Inn .

Monographs

  • Robert Müller: Topics and tendencies of his journalistic writings . Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1986. ISBN 3-8204-9762-5 . New edition: Igel Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86815-536-5 .
  • Studies on the poetics of the naturalistic novel (unpublished).
  • That should be the Herder? Portraits of Johann Gottfried Herder as manifestations of (re-) presentation and culture of remembrance practices between the late 18th and early 20th centuries . Igel Verlag, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-86815-743-7 .

Anthologies (selection)

Editions of literary texts (selection)

  • Robert Müller: Collected works in individual editions (14 vols., Paderborn 1990ff.). Of which: tropics. The myth of the trip. Certificates from a German engineer. Published by Robert Müller in 1915 . Paderborn 1990. Also: Stuttgart 1993. Again: Hamburg 2010; Camera obscura . Paderborn 1991; Flibustier . Paderborn 1992; Critical Writings. Vol. I [1912-1916] (with Jürgen Berners ). Paderborn 1993. Again: Hamburg 2011; Paralipomena (with Thomas Schwarz). Hamburg 2019.
  • Richard Beer-Hofmann: Collected Works in Individual Editions , (7 vols., Paderborn 1993ff .; with Andreas Thomasberger and Michael Matthias Schardt ). Of it himself: Richard Beer-Hofmann: Novellen ( Camelias. The child ). Paderborn 1993.
  • Theodor Weißenborn: Works (6 vols .; Siegen 2002ff.).
  • Gerson Stern: Works (3 vols., Siegen 1999ff .; with Friedrich Voit ).
  • Don juan 50 German-language variations of a European myth (with Petra Hennecke ). Paderborn 1994. Again: Hamburg 2011.
  • Hermann Bahr : The good school. Mental status . Berlin 1997.
  • Gabriele Reuter : Ellen von der Weiden . Berlin 1997.
  • Johannes Schlaf : Young people . Berlin 1997.

Articles (selection)

  • From 'Formindalls' and other 'hominids'. Thoughts on Arno Schmidt's The Scholarly Republic . In: Arno Schmidt. The early work II, ed. by Michael Matthias Schardt . Aachen 1988, pp. 216-255.
  • Spinoza in beautiful literature. Pictures between Vormärz and Weimar Republic. In: Studia Spinozana , Vol. 5, 1990, pp. 119-149.
  • “You are a fox, Bettinchen!” Bettine von Arnim's correspondence with Hermann von Pückler-Muskau and Julius Döring and Dieter Kühn's Bettine's last love affairs . In: Dieter Kühn. Materials, ed. v. Helmut Scheuer and Werner Klüppelholz . Frankfurt / M. 1992, pp. 191-209.
  • Come on Geibel ! The young Arno Holz between tradition and innovation. In: Arno Holz. Text + criticism. Vol. 121. Munich 1994, pp. 12-19.
  • "What's going on with me? Where am I? What do I want? ”A typology of German-language Don Juan texts between Nikolaus Lenau and Max Frisch . In: Don Juan and Femme fatale , ed. by Helmut Kreuzer. Munich 1995, pp. 59-97.
  • "Agony and suffering made my wings sprout again." About drafts and sketches for Richard Beer-Hofmann's The History of King David . In: Richard Beer-Hofmann. Between Aestheticism and Judaism , ed. by Dieter Borchmeyer . Paderborn 1996, pp. 119-133.
  • Social novels of naturalism . In: Hanser's social history of literature. Vol. 7: Naturalism, ed. by Jörg-Gothard Mix . Munich 2000, pp. 104-115.
  • Breakouts, break-ins, new beginnings: authors of the twenties. In: Nora leaves her doll's house. 20th Century Women Authors and Their Contribution to Aesthetic Innovation, ed. by Waltraud Wende . Stuttgart and Weimar 2000, pp. 88-102.
  • “If only I could freeze to ice” or: The family as a place of violence. The youth book Tanz in den Hölle by Tor Fretheim . In: Der Deutschunterricht (2000), no. 6, pp. 77–87.
  • Colorful stones as a “supplement to the law”? A re-reading of Adalbert Stifter . In: literature and life. Anthropological Aspects in Modern Culture. Helmut Scheuer on his 60th birthday, ed. by Günter Helmes et al. Tübingen 2002, pp. 55–70.
  • Wolfdietrich Schnurre : The funeral and the maneuver . Interpretations. In: Classic German Short Stories, ed. by Werner Bellmann . Stuttgart 2004, pp. 13-22 and 146-150.
  • Erich Kästner as a media author: The scripts for the films Münchhausen and Then I prefer cod liver oil . In: Yearbook on Culture and Literature of the Weimar Republic 2007, pp. 167–181.
  • The sinking of the Titanic . Model disaster and media myth. In: Bildatlas for the 20th and beginning of the 21st century, vol. 1, ed. by Gerhard Paul . Göttingen 2009, pp. 124-131.
  • “The new Robinsonade, a technical one; the new wilderness, a destroyed city. “ Bertolt Brechts and Arnolt Bronnen's film fable Robinsonade on Assuncion . In: washed ashore - updated. Robinsonades in the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries (together with Ada Bieber and Stefan Greif). Würzburg 2009, pp. 9–35.
  • The narrative-strategic mediation of discourses in B. Travens Das Totenschiff . In: B. Traven. Author - work - work history, ed. v. Günter Damann . Würzburg 2012, pp. 183–194.
  • “My defiance has embraced my tiredness, / my strength is married to my weakness.” The television play Berliner Antigone (1968) by Leopold Ahlsen and Rainer Wolffhardt and its pre-texts. In: "Carefully expose layer by layer." The directorial work by Rainer Wolffhardt, ed. v. Günter Helmes. Hamburg 2012, pp. 113–145.
  • "'Read it or don't read it, you will regret both'". Sören Kierkegaard's interpretation of Don Giovanni and its textual environment. In: Existence and Reflection. Current aspects of the Kierkegaard reception, ed. v. Matthias Bauer and Markus Pohlmeyer . Hamburg 2012, pp. 86–113.
  • "Some are happy about the rain, they still have grain from last year, they don't need any." Country life, agriculture and capitalism in Adam Scharrer's farmer's novel Moles (1933). With introductory references to Anna Seghers ' Der Kopflohn (1933) In: Jahrbuch zur Kultur und Literatur der Weimarer Republik, Vol. 15, 2011/12, pp. 147–176.
  • Georg Brandes and French Naturalism. With particular reference to Émile Zola . In: Georg Brandes and the modernity discourse. Modern and anti-modern in Europe I, ed. v. Matthias Bauer and Ivy York Möller-Christensen . Hamburg 2013, pp. 42–74.
  • From Trizonesians, economic knights and heartbreakers. The hit sound of the 1950s (together with Ada Bieber). In: Sound history of the 20th and 21st centuries, ed. v. Gerhard Paul. Bonn 2013, pp. 352–357.
  • Flying fists, moving pictures. The box film between blockbusters and arthouse cinema [add. with Jürgen Schwier ]. In: Sport im Film, ed. by Robert Gugutzer u. Barbara Englert . Konstanz, Munich 2014, pp. 161–178.
  • "Lower the flag in front of her, because she is incomparable and unequaled." Approaching Asta Nielsen , the first 'star' in film history . In: Yearbook on Culture and Literature of the Weimar Republic, Vol. 17, 2015/16, pp. 47–73.
  • “The attack has to be continued, no matter what the cost.” A sample of the cinematic staging of the First World War . With references to literary themes. In: "... so the war looks through in all ends". The Hanseatic City of Lübeck in everyday war life 1914–1918, ed. by Nadine Garling and Diana Schweitzer . Lübeck 2016, pp. 219–263.
  • Rule and rebellion against God and the world in Rainer Simons feature film essay Till Eulenspiegel (1975). In: The time, the world and the self. On the cinematic work of Rainer Simon, ed. by Michael Grisko . Potsdam 2016, pp. 66–90.
  • “No author would write a long book if he knew in advance how it will be read later”. About abuse, female fantasies and narrative efforts in Juli Zeh's Klügelei Spieltrieb (2004). In: Smart, Smarter, Failed? The contemporary image of schools and teachers in literature and media, ed. by Günter Helmes and Günter Rinke. Hamburg 2016, pp. 43–80.
  • “I really thought the job would suit me. But you know what: I can't stand children. ”References to newer and newest German-language fiction and television films on the subjects of" school "and" being a teacher ". In: Smart, Smarter, Failed? The contemporary image of schools and teachers in literature and media, ed. by Günter Helmes and Günter Rinke. Hamburg 2016, pp. 157–204.
  • Intertextuality, interculturality, intermediality. B. Traven's story Macario in the field of tension between literary sources and cinematic adaptation. In: B. Traven - the (un-) known writer, ed. by Auracia E. Borszik and Hanna Mateo. Hamburg 2017, pp. 105–137.
  • Feature film, handicap, handicapped. Observations on an early classic of the “ disabled film ” genre and its historical and contemporary contexts. The didactic play Freaks (1932) by Tod Browning . In: Diversity and Diversity in Film and Television, ed. by Julia Ricart Brede and Günter Helmes. Münster et al. 2017, pp. 19–62.
  • "On a day like any other" ... in a film like no other. Michael Hanekes Funny Games (1997) as a reflection on violence, the film and the audience. In: Visualizations of Violence. Contributions to film, theater and literature, ed. by Dagmar von Hoff, Brigitte E. Jirku and Lena Wetenkamp. Berlin: Peter Lang 2018, pp. 81–99. ISBN 978-3-631-71763-9 .
  • "The conception goes through our brain". The invention of 'New York' in Robert Müller's Manhattan (1923). In: Yearbook on Culture and Literature of the Weimar Republic, Vol. 19, 2018, pp. 127–154.
  • The creation of 'Robert Müller' through cultural criticism, German studies and comparative studies in the last third of the 20th century. With an outlook on contemporary research. In: Robert Müller: Paralipomena, ed. by Thomas Schwarz and Günter Helmes. Hamburg: Igel Verlag 2019, pp. 223–241.
  • From Protestant asceticism, the Paris Commune, a dîner français and a lot more. Void, thirst for life and the art of living in Isak Dinesens / Karen Blixens / Tania Blixen's novella "Babette's Feast" (1950, 1958) / "Babettes Gæstebud" (1952, 1958) / "Babettes Fest" (1960). In: Julia Ricart Brede, Naima Tahiri: Eating and drinking. Multidisciplinary perspectives on everyday human activity in different cultures. Hamburg 2020, pp. 39–107. ISBN 978-3-86815-727-7

Short articles

Helmes has submitted well over a hundred reviews, lexicon articles, apparatus, bibliographies and interviews, including in organs such as Arbitrium , Yearbook on Culture and Literature of the Weimar Republic , Bertelsmann's Lexicon of World Literature , Filmblatt , German Studies , German Studies , Harenberg's Lexicon of World Literature , Yearbook of Bettina-von-Arnim-Gesellschaft , literaturkritik.de , media studies , Metzler Literature Lexicon , Reallexicon of German literary studies , Reclams Romanlexikon , Neue Passauer Presse and Universitas .

Literary

  • Nah their Kennr their Lü! History, stories and rumors from a district of Siegen (together with Gernot von Blödelfels). Norderstedt 2020. ISBN 978-3-7519-4101-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. also recently Frank Krause : Literarischer Expressionismus. Göttingen: V & R 2015, extension module 3: Spatial and material turns , pp. 223–279. ISBN 978-3-8470-0363-2 .
  2. ↑ Heimatverein Birlenbach
personal data
SURNAME Helmes, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and media scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Birlenbach