Günter Saße

Günter Saße (born October 13, 1945 in Eutin ) is a German Germanist .

Life

Günter Saße studied German , philosophy and geography from 1967 in Kiel and Freiburg im Breisgau , where he passed the state examination in 1972.

From 1974 to 1976, Saße was a research assistant at the German seminar at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , after which a research assistant there . In 1976 he received his doctorate in Freiburg im Breisgau with a study on the language criticism of modernity . In 1984 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen with a thesis on the family value system in the drama of the Enlightenment and received the Venia Legendi for German Philology .

In 1985 Günter Saße was a professor at the German Department of the University of Göttingen. From 1986 until his retirement in 2011 he was professor for modern German literary history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . Saße is best known as a Goethe and Lessing researcher and is an expert on the social history of the literature of the 18th and 19th centuries as well as the literature of the modern age.

selected Writings

Language and criticism. Investigation into the language criticism of the modern age . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977.
with Horst Turk (ed.): Acting, speaking and recognizing. On the theory and practice of pragmatics . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978.
The enlightened family. Investigations into the genesis, function and reality of the familial value system in the drama of the Enlightenment . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1988.
Love and marriage. Or: How the spontaneity of the heart relates to the norms of society. Lessing's "Minna von Barnhelm" . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1993.
with Wolfram Mauser (Ed.): Streitkultur. Strategies of convincing in Lessing's work. Lectures at the International Lessing Conference of the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and the Lessing Society at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio / USA, from May 22nd to 24th, 1991 in Freiburg im Breisgau . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1993.
The order of feelings. The drama of love marriage in the 18th century . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1996.
(Ed.) Interpretations. ETA Hoffmann: Novels and Stories . Reclam, Stuttgart 2004.
(Ed.) Schiller. Work interpretations . Winter, Heidelberg 2005.
with Hee-Ju Kim (Ed.): Interpretations. Arthur Schnitzler: Dramas and Stories . Reclam, Stuttgart 2007.
with Francine Maier-Schaeffer and Johannes Schwitalla (eds.): Streit I = language and literature . Bd. 100 / Jg. 38, 2007, 2nd half of the year.
with Francine Maier-Schaeffer and Johannes Schwitalla (eds.): Streit II = language and literature . Vol. 101 / Vol. 39, 2008, 1st half year.
with Achim Aurnhammer and Werner Frick (eds.): Gottfried Benn - Bertolt Brecht. The Janus face of modernity . Ergon, Würzburg 2009.
Emigrate to the modern age. Tradition and innovation in Goethe's novel "Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre" . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010.
with Sebastian Kaufmann: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: "Emilia Galotti" . Schroedel, Braunschweig 2012.
with Sebastian Kaufmann: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: "Nathan the Wise" . Schroedel, Braunschweig 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME	Sat, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 13, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eutin