Gerd Stratmann

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Gerd Stratmann (born on January 26, 1939 in Leverkusen ) is a German English graduate and professor emeritus at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Life

Stratmann studied English, German and philosophy at the Universities of Cologne, Göttingen and Erlangen. After completing his studies, he worked as a research assistant at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg from 1962. In 1964 he received his doctorate in English studies with a literary-sociological thesis on "English aristocracy and classicist poetry".

In 1972 he accepted an appointment at the Ruhr University in Bochum, where he was initially responsible for the sociology of English literature and then for British cultural studies . Stratmann's main research areas were 18th-Century Studies , Modern British Theater and Drama and British Cultural Studies .

He was co-editor of the magazines anglistik & englischunterricht (since 1977), Journal for the Study of British Cultures (since 1994) and founder and co-editor of AREAS. Annual Report on English and American Studies (1991-1996). He has also been the editor of the scientific series Horizons since 1989 . Studies on texts and ideas of European modernism . In addition, from 1992 Stratmann was co-founder and co-director of the Magister reform model at the Ruhr University and from 1981–85 dean and 1987–89 prorector of the Ruhr University Bochum.

Publications (selection)

  • English aristocracy and classicist poetry. A study of the sociology of literature. Carl Verlag, Nuremberg 1965.
  • (Ed.): Augustan Poetry. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1970.
  • (with Otto, E., Kornelius, J., eds.): Introduction to Contemporary Irish Literature. Winter, Heidelberg 1980.
  • (with Broich, U., Stemmler, T., eds.): Functions of Literature. Essays Presented to Erwin Wolff on his Sixtieth Birthday. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1984.
  • (with Buschmeier, M., Ed.): New readings, new realities. On the rediscovery of the 18th century by English studies. Symposium in honor of Ulrich Suerbaum. WVT, Bochum and Trier 1992.
  • (Ed.): William Shakespeare, The Tempest. The storm. English German. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982; Epilogue , pp. 173-190.
  • (Ed.): Be Prepared. WVT, Trier 1996.
  • City Vice: New Urban Myths in Eighteenth-Century England. Anglistenag 1995, Greifswald. Proceedings . Vol. 18.
  • Gay. The Beggar's Opera. In: Dieter Mehl (Ed.): The English Drama. From the Middle Ages to the present. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1970, Vol. 2, pp. 46-70.
  • Edward Bond. Lear. In: K.-D. Fehse, NH Platz (ed.): The contemporary English drama. Introduction, interpretation, documentation. Athenaeum Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1975, pp. 274-298.
  • The evil magic of the circumstances: forms and functions of mythization in modern English drama. In: Poetica 9 (1977), pp. 62-97.
  • “Classlessness” - The short career of a cliché (1955–1965) In: G. Blaicher (Hrsg.): Frozen thinking. Studies on cliché, stereotype and prejudice in English language literature. Narr, Tübingen 1987, pp. 363-372.
  • Formy i Funkcje Historiografii Angielskiej w Poczatkach XIX Wieku. In: Historyka [Warsaw] 17 (1987), pp. 3-19.
  • Property in English literature of the 18th and early 19th centuries. In: G. Lottes (Ed.): The concept of property in English political thought. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1995.
  • Crossword puzzle. In: R. Ahrens, W.-D. Bald, W. Hüllen (Hrsg.): Handbuch Englisch als Fremdsprache. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1995, pp. 192-195.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the information in the biography of the English Semimar of the Ruhr University Bochum [1] . Retrieved on May 23, 2020 and Stratmann, Gerd. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Online [2] at degruyter.com, accessed on May 27, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted online edition).
personal data
SURNAME Stratmann, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English studies and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Leverkusen