Gerhard Harle

Gerhard Härle (2009)

Gerhard Härle (born September 23, 1949 in Hof an der Saale ) is Professor of German Language and Literature and its Didactics . He is Vice-Rector for Studies, Teaching and Media Development at the Heidelberg University of Education . His focus is on literary studies , literary theory and literary didactics . Härle is also a lecturer at the German National Academic Foundation and a lecturer at the Ruth Cohn Institute .

Life

Gerhard Härle was born on September 23, 1949 in Hof an der Saale. He studied theology and philosophy in Freiburg im Breisgau and Paris, as well as German, pedagogy and philosophy in Munich and Heidelberg. Härle completed his studies in 1985 with a master's thesis on the subject of homosexuality in Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain . He then worked as a freelance journalist and radio play author.

In the following years he became a research assistant at the Department of Modern Literature at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he received his doctorate in 1988 with a thesis on homosexuality in the work of Klaus and Thomas Mann . From 1987 to 1995 Härle worked at the University of Siegen , where together with Wolfgang Popp he set up the only research focus on “Homosexuality and literature” in Europe. In 1994 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the linguistic and cultural-historical phenomenon of “ideas of purity” Reformation and Enlightenment and got the license to teach modern German literature and general literature. His most important academic teachers include Gert Mattenklott and Wolfgang Popp.

Härle has been a professor at the Heidelberg University of Education since 1995, and from 2000 to 2009 he was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies. He leads various research projects (including on "literary class discussion" and "literary education") and is authorized to teach topic-centered interaction .

Härle has been Vice-Rector for Studies, Teaching and Media Development at the Heidelberg University of Education since 2009 . In 2017 he received honorary citizenship from the university .

Fonts (selection)

• The shape of the beautiful. Investigation of the issue of homosexuality in Thomas Mann's novel 'Der Zauberberg' . Hain, Königstein im Taunus 1986, ISBN 978-3445024701 .
• Masculinity. On homosexuality with Klaus and Thomas Mann. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988; 2nd edition 1993; 3rd edition 2001, ISBN 978-3445085795 .
• Study Guide German Studies. Lexika-Verlag, Munich 1990, new edition 1997 [together with Uwe Meyer].
• Desire for knowledge and discretion. Eroticism in biographical and autobiographical literature. Contribution to the 3rd international Siegen Colloquium on Homosexuality and Literature (October 1990). pink angle, Berlin 1992 [ed. together with Maria Kalveram and Wolfgang Popp], ISBN 978-3921495292 .
• Crossing boundaries. Peace education. Gender discourse. Literature - language - didactics. Festschrift for Wolfgang Popp on his 60th birthday. The Blue Owl, Essen 1995 [ed.], ISBN 3892066221 .
• Purity of speech, heart and body. On the history of the impact of the rhetorical term puritas in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 978-3484680111 .
• Icons of desire. Visual languages ​​of male and female homosexuality in literature, film and art. Metzler, Stuttgart 1997 [ed. together with Wolfgang Popp and Annette Runte], ISBN 978-3476451736 .
• Ways to read and to literature. Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2004 [ed. together with Bernhard Rank], ISBN 978-3896767943 .
• No final word. The rediscovery of conversation in literature classes. Editorial assistance: Johannes Mayer. Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2004 [ed. together with Marcus Steinbrenner], ISBN 978-3896768759 .
• Poetry - love - passion. Stroll through love poetry from Sappho to Sarah Kirsch. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3525208502 .
• "Forming oneself is nothing other than becoming free". Linguistic and literary education as a challenge for German lessons. Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2008 [ed. together with Bernhard Rank], ISBN 9783834004826 .
• "Bitten in crumbling clay": Franz Kafka's study "Die Brücke". Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2009 (co-author: Felix Heizmann), ISBN 3834006041

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Main page of the official website, accessed on November 30, 2012
2. ^ History of the official website, accessed on November 30, 2012

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Härle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gerhard Härle on the PH Heidelberg website