Gerhard Hendel

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Gerhard Hendel (born December 16, 1930 in Zwickau ) is a Germanist and cultural scientist with a focus on “Weimar Classics”.

life and work

Hendel's father was a train driver. Gerhard Hendel grew up in his hometown until 1938 and then in Rumburk in North Bohemia . He attended high school in Rumburk. In 1945 the family was expelled to Zwickau. In 1949 he passed the Abitur there, then began studying German and English at the University of Leipzig . He visited u. a. Lectures with Hans Mayer and Ernst Bloch . Above all, Mayer drew his attention to Gustav Landauer , and he continued to deal with Franz Kafka , Paul Celan and Paul Éluard . In 1954 Hendel passed the state examination and diploma with a thesis on Georg Gottfried Gervinus .

The Schiller House in Weimar (2nd edition 1965)

From 1954 to 1958 he was a lecturer in German language and literature at the workers and farmers faculty of the Martin Luther University in Halle . From 1958 to 1967 he was a research assistant at the Goethe National Museum of the National Research and Memorial Sites of Classical German Literature NFG in Weimar .

In this function Hendel published mainly on the history of the Faust material and on the memorials of the German classical period . Together with other people, Hendel initiated holiday courses for further training for teachers. He dealt critically with the medium of television, wrote numerous literary and art reviews . A friendship with Erwin Strittmatter began in 1961 . In 1964 he met Lev Kopelev for the first time.

From 1967 to May 1989 Hendel was City Councilor for Culture in Weimar. From 1990 to 1992 Hendel worked at the Cranachhaus , a cooperative of visual artists.

In 1975 and 1982 Hendel received the "Literature and Art Prize of the City of Weimar".

Own publications

  • The Schiller House in Weimar. Weimar 1961
  • From the German folk tale to Goethe's “Faust”. Weimar 1964
  • Weimar. Travel paperback. DuMont, Cologne 1992; frequent new editions, most recently in 2001
  • Gustav Landauer. Attempt a biographical sketch. In Gustav Landauer: The human being. Essays on literature. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1980
  • Lew Kopelew : Greeting a friend. Presented by GH In: Reflecting on Germany. Vol. 3. Ed. Dietmar Keller . Verlag der Nation , Berlin 1991 ISBN 3373004799
  • Cradle of modernity. Bauhaus sites in Weimar and Dessau. In: Treasures of the World, Heritage of Humanity. The monuments from the UNESCO list of world heritage . Vol. 4. Bertelsmann Lexikon, Munich 1999 (license from Chronik-Verlag)
  • Threshold, stand, head structure and foot band . Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg , ibid.

As editor

  • Weimar in the judgment of the world. Voices from three centuries. Berlin 1975
  • Gustav Landauer: The human being. Essays on literature. 1980
  • Gustav Landauer: Letters from the French Revolution. Insel, Frankfurt 1990, again 1996 ISBN 3458328157 Selection & Übers. GL; again Kulturverlag Kadmos , 1999 and 2002 ISBN 393165902X (first: The French Revolution in Letters. Rütten & Loening , Hamburg 1961, 1985 in 2 volumes, revised).

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notes

  1. ↑ With an essay by Arnold Zweig zu Landauer
  2. ↑ Publication for the TV series Treasures of the World
  3. ↑ own contribution therein: see publications
  4. ↑ also available as a reproduction of the EA in 2 volumes 1919, produced in 2010
personal data
SURNAME Hendel, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and cultural scientist with a focus on "Weimar Classics"
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau