Gerhart Baumann

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Gerhart Baumann (born December 20, 1920 in Karlsruhe , † August 25, 2006 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German specialist in German .

Life

Baumann studied German , art history , philosophy and psychology in Cologne , Berlin , Freiburg im Breisgau and Marburg . He did his doctorate in Freiburg in 1947, completed his habilitation there in 1951 and received a full professorship at the same university in 1964 . His work focuses on the literature of Habsburg Europe and the work of Goethe . Baumann was co-editor of complete editions of the works of Goethe, Eichendorff and Mörike . He was known or friends with many German-speaking poets and writers, including Elias Canetti , whom he proposed for the Nobel Prize for Literature (which he also received in 1981), Paul Celan , on whom he published several times, and Rose Ausländer . In addition, he maintained contact for a long time with Martin Heidegger , who was one of his teachers during Baumann's student days, and tried successfully to include a. Marie-Luise Kaschnitz to award the Lever Prize .

Baumann and his wife Marianne Baumann-Engels had two children who both became scientists themselves: Ursula , geb. 1959, historian and philosopher , and Ulrich , b. 1963, biochemist .

Most of his estate is kept in the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe.

Awards

Baumann has received several awards in the course of his career, all of them in Austria . These included the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class, the Grillparzer Ring , the Musil Medal of the City of Klagenfurt and the Tyrolean Eagle Order .

In addition, since 2006 the University of Freiburg has awarded the Gerhart Baumann Prize for an outstanding dissertation in interdisciplinary literary studies. It is endowed with 2000 euros and was donated by the Rombach Druck- & Verlagshaus.

literature

  • Baumann, Gerhart. In: DBE Online. (accessed August 13, 2012)

Audio documents

  • Paul Celan: Um-ways to yourself and the open question of the poem. Lecture on January 23, 1971 in the Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Neumann: Gerhart Baumann in memory. In: Freiburg University Gazette. 173/3, 2006, pp. 136-137.
  2. ↑ Gerhart Baumann on the website of the University of Freiburg (accessed December 17, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Gerhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2006
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau