Gottfried Willems
Gottfried Willems (born September 12, 1947 in Sankt Goar ) is a German literary scholar .
Career
Willems studied history, German and philosophy in Mainz . In 1978 he received his doctorate with the work The concept of the literary genre . In 1986 he completed his habilitation with the writing Illustriousness. Research into the foundation of a theory and history of the style of representation in literature .
From 1986 he was a professor at the University of Mainz , and since 1992 he has held the chair for Modern and Contemporary Literature at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . Since 1997 Willems has been a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt .
Willems played a decisive role in the rebuilding of the Faculty of Philosophy at FSU Jena in the years after the reunification. The new building of the Thuringian University and State Library in Jena as well as the acquisition of the Frommann property by the university were initiated and promoted by Willems. In addition, Willems was active for several years in the budget committee and as director of the university council. Until 2010 he was director of the Institute for German Literature Studies. At the end of the summer semester 2012, Willems retired in Jena. On November 6th, 2012, he gave his farewell lecture in the auditorium of the university with the title Comments on Goethe's “Faust” , in which he repeatedly criticized reading Goethe in the context of the “ Classical Doctrine ”.
In addition to questions of literary theory and cultural history, Willems' main research interests include the literature of the Enlightenment , the avant-garde and postmodernism . 2015 is the last volume of his five-volume comprehensive German literary history ( History of German Literature. Vol. 1: Humanism and Baroque. Vol. 2: Enlightenment. Vol. 3: Goethe Period. Vol. 4: Vormärz and Realism. Vol. 5: Modernism) published by Böhlau Verlag .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gottfried Willems in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Gottfried Willems
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willems, Gottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sankt Goar |