Gunter E. Grimm

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Gunter E. Grimm (* 1945 in Bad Wurzach ) is a German literary scholar .

Life

After attending school in Esslingen am Neckar and in Stuttgart with high school diploma in 1964, Grimm studied German and history in Tübingen. He received his doctorate in 1970 and completed his habilitation in 1981 with the study of literature and scholarship in Germany . After substituting professorships in Bielefeld and Gießen and a stay as a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis / Missouri, he was C2 professor in Tübingen from 1983 to 1987 , C3 professor in Würzburg from 1988 to 1994 and C4 professor for Newer German literature at the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg and after the merger of the Universities of Duisburg and Essen to form the University of Duisburg-Essen until his retirement (2010) on the Essen campus . He is a member of numerous scientific societies and associations.

His main focus in literary studies is Enlightenment literature , in particular Johann Gottfried Herder and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , the history of science and mentality from the Renaissance to the present, literary theory (aesthetics and poetics; reception research , imagology ), German-foreign literary relations (Italy, Netherlands, Orient, America, German-Jewish literature, Netherlands image and Netherlands reception in German literature), black romanticism, literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, Rhenish literature and the history of German poetry from the baroque to the present. From imagological , reception, mentality and social-historical approaches, he developed a functional- historical view of literature, which has been reflected in numerous, including journalistic publications.

In addition to the scientific publication work, he acts as co-editor of the workbooks on literary history. Epoch - Work - Impact (1975–2013, 29 volumes), the Introductory German Studies (2003–2017, 49 volumes), the Literature and Media series and as sole editor of the Compact Literature series, which has been published since 2012 (15 volumes so far).

Grimm is editor and author of the Goethezeit internet portal (since 2005, together with Georg Jäger, Danica Krunic and Martin Huber) and the Nibelungenreception internet portal (since 2002), which deals with the reception of the Nibelungen material in literature, art, film, politics and science from the Dedicated from early modern times to the present.

Publications (selection)

As an author

  • The Job poem by Karl Wolfskehl. An interpretation. Bouvier & Co-Verlag, Bonn 1972, ISBN 3-416-00800-6 .
  • Reception history. Foundation of a theory. Fink-Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7705-1531-5 .
  • Literature and scholarship in Germany. Investigations into the change in their relationship from humanism to the early enlightenment. Niemeyer-Verlag, Tübingen 1983, ISBN 3-484-18075-7 .
  • with W. Erhart and U. Breymayer: 'A feeling of freer life'. German poets in Italy. Metzler-Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-476-00710-3 .
  • Letter culture. Anti-scholarly poetry and criticism of science between Renaissance and Sturm und Drang. Niemeyer-Verlag, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-484-35060-1 .
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Tectum-Verlag, Marburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8288-3118-6 .
  • Nuances. Stations of German poetry. Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8288-3487-3 .
  • Modern lyric poets. Benn - Brecht - Enzensberger. Tectum Verlag, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8288-4264-9 .

As editor

  • Literature and readers. Theories and models for the reception of literary works. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-15-010250-2 .
  • Satires of the Enlightenment. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-15-009777-0 .
  • Justinus Kerner. Selected Works. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-15-023857-9 or ISBN 3-15-003857-X .
  • with HP Bayerdörfer: Under the sign of Job. Jewish writers and German literature in the 20th century. Athenäum-Verlag, Königstein 1985, ISBN 3-7610-8304-1 .
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Complete poems. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-15-000028-9 .
  • Poems and interpretations. German ballads. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-15-008457-1 .
  • Italy seal. 2 volumes. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-15-030004-5 .
  • with FR Max: German poets. Life - work - effect. 8 volumes. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1988–1990. (one-volume edition Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-15-010388-6 )
  • Metamorphoses of the poet. The self-image of German writers from the Enlightenment to the present. Fischer-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-10722-9 .
  • Johann Gottfried Herder: Works. Volume 2: Literary and Aesthetic Writings (1768-81). Deutscher Klassiker-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-618-60720-2 .
  • German natural poetry. From the baroque to the present. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-15-059425-1 .
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Works. Volume 4 (Writings 1758-1760). Deutscher Klassiker-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-618-61080-7 .
  • with B. Kortländer: Rheinisch. A region's self-image. Metzler-Verlag, Stuttgart / Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-476-01843-1 . (2nd revised edition. Grupello-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-89978-037-X )
  • with C. Schärf: writer productions. Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89528-639-1 .
  • Nibelungen poems. A reader. Tectum-Verlag, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8288-2365-5 .
  • Heart words. German poetry in portrait. Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-650-24224-2 .

literature

  • Dieter Heimböckel, Uwe Werlein (ed.): The hunger for images of literature. Festschrift for Gunter E. Grimm. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8260-3063-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GE Grimm: poet pictures. Strategies of literary self-presentation. In: Essener Unikate 26 (2005), pp. 28–33
  2. ↑ http://www.germanistenverzeichnis.phil.uni-erlangen.de/cgi-bin/gvz_ausgabe_int.pl#3
  3. ↑ Heimböckel / Werlein: Der Bildhunger der Literatur, pp. 397–405; http://nibelungenrezeption.de/bibliographie/bibliographien/Grimm_Publikationen2019.pdf
  4. ↑ https://www.chbeck.de/suche/?query=Arbeitsb%C3%BCcher
  5. ↑ https://www.wbg-wissenverbindet.de/gunter-e.-grimm/
  6. ↑ https://www.nomos-shop.de/trefferListe.aspx?action=reihe&reihe=677&rtoc=0
  7. ↑ http://www.goethezeitportal.de/projekt-infos/impressum.html
  8. ↑ http://www.nibelungenrezeption.de/projekt.html
personal data
SURNAME Grimm, Gunter E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Wurzach