Hans-Jürgen Greif

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Hans-Jürgen Greif on December 20, 2015

Hans-Jürgen Greif (born November 27, 1941 in Völklingen , Saarland ) is a freelance writer , professor emeritus for French and German literature of the 19th century. He teaches German phonetics at the Québec City Conservatory of Music .

biography

Hans-Jürgen Greif completed his studies in Romance Studies , German Studies , Comparative Literature, Philosophy and Education in 1967 with a dissertation in Italian literature from the Risorgimento at the Saarland University . In 1969 he accepted a call from the University of Laval in Québec , where he taught French, German and, initially, Italian literature for 35 years , with a focus on the 19th century. In November 2007 he was appointed professor emeritus at Laval University. In March 2011 this university honored him for his work as a freelance artist.

Since he started at Laval University, he worked with the singing students at the Québec Music Conservatory. In 2006 he founded the Hans-Jürgen-Greif Foundation , which annually offers the best graduate student an annual scholarship.

He is the author of numerous articles on French and German-language literature and has published hundreds of book reviews in specialist journals. In addition, he has published essays, collections of short stories and novels in both languages. Several of his books have been translated into French, English, Spanish, German, Polish and Tamil .

Bibliography (selection)

Essays, collections and novels

  • The theme of death in Ugo Foscolo's poetry . Dissertation, Saarland University, Saarbrücken 1967
  • Huysmans A Rebours and Decadence . Essay. Bouvier, Bonn 1971
  • To modern drama . Essay. Bouvier, Bonn 1973 (2nd edition 1975)
  • Siegfried Lenz : The scenic work . Essay, with Wilhelm Johannes Schwarz. Francke, Bern 1974
  • Christa Wolf : "How did we become the way we are today?" Essay. Peter Lang, Bern 1978
  • No key to the south. Thoughts on Arabic-speaking culture Bläschke, St. Michael 1984
  • L'autre Pandore. Leméac, Quebec 1990
  • Literature in Québec - Littérature québécoise - 1960-2000 . Anthology, edited with François Ouellet. Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag, Heidelberg 2000
    • French barrel. La littérature québécoise 1960-2000. L'Instant même, Québec 2004
  • Orfeo. novel. (in French) Dimedia, Saint-Laurent 2003 ISBN 9782895028338 (via Orpheus )
    • Translated by Fred A. Reed: Orfeo. (English) Véhicule Press, Montréal 2008 ISBN 9781550652314
  • With Guy Boivin: La Bonbonnière. Youth book. Publishing house Les 400 Coups (division: Jeunesse), Montreal 2008, ISBN 2845960921 (about the Boiteau clan in Quebec)
  • The judgment. The painter Niklaus Manuel Deutsch in the turmoil of the Reformation. Novel. ( Le jugement , translated by the author), Stämpfli, Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7272-1209-3
  • On quiet paws. Eleven novels ( Le chat proverbial , translated by the author), Berlin Verlag , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8333-1033-1

Novellas, short stories and short stories in anthologies and magazines with a reading committee

  • The Jealous Lovers , in: Of Cats and People. Anthology. Julia Bachstein (Ed.), Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt , Frankfurt am Main, 1990, pp. 89–112; again in: Fantastic these cats! Rudolf Helmut Reschke (Ed.), Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1994, pp. 173-185.
  • Clothes make books , in The Book of Secret Passions. Anthology, Julia Bachstein (Ed.). Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt 1991, pp. 36-48.
  • La souricière from Solistes in maple leaves, 10 Marburg contributions to Canadian research, University of Marburg in 1997 ISBN 3-8185-0224-2 , pp 17-35.
  • Frontières , in Villa Europa , 5, 2014, Valérie Deshoulières, Cornelia Schmidt (ed.), Universaar (Presses universitaires de la Sarre), Saarbrücken, ISSN  2190-7838 Online ISSN  2190-7811 Print, pp. 67-70.

Awards, prizes

  • 2004 - First Prize Prix ​​de création littéraire Bibliothèque de Québec - Salon international du livre de Québec , adult literature category, for Orfeo
  • 2009 - Appointed Commander of the Laval University Foundation
  • 2011 - Winner of the Hommage aux créateurs, Laval University
  • 2014 - First prize: Prix de création littéraire Bibliothèque de Québec - Salon international du livre de Québec, adult literature category, for La colère du faucon
  • 2014 - Appointment as Chevalier des Ordre des Palmes Académiques in France (4th July 2014)
  • 2016 - Appointment as Chevalier du Cercle du recteur de l'université Laval (January 5, 2016)
  • 2016 - First prize: Prix de création littéraire Bibliothèque de Québec - Salon international du livre de Québec, adult literature category, for Le photographe d'ombres

Festschrift

  • Habiter la littérature. Mélanges offerts à Hans-Jürgen Greif. L'instant même, Québec 2016 ISBN 978-2-89502-374-6

Notes and Notes

  1. ↑ Université Laval  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lit.ulaval.ca  
  2. ↑ Schwarz, geb. 1929, Canadian, doctorate in German studies 1965 McGill University on Heinrich Böll with Hans Reiss , Armin Arnold
  3. ^ The title at the publisher
  4. ↑ PressDisplay.com - Newspapers from around the world. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Grands donateurs individuels | Fondation Université Laval. Retrieved February 26, 2017 (French).
  6. ^ Marie-France Bornais: Lyne Vanier, Hans-Jürgen Greif sont récompensés. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Greif, Hans-Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Georges Survenant (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, literary scholar and university lecturer in Canada
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Völklingen , Germany