Hans-Joachim Bernhard

Hans-Joachim Bernhard , also Hans Joachim Bernhard (born July 14, 1929 in Kanth , Neumarkt district , Lower Silesia province ; † November 25, 2008 in Rostock ), was a German German scholar, literary historian and university professor.

Life

Hans-Joachim Bernhard began studying German and English at the University of Rostock in 1948 , which he graduated with a diploma in 1953. In 1958 he received his doctorate with the dissertation The World War 1914-18 in the work of Ernst Jüngers, Erich Maria Remarques and Arnold Zweig .

In 1967 he received a chair for German literature at the University of Rostock. In 1983 he published one of the few essays on the history of literature in the FRG that was written from the perspective of GDR German studies. In 1988 he was awarded the GDR National Prize. In 1992 he retired.

Publications

• The World War 1914-18 in the work of Ernst Jünger, Erich Maria Remarques and Arnold Zweig. A contribution to the problem of realism in German literature of the 20th century. , Dissertation, 1959.
• Heinrich Böll's novels. Social criticism and community utopia . Berlin, 1970, 2nd edition 1973.
• Literature of the FRG . Vol. 12 of the series History of German Literature from the Beginnings to the Present . Berlin, 1983, 2nd edition 1985. The co-authors include u. a. Klaus Schuhmann , Manfred Haiduk , Marianne Lange , Lutz Volke , Eva-Maria Müller (1931–2020), Klaus Pezold (* 1937) and Ursula Reinhold (* 1938).
• Literature and School , 1986.
• Resignation and Alternative: Essays on Contemporary Western European Literature . Halle, 1986, 2nd edition 1988.

literature

• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 .

Web links

• Literature on Hans-Joachim Bernhard in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Hans-Joachim Bernhard in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium