Hans-Joachim Kerscher

Hans-Joachim Kertscher (born January 2, 1944 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German literary scholar .

Life

After completing his apprenticeship as a typesetter, Hans-Joachim Kertscher studied German and history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena from 1964 . In 1966 he was de-registered for political reasons. It was sent to production for what was then called "probation". Only after his subsequent military service in the NVA was he able to continue his studies from 1969 to 1973 at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and graduated as a certified teacher for German and history.

From 1973 to 1978 he was a research assistant at the German Institute of the University of Halle, where he received his doctorate with a thesis on Lessing reception. From 1978 to 1980 he worked as a lecturer for essays and poetry at Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig. This was followed by activities as senior assistant at the chair for cultural theory / aesthetics at the TH Ilmenau (1980–1985) and from 1985 to 1990 at the German Institute (chair for modern German literature) at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg.

In 1987 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on “ Prometheus . Myth and Material in Cultural History ”and was appointed university lecturer in 1988. From 1990 to 2009 he was a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center for Research on the European Enlightenment at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, responsible for the area of ​​German literary and cultural history of the 18th century. In 2004 he was appointed associate professor for modern German literature.

Hans-Joachim Kertscher's academic activity is primarily devoted to topics relating to German literary and cultural history of the 18th century. Since December 2003, Hans-Joachim Kertscher has been chairman of the Halle (Saale) local association of the Goethe Society and from 2011 to 2019 a board member of the Goethe Society in Weimar eV.

Works

Monographs

• The publisher Johann Justinus Gebauer . Halle 1998, Hallescher Verlag, ISBN 3-929887-18-5
• The fourth University Chancellor of Halle, Carl Christoph von Hoffmann : "... a friend of all good things, an avid promoter of the arts and sciences". Halle 2003, ISBN 3-86010-701-1
• The publishers Carl Hermann Hemmerde and Carl August Schwetschke . Halle 2004, Hallescher Verlag ISBN 3-929887-26-6
• Literature and culture in Halle in the Age of Enlightenment. Essays on social life in a German university town, Kovac Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-8300-2786-9
• “The spirit is rare, the art is difficult” - Goethe and the University of Halle. Universitätsverlag Halle 2010, ISBN 978-3-86977-020-8
• "Poet's Land". Essays on literary culture in Central Germany in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Hamburg 2013 (Writings on Cultural Studies 19). ISBN 978-3-8300-6691-0
• "He brought light and order into the world - Christian Wolff  : Eine Biographie", Mitteldeutscher Verlag , 2018, ISBN 978-3-96311-096-2

Editing

• Second circle of poets from Halle. Anacreontics . Gleim, Götz, Rudnick, Uz. Halle 1993, Hallescher Verlag , ISBN 3-929887-00-2
• Poetry theories of the early German Enlightenment (together with Theodor Verweyen ). Tübingen 1995.
• Gottfried August Bürger and Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim . Publishing house Niemeyer Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-484-81003-3
• Georg Friedrich Meier : Early writings on the aesthetic education of Germans in 3 parts (together with Günter Schenk). Halle 1999ff, Hallescher Verlag
• Wanderzwang - Wanderlust. Forms of spatial and social experience between the Enlightenment and early industrialization (together with Wolfgang Albrecht), Niemeyer Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-484-81011-4
• Anacreontic Enlightenment (together with Manfred Beetz), Hallesche Contributions to the European Enlightenment, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-484-81028-9
• Georg Friedrich Meier, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgartens Leben , edited, commented and provided with an afterword by Hans-Joachim Kertscher, University Press Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 2012, ISBN 978-3-86977-054-3 .
• Kertscher, Hans-Joachim / Rudolph, Andrea (eds.): Once at home in Penzlin - today at home in German literature: Perspectives on the poet, writer and translator Johann Heinrich Voss . Dettelbach 2014 (articles on cultural studies, sources and research 9). ISBN 978-3-89754-457-4

Articles (selection)

• A "speculative writer" in Paris. In: Reinalter, Helmut (ed.): Enlightenment - Vormärz - Revolution . Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 1997, pp. 29-46.
• Prologue in Heaven - Imperial Palatinate. Goethe parodies himself. In: literature for readers. 23. Vol. H. 4 (2000), pp. 261-274. ISSN  0343-1657 .
• From residence to university town: On the cultural history of Halle at the turn of the 17th to the 18th century. In: Holger Zaunstöck (ed.): Halle between 806 and 2006. New contributions to the history of the city. Halle 2001, pp. 80-106.
• The “auditing company” in Halle. In: Detlev Döring / Kurt Nowak (ed.): Learned societies in Central Germany (1650-1820). Part III. Stuttgart / Leipzig 2002, pp. 71-99. Treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig
• “Compendiöse Bibliothek” - an encyclopedic company of Gebauer-Verlag Halle. In: Candaux, Jean-Daniel u. a. (Ed.): L'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon et sa résonance européenne: contextes - contenus - continuités. Geneva 2005, pp. 401-441.
• The frontispiece on the main building of the Francke Foundations - an attempt to get closer to the symbolic value of its artistic design. In: Udo Sträter u. a. (Ed.): Interdisciplinary Pietism Research. Contributions to the First International Congress for Pietism Research 2001. Tübingen 2005, pp. 403–417, ISBN 3-931479-70-6
• Lessing on the East German Stage and Screen. In: Barbara Fischer / Thomas C. Fox: A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Camden House 2005, pp. 301-325.
• Christian Wolff's second stay in Halle. In: Files of the 1st International Christian Wolff Congress. Part 5. Hildesheim u. a. 2010, pp. 435-459.
• Halle on the Saale. In: Adam, Wolfgang / Westphal, Siegrid (ed.): Handbook of cultural centers of the early modern times. Cities and residences in the old German-speaking area. Vol. 2: Halberstadt – Münster. Berlin / Boston 2012, pp. 757–795. ISBN 978-3-11-029555-9
• Georg Friedrich Meier's place in the intellectual and cultural life of the city of Halle. In: Grunert, Frank / Stiening, Gideon (eds.): Georg Friedrich (1718–1777). Philosophy as "true world wisdom". Berlin / Boston 2015 (Work Profiles. Philosophers and Writers of the 17th and 18th Centuries 7), pp. 25–41.
• Carl Friedrich Bahrdt in the judgment of his contemporaries. In: Franҫoise Knopper / Fink, Wolfgang (ed.): The offside as center. Autobiographies of Outsiders in the 18th Century. Halle 2017, pp. 285–313. ISBN 978-3-86977-141-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Joachim Kertscher in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.germanistik.uni-halle.de/mitarbeiterinnen/kertscher/ Vita, accessed on February 9, 2011
2. ↑ http://webdoc2.urz.uni-halle.de/izea/cms/de/personen-profil/assoziierte-träger/prof-dr-hans-joachim-kertscher.html  ( 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. Retrieved February 9, 2011  
3. ↑ http://www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN1/PRESSE/jour-104.pdf p. 40, bottom right: Enlightenment researcher at the head of the Goethe Society in Halle. Retrieved February 10, 2011