Hans Günther (Slavist)

Hans Günther (* 1941 in Łódź ) is a German Slavic scholar and literary scholar .

Life

In 1960 he passed the Abitur at the Leibniz Realgymnasium in Frankfurt a. M. / maximum off. In 1961 he began studying Slavic Studies, Eastern European History and Philosophy at the universities of Frankfurt, Kiel, Belgrade and Munich, which he completed in 1967 with a doctorate at the LMU Munich . Between 1969 and 1971 he was lecturer for Russian at the University of Düsseldorf , from 1971 to 1974 assistant at the seminar for Slavic Philology at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1974 he completed his habilitation. In 1977 he was appointed private lecturer and in 1978 an adjunct professor. From 1977 he carried out longer research stays in Moscow. From 1979 he held a C4 position at Bielefeld University , and in 1980 he was appointed to a C4 professorship for Slavic literature there. After his retirement in 2006, the Bielefeld Slavic Studies expired.

Günther wrote several standard works on Russian literature of the 20th century, including Maxim Gorki , Andrei Platonow and the literature of socialist realism in the Soviet Union .

Fonts

• 1968: The Grotesque at NV Gogol '. Forms and Functions , Slavic Contributions; 34. Munich: Sagner.
• 1973: Structure as a process. Studies on the aesthetics and literary theory of Czech structuralism . Munich: Fink.
• 1984: The nationalization of literature. Origin and functioning of the socialist-realistic canon in Soviet literature of the 1930s . Studies in general and comparative literature; 26. Stuttgart: Metzler.
• 1993: The socialist superman. M. Gor'kij and the Soviet hero myth . Stuttgart: Metzler.
• 2016: Andrei Platonov. Life work effect . Suhrkamp: Published by Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PEVZ: Hans Guenther - Contact (Bielefeld University). Retrieved November 7, 2019 . 
2. ^ Hans Günther: The short life of the Bielefelder Slavistik . In: Bulletin of German Slavic Studies . tape 12 , 2006, p. 22-23 .