Hans Heinrich Borcherdt

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Hans Heinrich Borcherdt (born August 14, 1887 in Breslau ; † December 27, 1964 in Munich ) was a German philologist , linguist and theater historian.

Life

Borcherdt was the son of a Prussian officer. He studied at the universities of Rostock , Breslau and Munich , among others with Franz Muncker . In 1911 he received his doctorate as a German poet on the subject of Andreas Tscherning . He then worked at the Goethe and Schiller Archives in Weimar. From 1913 to 1915 he worked as an editor at Georg Müller Verlag in Munich . In 1915 he completed his habilitation in German literary history on the subject of Augustus Buchner and its significance for 17th century German literature . In 1915 he became a private lecturer in Munich, and from 1920 to 1942 he taught as a. o. Professor of Modern German Literature and had a teaching position for theater (since WS 1921/1922). In 1926 he took over the management of the newly founded Institute for Theater History in Munich. In 1931 Borcherdt became a member of the Kampfbund for German Culture . In the meantime he taught in 1932 as a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York and in 1934 in Athens . In 1938 he became a part-time lecturer and specialist teacher at the educational seminar of the Adolf Hitler School on the Ordensburg Sonthofen .

In 1942 he was appointed full professor in Königsberg . In 1945 he returned to Munich. In the same year he became a lecturer, in 1947 a full professor and chairman of the Institute for German Philology in Munich. In 1954 Borcherdt retired.

Borcherdt is considered an important new German philologist who has found numerous students at the University of Munich, including Johannes Alt , Sigrid Metken and Gertrud Benker . Using Goethe's Wilhelm Meister as an example , he developed the three-phase teaching of the educational novel, which he sees in the steps of adolescence, wandering years and purification.

Fonts

  • History of the novel and the novella in Germany. Part I (Everything!): From the early Middle Ages to Wieland . Leipzig, Weber 1926
  • Schiller. His intellectual and artistic development , Leipzig 1929
  • The European Theater in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance , JJ Weber, Leipzig, 1934 (numerous new editions until 1969)
  • Poet and scientist. Ernst Bertram at the age of 50 , 1934.
  • The novel of the Goethe era . Port Verlag, Urach / Stuttgart, 1949
  • Schiller's works: national edition. Stage arrangements , ed. by Hans Heinrich Borcherdt. Vol. 13-14 H. Böhlaus Nachf., 1996, ISBN 978-3-7400-1011-9 .

literature

  • Christoph König, Birgit Wägenbaur: Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950 , Volume 1-3, Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-015485-6 , p. 236
  • Albert Fuchs, Helmut Albert (ed.): Fabrics, forms, structures. Studies on German literature . Hans Heinrich Borcherdt on his 75th birthday, Hueber, Munich, 1962
  • Elisabeth Kraus (Ed.): The University of Munich in the Third Reich , Part 2, Volume 4 of Contributions to the History of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, University of Munich, Herbert Utz Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8316-0726-6 , P. 54
  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Christoph König : Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 , Volume 1. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, p. 237.
  2. ^ Hans Heinrich Borcherdt: Bildungsroman . In: Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturgeschichte . 2nd edition 1958, Volume I, pp. 175-178.