Hans Helmut Hiebel

Hans Helmut Hiebel , also Hans Hiebel or Hans H. Hiebel (born May 18, 1941 in Reichenberg ), is a German Germanist and professor of modern German literature at the University of Graz . He retired in 2009.

Life

Hiebel studied from 1961 to 1972 at the University of Erlangen . He received his doctorate in 1972 and habilitated in 1982 at the University of Erlangen with the Venia "Modern German Literature". In 1985 he was appointed full professor at the University of Graz . His main focus is on literature of the 18th and 20th centuries, poetics, poetry theory and literary hermeneutics . Franz Kafka was the subject of his habilitation thesis.

Works

Books

• Individuality and totality. On the history and criticism of the bourgeois concept of poetry from Gottsched to Hegel based on theories of epic and novel. Bonn 1974 (= slightly revised dissertation entitled “The German Epic and Romantic Theory in the 18th Century”, Dissertation Erlangen 1972); (2nd edition Bonn 1980).
• Poetry - Theory and Interpretation. An aesthetic propaedeutic. Munich 1976.
• The signs of the law. Law and Power with Franz Kafka , Munich 1983, 2nd edition, Munich 1989 (= slightly revised and greatly abbreviated habilitation thesis entitled "Franz Kafka. Configurations of Law, Power and Desire", Erlangen 1982).
• Franz Kafka - "A country doctor". Munich 1984 (= UTB 1289).
• Franz Kafka. Kafka's novel “The Trial” and his stories “The Judgment”, “The Metamorphosis”, “In the Penal Colony” and “A Country Doctor”: Desire, Power, Law. Text analyzes based on French structuralism (Lacan, Barthes, Foucault, Derrida), Hagen 1987, 2nd edition 1998 (= teaching letter from the Fernuniversität Hagen).
• Franz Kafka: Form and Meaning. Form analyzes and interpretations of 'Before the Law', 'The Judgment', 'Report for an Academy', 'A Country Doctor', 'Der Bau', 'Der Steuermann', 'Prometheus', 'Der Verschollene', 'Der Proceß' and selected aphorisms, Würzburg 1999.
• Henrik Ibsen's psycho-analytic dramas. The return of the past. Munich 1990.
• The spectrum of modern poetry. Interpretations of German-language poetry 1900–2000 in the international context of modernity. Part I (1900–1945), Würzburg 2005.
• The spectrum of modern poetry. Interpretations of German-language poetry 1900–2000 in the international context of modernity. Part II (1945–2000), Würzburg 2006.
• The metaphors of Karl Marx. A somewhat different »Capital« reading, Hamburg 2019.
• Lighthouses . Prose poems. Keiper, Graz 2019. ISBN 978-3-903144-86-6 .

As editor

• Gottfried Zeißig. Overcoming speech in drama. With a study of the history of science by the publisher [HH Hiebel]: Authorial and personal drama. Bielefeld: 1990
• Little media history. From the first characters to the microchip. Munich 1997

As co-editor

• The parable. Parabolic shapes in 20th century German poetry. Frankfurt a. M. 1986 (= stm 2060)

• Media and machines. Literature in the technical age, Freiburg i. Br. 1991 (together with Theo Elm )

As a co-author

• The media. Logic - Achievement - History. [Regarding the procedures for storing and transmitting text, images and sound], Munich 1998 (= UTB 2029)

• Great media chronicle. [Technology and performance, development and history of modern media. On the methods of storage and transmission, recording, duplication and processing of writing, images, numbers and sound.] Munich 1999

As translator

Michel Dentan: The humor in Franz Kafka's work. Vienna, Berlin 2012

Essays

• About Franz Kafka. HM Enzensberger, Georg Büchner, Robert Walser, Samuel Beckett. Bourgeois Tragedy, The Media, Poetics of Drama, Poststructuralism, Jacques Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Literature

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Helmut Hiebel in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://homepage.uni-graz.at/de/hans.hiebel