Hans Kaufmann (literary scholar)
Hans Kaufmann (born March 31, 1926 in Berlin ; † January 15, 2000 there ) was a German literary scholar and Germanist .
Life
Hans Kaufmann was the son of an employee and took part in World War II as a young soldier in 1944/45 . After his imprisonment, he resumed the interrupted high school and passed his Abitur in 1948 at the workers and farmers faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin . He then studied German and history at Humboldt University until 1952 . Then Kaufmann worked there as a university assistant and aspirant . In 1956 he received his doctorate , after which he was a candidate for a habilitation and a lecturer . Between 1959 and 1961 Kaufmann was a professor at the Humboldt University. In 1962 his habilitation took place. From 1962 to 1968 he worked as a professor and director of the Department of Modern and Modern German Literature History at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In 1967 he presented a monograph on Heinrich Heine , which is considered the most important Heine monograph of the German post-war period to date.
From 1968 until his retirement in 1991 , Hans Kaufmann worked at the Central Institute for the History of Literature at the Academy of Sciences in the GDR .
Hans Kaufmann was temporarily married to Eva Kaufmann , a Germanist . He was awarded the Lessing Prize of the GDR in 1963 and the Heinrich Heine Prize of the GDR Ministry of Culture in 1972 .
Works
- Political poem and classical poetry. Construction, Berlin / GDR 1958
- Heinrich Heine - Spiritual development and artistic work. Construction, Berlin / GDR 1967
- Crises and changes in German literature from Wedekind to Feuchtwanger . Construction, Berlin / GDR 1976
- Attempt over inheritance. Philipp Reclam, Leipzig 1980
- About GDR literature. Contributions from twenty-five years. Construction, Berlin / GDR 1986
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth , Andreas Kölling: Kaufmann, Hans . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Remarks
- ↑ a b c short vita in: Petra Boden, Dorothea Böck (ed.): Modernization without modernity. The Central Institute for the History of Literature at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1969–1991). Heidelberg 2004, p. 372.
- ↑ Günther Albrecht u. a .: Writer of the GDR. 2nd Edition. Leipzig 1975, p. 262.
- ↑ Who is who? Volume 14, Part 2 (1965), p. 154.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaufmann, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 2000 |
| Place of death | Berlin |