Hans Otto Horch

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Hans Otto Horch (born January 14, 1944 in Lörrach ) is a German literary scholar .

Life

From 1964 to 1971 , Hans Otto Horch studied German , philosophy and musicology at the universities of Tübingen and Aachen . As a research assistant at RWTH Aachen University , he received his doctorate in 1974 with a text semantic work on Gottfried Benn and was habilitated in 1984 with a thesis on German-Jewish narrative literature of the 19th century . Since 1985 Horch worked as a private lecturer and professor at RWTH Aachen University. He was also a student of Hans Ernst Schneider alias Hans Schwerte, a former National Socialist who was exposed in 1995.

Between 1990 and 1992 he taught as a visiting professor at the German Department of the Hebrew University Jerusalem and participated as a member of the advisory board in the establishment of the Franz Rosenzweig Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History located there. From 1992 until his retirement in 2009 Horch was the holder of the teaching and research area of ​​German-Jewish literary history at RWTH Aachen, the "Ludwig Strauss Professorship", named after the poet and literary scholar Ludwig Strauss .

The "Ludwig Strauss Professorship" is the only institution in Germany that has historically and systematically devoted itself to German-language literature by Jewish authors since the 18th century. It is about the reconstruction of intercultural discourses aimed at different identities about Jewish tradition and existence in German-language literature. Due to his life's work in the field of German-Jewish studies, Horch received the Ben-Gurion Medal from the Israeli Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on March 7, 2010 .

Research priorities

  • Establishment of the internationally oriented scientific series Conditio Judaica. Studies and sources on German-Jewish literary and cultural history (Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen, Walter de Gruyter since 2009), in which important interdisciplinary works and sources on the field of research are published (more than 75 volumes by 2009).
  • Monographs, essays, anthologies and editions on the entire area of ​​German-Jewish literary and cultural history.
  • An overall presentation of German-Jewish literary history in the sense of a history of discourse since the 18th century (four extensive study letters for the FernUniversität Hagen).
  • Another research focus is the digitization and provision of Jewish periodicals in German-speaking countries in cooperation with the special collection area Judaism of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library , Frankfurt am Main, and the Germania Judaica Library , Cologne. Over 120 of the most important Jewish periodicals, published between 1806 and 1938 in the German-speaking area, have been accessible since 2006 in the Compact Memory project .
  • The Judaica Collection Frankfurt, the largest and most important special collection on science on the European continent, with around 18,000 titles has been available since 2006. These projects show a willingness, which is not taken for granted, to build a bridge from the humanities and social sciences to the technical and natural sciences.

Works (selection)

  • In search of Jewish narrative literature. The literary criticism of the “ Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums ” (1837–1922) (= series of literary historical studies, 1). Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1985.
  • Gottfried Benn - words, texts, meaning. The problem of descriptive text analysis using the example of his poetry (= series Germanistik, 9). Thesen Verlag, Darmstadt 1975.
  • [With Gabriele von Glasenapp :] Ghetto literature. A documentation on the German-Jewish literary history of the 19th and early 20th centuries , 2 parts in 3 volumes (= Conditio Judaica; 53–55). Max Niemeyer, Tübingen, 2005.
  • Editor of numerous anthologies, also co-editor (with Robert Jütte and Markus J. Wenninger ) of Aschkenas. Journal of the History and Culture of the Jews .

Web links

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  1. ↑ Willi Jasper, subject: Hans Otto Horch: “Bravouröse” science? An "illegal" book? An answer to Hans-Otto Horch . In: literary criticism of June 3, 2004
  2. ^ Professor Otto Horch Receives Ben-Gurion Medal . Newsletter of the Ben-Gurion University, spring 2010 of April 29, 2010, p. 4, accessed on January 19, 2018 (English; pdf; 760 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Horch, Hans Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach