Harro Kieser

Harro Kieser (born March 5, 1939 in Riesa ) is a Germanist , historian and academic librarian .

Life

The son of the linguist Otto Kieser studied German and history at the Universities of Marburg and Bonn . He then completed his legal clerkship for the higher library service and worked at the German National Library from 1966 to 2002 . There he mainly worked in the German Exile Archive 1933–1945 and in the exhibition department. His German research focuses on exile literature , Carl Zuckmayer and children's and youth literature . In addition, he accompanied various lexicographical projects such as the lexicon of German-Jewish authors as a member of the scientific advisory board or the second edition of the first editions of German poetry by Wilpert / Gühring and worked on various lexicons, especially the Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Emigration after 1933 = International biographical dictionary of Central European émigrés 1933–1945 (Volume 2: The arts, sciences, and literature, Munich et al. 1983, and the Lexicon of the entire book industry (Stuttgart 1987–2016)). In the field of historical studies, he is interested in the cultural and intellectual history of Central Germany , especially the state of Saxony-Anhalt . This is particularly evident in his work for the Central German Cultural Council, which he joined in 1987 and whose fate he has been co-determining since 1994 as Chairman of the Foundation Council. In addition, he oversees the Foundation's publication projects and has a decisive influence on the Central German Yearbook.

Fonts

• The listing of the literature of emigrants from the German-speaking area (1933–1950). Cologne 1968.
• Carl Zuckmayer. A Bibliography 1917–1971. (With Arnold John Jacobius). Frankfurt am Main 1971.
• The press of the Socialist Workers' Party in Germany in exile 1933–1939. An analytical bibliography. (Ed .: Harro Kieser and Brita Eckert; Ed .: Dagmar Schlünder). Frankfurt am Main 1981.
• First editions of German poetry. Gero from Wilpert / Adolf Gühring. Scientific advice: Harro Kieser. 2. completely revised Stuttgart 1992 edition.

Editing

• Carl Zuckmayer. Materials on life and work. Frankfurt 1986.
• Skill, courage and imagination. Portraits of creative women from Central Germany. (Ed. With Annemarie Haase). Cologne 1993.
• Exile literature and exile research. Selected essays, lectures and reviews [by] Werner Berthold. (Ed. With Brita Eckert). Wiesbaden 1996.
• Central German yearbook for culture and history. (Ed. With Christof Römer , † 2017, and Gerlinde Schlenker). Bonn, since 1st 1994.

Exhibitions / exhibition catalogs / accompanying volumes

• Orden Pour le mérite for science and arts. History and present. (With Brita Eckert). Frankfurt am Main 1977.
• The Maximilian Society. (With Ernst Hauswedell). Frankfurt am Main 1981.
• 35 years of exile literature 1933–1945 in the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main. A contribution to the history of exile research in the Federal Republic of Germany. Short biographies: Harro Kieser. Frankfurt am Main 1984.
• German-Turkish relations from 1924 to 1938. [Ed .: Harro Kieser and Brita Eckert]. Frankfurt am Main 1987.
• Literature and literary life in Germany 1945–1949. (Collaboration: Susanne Mittag and Klaus Körner). Bonn 1989.
• Hanns W. Eppelsheimer (1890–1972). Librarian, literary scholar, Homme de lettres. (With Frank Wende and Franz Fischer; Red .: Harro Kieser). Frankfurt am Main 1990.
• Childhood - youthfulness. Historical books for young people from a Bad Homburg collection. Bad Homburg 1991.
• German philologists in exile. Frankfurt am Main 1996.
• Polish literature in translations by Karl Dedecius. (With Brita Eckert). Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 2000.
• German intellectuals in exile. Your academy and the "American Guild for German Cultural Freedom". (With Brita Eckert). Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 2000.
• Philipp P. Fehl , Capricci. (With Brita Eckert). Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 2001.

literature

• 50 years of the Central German Cultural Council. Bonn 2005, pp. 124-126.
• Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar

Web links

• Literature by and about Harro Kieser in the catalog of the German National Library