Harro Segeberg

Harro Segeberg (born June 9, 1942 in Hamburg-Bergedorf ; † May 30, 2015 ) was a German specialist in German .

Life

Segeberg studied German, history, philosophy and education in Hamburg and Tübingen . After his doctorate in 1973 in Hamburg and his habilitation in 1984, he taught there from 1983 to 2007 as a professor of modern German literature. He was visiting professor at the University of Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III (1989/1990) and the University of Graz (2000) and was a visiting professor at the Northern Institute of Technology ( TU Hamburg-Harburg ). He sat on the executive committee of the Theodor Storm Society (since 1996) and on the board of the German Society for Media Studies (1999–2003 as 1st chairman; from 2004 as assessor).

His main research interests were the literature of the 18th and 19th centuries (including the Late Enlightenment, Weimar Classicism, Romanticism, Poetic Realism), work and technology in literature since the Enlightenment, literature and media since the Enlightenment, Ernst Jünger , literary cinema debates, media history of the Films (early cinema, Weimar Republic, Third Reich, 1950s, new German film) and strategies of intermediality ( Bertolt Brecht , Alfred Döblin, etc.).

Fonts (selection)

• Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's novel poem. Investigations into the novel of the late enlightenment . Heidelberg 1974, ISBN 3-533-02316-8 .
• Literary technology pictures. Studies on the relationship between the history of technology and literature in the 19th and early 20th centuries . Tübingen 1987, ISBN 3-484-35017-2 .
• Literature in the technical age. From the early days of the German Enlightenment to the beginning of the First World War . Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-534-13173-8 .
• Literature in the media age. Literature, technology and media since 1914 . Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-534-13174-6 .
• »Flow of a film continent«. Case studies on the history of the Nazi media metropolis Hamburg , with the collaboration of Simon Klingler and others. edition text + kritik, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-86916-408-3 .

Web links

• Prof. em. Dr. Harro Segeberg †