Hartmut Kugler

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Hartmut Kugler (born March 3, 1944 in Heilbronn ) is a German philologist . The focus of his work is the literature of the European Middle Ages .

Life

After graduating from high school in Groß-Umstadt , Kugler studied German , Romance languages and philosophy in Marburg, Hamburg and Göttingen from 1963 to 1969 . After completing his doctorate, he was a research assistant in Göttingen from 1970 to 1973 and an assistant at the TU Berlin from 1974 to 1983 (habilitation 1981).

After substituting professorships in Mannheim and Düsseldorf (1984–1987), he was appointed to a professorship for German Medieval Studies at the University of Kassel in 1987 . In 1993 he changed to the chair at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg . There he was spokesman for the graduate school "Cultural Transfer in the European Middle Ages".

Guest professorships took him to Riga (1993) and Budapest (1997), Paris (2002) and Zurich (2004).

From 1997 to 2001 Hartmut Kugler was chairman of the German Association of Germanists .

His main research interests (approx. 150 scientific publications) lie in the field of literature from the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (master song, literature and urban culture), text-image relationships, chronology and the relationship between poetry and geography (imago mundi literature, Cartography). He has also published some newspaper articles on university politics.

His two-volume new edition of the Ebstorf world map became the basis for the digital version of the map at the University of Lüneburg

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Craft and master singing. Ambrosius Metzger's Metamorphoses Poetry and the Nuremberg Singing School in the early 17th century . (Palaestra Bd. 265) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977 ISBN 9783525205341
  • The idea of ​​the city in the literature of the German Middle Ages . (Munich texts and studies on German literature of the Middle Ages, vol. 88) Artemis and Winkler Munich 1986 ISBN 978-3-484-89088-6

Text editions

  • Ambrosius Metzger, Metamorphosis Ovidij in Meisterthöne . (Texts of the late Middle Ages and the early modern age 31) Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1981 ISBN 978-3503012046
  • Hans Sachs: master songs, proverbs, carnival games. Selection (Reclam University Library 18288). Reclam, Ditzingen 2003 ISBN 978-3150182888
  • The Ebstorf world map. Annotated new edition in two volumes . With the collaboration of Sonja Glauch and Antje Willing. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3050041179 (see the review by Martina Stercken in: sehepunkte 8 (2008), No. 5 from May 15, 2008)

Editorships

  • together with Bernhard Lauer, Fritz Paul, Lutz Röhrich, Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand: Yearbook of the Brothers Grimm Society . Vol. 1 (1991) - 5 (1995)
  • In collaboration with E. Michael: A world view before Columbus: The Ebstorfer world map. Symposium in Ebstorf Monastery in 1988 . Acta humaniora, Weinheim 1991 ISBN 978-3527176700
  • Cultural identity of the German-speaking minorities in Russia / USSR . (East-West Congress Kassel, Volume 2) Verlag Winfried Jenior, Kassel 1992. ISBN 978-3928172219
  • Interregionality of German literature in the European Middle Ages . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995 ISBN 978-3-11-014368-3
  • in cooperation with Petra Boden: www.germanistik2001.de. Lectures and presentations at the Erlanger German Studies Day . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2003 ISBN 978-3895284144
  • with Ingrid Baumgärtner: Europe in the Middle Ages. Cartographic concepts . (Orbis mediaevalis 10). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008

Essays (in selection)

  • Master songs for the Thirty Years War, in: Hans Sachs and Nuremberg. Conditions and problems of imperial city literature . Ed. V. H. Brunner, G. Hirschmann and F. Schnelbögl, Nürnberg 1976, pp. 289-310
  • Alexander's griffin flight. An episode of the Alexanderromans in the German Middle Ages, in: International Archive for Social History of Literature 12 (1987), pp. 1–25
  • The Ebstorf world map. A European view of the world in the German Middle Ages, in: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 116 (1987), pp. 1–29.
  • Iwein, the good and the bad regiment, in: Oxford German Studies 25 (1996), pp. 90-118
  • Lovesickness in the Medieval Novel - Some Observations from the Aspect of Gender Difference, in: Medicine, History and Gender. Body-historical reconstructions of identities and differences . Ed. V. Frank Stahnisch and Florian Steger. (History and Philosophy of Medicine 1) Stuttgart 2005, pp. 181–196
  • Wilhelm Grimm's Nibelungen College. To distinguish the historical from the mythical and the natural history of the legend, In: Medieval Poetics in Theory and Practice. Festschrift for Fritz Peter Knapp . Edited by Thordis Hennings, Manuela Niesner, Christoph Roth and Christian Schneider. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, pp. 79–96
  • Arthur in the Arthurian courts of the Baltic Sea area. in: Artushof and Artusliteratur . Edited by Matthias Däumer, Cora Dietl and Friedrich Wolfzettel (writings of the international Artusgesellschaft 7). De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2010, pp. 341–354
  • On the cultural-scientific concept of 'cultural transfer' in the European Middle Ages, in: Music and cultural identity . Ed. V. Detlef Altenburg and Rainer Beyreuther. Kassel 2012, Vol. 2, pp. 456-465
  • Etzlaub's invention of the road map around 1500, in: Between Rome and Santiago: Festschrift for Klaus Herbers . Edited by Claudia Alraum u. a. Bochum 2016, pp. 129-137

Festschriften for Hartmut Kugler

  • Projection - reflection - distance. Spatial ideas and figures of thought in the Middle Ages . Edited by Sonja Glauch, Susanne Köbele, Uta Störmer-Caysa, Berlin / Boston 2011 ISBN 978-3-11-022145-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ With the defiant optimism of an old 68er. the daily newspaper, March 19, 1996, accessed on January 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Loneliness and freedom of the third kind. Die tageszeitung, April 2, 1996, accessed on January 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Urge to go outside. the daily newspaper, September 28, 1996, accessed on January 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ HyperImage The Ebstorf World Map - around 1300. Leuphana University Lüneburg, accessed on January 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kugler, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn