Heinrich Detering

Heinrich Detering at a reading at the Leipzig Book Fair 2014

Heinrich Detering (born November 1, 1959 in Neumünster ) is a German literary scholar , translator and poet .

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Heinrich Detering finished his school education at Engelbert-Kaempfer-Gymnasium in Lemgo in 1978 with the Abitur. There he also did his community service . In 1979 he began to study German , Protestant theology , Scandinavian studies and philosophy . Göttingen , Heidelberg and Odense were stops during my studies, which ended with a doctorate in Göttingen in 1988 and led to an assistant with Albrecht Schöne . In 1993 Detering's habilitation took place with the habilitation thesis The Open Secret: on the literary productivity of a taboo from Winckelmann to Thomas Mann on homosexuality in literature for the subjects of modern German literature and modern Scandinavian literatures.

In the following years Heinrich Detering initially worked as a substitute for a comparative literature professorship in Munich, before becoming professor for modern German literature and modern Scandinavian literatures at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel in 1995 . He held several visiting professorships, such as B. at the University of California, Irvine , at Washington University, St. Louis and at the Universities of Aarhus or Bergen . In 2001 he turned down an offer at the University of Bonn . Since the summer semester of 2005, Detering has been professor of modern German literature at the University of Göttingen .

Detering is one of the most influential German literary scholars and is a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , of which he was President from 2011 to 2017, the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. He was also a member of a number of juries, including: a. for the Kleist Prize , the Thomas Mann Prize , the Georg Büchner Prize , the Mörike Prize of the City of Fellbach and the Hans Fallada Prize . He was President of the Theodor Storm Society until 2015 , of the German Academy for Language and Poetry from 2011 to 2017 and former Vice President of the Deutsche Thomas Mann Society, Lübeck eV In the Munich Lyrik Kabinett , he was one of the four critics of the Lyric Quartet . He is also active as a literary critic and translator and publishes his own poems. He also caused a stir in 2019 with a critical analysis of the political rhetoric of the AfD .

Detering has been married since 1984 and has three children. Originally a Protestant, he later converted to Catholicism.

Awards

Detering has received several awards. In 1989 he received the scientific advancement award of the Raabe Society and in 1993 a Wiepersdorf scholarship. In 2001 Heinrich Detering was honored for the Liliencron poetics lectureship with the Prize of the State Cultural Association of Schleswig-Holstein , and in 2003 with the Julius Campe Prize for Criticism . In the 2004/2005 winter semester, he was professor of poetry at the Academy of Sciences and Literature at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. In 2007 he received the science award of the city of Kiel . In September 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Danish University of Aarhus . On March 30, 2009 Heinrich Detering received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation, endowed with 2.5 million euros, in Berlin . Since 2010 he has been an honorary professor at the University of Science and Technology Central China in Wuhan, China. In April 2011, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awarded him the Werner Heisenberg Medal. In 2012 he received the Danish Hans Christian Andersen Prize for his contribution to the dissemination of the poet's work. In 2013 Detering was named a Knight of the Order of Dannebrog . From October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015, Detering Fellow was the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich.

The Central Committee of German Catholics elected Heinrich Detering in November 2016 as one of 45 individual personalities among its members.

In 2018, Detering was one of the first scholarship recipients at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles.

In September 2019 he was ordained a permanent deacon in Hildesheim Cathedral.

Works

Specialist publications

• The open secret. On the literary productivity of a taboo from Winckelmann to Thomas Mann. Wallstein, 1994, ISBN 3-89244-070-0 .
• Theodicy and narrative method. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997, ISBN 3-525-20562-7 .
• Fundamentals of literary studies [ed. with Heinz Ludwig Arnold ], dtv, 1999, ISBN 3-423-30171-6 .
• Places of origin. Boyens Buchverlag, 2001, ISBN 3-8042-1017-1 .
• Authorship. Metzler, 2002, ISBN 3-476-01850-4 .
• Art autonomy and literary market. Constellations of Poetic Realism [ed. with Gerd Eversberg ], Verlag Schmidt (Erich), Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-503-06171-1 .
• Women, Jews, writers. A figure of thought in the young Thomas Mann . Fischer, 2005, ISBN 3-10-014203-9 .
• Andersen and others. A brief Danish-German cultural history of Kiel. Boyens Buchverlag, 2005, ISBN 3-8042-1159-3 .
• Bob Dylan . Reclam, 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-018432-5 .
• Bertolt Brecht and Lao-tse . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0266-2 .
• From counting the syllables. About the lyric craft. Munich speeches on poetry. Lyrik Kabinett Foundation , Munich, 2009. ISBN 978-3-938776-22-3
• The Antichrist and the Crucified. Friedrich Nietzsche's last texts. Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0635-6 .
• Childhood traces. Theodor Storm and the end of romance. Boyens, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8042-1333-3 .
• Hans Christian Andersen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-07041-7 .
• Thomas Mann's American Religion. Theology, Politics and Literature in Exile in California. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012. ISBN 978-3-10-014204-7 .
• The voices from the underworld. Bob Dylan's Mystery Games. CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-68876-8 .
• Planetary waves. Poems and prose / Bob Dylan , translated and commented by Heinrich Detering. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-455-00118-1 .
  • included: Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie
• as editor: Best of Lyrics / Bob Dylan . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-455-00118-1 .
• People in the world garden. The discovery of ecology in literature from Haller to Humboldt . Wallstein, Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-8353-3626-1 .

Fiction

• Sign language. 22 poems. 1978.
• Suspended solids. Poems. Wallstein Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-89244-787-X .
• Wrist. Poems. Wallstein Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0519-9 .
• Old Glory. Poems. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1167-1 .
• Miracle animals. Poems. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1598-3 .
• Immersion. Poems . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3444-1 .

Non-fiction

• Lately - A conversation in the fall . With Günter Grass . Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2017. ISBN 978-3-95829-293-2
• What does "we" mean here? On the rhetoric of the parliamentary right . Reclam, Ditzingen 2018. ISBN 978-3-15-019619-9

In addition, numerous publications have appeared in specialist journals, edited volumes, daily newspapers, etc. Detering has also translated various works by Hans Christian Andersen (Weird Fairy Tales) and Henrik Wergeland and is (co-) editor of the GKFA (Great Commentated Frankfurt Edition) of Thomas Mann's works and the Great Brandenburg Edition of Theodor Fontane's works and letters.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Detering  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Video "Thomas Mann & the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles with Heinrich Detering" from Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House

• Literature by and about Heinrich Detering in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Heinrich Detering
• Website of the Theodor Fontane office at Heinrich Detering's chair
• Deutschlandfunk (DLF) nuances. Music and questions about the person from April 15, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Detering re-elected as President , press release of the German Academy for Language and Poetry of October 24, 2014, online at deutscheakademie.de
2. ^ German Academy for Language and Poetry - Academy - Press - Ernst Osterkamp is the new President of the German Academy for Language and Poetry. Retrieved November 16, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Member entry of Heinrich Detering at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on October 11, 2017
4. ↑ o: Joint conference: Storm and Mann: Masters of storytelling in focus | shz.de. Retrieved November 6, 2019 . 
5. ↑ https://www.lyrik-kabinett.de/veranstaltungen/reihen/das-lyrische-quartett/rueckblick/30092015/
6. ↑ Heinrich Detering: What does "we" mean here? On the rhetoric of the parliamentary right . Ditzingen 2019, p. 22: AfD critics are sometimes accused of being too quick to use terms such as "fascism" or "Nazis". I would like to ask against it: Where should one have these terms at hand, if not here?
7. ↑ Press release ( memento of February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) of the DFG of December 4, 2008
8. ↑ Prof. Dr. Heinrich Detering from the University of Göttingen receives honorary professorship in China , in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from November 22, 2010, accessed on November 25, 2010
9. ↑ Information from the University of Göttingen ( memento from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), viewed on June 27, 2011
10. ^ Information from the University of Göttingen , as seen on March 31, 2012
11. ^ Message on the private homepage Deterings , seen on June 7, 2013
12. ↑ according to own information
13. ↑ zdk.de: ZdK elects individual personalities , accessed on February 24, 2017.
14. ↑ First grant recipients named for Thomas-Mann-Haus , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, September 19, 2017, accessed on September 19, 2017
15. ↑ Interview in the KStA December 2018
16. ↑ https://www.bistum-hildesheim.de/bistum/nachrichten/artikel/news-title/zwei-maenner-im-hildesheimer-dom-zu-diakonen-geweiht-19258/