Heinz Entner

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Heinz Entner (born October 27, 1932 in Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia ; † July 6, 2011 in Gelbensande ) was a German philologist .

Life

Heinz Entner was born into a working class family. He attended school up to the age of 14 in his hometown, from 1946 to 1952 in Neustrelitz / Mecklenburg . During this time he was particularly enthusiastic about the work of the sculptor Ernst Barlach for art. He completed his studies in journalism in Leipzig from 1952 to 1953 and German studies in Berlin from 1953 to 1956, in which he was strongly influenced by the lectures on literary history by Alfred Kantorowicz , Victor Klemperer and Werner Simon and the history of philosophy by Wolfgang Harich he finished with a thesis on Barlach's prose .

After working briefly as an editor at GDR television , he moved to the Academy of Sciences and received his doctorate in 1963 from the Humboldt University under the Germanist Leopold Magon and the classical philologist Werner Hartke with a study on early German humanism . This was followed by further research on the history of Latin and German poetics in the 16th and 17th centuries, creating the basis for his Fleming biography, with which he completed his habilitation in 1992.

Through the reading books that had shaped him and his constant interest in technical and scientific developments, he discovered the genre of science fiction literature for himself, wrote essays and in 1979, together with Irma Entner, published an anthology of Scandinavian fantasy . He also made contributions to the lexicon Die Science-fiction der DDR, edited by Erik Simon and Olaf R. Spittel , and the anthologies of the light-year series. The literary scholar Kurt Batt later persuaded him to occupy himself with Nordic literature, which in 1982 resulted in a three-volume edition of the novels and short stories by the Dane Hermann Bang .

Fonts

  • Samuel Karoch von Lichtenberg in early German humanism. Dissertation, Berlin 1963.
  • Early humanism and school tradition in the life and work of the traveling poet Samuel Karoch von Lichtenberg: Biographical-literary-historical study with an appendix of unknown texts. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1968.
  • with Edith Neubauer: Bundschuh and rainbow flag: writers and artists in the peasant war. Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1975.
  • Paul Fleming: a German poet in the Thirty Years War. Reclam, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-379-00486-3 .
as editor
  • Hermann Bang. Novels and short stories. Rostock and Munich 1982.
  • with Werner Lenk: Studies on German literature in the 17th century. Structure, Berlin 1984.
  • Bye by Sirius: Fantastic stories from Scandinavia. Translations by Irma Entner. Berlin, 1979.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article Günter Braun , Johanna Braun and Herbert Ziergiebel in: Erik Simon , Olaf R. Spittel (eds.): The science fiction of the GDR. Authors and works. A lexicon. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-360-00185-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Entner, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2011
Place of death Gelbensande