Heinz Hamm

Heinz Hamm (born February 27, 1944 ) is a German specialist in German . He is first and foremost an expert on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , but he also works intensively with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Laocoon .

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Heinz Hamm, born in 1944, studied German and Latin studies from 1962 to 1967 at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . From 1967 to 1972 he was assistant to the German Studies Section. In 1972 the doctorate to Dr. phil. After teaching at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint-Denis) from 1974 to 1975, he returned to the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg as a lecturer . In 1979 he accepted a guest professorship at the German Institute of Warsaw University, which lasted until 1983 . This was followed by a professorship for the history of German literature at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena from 1984 to 1991 . From 2000 to 2010 he worked for the Mommsen Foundation for the Advancement of Goethe Research in Palo Alto, California .

In addition to books, Hamm published numerous essays and reviews , especially in the Weimar articles and in the s: Goethe yearbook .

The theoretical conceptions of the late Goethe on reality and art. University of Halle, Philosophical Faculty, Halle 1972 ( Dissertation A ).
The theorist Goethe. Basic positions of his worldview, philosophy and art theory (= literature and society ). Published by the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , Central Institute for the History of Literature. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975. (Also as Volume 5 of the series Literature in the Historical Process in Scriptor-Verlag, Kronberg / Ts. 1976, ISBN 3-589-20122-3 .)
Goethe's "Faust". Work history and text analysis. Published by the collective for literary history. Volk und Wissen, Berlin 1978. (6th, completely new revised edition 1997.)
Theory and ideology in Goethe. With an appendix to Lessing's “Laocoon” . University of Halle, Philosophical Faculty, Halle 1979 ( Dissertation B ).
Goethe and the French magazine Le Globe. Reading under the sign of world literature. Böhlau, Weimar 1998, ISBN 978-3-7400-1019-5 .
The wrong witness. Wrong paths in Goethe research. Aurora-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3359-02529-0 .

The argumentation of the "Laocoon" against the "piece by piece portrayal" of visible objects. In: Impulse. Articles, sources, reports on German Classical and Romanticism. Part 4. Published by Walter Dietze and Peter Goldammer on behalf of the National Research and Memorial Centers for Classical German Literature in Weimar . Editor Reiner Schlichting. With 8 illustrations. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1982, pp. 44–69.
The poetry program of Lessing's “Laokoon”. In: Olga Dobijanka-Witczakowa, Tadeusz Namowicz (Ed.): Lessing and problems of the German and Polish enlightenment. Zakład Narodowy Imienia Ossolińskich, Wydawn. Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Wrocław / Warszawa / Kraków / Gdańsk / Łódź 1983, ISBN 83-04-01231-6 , pp. 53–70.
The argumentation of the “Laocoon” on the “actual subject of poetry” in its historical context. In: Hans-Georg Werner (ed.): Building blocks for a history of impact. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1984, pp. 23–49.

Peter Hacks : Marxist Regions. Political writings 1955-2003. Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-359-01329-7 .

↑ Publications. Issue 079: Goethe in the GDR. On dealing with classical literature in the GDR. Conference contributions. In: helle-panke.de. Helle Panke e. V., accessed on October 20, 2019 .
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↑ ^a ^b About the author. In: springer.com. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
↑ Our authors. Heinz Hamm (author, ed.). In: eulenspiegel.com. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .