Helga Gallas

Helga Gallas (born May 6, 1940 in Altenburg ) is a German Germanist , journalist and literary scholar .

Life

Helga Gallas was born in Altenburg, Thuringia, as the daughter of the engineer Otto Gallas and his wife Frieda . She attended elementary school and high school in Halle from 1946 to 1958. In May 1958 she passed the school leaving examination . She studied German and journalism at the University of Tübingen and in Berlin . In 1969 she did her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin . From 1965 to 1982 she worked as an editor for the magazine " alternative ". From 1971 to 1974 she taught at the University of Hamburg . From 1974 until her retirement she taught “German Literature” at the University of Bremen with a focus on literary theory and interpretation methods at Faculty 10 (= Linguistics and Literature Studies). From 1993 to 1995 she was Vice Rector for Structural Reform.

Helga Gallas focused on researching the union of proletarian revolutionary writers and the controversies about realism in the journal Die Linkskurve , the use of structuralism for literary studies and gender research in literary studies.

Works

• alternative. Journal for literature and discussion . Alternative Verlag, Berlin 1965 ff.
• The left turn (1929-32). Elaboration of a proletarian-revolutionary literary theory in Germany . Ladewig, Berlin 1969
• Marxist literary theory. Controversies in the League of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers . Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, Neuwied and Berlin 1971 ( collection alternative , edited by Hildegard Brenner . Vol. 1) ( Luchterhand collection 19)
• (Ed.): Structuralism as an interpretative process . Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1972 ( collection alternative , edited by Hildegard Brenner. Vol. 2) (= Luchterhand collection 35)
• The text request of Michael Kohlhaas . The language of the unconscious and the meaning of literature . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981. ISBN 3-499-25162-0
• Helga Gallas, Magdalene Heuser: Investigations into the novel by women around 1800 . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1990. ISBN 3-484-32055-9 (= Studies on the History of German Literature Volume 55) Table of Contents ISBN 978-3-11-094214-9 ( E-Book )
• Helga Gallas, Anita Runge: Novels and short stories by German women writers around 1800. A bibliography with location references . JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 1993. ISBN 3-476-00900-9
• Kleist . Law, Desire, and Sexuality. Between symbolic and imaginary identification . Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main, Basel 2005. ISBN 3-8610-9177-1 Table of contents

Articles (selection)

• Helmut Lethen , Helga Gallas: Workers' poetry - Proletarian literature. A historical sketch . In: alternative . 9th year 1966, issue 51, pp. 156-161.
• On the Brecht - Lukács controversy. Comments on Anders / Klobusicky and Lukács' Wangenheim critique . In: alternative . 15th year 1972, issue 84/85, pp. 121-123.
• Proletarian literature and bourgeois recipients. Report on an introductory course in the study of modern German literary studies based on Willi Bredel's novel “ Maschinenfabrik N. & K. "(1973) . In: alternative . 16th year 1973, issue 90, pp. 138-147.
• Contributions to structuralism in literary studies. Kleist's Penthesilea and Lacan's four discourses . In: controversies, old and new. Files of the VII. International Germanist Congress. Göttingen 1985 . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1986. ISBN 3-484-10524-0
• The view from a distance. The mythical order of the world and structuralism . In: Power of Myth - Impotence of Reason? Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989. ISBN 3-596-26643-2 , pp. 267-288.
• Reception of antiquity in Goethe and Kleist: Penthesilea - an anti-Iphigenia? . In: Thomas Metscher (ed.): Cultural heritage between tradition and avant-garde . Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 1991. ISBN 3-412-06590-0
• Sexuality and Desire in E. Jelinek's novel Lust . In: Freiburg literary psychological discussions . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1996. ISBN 3-88479-243-1
• Desire and sexuality in the work of Heinrich von Kleist . In: Eroticism and sexuality in the work of Heinrich von Kleist. Heilbronn Kleist Colloquia II . Edited by Günther Emig . Kleist-Archiv Sembdner, Heilbronn 2000. ISBN 3-931060-48-9 , pp. 232-238.
• The contribution of structural psychoanalysis ( Lacan ) to literary studies . In: Theory Studies? Contours of Comparative Theory Development at the Beginning of the 21st Century , ed. by Beate Burtscher-Bechter and Martin Sexl. Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck 2001. ISBN 3-7065-1692-6 , pp. 49–56.
• Search figure Ulrike Meinhof in Elfriede Jelinek's “ Ulrike Maria Stuart ” . In: Ulrike Maria Stuart , ed. by Ortrud Gutjahr. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007. ISBN 3-8260-3619-0 , pp. 97-105.
• In a roundabout way to psychoanalysis . In: Wolfram Mauser , Carl Pietzcker (ed.): Literature and psychoanalysis. Memories as the building blocks of a history of science . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-8260-3787-0 , pp. 191-208.

literature

• Who's who in the world . 4th ed. Marquis Who's Who, London 1978, p. 335.
• Wolfgang Emmerich , Eva Kammler (ed.): Literature, psychoanalysis, gender. Festschrift for Helga Gallas . edition lumière, Bremen 2006. ISBN 3-934686-38-9 Table of contents

Web links

• Directory of Germanists: Helga Gallas
• University of Bremen. Portrait of women professors. Helga Gallas (with photography)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Editor: Helga Gallas.
2. ↑ Berlin, FU., Phil. Fac., Diss. From. 18th November 1969.
3. ↑ 3rd edition 1974 Luchterhand; 4th edition. Roter Stern, Frankfurt am Main 1974.
4. ^ Translations: Spanish 1973; Italian 1974; Serbo-Croatian 1977.
5. ↑ Gallas distinguishes himself here from the views of Alfred Schmidt and Urs Jaeggi . (Pages IX-XI).