Helmut Bonheim

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Helmut Bonheim (born January 6, 1930 in Danzig ; † February 13, 2012 in Cologne ) was a German-American English graduate and professor at the University of Cologne .

Life

Bonheim emigrated with his parents, in 1938 because of racial persecution in the United States of America to Columbus (Ohio) . He studied in New York (1951 BA, 1952 MA), 1956-1958 as a Fulbright scholar in Vienna and graduated in 1959 with a doctorate from the University of Washington in Seattle . He then took up teaching activities at the University of California, Santa Barbara , and from 1963 to 1965 was a visiting professor for English literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From there in 1965 the University of Cologne appointed him to a full professorship for Anglo-American philology. In 1995 he retired.

Act

Bonheim represented the subject in a comprehensive philological manner with a distinctly broad literary focus from Shakespeare to James Joyce . His linguistic work deals with text linguistics , such as his fundamental work: The narrative Modes. Techniques of the Short Story (Cambridge: Brewer 1982). He also took care of practical questions, for example the development of a language and knowledge test for the selection of English studies scholarship holders for a DAAD scholarship. It was also he who organized theater trips to Stratford-upon-Avon for his students every year and also directed them himself. Due to his many international connections, he pioneered one of the largest exchange networks under the Erasmus program with English and Irish universities. At the same time, an exemplary support network for visiting students was set up in Cologne.

Honors

Bonheim is a bearer of the Great Federal Cross of Merit .

literature

  • Reingard M. Nischik , Barbara Korte (eds.): Modes of narrative: approaches to American, Canadian, and British fiction: presented to Helmut Bonheim , Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1990 (with biography and bibliography)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogy entry for brother Georg Bonham (accessed February 2012)
  2. ^ Expropriations entry Bonheim (accessed Febr. 2012)
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Google Book note about the visit to the Amerika-Haus, Vienna  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.books.google.de
  4. ↑ Short obituary for James Joyce Quarterly (accessed February 2016)
  5. ↑ Biography with Utz Maas, Uni Osnabrück, based on the Festschrift on the 60th by R. Nischik (see web links)
  6. ^ Obituary of the English seminar ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ Obituary notice at the funeral portal of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (with the option of leaving your own funeral posts)

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personal data
SURNAME Bonheim, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Anglist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2012
Place of death Cologne