Helmut Kreuzer

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Helmut Kreuzer (born November 1, 1927 in Feldstetten , People's State of Württemberg , † August 3, 2004 in Siegen ) was a German literary scholar .

Helmut Kreuzer (1997)

Life

Kreuzer studied theater studies , German literature , library studies and philosophy at the universities in Basel , Freiburg , Göttingen and Tübingen . 1956 doctorate he in Tübingen at Paul Kluckhohn about the tragedies Friedrich Hebbel , 1960, he was a research assistant of Fritz Martini at the former Technical University in Stuttgart , where he met with a ground-breaking study on in 1965 Bohème , a contribution to the subculture research avant la lettre, habilitated . Further stations in his career were the literary professorships at the universities in Saarbrücken (1967) and then Bonn (1970), where he was appointed to the renowned chair for literary studies (succeeding Benno von Wieses ).

As early as the early 1960s, Kreuzer saw the limitation of the literary subject area to the aesthetically beautiful and high work of art as too restrictive. He called for an expansion of the spectrum of literary studies by including the trivial in literature, the mass readings of the 19th century, scientifically neglected areas and forgotten authors, the electronic mass media in the 20th century and the expansion of literary research to include film and television and radio . Together with Rul Gunzenhäuser , Wolfgang Haubrichs and Wolfgang Klein , he founded the Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik (LiLi) in 1970 , which since then has served as a quarterly publication for these developments. Until the 1990s, Kreuzer was the editor in charge of more than 20 themed issues.

When Kreuzer went to the new University of Siegen as a founding senator and professor for German studies and literary studies in 1972 , he campaigned for the institutionalization of literary media studies in Germany and established the interdisciplinary research focus on mass communication and media in Siegen . He was the initiator of the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, co-founder of the Collaborative Research Center “Screen Media” and maintained lively contacts with universities and scientists all over the world. In addition, the book series series Q. Quellentexte zur literary and cultural history , series Q. New series , series Siegen , published in part with other colleagues such as Wolfgang Drost , Wolfgang Raible , Brigitte Schlieben-Lange and Christian W. Thomsen . Editions and discoveries . Editions on literary and cultural history as well as theory - criticism - history. A series of books , supplements to LiLi , Siegen series. Contributions to literary and linguistic and media studies and research on the literary and cultural history of Kreuzer's productivity in the Siegen years. Kreuzer has supervised or edited more than one hundred publications in the last four series of technical textbooks alone - which also included pioneering appointments to what was then Department 3 - Linguistics and Literature (including Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht , K. Ludwig Pfeiffer , Karl Riha , Siegfried J . Schmidt ) fall. Even after his retirement (1992), Kreuzer remained active in research for years.

In addition to his academic work and his institutional merits, Helmut Kreuzer is remembered by numerous colleagues and students worldwide as extraordinarily helpful, caring and indulgent, intellectually curious and academically liberal.

Since 1953 Helmut Kreuzer was with the literary scholar and art historian Ingrid Kreuzer born. Oßmann (1926-2004) married, who also appeared as a narrator under the pseudonym Angelika Jakob .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The bohemian. Analysis and documentation of the intellectual subculture from the 19th century to the present . Habilitation thesis. Metzler, Stuttgart 1968, Repr. Provided with an erratic index: Metzler, Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 3-476-01781-8 .
  • Changes in the concept of literature. Five articles on current problems in literary studies . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1975. ISBN 3-525-33362-5 .
  • German-language radio plays 1924-33. Eleven studies on their generic differentiation. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2003. ISBN 3-631-39248-6 .
  • Education about literature. Epochs - Problems - Trends. Selected Essays, Vol. I . Edited by Peter Seibert , Rolf Bäumer a . Georg Bollenbeck . Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1992. ISBN 3-533-04563-3
  • Education about literature. Authors and texts. Selected Articles, Vol. II . Edited by Wolfgang Drost u. Christian W. Thomsen. Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1993. ISBN 3-8253-4590-4

editor

  • Together with Rul Gunzenhäuser: Mathematics and Poetry. On the question of an exact literary study. Nymphenburger, Munich 1965, 1967, 1969, 4th revised edition 1971, ISBN 3-485-03303-0 .
  • With the collaboration of Wolfgang Klein: Literary and scientific intelligence - dialogue about the "two cultures" . Klett-Verlag, Stuttgart 1969 and as dtv paperback 1969; 2nd edition 1987.
  • Together with Käte Hamburger : Design history and social history. Literature, art and musicological studies. Festschrift for Fritz Martini . Metzler, Stuttgart 1969, ISBN 978-3-476-00089-7 .
  • Literary Studies - Media Studies . Quelle and Meyer, Heidelberg 1977, ISBN 3-494-00889-2 .
  • Together with Karl Prümm : TV programs and their forms. Typology, history and criticism of the program in the Federal Republic of Germany . Reclam, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-15-010289-8 .
  • Together with Günter Helmes : Expressionism - Activism - Exotism. Studies on the literary work of Robert Müller (1887-1924). With contemporary reception documents and a bibliography . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1981, ISBN 3-525-20750-6 (2nd edition Igel Verlag, Hamburg 978-3-86815-557-0).
  • Together with Ingrid Kreuzer: About Hermann Lenz . Documents on its reception (1947-1979) and autobiographical texts . Fink, Munich 1981, ISBN 978-3-7705-198-42 .
  • With the participation of Dorothea Wagener : Sachverzeichnis des Fernssehen . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1982, ISBN 3-525-03205-6 .
  • Together with Jürgen Kühnel : Käte Hamburger. Essays and poems on their topics and theses. For the 90th birthday . University of Siegen 1986.
  • With the assistance of Roland Koch : Friedrich Hebbel . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1989 (= ways of research, vol. 642), ISBN 3-534-02234-3 .
  • Together with Helmut Schanze : Television in the Federal Republic of Germany: Periods - Caesuras - Epochs . Winter, Heidelberg 1991 (= Siegen series, vol. 104), ISBN 3-533-04370-3 .
  • From Rubens to Deconstructivism. Festschrift for Wolfgang Drost . Winter, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 3-8253-0140-0 .
  • Don Juan and Femme Fatale . Fink, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7705-2986-3 .
  • Pluralism and postmodernism. On the history of literature and culture in Germany 1980–1995. 4th edition Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-631-49803-9 .
  • Together with Ingrid Kreuzer: German poems between 1918 and 1933. Reclam, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-15-009711-8 .
  • German-language literary criticism 1870-1914 . Parts 1-4. Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2006, ISBN 3-631-52129-4 .
  • With the collaboration of Otto F. Riewoldt and Helmut Heinze : Dramaturgy in the GDR (1945-1990) . 2 vols. Winter, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-8253-0741-7 u. 3-8253-0742-5.

literature

  • Explorations. Contributions to an expanded concept of literature. Festschrift for Helmut Kreuzer on his sixtieth birthday . Edited by Jens Malte Fischer , Karl Prümm a. Helmut Scheuer . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987, ISBN 3-525-20775-1 .
  • Crossings. A Festschrift for Helmut Kreuzer . Edited by Edward R. Haymes . Camden House, Columbia, SC, ISBN 0-938100-67-X .
  • Citizens of the world - text worlds. Thanks to Helmut Kreuzer . Edited by Leslie Bodi , Günter Helmes, Egon Schwarz a . Friedrich Voit . Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. et al., 1995, ISBN 3-631-48201-9 .
  • Encounters. Facets of a century. Helmut Kreuzer on his 70th birthday. Edited by Doris Rosenstein , Anja Kreutz . Carl Böschen Verlag , Siegen 1997, ISBN 3-932212-07-X .
  • Greetings and laudations on the occasion of the award of the honorary senator of the University of Siegen to Professor Dr. Dr. H. c. Helmut Kreuzer. April 17, 1998. (Ed .: The Rector of the University - Comprehensive University Siegen. Red .: Press and Information Office), University - Comprehensive University Siegen, Siegen 1999.
  • Not just literature. In memory of Helmut Kreuzer . Edited by Wolfgang Haubrichs and Georg Bollenbeck (= LiLi , H. 137). Metzler, Stuttgart 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Kreuzer: Trivial literature as a research problem. in: DVJs 41 (1967); reprinted in: Changes in the concept of literature 1975, pp. 7-26.
  2. ↑ See Helmut Kreuzer: Enlightenment on literature. Authors and texts. Vol. II , p. 300.
  3. ↑ Collaborative Research Center 240: Aesthetics, Pragmatics and History of Screen Media. In: uni-siegen.de. University of Siegen, accessed on November 12, 2017 .
  4. ↑ See Helmut Kreuzer: Enlightenment on literature. Authors and texts. Vol. II , pp. 300-305.
personal data
SURNAME Cruiser, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Feldstetten , Baden-Wuerttemberg
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 2004
Place of death Wins