Helmut Motekat

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Helmut Motekat

Helmut Motekat (born October 6, 1919 in Wietzischken , East Prussia ; † July 16, 1996 in Vaterstetten , Upper Bavaria ) was a German specialist in German and literary historian .

Life

In the Elchniederung district , Motekat attended the elementary school in Neusorge ( Heinrichswalde parish ) and the high school in Kaukehmen . After he had passed the Abitur at the Tilsiter Realgymnasium in 1938 , he was drafted into the Air Force (Wehrmacht) , but released in 1940 because of a serious wound .

At the Albertus University in Königsberg he studied German , English , history , folklore and philosophy . As a student leader of the comradeship "Hermann von Salza" he attended a comradeship evening of the Air Force Company on January 31, 1942. He came across members of the free association Daidalia , which had existed in secret since December 1941. With her he became active. Motekat's completed doctoral thesis burned in 1944 during the second British air raid on Königsberg . In the Battle of Königsberg in 1945, Motekat fled to Göttingen . The doctoral thesis could be reconstructed and in 1946 at the Georg-August University with the doctorate to Dr. phil. be completed. Since their chair for folklore was vacant, the philosophical faculty commissioned Walther Ziesemer with the Rigorosum in Marburg in 1946 .

Motekat then worked for two years as a lecturer in German language and literature at the College of the Rhine Army . In 1947 he was one of the founders of the Göttingen working group . He spent two more years as a research assistant at the Department of German Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There he qualified as a professor for modern German literary history. At the same time appointed as a private lecturer , he received the professorship for this subject in Munich in 1957. In 1958 he accepted the first invitation to the USA to take part in the II International Congress on Comparative Literary History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . In 1959 he gave guest lectures at the four universities in Scotland . In 1960 he was a Carl Schurz Professor at 19 universities in the USA. In 1963 he toured all universities in Canada . In 1969 he attended congresses and universities in Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Venezuela. In 1974 Polish universities followed, and in 1980 six universities in New Zealand (German National Fellow) .

He dealt in detail with Albert Dulk , Max Halbe , Arno Holz , Alexander Jung , Hermann Löns , Albrecht Schaeffer , Ernst Wiechert and Walther Ziesemer . Motekat was a member (1949) and scientific advisory board (1975) of the Society for Fraternity History Research . He worked on the Königsberg fraternity lists. From 1982 to 1994 he was the founding chairman of the working group for East and West Prussian regional studies at the LMU. He died at the age of 76 at his last place of residence, Vaterstetten.

Visiting professorships

Fonts

  • Experiment and Tradition: The Nature of Poetry in the 20th Century . Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1962.
  • East Prussian literary history with Danzig and West Prussia (1230–1945) . Schild-Verlag Munich 1977, 2001, ISBN 978-3-88014-053-0 .
  • The Contemporary German Drama: Introduction and Critical Analysis . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1977.
  • The Albertus University of Königsberg in Prussia. Order and probation over 400 years , 1984.
  • The poet and time. Responsible contemporary , Köllen, Alfter-Oedekoven 1987, ISBN 3-88579-023-8 .

editor

Memberships and honorary positions

Honors

literature

  • Walter Grohnert: Honor your German champions! On Helmut Motekat's "East Prussian literary history along with Danzig and West Prussia" . Burschenschaftliche Blätter 92/7 (1977), pp. 182-184.
  • Renate Knoll: Helmut Motekat. October 6, 1919 - July 16, 1996 . Jahrbuch Preußenland , Vol. 35 (1997), 50-53.
  • Leo Koslowski : Helmut Motekat - keeper of East Prussian literature . Burschenschaftliche Blätter , Vol. 112 (1997), pp. 30-33.
  • Harald Lönnecker : "The topic was and remained without parallel appearance in German historical research" - The Burschenschaftliche Historische Kommission (BHK) and the Gesellschaft für Burschenschaftliche Geschichtsforschung e. V. (GfbG) (1898 / 1909-2009). A history of people, institutions and science (presentations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the 19th and 20th centuries, vol. 18). Heidelberg 2009, p. 377.
  • Maximilian Rankl: Professor Dr. Helmut Motekat. Highlights on the life and work of the previous chairman of the working group for East and West Prussian regional studies at the University of Munich . Der Westpreusse , Vol. 47 H. 10 (1995), p. 4.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c culture portal west-east
  2. ↑ Andreas Mildahn: "CIVIS ACADEMIAE REGIOMONTANAE SUM" - student corporations at the Albertus University in Königsberg i. Pr. In lexical overview (A – D) . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, Vol. 62 (2017), pp. 299–362, here p. 354.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: The spiritual face of Königsberg in the Biedermeier period .
  4. ^ H. Motekat: The Königsberg citizenship and their university around the middle of the 19th century . Burschenschaftliche Blätter 92/2 (1977), pp. 39-45.
  5. ↑ H. Motekat: "My home face" - Ernst Wiechert , in: Burschenschaftliche Blätter 109/2 (1994), pp. 60–64.
  6. ^ Message from Peter Wörster
  7. ↑ Communication from the Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Motekat, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Wietzischken , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1996
Place of death Vaterstetten , Upper Bavaria