Hermann Korte (Germanist)
Hermann Korte (* 11. January 1949 in Meppen , † 21st January 2020 in Lippstadt ) was a German Germanist and literary scholar .
overview
Korte graduated from high school in Meppen ( Emsland ) in 1968 and completed community service . From 1969 to 1972 he studied German, history and sociology in Münster , from 1972 to 1975 in Bochum . After the first state examination for teaching in 1975, Korte was in legal clerkship from 1976 to 1978 and finally passed his second state examination. In 1979 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on The War in Expressionist Poetry with Paul Gerhard Klussmann .
1979-1990 Korte was Fachleiter for German on Studienseminar Gelsenkirchen, then a teacher at Schalke school in Gelsenkirchen . 1981 to 1992 he was a lecturer at the German Institute of the University of Münster. From 1990 to September 2001 he was senior director of the Leibniz Gymnasium in Gelsenkirchen and was also a member of the German curriculum committee at the Gymnasium. From 1993 to 2001 he also had a teaching position at the University of Essen , where he also worked as a private lecturer after completing his habilitation in 1996. Since 2002 Korte was professor for literary didactics at the University of Siegen .
Other focal points of Kortes were u. a. 19th and 20th century literature, Joseph von Eichendorff , literary expressionism , the history of poetry , post-war literature and the work of Kurt Tucholsky . There are about ten works written by Korte, some of which appeared in several editions.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Korte in the catalog of the German National Library
Sources and individual references
- ^ Obituary notice for Hermann Korte
- ^ Page by Hermann Korte at the University of Siegen ( Memento from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 29, 2008
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SURNAME | Korte, Hermann |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist and literary scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1949 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Meppen |
DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 2020 |
Place of death | Lippstadt |