Hermann Wiegmann

Hermann Wiegmann (* 1937 ) is a German Germanist and grammar school teacher .

After studying German , philosophy and Catholic theology , Wiegmann passed the state examination for teaching in 1970 and received his doctorate in 1975 with a dissertation on Ernst Bloch's aesthetics . In addition to working as a high school teacher, Wiegmann taught at the University of Oldenburg , where he received his habilitation in 1980 with a paper on the conceptual history of aesthetics. Since 1987 he has been an adjunct professor for modern German literature , and finally also a guest professor for rhetoric at the University of Tübingen , where he took over the event contingent of the retired Walter Jens . On various occasions he has given guest lectures at well-known universities such as Cambridge , Salamanca , Brussels , the Sorbonne in Paris a. a. invited. In addition, he was for many years a member of the board of the Ernst Bloch Society and on the scientific advisory board for the editing of the Historical Dictionary of Rhetoric .

Wiegmann mainly works in the fields of aesthetics, poetics , rhetoric and literary history , as shown by numerous book publications, but also on Karl May , for example .

Publications (selection)

• Ernst Bloch's aesthetic criteria and their interpretative function in his literary essays (Diss. Hannover 1975). Bonn: Bouvier Verlag H. Grundmann 1976 (Treatises on philosophy, psychology and pedagogy, Bd. 110) Google book preview .
• History of poetics . Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag 1977.
• Utopia as a category of aesthetics. On the conceptual history of aesthetics and poetics . Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag 1983.
• (Ed.): The aesthetic passion. Texts on the doctrine of affect in the 17th and 18th centuries 18th century. Selected and commented . Hildesheim: G. Olms 1987 (German Texts and Studies, Volume 27), ISBN 3-487-07840-6 .
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Life and work . Husum: Husum Verlag 1987.
• From Plato's Poetic Criticism to Postmodernism: Studies in Rhetoric and Aesthetics . Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag , 1989, ISBN 3-925670-24-6 .
• Cicero's elective affinities or the reorganization of speech: drafting an interdisciplinary rhetoric . Freiburg: Rombach Verlag 1990 (Litterae, Volume 12) ISBN 3-7930-9057-4 .
• Rhetoric and aesthetic reason . Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 1990.
• Karl May. A material volume with an introduction to life and work . In: Gert Ueding , Reinhard Tschapke (eds.): Karl-May-Handbuch . Stuttgart: Kröner 1987; in 2nd edition as: Gert Ueding, Klaus Rettner (eds.): Karl-May-Handbuch . Königshausen & Neumann 2001 Google Book Preview .
• From Homer to Hemingway. Individual analyzes of narrative style and narrative dynamics in world literature . Hamburg: Kovac Verlag 1992.
• The stories of Thomas Mann . Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 1993.
• Literary theory and aesthetics. Categories of a systematic foundation . Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag 2002.
• Western literary history: the literature of Western Europe from ancient Greek and Roman poetry to modern English, French, Spanish, Italian and German literature . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2572-5 , Google book preview .
• The German literature of the 20th century . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2005, ISBN 3-8260-2972-0 Google book preview .
• And the Thracian smiles again. On the history of literary humor . Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 2006. Review by Josef Tutsch, in: Scienzz, 12 May 2006 .
• From ancient thinkers to modernity. Introduction to the philosophy of the philosophers . Hamburg: Verlag Kovac 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Wiegmann in the catalog of the German National Library