Hildegard Emmel

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Hildegard Emmel (born July 23, 1911 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 6, 1996 in Bern ) was a German specialist in German and university professor.

biography

Hildegard Emmel received her doctorate in 1935 with a thesis on the relationship between ere and triuwe in the Nibelungenlied under Hartmann and Wolfram and initially worked as a teacher. After a first attempt at habilitation in Hamburg was unsuccessful, Emmel moved to the eastern part of the country and from 1950 worked as a research assistant at the Goethe dictionary at the Academy of Sciences in East Berlin . In 1951 she successfully completed her habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Rostock , this was the first habilitation for a woman at the University of Rostock. First she taught in Rostock, in 1956 she was appointed to the University of Greifswald . Emmel left Greifswald in 1958 due to political problems and moved back to the Federal Republic. From 1960 she worked in Bielefeld, after which she lived and worked mainly abroad, a. a. in Norway, Finland, Turkey and most recently the United States . After her retirement, she moved to Bern in 1981, but continued to work.

On November 15, 1991 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald.

Works (selection)

  • The relationship between êre and triuwe in the Nibelungenlied and in Hartmann and Wolfram . Diesterweg, Frankfurt / M. 1936.
  • Problems of form in the Arthurian novel and the Grail poetry. The importance of the Arthurian circle for the structure of the novel in the 12th and 13th centuries in France, Germany and the Netherlands . Francke, Bern 1951.
  • Mörike's Peregrina poem and its relationship to the Nolten novel , Böhlau, Weimar 1952.
  • Weltklage and Bild der Welt in Goethe's poetry . Böhlau, Weimar 1957 (2nd edition 1979).
  • The court in German literature of the 20th century , Francke Verlag, Munich 1963.
  • What Goethe took from the novel of his contemporaries. On Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship years , Francke, Bern 1972, ISBN 3-7720-1019-9 .
  • Critical intelligence as a method. Old and new essays on seven centuries of German literature . Francke, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-7720-1525-5 .
  • History of the German Novel , Wayne State University Press 1984, ISBN 978-0-8143-1770-9 (German edition: Geschichte des Deutschen Romans . Three volumes. Francke, Munich 1972–1978)
  • Freedom has not yet begun , Reich Verlag 1991, ISBN 978-3-86167-029-2 .
  • Freedom: Keep on Fighting for It , Trafford Publishing 2002, ISBN 978-1-55395-110-0 .
  • as editor: German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical manual . Volume 5: Filek - Fux. Francke 1978. ISBN 3-7720-1265-5 .

literature

  • Petra Boden: Hildegard Emmel (1911-1996). "... she went into the world as a Germanist" [1] , in: Sabine Koloch (ed.): 1968 in German literature / topic group "Post-war German studies in criticism" (literaturkritik.de archive / special editions) (2020).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ News. In: Arbitrium. Volume 14 (1996), Issue 2, pages 276-277, doi : 10.1515 / arbi.1996.14.2.276
  2. ↑ Ralph Jessen: Academic Elite and Communist Dictatorship . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1999, ISBN 978-3-525-35797-2 , p. 368.
  3. ↑ Rostock Studies on University History , Vol. 9, Women's Studies in Rostock: Reports from and about female academics, Rostock 2010, p. 33 (online edition)
  4. ^ Rosenberg, Boden, Dainat: Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft 1945–1965. Institutional case studies . Akademie-Verlag 1997, ISBN 978-3-05-002930-6 , p. 144.
  5. ↑ Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald: Honorary Doctors of the University of Greifswald ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2013 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-greifswald.de
personal data
SURNAME Emmel, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1996
Place of death Bern