Horst-Jürgen Gerigk

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Horst-Jürgen Gerigk (born November 10, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German literary scholar . His areas of interest are Russian, American and German literature, Hollywood film and the history of aesthetics from Kant to Heidegger . Gerigk is considered one of the most excellent experts on Dostoyevsky's work in the German-speaking world.

life and work

Gerigk has - mainly in Heidelberg  - Slavic studies , philosophy and English Studies / American studies. Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Fussell were among his teachers . For his by Dmytro Chyzhevsky supervised doctoral thesis on Dostoyevsky's novel The young man he was in 1964, Dr. phil. PhD. 1971 followed the habilitation for the subject Russian literature and general literary studies. In the same year he was a co-founder of the International Dostoyevsky Society, which he chaired 1998-2004; since 2004 he has been an honorary president of the facility.

Gerigk has been Professor of Russian Literature and General Literary Studies at the University of Heidelberg since 1974 , now as Emeritus . Together with the medical historian Dietrich von Engelhardt and the psychiatrist Wolfram Schmitt, he founded the working group on psychopathology, art and literature in 1983 .

Gerigk has published numerous books and works on Dostoevsky's work, some of them as appendices to dtv editions of Dostoevsky's works. He contradicted Mikhail Bakhtin's thesis that Dostoyevsky's novels are based on a polyphonic structure: the plot does not reveal any polyphony , on the contrary, the author's position clearly emerges.

He is a member of the German Society for General and Comparative Literature, the German Thomas Mann Society, the Martin Heidegger Society and the Culture and Criticism Discussion Group of the International Science Forum (IWF) at Heidelberg University. Gerigk has been a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen since 2008 and a member of the Board of Trustees of the German Chekhov Society in Badenweiler since 2009. In 2011, Ulm University awarded him its "Humboldt Professorship". Since 2015 he has been honorary chairman of the Turgenev Society Germany (Baden-Baden). Since 2016 he has also been an honorary member of the German Dostoyevsky Society.

Publications (selection)

  • Attempt on Dostoevsky's "Young Man". (Dissertation Heidelberg 1964). Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1965.
  • Draft of a theory of the literary structure . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1975 (habilitation thesis, University of Heidelberg, 1971).
  • On the way to interpretation. References to a theory of literature dealing with Gadamer's "Truth and Method" . Guido Pressler Verlag , Hürtgenwald 1989.
  • Man as a monkey in German, French, Russian, English and American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries . Guido Pressler, Hürtgenwald 1989.
  • The matter of poetry, represented in Shakespeare's "Hamlet", Holderlin's "Evening Fantasy" and Dostoyevsky's "Guilt and Atonement" . Guido Pressler, Hürtgenwald 1991.
  • The Russians in America: Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev and Chekhov in their significance for US literature . Guido Pressler, Hürtgenwald 1995.
  • Dostoyevsky, the "tricky Russian". The history of its impact in the German-speaking area from the fin de siècle to today . Attempto, Tübingen 2000.
  • Reading and interpreting . 3. Edition. Mattes, Heidelberg 2013.
  • State and Revolution in the Russian Novel of the 20th Century, 1900–1925. A historical and poetological study . Mattes, Heidelberg 2005.
  • The trace of finitude . My academic teachers. Four portraits. Dmitrij Tschižewskij, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Réne Wellek, Paul Fussell. University Press Winter, Heidelberg 2007.
  • With Rudolf Neuhäuser: Dostoyevsky in cross-examination. A classic of world literature or an ideologue of the new Russia? Two papers . Mattes, Heidelberg 2008.
  • A master from Russia. Relationship fields of the effect of Dostoyevsky. Fourteen essays . University Press Winter, Heidelberg 2010.
  • Pushkin and the world of our dreams. Twelve essays on 19th and 20th century Russian literature. Humboldt Study Center, Ulm 2011.
  • Sealing profiles . Tolstoy. Gottfried Benn. Nabokov. University Press Winter, Heidelberg 2012.
  • Dostoyevsky's development as a writer. From the “Dead House” to the “Karamazov Brothers” . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013.
  • Turgenev. An introduction for today's reader . University Press Winter, Heidelberg 2015.
  • Reading awareness. Investigations into the philosophical basis of literary studies. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter 2016.
  • From the Igor song to Doctor Zhivago. Reading tips on Russian literature. Heidelberg: Mattes Verlag 2018.
  • Georg Lukács and Hegel. Notes on the “theory of the novel”. Heidelberg: Mattes Verlag 2018.

Literature about Horst-Jürgen Gerigk (selection)

  • Hermann Klippel: The matter of poetry. Interview with the Heidelberg literary scholar Horst-Jürgen Gerigk . In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . June 8, 1993.
  • Joseph. P. Strelka: Horst-Jürgen Gerigks importance for literary theory . In: Klaus Manger (ed.): The reality of art and the adventure of interpretation . Festschrift for Horst-Jürgen Gerigk. University Press C. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, p. 285-298 .
  • Joachim Vahland: The text as theodicy . Lessons for readers. In: Zeno. Yearbook for literature and criticism . tape 25 , 2003, p. 96-104 .
  • The Presidents of the International Dostoyevsky Society 1971–2006 . Term and Festschriften. In: Dostoevsky Studies. New Series. The Journal of the International Dostoevsky Society . tape 10 , 2006, p. 262-263 .
  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986 . Springer, Heidelberg 2009.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dostoyevsky, the "tricky Russian". P. 61.
  2. ↑ Honorary Chairwoman. Turgenev Society Germany
personal data
SURNAME Gerigk, Horst-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin