Horst Denkler

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Horst Denkler (born September 18, 1935 in Thale ) is a German Germanist.

Life

Horst Denkler studied German, history and philosophy in Berlin and Münster , where he received his doctorate in 1963. From 1964 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Frankfurt am Main and from 1965 at the University of Mannheim . In 1968 he went to the University of Massachusetts Amherst , where he was Professor of German from 1970 to 1973. In 1973 he was appointed professor for modern German literature at the Free University of Berlin , where he taught and researched until his retirement in 2000. He then went to the University of Opole in Poland for two years , where he received the University's Medal of Merit in 2002.

Denkler worked on the literary epochs and styles since the Vormärz : realism , expressionism , the 1920s , literature in the time of National Socialism until the post-war period and contemporary literature . He reissued works by authors of the 19th and 20th centuries, initially together with Irmgard Denkler. His studies on Wilhelm Raabe were discussed controversially in the context of an anti-Semitism debate.

Denkler's childhood was shaped by the adjusted life in the time of National Socialism , his youth by the post-war German coming to terms with the past . In 1976 he published the anthology Die deutsche Literatur im Third Reich together with Karl Prümm with a critical and polemical intention . Since then he has tried to research traditional literary connections between the Expressionism of the Weimar period and the literature of the post-war period, which was associated with "frustration, weariness and discomfort" for him in the necessary comprehensive reading of Nazi writers and writers of inner emigration The result, however, led to some differentiations in the focus on the “German lost generation” .

Well-known scientists and personalities have emerged from Horst Denkler's chair, such as the Berlin professor , publisher and cultural manager Klaus Siebenhaar .

Writings, editorships (selection)

  • Expressionism drama. Program - play text - theater. Fink, Munich 1967, (2nd, improved and expanded edition. Ibid 1979, ISBN 3-7705-1763-6 ; also: Münster, University, dissertation, 1963: The drama of expressionism in connection with the expressionist programs and theater forms. ) .
  • Georg Kaiser. The citizens of Calais. Drama and dramaturgy. Oldenbourg, Munich 1967.
  • as editor: One-act plays and small dramas of Expressionism (= Reclams Universal-Bibliothek . 8562–8564). Reclam, Stuttgart 1968, (In Italian: Il Teatro dell'espressionismo. Atti unici e drammi brevi. De Donato, Bari 1973).
  • Walter Hasenclever (1890-1940). In: Rheinische Lebensbilder. Vol. 4, 1970, ISSN  0080-2670 , pp. 251-272.
  • as editor: Poems of the “Twilight of Man”. Interpretations of Expressionist Poetry. Fink, Munich 1971.
  • as editor: The German Michel. Revolutionary comedies of the forty-eight (= Reclams Universal-Bibliothek. 9300–9305). Reclam, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-15-009300-7 .
  • as editor: Alfred Brust : Dramen. 1917-1924. Fink, Munich 1971.
  • Restoration and Revolution. Political tendencies in the German drama between the Congress of Vienna and the March Revolution. Fink, Munich 1973.
  • as editor with Volker Meid: Ernst Elias Niebergall : Datterich. The boy's homecoming, or the great dog (= Reclam's Universal Library. 9776). Reclam, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-15-009776-2 .
  • as editor with Sigrid Bauschinger and Wilfried Malsch: America in German literature. New World, North America, USA. Reclam, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-15-010253-7 .
  • as editor with Karl Prümm : The German literature in the Third Reich. Topics - traditions - effects. Reclam, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-15-010260-X .
  • as editor with Claus Kittsteiner: Berlin street corner literature 1848/49. Humorous-satirical pamphlets from the revolutionary era (= Reclams Universal-Bibliothek. 9856). Reclam, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-15-009856-4 .
  • as editor with Irmgard Denkler: August von Platen : The fatal fork. The romantic Oedipus (= Reclam's Universal Library. 118). Reprint of the first edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-15-000118-8 .
  • as editor: novels and stories of bourgeois realism. New interpretations. Reclam, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-15-010292-8 .
  • (MH): Wilhelm Raabe : Pfister's mill . 1980
  • as editor with Bernd Balzer , Wilhelm Große and Ingrid Heinrich-Jost: Adolf Glaßbrenner : Briefing the nation. Selected works and letters in three volumes (= Ilv-Leske-Republik. 10–12). Information press, Cologne 1981.
  • as editor with Irmgard Denkler: Adolf Streckfuß : 1848. The March Revolution in Berlin. An eyewitness tells (= Ilv-Leske-Republik. 14). Leske, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-921490-24-3 .
  • with Bernd Balzer, Hartmut Eggert , Günther Höltz: The German-language literature in the Federal Republic of Germany. Prehistory and development tendencies. Iudicium-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-89129-210-4 .
  • as editor with Hans Otto Horch : Conditio Judaica. Judaism, anti-Semitism and German-language literature. 3 volumes. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1988–1989–1993.
  • News about Wilhelm Raabe. Ten attempts to approach a misunderstood writer (= investigations into German literary history. 46). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-484-32046-X .
  • Wilhelm Raabe. Legend - life - literature. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-484-10651-4 .
  • as editor with Walter Delabar and Erhard Schütz : The individual's scope. German literature in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. Weidler, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89693-141-5 .
  • as editor with Carsten Würmann: “Everything = turned!” on Arno Schmidt's “The School of Atheists”. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89528-278-2 .
  • What was and what remains? On German literature in the Third Reich. More recent articles (= Opole contributions to German studies . Volume 7). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2004, ISBN 3-631-51894-3 .
  • Factory ruins, debris. Literary traces of the “lost generation” of the Third Reich (= studies on German literary history. 127). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-484-32127-X .

literature

  • Julia Bertschik , Elisabeth Emter, Johannes Graf (Hrsg.): Productivity of the opposites. Studies on the literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Festschrift for Horst Denkler on his 65th birthday. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-484-10826-6 (Bibliography on Horst Denkler pp. 307-314).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Denkler . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 21st edition. KG Saur Verlag, Munich [ua] 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-23616-7 , p. 588 ( degruyter.com - constantly updated, restricted-access online edition).
  2. ↑ Nathali Jückstock-Kießling: I-tell. Notes on Wilhelm Raabe's realism (= Palaestra. 318). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-20592-9 , p. 152 f., (Also: Erlangen-Nürnberg, Universität, dissertation, 2002; digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b Horst Denkler: What was and what remains? 2004, foreword p. 9.
  4. ↑ Horst Denkler: Ruins of works, ruins of life. Literary traces of the “lost generation” of the Third Reich. 2006, foreword p. 6 f.
personal data
SURNAME Thinker, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Thale