Horst Haase (literary scholar)

Horst Haase in November 1966 at the first annual conference of the DSV in East Berlin

Horst Haase (born January 2, 1929 in Schönwalde , Wandlitz ) is a German literary and cultural scientist who was awarded the GDR Lessing Prize in 1967 .

Life

Studies and teaching at the KMU Leipzig

Haase, the son of a construction worker, attended elementary school and business school from 1946 to 1948 at the preparatory college in Berlin and then studied German , history and education at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After completing his studies, he became a lecturer and research assistant there in 1951 and joined the SED as a member in 1951 . In addition, between 1955 and 1956 he was a research assistant in the German Writers' Association (DSV). In 1956 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the Humboldt University after a dissertation on anti-war literature in the magazine “Die Weissen Blätter” . In it he dealt with the monthly Die Weißen Blätter , which became one of the most important journals of literary expressionism in its publication period from 1913 to 1920 .

After Haase received his habilitation in 1963 with a habilitation thesis entitled Johannes R. Becher's collection of poems "The Seeker of Fortune and the Seven Loads" (1938) - an important step on the way to the socialist renewal of German national literature , he took over a professorship for literary history in 1964 the Karl Marx University Leipzig (KMU) and was there at the same time director of the Institute for the History of Literature until 1966. In 1967 he was awarded the Lessing Prize of the GDR for his services to literary and cultural studies in the GDR.

Professor and Institute Director at the AfG

In 1969 he was appointed professor at the Institute for Social Sciences (IfG), which in 1976 was renamed the Academy for Social Sciences (AfG) at the Central Committee of the SED . In 1976 he also received the GDR National Prize as a collective .

As part of his teaching and research activities, he dealt with the more recent German-language literature of the 20th century and with the cultural policy of the GDR. In addition, he published numerous articles and reviews on the literature of the GDR as well as books such as the history of German literature (Volume 11, 1977), The SED and the cultural heritage (1986) and Austrian literature of the 20th century (1988).

In 1986, as the successor to the late Hans Koch, he became director of the Institute for Marxist-Leninist Art and Cultural Studies at the Academy for Social Sciences. On January 21, 1988, he gave a lecture at the Kulturbund der DDR with the title Heirs for Our Time . After the end of the GDR and the reunification of Germany in 1990, he retired .

Haase now lives in Berlin, continues to give lectures as a member of the Leibniz Society and write reviews on German-language literature.

Fonts

• The anti-war literature in the magazine “Die Weissen Blätter” , Berlin 1956
• Hans Marchwitza's Kumiak trilogy: The life of a German working-class family in the novel , Berlin 1961
• Johannes R. Becher's collection of poems "The Seeker of Fortune and the Seven Loads" (1938) - an important step on the way to the socialist renewal of German national literature , Berlin 1963
• Johannes R. Becher's Germany poetry: To the volume of poetry “The Seeker of Fortune and the Seven Loads” (1938) , Berlin 1964
• Poetry and Thinking: Insights into a Poet's Diary , Halle 1966
• Confessions, discoveries, variations: thought poetry in prose by Johannes R. Becher , Berlin 1968
• Literature of the German Democratic Republic , Volume 11 of the History of German Literature from the Beginnings to the Present , Berlin 1976
• Johannes R. Becher, Life and Work , Berlin, 1981
• Art of the past, burden or pleasure? , 1983
• Literature as an offer: Authors - Reviews - Tendencies , Halle 1983
• The SED and the Cultural Heritage: Orientations, Achievements, Problems , Berlin 1986
• Austrian literature of the 20th century: individual representations ; Berlin 1988
• Inquired: Notes on literature and literary history , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-89819-319-1

literature

• Lemke, Lisa: Conversation with Horst Haase (materials on the history of Marxist German literary studies in the GDR) . In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik , 1985, issue 6, p. 5
• Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Haase, Horst . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Haase in the catalog of the German National Library
• HORST HAASE - 25 years of the SED - 25 years of democratic and socialist literature (lecture)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From mathematics to (beautiful) literature - Helga Königsdorf , lecture in the class for social sciences and humanities on February 9, 2006, in: Sitzungsberichte der Leibniz-Sozietät 85 (2006), 117–130  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Review: In dialogue with Werner Mittenzwei. Articles and materials on a cultural history of the GDR , editors: Simone Barck and Inge Münz-Koenen, Abhandlungen der Leibniz-Sozietät, Volume 3. trafo verlag, Berlin 2002  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically created as marked defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ ZfGerm 6 (1985), p. 5