Horst Wenzel (Germanist)

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Horst Wenzel (born May 6, 1941 in Königszelt , Silesia ) is a German specialist in German studies. He is best known for his contributions to interdisciplinary German studies with a focus on media history .

Life

Wenzel studied German literature, geography and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin between 1962 and 1968. In 1971 he received his doctorate from Peter Wapnewski at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) (dissertation: "Studies on women's service in mhd. Poetry"). During this time, between 1968 and 1976, he taught at the universities in Berlin (FU), Karlsruhe (TH) and at RWTH Aachen University . He completed his habilitation in Aachen in 1976.

In 1977 Wenzel became Professor of German Medieval Studies at the University of GHS Essen . Since 1993 he has been Professor of Older German Philology at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Horst Wenzel is a founding member of the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology .

Publications

Monographs
  • Media history before and after Gutenberg. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2008. ISBN 978-3-534-20080-1 .
  • Hearing and seeing, writing and images. Culture and memory in the Middle Ages , CH Beck, Munich 1995. ISBN 978-3-406-38988-7 .
  • Reflections: On the culture of visuality in the Middle Ages , Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-503-09873-6 .
  • Spaces of possibility: On the performativity of sensory perception , together with Christina Lechtermann and Kirsten Wagner, Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-503-09829-3 .
  • Audiovisuality before and after Gutenberg , together with Wilfried Seipel and Gotthart Wunberg, Gingko Press, Hamburg 2001. ISBN 978-8-884-91004-2 .
editor

Wenzel is co-editor of the

  • Journal for German Studies ,
  • Philological studies and sources (Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin),
  • Studies on older German literature (Fink Verlag, Munich),
  • of the series Symbolic Communication in the Pre-Modern Age. Studies in history, literature and art (Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt) and the
  • Acta Germanica (South Africa).

literature

  • Kürschner's German. Scholar Cal. 2003, Vol. 3, pp. 3652f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A revised version appeared in print under the title: Frauendienst und Gottesdienst. Studies on the ideology of love. Berlin 1974 (Philological Studies and Sources, no. 74)
personal data
SURNAME Wenzel, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Royal tent , Silesia