Hubert Orłowski

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Hubert Orłowski - First Polish-German Summer Academy in Ciążeń - July 2006

Hubert Orłowski (born May 22, 1937 in Podleiken , Osterode district in East Prussia ) is a Polish Germanist. He is a retired full professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan , professor at the West Institute in Poznan, employee of the Borussia Foundation in Olsztyn , and a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences .

Life

Youth and education

He was born in 1937 in the village of Podleiken near Dietrichswalde as the son of Alois Orlowski and his wife Monika Orlowski, nee Preylowski. After the end of the war, he attended the Polish elementary school, passed the Abitur (Polish: Matura) and studied German at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan until 1961 . In the years 1976–1977 and 1980 he continued his education as a scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Scientific career

In 1977 he was at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan for Professor appointed. From 1984–1985 he taught as a visiting professor at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and from 1987–1988 at the Karl-Franzens- Universität Graz .

He currently holds the post of Rector of the Samuel Bogumił Linde University of Foreign Languages ​​in Poznan . He has been a member of the Borussia Foundation Council since 2006 . Hubert Orłowski is Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Center for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

He is interested in German literature and culture, especially during the Third Reich, historical semantics and research into stereotypes , as well as German-Polish relations in the field of literature. He explained u. a. the emergence of the “Polish economy” stereotype.

Orłowski compiled the anthology Współczesna myśl literaturoznawcza w Republice Federalnej Niemiec (Contemporary Ideas in Literary Studies in the Federal Republic of Germany) (1986). Together with Christoph Kleßmann he edits the “Posener Deutsche Bibliothek” ( Poznańska Biblioteka Niemiecka ). Together with Günter Hartung, Hubert Orłowski organized a well-known conference series "Traditions and the search for tradition of German fascism ".

Awards / honors

Monographs

  • Predestination of the demonic. On the question of bourgeois humanism in Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" . Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 1969.
  • Investigations into false consciousness in the German development novel . Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 1971.
  • Literatura w III Rzeszy , (Literature in the Third Reich ). Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, Poznań 1975, 2nd edition 1979.
  • On the importance of Eichendorff in Horst Bienek's novels . In: Aurora. Yearbook of the Eichendorff Society 47/1987, pp. 77–82 and in: Studia Germanica Posnaniensia 1990.
  • Polish literature under censorship. Wilhelmine and National Socialist censorship policy in comparison . Georg Eckert Institute Braunschweig, Frankfurt / M.1988.
  • "Polish economy". On the German Polish discourse in modern times . Harrassowitz Verlag , Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-447-03877-2 .
  • Wobec zniewoleń "krótkiego stulecia" . Sketches on Austrian and German literature, with an afterword by Wojciech Kunicki , Oficyna Wydawnictwa Witold Poddworny ATUT, Wrocław 1997.
  • Polish economy. Modern German discourse on Poland . Translation by Izabela and Sven Sellmer, Wspólnota Kulturowa Borussia , Olsztyn 1998.
  • Literature and rule - rule and literature. On German and Austrian literature in the 20th century (= Opole contributions to German studies . Volume 2). Collection of articles. Lanf, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Brussels / New York 2000, ISBN 978-3-631-35726-2 .
  • Warmia z oddali. Odpominania . (Warmia from afar. Memories). Borussia Foundation , Olsztyn 2000.
  • Z modernizacją w tle. Wokół rodowodu nowoczesnych niemieckich wyobrażeń o Polsce i Polakach . (With modernization in the background. Modern German ideas about Poland). PTPN, Poznań 2002.
  • Przemoc - taboo - trauma ofiar. Wokół najnowszej opowieści Güntera Grassa . (Violence - taboo - trauma of the victims). Zeszyty Instytutu Zachodniego, No. 30, Poznań 2002.
  • Zrozumieć świat. Szkice o literaturze i culture niemieckiej XX wieku . (Understanding the world. Sketches on German literature and culture of the 20th century), Wrocław 2003.
  • Za górami, za lasami… O niemieckiej literaturze Prus Wschodnich 1863-1945 . (Behind the mountains, behind the forests ...), Borussia Foundation, Olsztyn 2003.
  • The readability of stereotypes. The German discourse on Poland in terms of historical stereotype research and historical semantics . Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT - Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe, Wrocław 2004.
  • Rzecz o dobrach symbolicznych. Gietrzwałd 1877 . (About the symbolic goods). Borussia Foundation, Olsztyn 2005.
  • The readability of stereotypes. The German discourse on Poland in terms of historical stereotype research and historical semantics . Second, revised edition, Neisse Verlag , Wrocław / Görlitz 2005, ISBN 3-934038-41-7 .
  • with Andreas Lawaty (Ed.): Germans and Poles. History, culture, politics . Verlag CH Beck , Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-49436-6 .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ordinary Members - Division I: Humanities and Social Sciences. Polish Academy of Sciences, accessed June 5, 2017 .
  2. ^ The winners 1955–2014. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Goethe-Institut , archived from the original on May 13, 2015 ; accessed on May 30, 2015 . 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.goethe.de
  3. ^ Press release of the German Academy for Language and Poetry from December 18, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Orłowski, Hubert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orlowski, Hubert (German spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Podleiken , Osterode district in East Prussia