Jürgen Knaack (Germanist)

Jürgen Knaack (born March 12, 1946 in Rotenburg / Wümme ) is a German Germanist and journalist .

Life

From 1965 to 1973 Knaack studied German, German literature and art history at the University of Hamburg . He received his doctorate in 1973. From 1973 to 2003 he worked for the Hamburg publisher Gruner + Jahr . From 1973 to 1979 he helped set up the G + J press database. During this time he completed his training as a scientific documentary in Frankfurt / Main and gave numerous lectures on the development of the G + J press database. From founding the art magazine " art " in 1979 until autumn 2003, he worked there as a documentary journalist. During this time he wrote about 150 reviews and smaller articles for the magazine and built up an extensive art library. From 1990 to 1998 he was a member of the church council of the Schalom parish in Norderstedt and press spokesman during the 106 days of occupation of the parish by a group of refugees. Subsequently, volunteer in the care of refugees in Henstedt-Ulzburg and Norderstedt and co-editor of the magazine "New Neighbors" in Norderstedt. Parallel to his employment, Knaack worked as a journalist and literary scholar and was a. a. Co-editor of Achim von Arnim's works at Deutscher Klassiker Verlag . Since 1991 he has worked at the historical-critical Weimar Arnim Edition (WAA). In 1995 he and other Arnim researchers founded the International Arnim Society , of which he was treasurer until 2013. In 2005 he opened an Arnim memorial in Zernikow . Knaack has been married to Dörte, geb. Hermann and has two children and has lived in Henstedt-Ulzburg since 1978.

literature

• Supplement to the correspondence from Ms. von Stael. In: Journal of French Language and Literature. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, Volume LXXXI, Issue 2. 1971, pp. 182-184.
• An unknown draft letter from Achim von Arnim. In: Yearbook of the Free German Hochstift. Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen 1972. pp. 203-222.
• Achim von Arnim. Not just a poet. Arnim's political views in their development. With unprinted texts and a list of all letters. Thesen Verlag, Darmstadt 1976.
• A press database for text. Development and search of heterogeneous content with differentiated vocabulary. In: Databases, Databases, Networks: Practice of Information Retrieval. Vol. 1, pp. 171-194, Verlag Saur, Munich 1979.
• The 100 most important European artists of the XX. Century. art, the art magazine, Hamburg 1980
• Faience from the Baltic region. Published by Alnwick Harmstorf. Editing: Jürgen Knaack, Annette-Isabell Kratz and Ulrich Pietsch. Harmstorf KG, Hamburg 1989.
• Achim von Arnim: a political biography. In: New trends in Arnim research. Edited by Roswitha Burwick and Bernd Fischer. Bern 1990
• Achim von Arnim. Fonts. Works Volume 6. Edited by Roswitha Burwick, Jürgen Knaack and Hermann F. Weiss. Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
• Achim von Arnim's contributions to the “Vossische Zeitung”. In: “The experience of other countries”. Contributions to a Wiepersdorf colloquium on Achim and Bettina von Arnim. Edited by Heinz Härtl and Hartwig Schulz. De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, pp. 207-214.
• An article by Achim von Arnim in the Hamburg magazine Originalien. In: International Yearbook of the Bettina von Arnim Society. Volume 8/9. Saint Albin Verlag, Berlin 1996/97.
• Achim von Arnim and the “Prussian Correspondent”. In: Universal drafts-integration-retreat: Arnim's Berlin time (1809–1814). Edited by Ulfert Ricklefs. Writings of the International Arnim Society Volume 1. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2000, pp. 133–142.
• Achim von Arnim, the Prussian Correspondent and the Spenersche Zeitung in the years 1813 and 1814. In: Arnim and the Berlin Romanticism: Art, Literature and Politics. Edited by Walter Pape. Writings of the International Arnim Society Volume 3. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2001, pp. 41–52.
• Achim von Arnim, the British and Prussian volunteers in the wars against Napoleon. In: Romantic Constructions of Identity: Nation, History and (Auto) Biography. Edited by Sheila Dickson and Walter Pape. Writings of the International Arnim Society, Volume 4. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2003, pp. 31–36.
• Achim von Arnim and the "Heidelberg Year Books of Literature". In: The “Wunderhorn” and Heidelberg Romanticism: Orality, Written Form, Performance. Edited by Walter Pape. Writings of the International Arnim Society Volume 5. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2005, pp. 79–88.
• Greet all who love me. In: Love and Sorrow in the Easy Life. Clemens Brentano. 30 poems-30 interpretations. Edited by Sabine Gruber and Christina Sauer. Saint Albin Verlag, Berlin 2006, pp. 88–91
• Arnim and Niebuhr: A tense relationship. In: New newspaper for hermits. Announcements from the International Arnim Society. Edited by Walter Pape. Volume 4/5 (2004/2005). Cologne 2006, pp. 21-40
• Something new about Arnim's biographies in the Brockhaus Lexicon. In: New newspaper for hermits. Announcements from the International Arnim Society. Edited by Walter Pape. Volume 4/5 (2004/2005). Cologne 2006, pp. 82–86
• The source of an anecdote. In: In: New newspaper for hermits. Announcements from the International Arnim Society. Edited by Walter Pape. Volume 6/7 (2006/2007). Cologne 2008.
• Arnim and the "German Observer". In: New newspaper for hermits. Announcements from the International Arnim Society. Edited by Walter Pape. Year 8/9. (2008/2009). Cologne 2010.
• Laughing and crying in Achim von Arnim's early work. About the duplicity of seriousness and joke. In: "Can't you be very serious while laughing?" Languages ​​and Games of Laughter in Literature. Edited by Daniel Fulda, Antje Roeben and Norbert Wichard. De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2010, pp. 249-256.
• How the "Battle of Nations" near Leipzig in 1813 got its name. In: Achim von Arnim and his circle. Edited by Steffen Dietzsch and Ariane Ludwig. Writings of the International Arnim Society Volume 8. De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2010, pp. 269–278.
• Achim von Arnim and Ludwig Gottfried Blanc In: New newspaper for hermits. Announcements from the International Arnim Society. Edited by Ariane Ludwig and Gert Theile. Volume 10/11 (2010/2011). Weimar 2012
• The emotionalization of the reporting in the Prussian Correspondents by Achim von Arnim. In: Emotions in Romanticism. Representation, aesthetics, staging. Edited by Antje Arnold and Walter Pape. Writings of the International Arnim Society Volume 9. De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2012, pp. 233–242
• Albert Christoph Reck. From the source of the Alster to Africa and back. In: Albert Christoph Reck. Ars Borealis. Edition on Contemporary Art in the North No. 29, Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 2012, p. 9
• On the opening of the horizontal bar exhibition (German and Polish) In: Joseph von Eichendorff Conservatory No. 76, Oppeln 2012, pp. 4–11
• Missing link found. An addendum to the explanations of how the Battle of Nations got its name. In: New newspaper for hermits. Announcements from the International Arnim Society. Edited by Ariane Ludwig and Gert Theile. Volume 12/13 (2012/2013). Weimar 2014; P. 29
• "The everyday life of newspaper writing": Achim von Arnim as editor of the "Prussian Correspondent". In: Everyday Romance. Ordinary and fantastic, everyday life and art. Edited by Walter Pape with the collaboration of Roswitha Burwick. Writings of the International Arnim Society Volume 11. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2016, pp. 185–190
• A previously unknown source. The Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Russland as a source for the Prussian Correspondent. Modest counter-question about indult. In: New newspaper for hermits. Communications from the International Arnim Society. Edited by Roswitha Burwick and Anna Sievert. Volume 14, Wiesbaden 2018, pp. 91–95

Web links

• http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/idsl/arnim/

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report in the ZEIT
2. ↑ Presidium of the IAG ( Memento of the original dated August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.