Jochen Golz

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Jochen Golz (born March 25, 1942 in Stettin , Pomerania ) is a German specialist in German .

Life

Golz, born in Pomerania, came to Thuringia with his mother due to the war . After graduating from high school in 1960, he studied German and Indonesian studies at the University of Jena . In 1964 he published a treatise on Georg Büchner . In 1969 he received his doctorate under Joachim Müller and completed his habilitation there in 1994.

After completing his studies, he worked from 1965 to 1977 as a lecturer in the newly opened branch of the Berlin Aufbau Verlag in Weimar. First he was a graduate lecturer (1965–1967), lecturer (1967–1975) and finally from 1975 to 1977 head of the department. During this time he dealt intensively with Goethe and Goethe literature and was the editor of individual and collective editions.

From 1978 to 1991 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Classical German Literature of the National Research and Memorial Sites (NFG) (today the Klassik Stiftung Weimar ). From 1991 to 1993 he was head of the directorate for German edition and research at the Weimarer Klassik Foundation, before he was appointed director of the Goethe and Schiller Archives of the Weimar Classic Foundation in 1994 until his retirement in 2007 .

From 1999 to 2019 Golz was President of the Goethe Society in Weimar. He presented numerous publications on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Friedrich Schiller and Jean Paul . In addition, he published articles on edition studies and was editor of the historical-critical edition of Goethe's diaries.

The University of Leipzig awarded Jochen Golz the honorary professorship for German literature around 1800 in 2018 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ : The natural philosophical views of Georg Büchner . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Social and Linguistic Series. Volume 13 (1964). Pp. 65-72
  2. Topic of the dissertation: Historical position and narration in the work of Jean Paul (typewritten)
  3. Topic of the habilitation thesis: Jean Paul's Titan as a secular novel: Aspects of its interpretation.
  4. ^ Goethe-Jahrbuch 1999, Vol. 161, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-47602710-8 , p. 496
  5. ^ Website of the University of Leipzig , Institute for German Studies