Johannes Beer

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Johannes Beer (born November 2, 1901 in Rehburg , † November 25, 1972 in Weilheim ) was a German literary scholar and librarian.

Life

Beer attended grammar school in Göttingen and then studied art history, German philology and literary studies, history and library studies in Göttingen and Leipzig. He received his doctorate in 1927 with the dissertation The Illustration of the Life of Jesus in the German Early Prints at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Johannes Beer succeeded Adolf Waas as library director of the municipal public library in Frankfurt am Main . In 1937 Beer published a literary history from a folk perspective. Beer wrote book reports for the Reich Office for Popular Libraries . From 1953 to 1963 he was director of the Bochum City Library.

After the Second World War, Johannes Beer became co-editor of a comprehensive series of literary novels.

Publications

  • The illustration of the life of Jesus in the early German prints (approx. 1460–1500) , dissertation, 1929.
  • Authority and popular education . In: Bücherei und Bildungspflege , vol. 13, 1933, pp. 19–27.
  • Caspar David Friedrich , 1937.
  • German poetry for a hundred years , 1937.
  • Ottobeuren , 1950. With photographs by Helga Schmidt-Glassner , Langewiesche, Königstein am Taunus 1988, ISBN 3-7845-1132-5 .
  • Albrecht Dürer as a painter and draftsman , 1957.

As editor

  • Ludwig Richter : The end of the day , 16 colored and 62 single-color paintings, watercolors, drawings, text from the memoirs of a German painter, Karl Robert Langewiesche Verlag, Königstein and Leipzig, 1938.
  • Reclam's novelist . Vol. I. German novels and short stories from Grimmelshausen to Thomas Mann , together with Wilhelm Schuster , Philipp Reclam jun., 1962.
  • Reclam's novelist . Vol. II.–IV.
  • The novelist . Volumes 3–13 together with Wilhelm Olbrich , Hiersemann, 1952–1971.
    • Volumes 3–5: The content of contemporary German novels and short stories .
    • Volume 6: The content of the French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese novels from the beginnings to the beginning of the 20th century .
    • Volume 7: The Contents of the English, North American, Flemish and Dutch Novels up to the beginning of the 20th century .
    • Volume 8: The content of the Nordic, Slavic, Hungarian and Romanian novels up to the beginning of the 20th century .
    • Volume 9: The content of French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese novels and short stories of the present .
    • Volume 10: The content of the English, Flemish and Dutch novels and short stories of the present .
    • Volume 11: The content of contemporary North American novels and short stories .
    • Volume 12: The content of the Nordic, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Southeast European novels and short stories of the present .
    • Volume 13: Contents of the German novels and short stories 1954–1963 together with supplements to volumes 1–5 and the register of German authors .
  • The novelist . Volume 14: The contents of the foreign novels and short stories from the decade 1957 to 1966 .

literature

  • German Literature Lexicon. The 20th Century , Volume 2: Bauer-Ose - Björnson, ed. v. Konrad Feilchenfeldt, Biographisches-Bibliographisches Handbuch, founded by Wilhelm Kosch , continued by Carl Ludwig Lang, KG Saur Verlag Bern and Munich, 2nd edition, 2001, ISBN 3-908255-02-3 .
  • Jan-Pieter Barbian : Literary politics in the Nazi state. From synchronization to ruin . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-16306-9 .
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar: 1943 , by Gerhard Lüdtke, Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin, Leipzig, 1943, p. 52.
  • Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 2004, ISBN 9783465033431 , p. 16f.

Single receipts

  1. ^ Chronicle of the Frankfurt am Main city library .
  2. ^ Stefan Keppler-Tasaki: Hans Heinrich Ehrler (1872-1951). Biography of a Westerner . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-51107-4 . P. 286.
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehburg
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1972
Place of death Weilheim