John Janota

Johannes Janota (born May 30, 1938 in Brno ) is a German Germanic Medievalist . From 1983 to 2003 he was full professor for German language and literature of the Middle Ages at the University of Augsburg .

Life

Johannes Janota grew up in Schwäbisch Gmünd and Düsseldorf . After an apprenticeship as a toolmaker, attended high school and high school, then as a volunteer at a daily newspaper ( Südwestpresse ). From 1961 to 1966 as a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk, studied German Philology , Catholic Theology , Philosophy and History at the Universities of Tübingen and Vienna . 1966 PhD with a dissertation on the German sacred song of the Middle Ages in Tübingen. Then until 1974 scientific assistant to Hanns Fischer and his successor Burghart Wachinger there . 1973 Habilitation with a research report on the German literature of the late Middle Ages there. Venia Legendi for German Philology . From 1974 to 1983 professor at the newly founded University of Siegen , development of medieval German studies there. In the 2007/08 academic year Wolfgang Stammler - visiting professor for Germanic Philology at the University of Friborg ( Switzerland ). Since 2003 Prof. i. R.

Focus in research and teaching

His research focus is on German literature of the late Middle Ages. Within this area he mainly deals with poetry and drama. Another center is the literary history of the late Middle Ages. Technical history is still one of the areas of interest. His method is based on text philosophy, his questions are aimed at the cultural and social environment of literature, its forms of organization and tradition. The results of his research are available in studies and editions, many of which have been funded by the German Research Foundation.

Editing and academic work (selection)

Janota was co-editor of the following magazines: Germanisch Romanische monthly: NF (1980-2004), communications of the German Association of Germanists (1987-1991), German studies. International organ of presentations with bibliographical references (1987-2013) and Studia Augusta. Augsburg research on European cultural history (1991-2008). He is a co-founder of the Augsburg Institute for European Cultural History . From 1987 to 1991 he was chairman of the German Association of Germanists .

Monographs (selection)

• Studies on the function and type of the German sacred song in the Middle Ages . Munich 1968. (Munich texts and studies on German literature in the Middle Ages 23).
• New research on German poetry of the late Middle Ages (1230–1500). 1957-1968 . Stuttgart 1971. ( German quarterly for literary studies and intellectual history 45th 1971. Special issue).
• Hanns Fischer: Studies on German fairy poetry . 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Tübingen 1983.
• Helmut de Boor: The German literature in the late Middle Ages. First part: 1250-1350 . 5th edition revision. Munich 1997. ( History of German literature from its beginnings to the present III / 1.).
• Orientation through vernacular written form (1280 / 90–1380 / 90) . Tübingen 2004. ( History of German literature from the beginnings to the beginning of the modern era . Ed. By Joachim Heinzle. Vol. III: From the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the modern era . Part 1.).
• Me and her, you and me From Minnelong to love song . Berlin: de Gruyter 2009 (Wolfgang Stammler Visiting Professorship for German Philology 18). ISBN 978-3-11-021776-6 .

Anthologies (selection)

• On German literature and language of the 14th century . (Together with Walter Haug and Timothy R. Jackson ). Heidelberg 1983. (Siegen series 45 = Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London 29).
• The Furtmeyer Bible in the Augsburg University Library . Augsburg 1991.
• Festschrift Walter Haug and Burghart Wachinger . (Together with Paul Sappler , Frieder Schanze , Konrad Vollmann , Gisela Vollmann-Profe and Hans-Joachim Ziegeler ). 2 vols. Tübingen 1992.
• Cultural change and German studies in the Federal Republic. Lectures at the Augsburg German Studies Conference 1991 . Vol. 1-4. Tubingen 1993.
• Literary life in Augsburg during the 15th century . (Together with Werner Williams Krapp ): Tübingen 1995 (Studia Augustana 7), ISBN 3-484-16507-3 .
• Book printing and publishing in Augsburg. From the beginning to the present . (Together with Helmut Gier ). Wiesbaden 1997.

Editions (selection)

• The Knitter: narrative poems I . Edited by Hanns Fischer. 3rd, revised edition. Tübingen 1973. (Old German Text Library 53). Last 5th, improved edition. Tübingen 2000.
• The knitter II . Edited by Hanns Fischer. With an appendix: The Weinschwelg. 2nd, revised edition. Tübingen 1977. (Old German Text Library 68). Last 4th revised edition. Tübingen 1997.
• A science is establishing itself. 1810-1870 . Tübingen 1980. (German texts 53).
• Texts and melodies from the 'Erlanger Games' . (Together with Wolfgang Suppan ). Tutzing 1990. (Anthropological anthology volumes 11.).
• Alsfeld Passion Play. Frankfurt conducting role with the parallel texts. More toys. Alsfeld Passion Play with the parallel texts . Tübingen 2002. (The Hessian Passion Play Group. Edition in parallel print II.).
• Heidelberg Passion Play. With the parallel texts of the “Frankfurter Dirigierrolle”, the “Frankfurter Passionspiel”, the “Alsfeld Passionspiel”, the “Frankfurter Osterspielfragments” and the “Fritzlarer Passionspielfragments” . Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-484-19083-3 .
• Adam Reissner. Hymn book . (Together with Ute Evers). I. Facsimile of the Augsburg manuscript. II. Commentary on the Augsburg manuscript. Tübingen 2004. (Studia Augustana 12. 13.)
• The melodies of the Latin Easter celebrations . (Together with Ute Evers). Vol. 1: Editions. Part 1: trope celebrations and visitation type I with an introduction to the complete work. Part 2: Visitatio Type II and Visitatio Type III. Vol. 2: Comments. 1st part: trope celebrations and visitatio type I with an overview of the melodies and the text of the Latin Easter celebration. Part 2: Visitatio Type II and Visitatio Type III. Directories. Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2013.

Articles (selection)

• Hans Folz. An author establishes himself in a civil society. In: Philology and History. Demonstrations of literary texts from the Middle Ages . Edited by Heinz Rupp . Heidelberg 1977. (Medium Literatur 5) pp. 74-91.
• Adam Puschmann. From poet to poetologist. In: Walter Haug and Burghart Wachinger (eds.): Author types . Tübingen 1991. (Fortuna vitrea 6), pp. 144-163.
• To the refrain in the Latin-German love songs of the Codex Buranus . In: Dorothea Klein (among others, ed.): From the Middle Ages to the Modern Times. Festschrift for Horst Brunner . Wiesbaden 2000, pp. 211-226.
• Carl von Kraus (1868-1952). In: Christoph König (et al., Ed.): History of science in German studies in portraits . Berlin / New York 2000, pp. 141-151.
• Floor plan for a history of German literature in the late Middle Ages 1220 / 30-1500 / 20. In: Contributions to the history of German language and literature 123. 2001, pp. 397-427.
• Friendship on earth and in heaven. The mystic Margareta Ebner and the God-friend Heinrich von Nördlingen. In: Gisela Vollmann-Profe, Cora Dietl , Annette Gerok-Reiter , Christoph Huber and Paul Sappler (eds.): Impulse and Resonances. Medieval articles from Tübingen on the occasion of Walter Haug's 80th birthday . Tübingen 2007, pp. 274-300.
• Fides et ratio. The trinity speculations in the master songs of Hans Folz. In: Reflection and staging of rationality in medieval literature . Berlin 2008 (Wolfram-Studium XX), pp. 351-386.
• Representation peccatorum. On the intention and effect of the late medieval passion play performances. In: ZfdA 137. 2008. pp. 439-470.
• Performance and reception. Plea for their consideration in the commentary on the edition of late medieval games. The Nuremberg Carnival Games as an example. In: Carnival Games. Secular drama in literary and cultural contexts . Edited by Klaus Ridder . Tübingen 2009, pp. 381-400.
• miracles and bliss. On the poetics in the heptameron of the ' Wiener Genesis '. In: Medieval Poetics in Theory and Practice. Festschrift for Fritz Peter Knapp on his 65th birthday . Berlin 2009, pp. 21–37.
• One-part vernacular singing. In: History of Church Music . Edited by Wolfgang Hochstein and Christoph Krummacher . Vol. I: From the beginnings to the Reformation century . Laaber 2011 (Encyclopedia of Church Music I / I), pp. 116-121.
• The tradition of the Latin Easter celebrations. Preserve by changing. In: Find - Create - Mediate. Writing processes and their breaks in medieval tradition . Berlin 2012 (Wolfram Studies XXII), pp. 131–154.
• Miranda sunt, que vidimus. On the competition between celebrations of Mary and apostles in Latin Easter celebrations. In: Wernfried Hofmeister and Cora Dietl (eds.): The spiritual game of the European Middle Ages . Wiesbaden 2015 (Yearbook of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society 20), pp. 69–80.
• Easter celebration or Easter game? To clarify the terminology. In: Wat nyeus bewraeyt dat herte end publish the sin. Studies of drama in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Commemorative publication for Carla Dauven-van Knippenberg on her 65th birthday . Edited by Elke Huwiler u. a. Leiden / Boston 2015 (Amsterdam Contributions to Older German Studies 75), pp. 1–31.
• To the limits of the paradigm of tradition. The Latin Easter celebrations as an example. In: Transdisciplinary history of transmission. New perspectives on a German research paradigm . Edited by Dorothea Klein in conjunction with Horst Brunner and Freimut Löser . Wiesbaden 2015 (Knowledge literature in the Middle Ages 52), pp. 21-41.
• The Latin trope celebration as a small, dramatic form. In: The art of brevitas. Small literary forms of the German-speaking Middle Ages . Berlin 2017 (Wolfram Studies XXIV), pp. 77–99.
• singing out of artistic power. To differentiate the song writer Jonas Losch from the Augsburg Meistersinger Society. In: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 146. 2017. pp. 489-512.

Short articles

Johannes Janota has submitted well over a hundred reviews as well as manual and lexicon contributions, including in Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft , Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Author lexicon , Killy Literaturlexikon , Great works of literature (vols. III-VII, ed. By Hans Vilmar Geppert), Historical Dictionary of Bavaria , Handbook of Bavarian history (vols. III / I, III / II) and in the archive for the study modern language and literature , arbitrium , German studies , literary studies yearbook , magazine for German antiquity and German literature (ZfdA) and magazine for German philology (ZfdPh).

literature

• Horst Brunner and Werner Williams Krappl (ed.): Research on German literature of the late Middle Ages. Festschrift for Johannes Janota on his 65th birthday . Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-484-10856-8 .

Web links

• uni-augsburg.de
• Janota, Johannes .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .

Individual evidence