Joseph Anton Kruse

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Joseph Anton Kruse (born June 8, 1944 in Dingden / Borken district , today Hamminkeln ) is a German literary scholar and was the long-time director of the Heinrich Heine Institute in Düsseldorf .

Life

After attending school in Dingden, Bocholt, St. Arnold b. Rheine and Bad Driburg, Kruse began a spiritual training at the seminary of the Steyler Missionaries in St. Augustin near Bonn, prepared for the latter two stations, in 1963 and studied German , Catholic theology , philosophy and history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität from 1965 to 1969 Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1972 under Manfred Windfuhr with a thesis on Heinrich Heine . He remained true to this professional orientation throughout his life.

From 1972 to 1973 Kruse worked as a research assistant with Manfred Windfuhr on the historical-critical Düsseldorf Heine edition , served temporarily as a trainee lawyer in the secondary school service at St. Hildegardis-Gymnasium Duisburg and took a position as research assistant at Wilhelm Gössmann at the pedagogical university Rhineland in Neuss. In the autumn of 1975 he was appointed director of the Düsseldorf Heinrich Heine Institute , which had been independent five years earlier and which has steadily developed into a literature museum and cultural archive for the Rhenish-Berg region, as the successor to Eberhard Galley . He carried out this fulfilling life task for 34 years until the break due to retirement in the summer of 2009. During this productive period he emerged as the guardian and advocate of this institutionally unique collection and research facility. At the same time, Kruse also taught at the German Department of the University of Düsseldorf, named after Heinrich Heine since 1988/89. In 1986 he was entrusted with an honorary professorship for modern German literary studies. In 1990 he also taught as visiting professor at the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland College Park and as Max Kade Visiting Professor for 2007 at the German Studies Department at Dartmouth College in Hanover / New Hampshire, both times in the USA.

Above all, Kruse proved to be an influential Heine connoisseur and set permanent standards as an editor and researcher. Heine's literary contemporaries also found increased attention, as the widely acclaimed numerous exhibitions, colloquia and publications of the Heine Institute have illustrated. At the same time, as trustee for Heine, but also for Schumann and other key areas of his company, he set up a worldwide research dialogue.

Kruse has held various functions in the Heinrich-Heine-Gesellschaft , Düsseldorf, since 1977 , first as its 2nd chairman, then for many years as its managing director and finally from 2004 to 2016 as 1st chairman; In 2017 he was made an honorary member. In addition, from 2003 to 2016 he was also the first chairman of the Düsseldorfer Volksbühne e. V., of which he remains a member of the board. He performed voluntary board activities, among others, in the Working Group of Literary Societies and Memorials (ALG) in Berlin , in the House of Language and Literature in Bonn and in the LiteraturRat NRW. He is also a member of the committee of the Kleist Museum in Frankfurt / Oder and the board of the Society of Friends and Patrons of the Theodor Fontane Archive in Potsdam.

From 1977 to 2009 he published the centrally important Heine Yearbook , from 1978 to 2009 the Heine Studies and other important series of the Heine Institute, which also extensively document other collection focuses and topics.

Kruse's high reputation in the international professional world and the public is based not only on his scientific authority as a recognized trustee of Heine, but also on an inspiring series of his own literary works that convey empathy and liveliness.

In 2014 he published an autobiography with Edition Virgines

Awards

  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1994)
  • Chevalier dans l'Ordre Palmes Académiques (1995)
  • Heinrich-Heine-Taler (created in 2017 and awarded jointly by the Heine Society and the Heine Institute)

Fonts

General overview of all publications up to 2003

  • Martin Hollender: You have such books printed !: Bibliography Joseph A. Kruse 1966 to 2003 , appendix to the Festschrift for Joseph A. Kruse. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-89528-466-1 .

Independent scientific publications

  • Heines Hamburger Zeit , Hoffmann & Campe Verlag, Hamburg 1972 (= Heine Studies), plus Phil. Diss. University of Bonn 1972, ISBN 3-455-04015-2 .
  • Heinrich Heine. Life and work in data and images . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-458-32315-5 .
  • Heine and Düsseldorf . Droste Verlag, 2nd expanded edition, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-1096-5 .
  • I think of Heine. Biographical and literary facets . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-0709-3 .
  • Heinrich Heine Institute Düsseldorf . Westermann, Braunschweig 1991.
  • Heine time . Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart and Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-476-01529-7 .
  • Heinrich Heine. Life, work, effect , Suhrkamp BasisBiographie, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-18207-2 .
  • Heine and the consequences , Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart and Weimar 2016, ISBN 3-476-02652-3 .

Editing

  • Heinrich Heine, travel pictures . With an afterword by Joseph A. Kruse and contemporary illustrations, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-458-32144-6 .
  • Karl Immermann 1796–1840, a poet between poetry and social reality , exhibition by the Heinrich Heine Institute, Düsseldorf, August 26 to October 7, 1980, published by Joseph A. Kruse.
  • The late Heine 1848–1856 , Heinrich Heine, ed. Gössmann, Wilhelm and Kruse, Joseph A., Verlag Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1982 (= Heine Studies), ISBN 3-455-09910-6 .
  • Young Germany: Colloquium on the 150th anniversary of the ban on December 10, 1835, Düsseldorf, February 17 to 19, 1986 . Edited by Joseph A. Kruse and Bernd Kortländer. Verlag Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1987 (= Heine studies), ISBN 3-455-09915-7 .
  • Literature: understanding and communication. An anthology for Wilhelm Gössmann for his 65th birthday . Edited by Joseph A. Kruse, Klaus-Hinrich Roth and Monika Salmen. Cornelsen, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-464-59802-0 .
  • "I fool of luck": Heinrich Heine 1797 to 1856. Pictures at an exhibition ; [11. May 1997 to July 20, 1997, municipal art gallery Düsseldorf; September 16, 1997 to November 1, 1997, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris] / [Organizer Heinrich-Heine-Institut of the state capital Düsseldorf and the municipal art gallery Düsseldorf in connection with the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf and the art museum Düsseldorf in the courtyard of honor ]. Edited by Joseph A. Kruse with the assistance of Ulrike Reuter and Martin Hollender. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart and Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-476-01525-4 .
  • La Loreley et la liberté: Heinrich Heine (1797 to 1856); un poète allemand de Paris / éd. by Joseph A. Kruse in collab. avec Ulrike Reuter and Martin Hollender, Ed. Du Cerf, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-204-05799-1 .
  • "I love life". A reading book / Heinrich Heine . Edited by Joseph A. Kruse. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-458-16845-1 .
  • Burgis Heine: Burgi Kühnemann: Heinrich Heine - book art, installation ; Exhibition (including) at the Heinrich Heine Institute from February 18 to April 20, 1997, Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1997, publisher Joseph A. Kruse, ISBN 3-7700-1078-7 .
  • Education and skepticism. International Heine Congress 1997 on the 200th birthday . Edited by Joseph A. Kruse, Bernd Witte and Karin Füllner. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart and Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-476-01621-8 .
  • Literature in the Rhineland and in Westphalia, Literature in North Rhine-Westphalia , 4 vols. Texts from a hundred years, Eds. Joseph A. Kruse, Norbert Oellers and Hartmut Steinecke, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995–1998, ISBN 3-458- 06515-6 .
  • Heinrich Heine in Potsdam 1829 , Volume 38, Frankfurter Buntbücher Verlag, Kleist Museum, Frankfurt / Oder 2004.
  • Heinrich Heine, My Life . Autobiographical texts, edited by Joseph A. Kruse with numerous illustrations, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-458-34854-9 .
  • Heine for the stressed , selected by Joseph A. Kruse, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-458-34855-7 :
  • The last word of art. Heinrich Heine and Robert Schumann on the 150th year of death . Edited by Joseph A. Kruse with the collaboration of Marianne Tilch, in collaboration with Ulrike Groos and Bernard R. Appel. Metzler Verlag and Bärenreiter Verlag, Stuttgart and Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-476-02152-1 .
  • Transitions. Between arts and cultures. International congress on the 150th year of the death of Heinrich Heine and Robert Schumann . Edited by Henriette Herwig, Volker Kalisch, Bernd Kortländer, Joseph A. Kruse and Bernd Witte. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart and Weimar 2007, ISBN 3-476-02184-X .
  • Heine for evil , selected by Marianne Tilch and Joseph A. Kruse, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-458-34973-0 .
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Forgive the shamefully bad letter , Marianne Tilch and Joseph A. Kruse, Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 3-7700-1354-9 .
  • Germany. A winter fairy tale (with Christian Liedtke and Maranne Tilch). Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-18906-1 .
  • Immermann's theatrical mission: Karl Leberecht Immermann's years as a playwright and theater director in Düsseldorf (1827–1837) - On the 175th anniversary of Immermann's death on August 25, 2015 , Eds. Sabine Brenner Wilczek, Peter Hasubek and Joseph A. Kruse, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-66687-6 .

Independent literary publications

  • Yellow season . Narrative. Braun, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-88097-071-8 .
  • 7 given and 5 taken . Atelier Boris Fröhlich, Neuss 1978 [illustration].
  • Centaura . Artist book. Case with 12 etchings by Boris Fröhlich and a text by Joseph A. Kruse in hand typesetting and hand printing. Atelier Boris Fröhlich, Neuss 1982 [illustration].
  • Metaphors . Images and texts. 9 zincographies by Boris Fröhlich with texts by Joseph A. Kruse. Atelier Boris Fröhlich, Neuss 1984 [illustration], ISBN 3-926054-00-X .
  • Yesterday . Prose. van Acken, Krefeld 1988 [illustration by Boris Fröhlich].
  • Rose-Marie Nöcker, Troia Sive Xantum, Variations on a Big Theme , exhibition in the Renate Mergemeier book gallery, Düsseldorf 1995.
  • Sicily my summer country [artist book]. 9 poems. Edition Gentenberg, Düsseldorf 1995 [illustration Theresia Schüllner].
  • Egyptian moments. 7 prose texts. Edition Gentenberg, Düsseldorf 1996 [design by Theresia Schüllner].
  • Chinese ride. Three lamentations of love . 3 prose texts. Edition Gentenberg, Düsseldorf 1999 [design by Theresia Schüllner].
  • Dusseldorf. Views . Prose. Etchings by Editha Hackspiel, Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2006, 2nd edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-7700-1250-3 .
  • New England spring. An American triptych . Edition XIM Virgines, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-934268-61-6 .
  • And now and then. Memory fragments . Edition Virgines, Düsseldorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-944011-24-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kruse, Joseph A .: And now and then: memory splinters . 1st edition. [Düsseldorf], ISBN 978-3-944011-24-0 .
  2. ^ A b Joseph Anton Kruse in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors