Joseph Kiermeier-Debre

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Joseph Kiermeier-Debre (born Kiermeier ; born September 22, 1946 in Ergoldsbach ) is a German literary, theater and art scholar, university lecturer, museum director, curator, program maker and author. Kiermeier-Debre lives in Unterthingau , is married to Monika Debre and has one daughter.

Career

After graduating from the Hans-Leinberger-Gymnasium in Landshut, Kiermeier-Debre studied German, theater studies, art history and philosophy at the universities of Munich and Münster. After taking his master's degree in Munich in 1975, he did his doctorate on Jean Paul under Eckhard Heftrich in Münster in 1978 . After working as an assistant in Friborg (CH) and Gießen with Peter Horst Neumann and teaching assignments in Bamberg, he received his habilitation in Modern German Literature in Gießen in 1986 through self-referential theater from Harsdörffer to Handke . From 1986 onwards, Kiermeier-Debre taught, interrupted by substitute professorships at the University of Gießen and Freiburg im Breisgau, and from a guest professorship at the University of the Arts in Berlin in the subject "Scenic Writing" (2006/2008) as an adjunct professor at the Institute for Modern German Literature of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. As an author and editor, he has presented numerous publications and essays on literature, specifically on the poetics of drama and opera, on theater and art from the baroque to the present day.

Literary intermediary

In addition to the classic research focus of his academic work, Kiermeier-Debre began to place the subject of literature communication at the center of his work, both theoretically and practically. The range of topics extends from text-image relationships (alphabet / graphic literature) to literary exhibitions, from reading (aloud) to the text-conveying function of music in song and opera (libretto), from dramaturgical and theatrical access to editing and critical work Edition. Not least as a response to the canon discussion and the spelling reform, an edition project was created from 1997 at the Deutsches Taschenbuchverlag under the series title “Library of First Editions”, which subsequently proved its worth with its basic editorial assumptions. According to the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, this classic edition creates “comfortable and appealing conditions for working with authentic texts in both the school and academic fields” (April 14, 1997). All 80 volumes are in the original spelling and punctuation, and Kiermeier-Debre is the sole editor responsible for all of them and the text is given (each with an appendix to the text, with a glossary, chronological table and afterword).

Museum director, curator, exhibition maker

Parallel to his studies and academic work, Kiermeier-Debre was also active in practical literature-mediating work at the Stadttheatern Landshut, Ingolstadt, the Kammerspiele Munich and with various independent theater groups as an actor, assistant director, dramaturge and director. Later, with the curatorial supervision of the exhibition of the life's work of the writer Carl Amery in the foyer of the Munich “Stadtbibliothek Am Gasteig”, the spectrum of practical literature communication increasingly expanded in the direction of exhibitions and museums. He curated a. a. Various exhibitions together with Fritz Franz Vogel in the Galerie am Leewasser in Brunnen (CH) and in the Yellow House in Flimms (CH). From 2000 Kiermeier-Debre worked full-time as the director of the Antoniter Museum and the Strigel Museum in Memmingen. Here he organized and designed exhibitions on the reformer Martin Bucer (2001), on the Memmingen baroque painters Johann Heiß (2001) and Johann Friedrich Sichelbein (2003); under the title “FrauenLob” he presented the Madonnas by the late Gothic sculptor Ivo Strigel (2002), which were scattered all over the Allgäu, and took over exhibitions from the Bavarian State Library (Der Poison Cabinet / Remota 2002) and the Eichstätt University Library (Kräuterbücher 2004). In 2005/06, the name of the museum, St. Anthony Abbas, was followed by an extensive exhibition on the subject of "The Temptation of St. Anthony" (2006).

In 2005, at the suggestion of Kiermeier-Debre and according to his conceptual specifications, the “ MEWO Art Hall ” of the city of Memmingen was set up in the Alte Post and opened with an exhibition showing the holdings of the house, the paintings and graphics by Josef Madlener , Max Unold , Johann Gottlieb Prestel , Maria Katharina Prestel and Wolfgang Niesner presented. Afterwards, at the turn of the year 2006/07, Kiermeier-Debre staged a show that was enthusiastically received by the public with the popular Christmas pictures by Josef Madlener in a wintry setting (snowy winter forest with installations in freezers). The next exhibition in 2007 combined the giant formats of the Beijing star photographer Wang Qingsong under the title “China: Past, Present & Future” with the terracotta sculptures by Cai Guo-Qiang from the 48th Venice Biennale. Under the title “… also I in Arcadia”, the 2007 annual exhibition brought together the nude photographs of the Mecklenburg Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden for the most comprehensive retrospective of his work to date. This was followed by exhibitions with Josef Madlener's popular shadow images, and on the 200th anniversary of the death of Johann Gottlieb Prestel and his wife Katharina Prestel, the Mewo-Kunsthalle presented under his director the largest prestel collection of reproductions of famous works of art in 2008. In 2009 the Kunsthalle presented a show by Wolfgang Niesner with over 1000 portrait drawings, bizarre junk sculptures by Peter R. Müller and from November 2009 a comprehensive exhibition on corporeality and death under the title “Everybody - Dance with the Dance of Death”. The “ORAT” exhibition brought together over 300 large tarot pictures, mainly from Russia and Cuba, and combined them with works that attempt to explore the possibilities of automatic drawing and painting. At the end of his work as director and curator of the Mewo-Kunsthalle, there was an astonishing show on the subject of alphabet and letters in 2011, which received a remarkable response. The Swiss photo historian and image scientist Fritz Franz Vogel worked as co-curator in many of Kiermeier-Debre's exhibitions.

Musical and literary program maker

In 1995, Kiermeier-Debre began to accompany exhibition openings with readings and musical-literary program evenings. The format became independent and another interdisciplinary mediation project between literature, art and music arose in well over a hundred salon evenings that he designed, wrote and moderated with a dramaturgical concept. The focus is always on a theme, a poet and / or a composer or a work that is presented accompanied by singers and musicians (Eichendorff: Schumann / Schiller's Women / Mozart's Women / Richard Strauss' Women / Franz Liszt goes to the opera / Chopin: George Sand / Klabund / Hymn / Primadonnen / Louis Moreau Gottschalk / François Villon / Mignon: Suleika / Animals thick and thin / Des Knaben Wunderhorn / The Temptation of St. Anthony / Verdi versus Wagner / and a whole series of operas: sung, read and tells etc.).

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • The wise man to the throne! Studies on Jean Paul's Platonism . Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 1980, 229 pp. ISBN 978-3-12-934320-3
  • A comedy and not either. Theater as the subject matter and theme of theater from Harsdörffer to Handke . Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag 1989, 338 pp. ISBN 978-3-515-05353-2
  • The alphabet. The imagery of the letters from A to Z. With numerous illustrations and a lexicon of designers, form cutters and printers. Ravensburg: Ravensburger Buchverlag 1995, 256 pages (together with Fritz F. Vogel) ISBN 978-3-473-48379-2
  • Carl Amery - "... guess what it was all about". Book accompanying the exhibition at Gasteig Munich . Munich: ListVerlag 1996, 240 pp. ISBN 978-3-471-79324-4
  • Johann Theodor de Bry - New artificial alphabet (= series of writing master and alphabet books; in three languages). Ravensburg: Ravensburger Buchverlag 1997, 80 p. (Together with Fritz F. Vogel) ISBN 978-3-473-48392-1
  • Johann Steingruber - Architectural alphabet (= series of writing master and alphabet books; trilingual). Ravensburg: Ravensburger Buchverlag 1997, 80 p. (Together with Fritz F. Vogel) ISBN 978-3-473-48394-5
  • Antonio Basoli - Alfabeto pittorico (= series of writing master and alphabet books ; trilingual). Ravensburg: Ravensburger Buchverlag 1998, 144 p. (Together with Fritz F. Vogel) ISBN 978-3-473-48391-4
  • Paulus Franck - Treasury of all capitals (= series of writing master and alphabet books; trilingual). Ravensburg: Ravensburger Buchverlag 1998, 80 p. (Together with Fritz F. Vogel) ISBN 978-3-473-48393-8
  • Human alphabets. Naked models - wild types - fashionable characters. 100 ills. Numerous color plates. Marburg: Jonas Verlag October 2001, 144 pp. (Together with Fritz F. Vogel) ISBN 978-3-89445-285-8
  • Josef Madlener: My cosmos. Text / picture book in color; with eight fold-out folding boards. Cologne Weimar Vienna: Böhlau Verlag 2007, 320 pp. (Together with Fritz F. Vogel) ISBN 978-3-412-13306-1
  • Wilhelm von Gloeden - I too in Arcadia. Exhibition catalog of the Kunsthalle Memmingen. Cologne Weimar Vienna: Böhlau Verlag 2008, 208 pp. (Together with Fritz F. Vogel) ISBN 978-3-412-20065-7
  • Josef Madlener's shadow theater. Exhibition catalog of the Kunsthalle Memmingen. Altusried: Franz Brack Verlag 2008, 192 pp. ISBN 978-3-930323-81-4
  • Art comes from Prestel. The artist couple Johann Gottlieb and Maria Katharina Prestel: Frankfurt ǀ London. Catalog of works of the Kunsthalle Memmingen. Cologne Weimar Vienna: Böhlau Verlag 2008, 224 pp. (Together with Fritz F. Vogel) ISBN 978-3-412-20249-1
  • Wolfgang Niesner. Headjoints. Exhibition catalog of the Kunsthalle Memmingen. Cologne Weimar Vienna: Böhlau Verlag 2009, 224 pp. (Together with Fritz F. Vogel) ISBN 978-3-412-20441-9
  • Schiller's women. 42 portraits from life and poetry . Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 2009, 284 pp. ISBN 978-3-423-13769-0
  • Goethe's women. 44 portraits from life and poetry . Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 2011, 445 pp. ISBN 978-3-423-14025-6

Series Editor

  • dtv library of the first editions (precise spelling and punctuation as well as pagination according to the originals). Each volume with a detailed appendix by Joseph Kiermeier-Debre (on the text, glossary, timetable and epilogue). Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1997-2013 (80 volumes) ISBN 978-3-423-02600-0 to ISBN 978-3-423-02689-5

editor

  • Poetic abracadabra. The latest ABC and reading book. An anthology. With an afterword and 27 illustrations by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, 240 p. (Together with Fritz F. Vogel) ISBN 978-3-423-02305-4
  • The discovery of lust. Baroque erotic poetry. An anthology. With an afterword and numerous illustrations. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1995, 224 pp. (Together with Fritz F. Vogel) ISBN 978-3-423-02360-3
  • The Volks-Schiller. Chants from the Ludlam Cave. Pornographic parodies from the Biedermeier period. (Parallel print with an afterword and numerous illustrations from the Krenner collection) Vienna: Christian Brandstätter Verlag 1995, 160 p. (Together with Fritz F. Vogel) ISBN 978-3-85447-563-7
  • The classic basic library on CD-ROM 1 and CD-ROM 2. (full-text databases: drama, narrative literature, poetry (each contains around 50 titles)). Aarau (CH): Verlag Sauerländer 1997 (together with Fritz F. Vogel and Willfried Baatz) ISBN 3-7941-3958-5 // ISBN 3-7941-3959-3
  • Holy scriptures and unholy texts. [An anthology and a glossary.] In: The end of the world. With a reader. Addendum to the exhibition of the same name at the Kunsthaus Zürich from August 26th to November 7th, 1999. Edited by Ernst Halter and Martin Müller. Zurich: Offizin Verlags-AG 1999, pp. 155–285 (together with Fritz F. Vogel) ISBN 978-3-907496-03-9
  • The mystery play of St. Anthony from Viennois 1503 (edition in Provençal alpin, French, German; with 208 illustrations from Codex Antonii from 1426). Munich: Verlag der Gesellschaft 2002 [= yearbook Antoniter Forum , ed. by Adalbert Mischlewski, booklet 10] ISBN 3-00-010671-5
  • Klabund: Life is alive. Poems. With an afterword. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 2003, 192 pp. ISBN 978-3-423-20641-9
  • Friedrich Schiller: And beauty only blossoms in singing. Poems. With an afterword. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 2004, 206 pp. ISBN 978-3-423-13270-1
  • Goethe and Schiller: The Ballads. With an afterword. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 2006, 256 pp. ISBN 978-3-423-13512-2
  • Josef Madlener: The golden book. Altusried: Brack Verlag 2006, 64 pp. ISBN 978-3-930323-69-2
  • Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff: A song sleeps in all things. Poems. Special edition for the 150th anniversary of death. With an afterword. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 2007, 192 pp. ISBN 978-3-423-13600-6
  • Carl Amery: Working on the Future. Essays. With an afterword. Munich: Luchterhand Collection 2007, 368 pp. ISBN 978-3-630-62123-4

Essays

  • Windfalls. Büchner's drama "Danton's Death" and the "Parable of the Prodigal Son". In: Merkur , Jg. 36, 1982, issue 2, pp. 161-173, ISBN 3-12-974341-3
  • Heracles sons in exile. On Peter Weiss' novel "The Aesthetics of Resistance". In: Arbitrium , Vol. 1, 1983, Issue 2, pp. 204-214, ISSN  0723-2977
  • ET- The perfect blasphemy? The adventures of the alien on earth: salvation history camouflaged in naivety. In: Heyne Science Fiction Magazin 9 , Munich 1983, pp. 172-187, ISBN 3-453-30994-4
  • Poetry and history. Try to be serious about Carl Amery's novels. In: Arbitrium , Vol. 2, 1984, Issue 1, pp. 90-97, ISSN  0723-2977
  • Mute beauty or adoringly worship. (The "beautiful Greek" in Schiller's "Geisterseher") In: Konkursbuch 15 (= prohibition and promise), Tübingen 1985, pp. 64–86, ISBN 3-88769-215-2
  • How pictures learn to walk. Hogarth's graphic cycles and their poetic repaintings by H. v. Hofmannsthal and WH Auden. In: Mask and Kothurn . International contributions to theater studies, vol. 31, 1985, pp. 203-218, ISSN 2305-0667
  • "Conversations in Songs". A suggestion and its consequences using the example of Arnim's lieder play MARKGRAF OTTO VON BRANDENBURG. With an appendix: Ludwig Achim von Arnim: MARKGRAF OTTO VON BRANDENBURG. Text after handwriting; Readings, notes and attachments. In: Aurora . Yearbook of the Eichendorff Society 46, 1986, pp. 174-261, ISBN 3-7995-1946-7
  • "This story of the sinking ship, which is a ship and not a ship". Hans Magnus Enzensberger's comedy about "The sinking of the 'sinking of the Titanic'". In: Apocalypse. End-time ideas in modern literature . Edited by GE Grimm, W. Faulstich, P. Kuon. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag 1986 (= Suhrkamp Taschenbücher materials No. 2067), pp. 222–245, ISBN 978-3-518-38567-8
  • Better horror without end than end with horror? Botho Strauss "The tourist guide". In: Arbitrium , Vol. 5, 1987, Issue 2, pp. 208-216, ISSN  0723-2977
  • The refused end or the future of opera from the spirit of a scenic hermeneutics using the example of Richard Strauss 'and Clemens Krauss' opera "Capriccio". In: Richard Strauss-Blätter . Ed. By the International Richard Strauss Society Vienna, New Series, Issue 18, December 1987, pp. 40–96 [Partial reprint in the program booklet of the “Deutsche Oper am Rhein” season 2002/03 for the new production of the opera Capriccio ; Premiere on November 30th, 2002 in Duisburg; Part of the program in the Meiningen State Theater 2015/16 season for the new production of the opera Capriccio ; Premiere on October 16, 2015 in Meiningen] ISBN 3-7952-0538-7
  • "Curse all makeovers!" Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto for Richard Strauss' ARIADNE AUF NAXOS based on Moliere's BÜRGER AS EDELMANN. In: Richard Strauss-Blätter . Edited by the International Richard Strauss Society Vienna, New Series, Issue 21, June 1989, pp. 28–54, ISBN 3-7952-0591-3
  • "... what just told and didn't happen ...". Poetry and history: Achim von Arnim's poetics in the introductory text to his novel "Die Kronenwächter". In: Border Crossings - Studies on L. Achim von Arnim . Edited by Michael Andermatt. Bonn: Bouvier 1994 [= Modern German Studies , ed. by Peter Heller], pp. 117-146, ISBN 978-3-416-02520-1
  • "The end of the world with subsequent discussion" or the whispering evocation of the perfect future in literary apocalyptic. In: The end of the world. With a reader. Addendum to the exhibition of the same name at the Kunsthaus Zürich from August 26th to November 7th, 1999. Edited by Ernst Halter and Martin Müller. Zurich: Offizin Verlags-AG 1999, pp. 61–73, ISBN 978-3-907496-03-9
  • The other explanation. Education through experience: the novel “Thérèse Philosophe” by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer Marquis d'Argens. In: The 'poison cabinet': eroticism, sexology, politics and literature; ›Remota‹: The locked up books of the Bavarian State Library . Edited by Stephan Kellner. Munich: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 2002 [= Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Exhibition Catalogs No. 73], pp. 22–33; ISBN 978-3-9802700-9-0
  • Carl Amery. The restoration of natural things: ante or post festum. In: Hans-Rüdiger Schwab: Stubbornness and attachment. Catholic German intellectuals in the 20th century . Kevelaer: Butzon & Berker 2009, pp. 547-563 ISBN 978-3-7666-1315-8
  • The picture is the music. Something about the choir and orchestra as masses and groups. In: Vogel, Fritz Franz: Soooooooooooo oooooooooooo oooooooooooo many !!! Text / picture book for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Memmingen. Vienna: Edition Lammerhuber 2012, pp. 232–249, ISBN 978-3-901753-48-0

Articles in encyclopedias

  • The lyrical work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In: Kindlers New Literature Lexicon . Edited by Walter Jens. Kindler-Verlag, Munich 1989, Volume 6, pp. 432-441, ISBN 3-12-974341-3 .
  • Jean Paul (revision, addition or new version of all work articles). In: Kindlers New Literature Lexicon . Edited by Walter Jens. Kindler-Verlag, Munich 1990, Volume 7, pp. 669-693, ISSN  0723-2977 .
  • The lyrical work of Eduard Mörike. In: Kindlers New Literature Lexicon . Edited by Walter Jens. Kindler-Verlag, Munich 1991, Volume 8, pp. 809-813, ISBN 978-3-463-43200-7 .
  • Dramaturgy (keyword). In: Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft , Volume I, A - G. Founded by Paul Merker and Wolfgang Stammler. Third, completely redesigned edition; edited and ed. by H. Fricke, K. Grubmüller, J.-D. Müller and K. Weimar. de Gruyter, Berlin 1997. pp. 401-402, ISBN 978-3-11-010896-5 .

Awards

Together with Fritz Franz Vogel, Kiermeier-Debre received awards from the Frankfurt Book Art Foundation in 1992 and 1995 for exemplary design and layout in the competition for the most beautiful German books for the title

  • Poetic abracadabra. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992.
  • The alphabet. The imagery of the letters from AZ . Ravensburg: Otto Maier Verlag 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Huebner: Library of the first editions . In: Fachdienst Germanistik . tape 10/1997 , p. 12 .
  2. ↑ https://www.dtv.de/autor/joseph-kiermeier-debre-2960/
  3. ↑ Stefan Dosch: When literature makes its debut. Joseph Kiermeier-Debre publishes the library of the first editions . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . 3rd July 2013.
  4. ↑ Ulrike Leuschner: Carl Amery and his work. For the exhibition "... guess what it was all about" . In: Munich. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade . No. 26 , March 29, 1996 (attached).
  5. ↑ cf. also the discussions of the exhibition u. a. in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 23, 1996, in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of March 11, 1996, in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 29, 1996
  6. ↑ Volker Klüpfel : Madonna on the catwalk . In: Allgäuer Zeitung from October 15, 2002.
  7. ↑ Volker Klüpfel: Old Post becomes a new Temple of the Muses . In: Allgäuer Zeitung from November 24th; also the issue of November 26th. and from November 29, 2005
  8. ^ Opening of the Mewo art gallery in 2005
  9. ↑ Martina Scherf: The mountain spirit lives . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 3, 2006.
  10. ↑ Julia Voss : Tolkien carried the colorful mountain spirit around as a holiday postcard . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 16, 2007
  11. ↑ A Christmas tree is coming in 2006
  12. ↑ Official website of Wang Qingsong
  13. ↑ China: Past, Present & Future 2007
  14. ↑ Volker Klüpfel: Golden times in the land without a smile . In: Allgäuer Zeitung of February 3, 2007
  15. ^ Wilhelm von Gloeden 2008
  16. ^ Sabine Buchwald: Greetings from Arcadia . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 24, 2008; Hans Kratzer / Roman Deininger: Naked youths cause offense . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 16/17, 2008
  17. ↑ Madlener's Shadow Theater 2008
  18. ^ Art comes from Prestel 2008
  19. ^ Niesner: Head pieces 2009
  20. ↑ The creation of the ARTen 2009
  21. ↑ Everybody - Tanz mit dem Totentanz 2009
  22. ↑ Michael Schreiner: Death always wins. In: Augsburger Allgemeine from November 21, 2009
  23. ↑ ORAT = he, she, it speaks / prays / draws / paints 2010
  24. ^ The alphabet from A to Z 2011
  25. ^ Sabine Buchwald: Drawn, printed and pooped. An opulent exhibition in the Mewo-Kunsthalle in Memmingen deals with the ABC and its representations. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 2, 2011
  26. ↑ https://www.memmingen.de/1934.html
  27. ↑ Klaus-Peter Mayr: A jack-of-all-trades of culture . In: Allgäuer Zeitung of November 7, 2006 and Klaus Schmidt: Literature professor burns for opera. In: Allgäuer Zeitung of March 22, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Kiermeier-Debre, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kiermeier, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary, theater and art scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Ergoldsbach