Karl S. Guthke

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Karl Siegfried Guthke (born February 17, 1933 in Lingen (Ems) ) is a German - American studies in German .

Life

Guthke attended the Ubbo-Emmius-Gymnasium in Leer (East Friesland) . After studying English , German and philosophy in Heidelberg and at the University of Texas (degree: MA ), he received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1956 . His dissertation is entitled "The German Storm and Drang and the English Pre-Romanticism". He then taught first in Göttingen, then at the University of California (Berkeley), where he became assistant professor in 1958 and associate professor in 1959, and from 1965–1968 at the University of Toronto . In 1968 he was appointed to Harvard University , Cambridge / USA, where he has been Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture since 1973.

Guthke is a member of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge / England and a former member of the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities Edinburgh, the Humanities Research Center Canberra and the Research Center Wolfenbüttel. He is also a corresponding member of the British Institute of German Studies, London. From 1971 to 1973 he was President of the Lessing Society, of which he subsequently became Honorary President.

His interests lie particularly in the literary and cultural history of German-speaking countries, but also in the history of science and comparative literary studies, in particular Gerhart Hauptmann , Albrecht von Haller , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , B. Traven , tragic comedy and last words . In 2018 his memoirs of the "golden years of migration to North America" ​​were published in German under the title From Heidelberg to Harvard .

Fonts

  • 1958 English pre-romanticism and German Sturm und Drang. MG Lewis' position in the history of German-English literary relations
  • 1958 The suffering in the works of Gerhardt Hauptmann. Five studies (with Hans M. Wolff)
  • 1961 History and Poetics of German Tragic Comedy (2nd edition 1980)
  • 1961 Gerhart Hauptmann . Weltbild im Werk (2nd edition 1980)
  • 1962 Haller and literature
  • 1965 The status of Lessing research. A Review of the Literature 1932–1962
  • 1967 Paths to Literature. Studies on German poetry and intellectual history
  • 1967 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (3rd edition 1979)
  • 1968 The modern tragic comedy. Theory and shape
  • 1970 Haller's literary criticism
  • 1971 The Mythology of the Deified World. A literary theme from the Enlightenment to the present day
  • 1972 The German bourgeois tragedy (6th edition 2006)
  • 1975 Literary life in the eighteenth century in Germany and Switzerland
  • 1981 The adventure of literature. Studies of literary life in German-speaking countries from the Enlightenment to exile
  • 1981 Haller in the half-light. Four studies
  • 1983 The myth of the modern age. The theme of the majority of the worlds in literature and philosophy from the Copernican Turn to science fiction
  • 1983 explorations. Essays on literature from Milton to Traven
  • 1984 The secret of B. Traven discovered and more mysterious than ever
  • 1987 B. Traven . Biography of a Riddle (Paperback 1990 edition)
  • 1990 final words. Variations on a Theme of the Cultural History of the West
  • 1993 The discovery of the self. Studies on literature
  • 1993 Trails to No Man's Land. Essay in Cultural and Literary History
  • 1994 Schiller's dramas. Idealism and Skepticism (2nd edition 2005)
  • 1997 Is Death a Woman? (2nd edition 1998)
  • 2000 The view into the foreign: The self and the other in literature
  • 2001 Goethe's Weimar and "The great opening into the wide world"
  • 2003 Lessing's horizons, boundaries and limitlessness of tolerance
  • 2003 Epitaph Culture in the West (English)
  • 2005 The invention of the world
  • 2006 Talking Stones

For a complete list of his books and over 200 journal articles, see: History and Literature. Essays in Honor of Karl S. Guthke . Stauffenburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-86057-643-7 . However, an addition seems appropriate: An Estonian translation ( html or pdf ) was published for the article Last Words in Media Culture .

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl S. Guthke: From Heidelberg to Harvard. A literary scholar's memories of the golden years of migration to North America . Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7720-8650-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Guthke, Karl S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guthke, Karl Siegfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American German studies specialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Lingen (Ems)