Karlheinz Kasper

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Karlheinz Kasper (born January 2, 1933 in Lippehne , Neumark ) is a German Slavist .

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Karlheinz Kasper, son of a tobacco trader, went to high school in Pomerania (Pomerania) and Itzehoe (Schleswig-Holstein) and made in 1950 at the junior high school Werneuchen (Brandenburg) a high school. From 1950 to 1954 he studied Slavic and German at the Potsdam University of Education for teaching in Russian and German (upper level). This was followed by a two-year scheduled academic aspiration and postgraduate studies in Bulgarian at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Here he was awarded a doctorate in 1958 by Hans Holm Bielfeldt with the dissertation "The preaching literature of the Kiever Rus' as a mirror of time" phil. PhD. In 1967 he completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena under Harri Jünger with the habilitation thesis "The narrator in the Russian-Soviet little prose ( Povest" and narrative) 1956–1966 "for Dr. phil. habil. and acquired the venia legendi .

Kasper began teaching from 1954 to 1958 as an aspirant, assistant and senior assistant at the Slavic Institute of the Potsdam University of Education. He then spent two years teaching at the commercial vocational school in Potsdam-Babelsberg before taking up a lectureship in the Russian and Soviet Literature Department at the Pedagogical Institute in Leipzig , which became a college of education in 1972 . Here he became head of the Russian Department in 1966 and was full professor of Russian and Soviet literature from 1969 to 1992. From 1969 to 1978 he was director of the German and Slavonic Studies section and from 1978 to 1992 head of the Russian and Soviet literature department.

From 1966 to 1992 Kasper was appointed to several central bodies, including the National Committee of Teachers for Russian Language and Literature, the Research Collective for Russian and Soviet Literature in the Central Institute for the History of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , the National Committee of Slavists of the GDR and the National Committee for Literary studies of the GDR. He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR .

After the dissolution of the University of Education in Leipzig, Karlheinz Kasper was taken over by the University of Leipzig, where he held a professorship for "East Slavic literary studies and cultural history" until his retirement in 1998 and at the same time headed the chair of the same name in the newly founded Institute for Slavic Studies from 1993. He headed the Leipzig branch of the German Society for Eastern European Studies until 1998 and in March 1997 organized the Society's first annual meeting in the new federal states. Kasper held series of lectures at the Slavic Seminar at the University of Mannheim (1992/93), at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature at the Technical University of Dresden (1997/98) and guest lectures at the universities in Cologne , Bamberg , Regensburg , Jena , Frankfurt am Main and Zurich .

Kasperschen's research focuses on the areas of Russian literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, the “ Silver Age ”, Russian prose of the 1920s and the most recent literary processes as well as literary theory and poetics and translations of Russian literature into German. He has published selected works by Ivan Bunin , Leonid Andrejew , Evgeni Samjatin , Artyom Wessyoly , Mikhail Soschtschenko , Dmitri Furmanow , Mikhail Prishwin , Boris Pasternak , Andrei Bitov and others, as well as several anthologies of Russian prose

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Dmitry Furmanov . Language and Literature Publishing House, Halle 1962
  • Non-fiction dictionary for literature classes in grades 9 to 12 . People and Knowledge, Berlin 1975
  • Multinational Soviet narrative (1945–1975) . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978
  • The Serapion Brothers of Petrograd. Young art in revolutionary Russia . Verlag der Nation 1987, ISBN 978-3373001478
  • Russian prose in the 20th century. A history of literature in individual portraits 1914–1934 , Verl. Fink, Munich 1993 ISBN 978-3770527816 (full text online)
  • Individual chapters in numerous compilations
  • Articles in scientific journals and approx. 300 reviews in various newspapers

literature

  • Rolf Herkelrath (Ed.): Telling in Russia (Colloquium on the occasion of Kasper's 65th birthday at the University of Leipzig). Verlag Peter Lang AG, 2000 ISBN 978-3-631-34403-3
  • Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Kasper on his 65th birthday . Universitätsjournal Leipzig, Issue 4, 1998 ( Online , pp. 28/29, with picture)
  • Ulrich Steltner: Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Kasper on his 80th birthday . In: Bulletin of German Slavonic Studies 19/2013, p. 41f.
  • Margrit Breuer, Manfred Sapper , Jutta Unser, Volker Weichsel: End of an Era . In: Eastern Europe 11–12 / 2015, p. 54
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Hubrich: Award list for the honorary title “Honored University Lecturer of the GDR” from 1975 to 1989. Accessed on January 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kasper, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippehne