Karol Sauerland

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Karol Sauerland (2010)

Karol Sauerland (born June 8, 1936 in Moscow ) is a Polish German philosopher and philosopher who was a professor of German studies at the Polish University of Toruń .

Life

Karol Sauerland, born in Moscow in 1936 as the son of German emigrants, graduated from high school in Halle / Saale and studied philosophy at the Humboldt University in East Berlin from 1955 to 1957 . In 1957 he had to break off his studies due to his commitment to the political upheaval in Poland for political reasons and initially worked as a laborer in East Berlin for a while, but then moved to Poland, where he soon took on Polish citizenship. From 1958 to 1963 he studied mathematics and German in Warsaw. He received his doctorate in 1970 with a thesis on Wilhelm Dilthey's concept of experience. In 1975 he completed his habilitation at the University of Warsaw with a thesis on Adorno's aesthetics.

Already appointed to the university lecturer in the year of his habilitation, Karol Sauerland headed the department for German literature at the Institute for German Studies at Warsaw University since 1977. From 1979 to 1986 he held the chair for German studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń , which he soon lost again for political reasons - he joined the Solidarność trade union movement in 1980 and was soon elected to its board of directors at the University of Toruń. During these years he was exposed to a wide variety of state harassment (house searches, interrogations, twenty-eight rejections of applications for trips abroad, etc.). It was not until 1989 that he was officially appointed professor by the President of the State Council of Poland, although a corresponding application for the appointment of the professorship was made by the faculty in 1982 and confirmed by the Senate, but was blocked by the Polish Communist Party. From then until 2005 he headed the department for literary studies at his university.

Karol Sauerland's academic work has received widespread recognition in Germany, which was reflected in his appointment to the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 1993 and the Humboldt Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1995 . In addition, he received numerous invitations to hold visiting professorships. In 1988 he taught as Adolf Muschg's representative at the ETH Zurich , and in the winter semester of 1988/89 and 1997 he held a visiting professorship at the University of Mainz . In 1994 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and a visiting professor at the Free University there . In the 2004/05 winter semester he taught for two semesters at the Fritz Bauer Institute at the University of Frankfurt am Main and in the 2005/06 winter semester at the University of Hamburg . In 2008 he was a Franz Rosenzweig visiting professor at the University of Kassel . From 2009 to 2011 Sauerland taught at the Germanic Department of the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem .

Fonts

  • Dilthey's concept of experience. Origin, heyday and stunting of a literary-historical term , Berlin, New York 1972.
  • Filozofia niemieckiego oświecenia (The Philosophy of the German Enlightenment), ed. together with T. Namowicz and M. Siemek, Warsaw 1973
  • Introduction to Adorno's Aesthetics , Berlin, New York 1979
  • "The trees move in the night". A Polish reader, Lucerne 1983 (together with B. Surowska, foreword by Siegfried Lenz)
  • Od Dilthey do Adorna. Studia z estetyki niemieckiej , Warsaw 1986 (about Dilthey, the young Lukács, Wittgenstein, Łempicki, Bloch, Musil, Benjamin, the expressionism debate, Adorno etc.). Warsaw 1986
  • Theory of the materialistic view of literature , in: Zoran Konstantinovic, Albert M.Reh, Karol Sauerland, literary studies I, Bern, Frankfurt / M. New York, Paris 1990
  • Theodor W. Adorno, Sztuka i sztuki. Wybór esejów , Warszawa 1990 (A selection from Adorno's essays)
  • Heidelberg at the intersection of intellectual circles. On the topography of the "spiritual sociability" of a "global village": 1850–1950 , (together with Hubertreiber ), Opladen, Wiesbaden 1994
  • Memory and Recollection in Literature , Warsaw 1996
  • The subversive in literature and literature as the subversive , Toruń 1997
  • The desire to denounce. Case studies in two dictatorships, in: Horch and Guck , 7th year, issue 22 (1/1998), pp. 38–43.
  • Culture transfer. Poland - Germany. Interrelationships in Language, Culture and Society , Vol. 1–3 Bonn 1999, 2001, 2004
  • Thirty pieces of silver. Denunciation in the present and history, Berlin 2000 (Hungarian, Budapest 2001)
  • Poles and Jews between 1939 and 1968. Jedwabne and the Consequences , Berlin 2004
  • Literature and theology. Writing processes between biblical tradition and historical experience (together with Ulrich Wergin), Würzburg 2005
  • Literature and culture transfer as a political issue using the example of People's Poland , Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna 2006
  • The murder of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko. A diary report, in: Horch and Guck , 17th year, issue 59 (1/2008), pp. 30–33.
  • Sluggish lustration in Poland. Controversy over the book "The Security Service and Lech Wałesa", in: Horch und Guck , 17th year, issue 62 (4/2008), pp. 58–61.

Web links

literature

  • Współcześni uczeni polscy. Słownik biograficzny , Volume IV: S – Ż (Science Editor Janusz Kapuścik), Warsaw 2002, pp. 45–46.

annotation

  1. ↑ kgerff.ujepurkyne.com ( Memento from July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Sauerland, Karol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish Germanist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow