Klaus Garber

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Klaus Garber (born July 3, 1937 in Hamburg ) is a German specialist in German studies , literary scholar and literary theorist .

Life

Klaus Garber studied German, philosophy and theology at the University of Bern , the University of Hamburg and the University of Göttingen . He also completed studies in social philosophy and political science at the University of Marburg and the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1970 he received his doctorate with Richard Alewyn in Bonn with the dissertation The locus amoenus and the locus terribilis. Image and function of nature in German country poetry . He then received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation .

In 1975 he became professor for literary theory and the history of modern literature at the University of Osnabrück , director of the local interdisciplinary institute for cultural history of the early modern period and member of the historical commission for Silesia . In 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Department of Linguistics, Literature and Media Studies at the University of Hamburg.

In addition to numerous publications as an author and editor, his autobiography Life Travel was published in 2019 .

Publications (selection)

As an author

  • The locus amoenus and the locus terribilis. Image and function of nature in German shepherd and country poetry of the 17th century (Literature and Life. NF 16). Böhlau Verlag Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-412-01874-0 .
  • Martin Opitz, "the father of German poetry". A critical study on the history of science in German studies . Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 1976. ISBN 3-476-00343-4 .
  • To picture Walter Benjamin. Studies - portraits - reviews . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn / Munich 1992. ISBN 3-7705-2773-9 .
  • Nation - Literature - Political Mentality. Contributions to the culture of remembrance in Germany. Essays - speeches - interventions . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn / Munich 2004. ISBN 3-7705-3753-X .
  • The old book in old Europe. On the search for clues in the treasure houses of the old continent . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn / Munich 2005. ISBN 3-7705-3234-1 .
  • In Richard Alewyn's picture . Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2005, Paderborn / Munich. ISBN 3-7705-4057-3 .
  • Walter Benjamin as a letter writer and critic . Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2005, Paderborn / Munich. ISBN 3-7705-4072-7 .
  • Treasure houses of the spirit. Old libraries and book collections in the Baltic States (from archives, libraries and museums of Central and Eastern Europe 3). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007. ISBN 978-3-412-08106-5 .
  • The old Koenigsberg. Memory book of a lost city . Böhlau Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-16304-4 .
  • Literature and Culture in Early Modern Europe. Collected Studies . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn / Munich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4365-6 .
  • Arcadia. An ideal of European literature . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn / Munich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4892-7 .
  • Paths to modernity. Historiographical, literary and philosophical studies from the area of ​​the old European Arcadia utopia , ed. by Stefan Anders and Axel E. Walther. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028826-1 .
  • Old Wroclaw. Cultural history of an intellectual metropolis . Böhlau Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22252-9 .
  • Martin Opitz - Paul Fleming - Simon Dach. Three 17th-century poets in libraries in Central and Eastern Europe (From the archives, libraries and museums of Central and Eastern Europe 4). Böhlau Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-20648-2 .
  • Literature and culture in Germany in the early modern period. Collected Studies . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn / Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-5501-7 .
  • The old Liegnitz and Brieg. Humanistic life in the vicinity of two Silesian Piast courts . Böhlau Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50559-2 .
  • The reformer and enlightener Martin Opitz (1597–1639). A humanist in the age of crisis . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-055004-7 .
  • Journey of Life. Leaves of Remembrance . Autobiography, Böhlau Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51484-6

Editorships

  • European Bucolic and Georgian (Pathways of Research 355). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1976, ISBN 3-534-05728-7 .
  • Handbook of personal occasional literature in European libraries and archives [catalog volumes] ed. in cooperation with the Research Center for Early Modern Literature and the Institute for Cultural History of the Early Modern Age at the University of Osnabrück. Olms-Weidmann Verlag, Hildesheim, 31 volumes, 2001–2013
  • Handbook of personal occasional literature in European libraries and archives . Microfiche full text edition. Olms-Weidmann Verlag, Hildesheim 2002–2016
  • with Ute Széll: The Sensibility Project and the Origin of Modernism. Richard Alewyn's research on sentimentalism and its epochal context , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn / Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7705-4071-9 .
  • with Hartmut Laufhütte : Sigmund von Birken: Works and Correspondence , Vol. 1: Floridans Amaranten-Garte , Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-484-28055-7 .
  • with Christoph Hendel, Hartmut Laufhütte: 2014: Sigmund von Birken: Works and Correspondence , Vol. 2: Birken-Wälder , Part 1: Texts. Part 2: Apparatus and commentary (reprints of German literary works. NF 77/78), Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-036283-1 .

literature

  • From Arcadia to the places of remembrance. Klaus Garber farewell , ed. by Martin Klöker, Agenda-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-89688-245-7 .
  • Speeches on the award of an honorary doctorate to Professor Dr. Klaus Garber on February 5, 2003 in the Warburg House (Hamburg University Speeches. NF 7), ed. from the Department of Linguistics, Literature and Media Studies at the University of Hamburg. University Press, Hamburg 2004. ISBN 3-937816-05-4 .
  • Regional culture and intellectual communication from humanism to the age of the internet. Festschrift for Klaus Garber (Chloe 36), ed. by Axel E. Walter, Rodopi Verlag, Amsterdam / New York 2005. ISBN 90-420-1715-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Awarding of an honorary doctorate to Klaus Garber. In: University of Hamburg. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ University of Osnabrück: World-renowned literary scholar is retired. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Klaus Garber. In: Wallstein Verlag. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
  4. ^ Ordinary members of the Historical Commission for Silesia. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Garber, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and literary theorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg