Konstantinos A. Dimadis

Konstantinos A. Dimadis Κωνσταντίνος Α. Δημάδης (* 1940 ) is a Greek Neo- Greekist and professor emeritus for Neo- Greek Studies at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

After studying at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Dimadis was from 1964 a research assistant at the 15th Archaeological District of East Macedonia and Thrace, which localized the administrative and religious center of the city of Abdera in Classical times and discovered the city's ancient theater. In the academic year 1967/1968 he worked as a research assistant at the chair for linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (collection and elaboration of material for the lexicon of archaisms in modern Greek dialects ), and from 1968 to 1973 as an editorial member for the Λεξικό της Μεσαιωνικής Εήης ήήης Δημώδους Γραμματείας, 1100–1669 ( Dictionary of Medieval Greek Folk Literature, 1100–1669 ) by Emmanuel Kriaras , from 1973 to 1980 a research assistant at the Institute for Balkan Studies in Thessaloniki . From 1978 to 1980 Dimadis held a teaching assignment for Modern Greek at the Byzantine-Modern Greek Seminar at the Free University of Berlin. This was followed by a lectureship at the Byzantine-Modern Greek seminar at the University of Amsterdam from 1980 to 1992 , where he received his doctorate in 1990 with a thesis on liberal writers during the dictatorship of Metaxas and the occupation (1936-1944) .

In 1992 Dimadis was appointed Professor of Middle and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of Groningen as the successor to Willem J. Aerts , and from 1996 until his retirement in 2007 he was Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2001 he has also been an honorary professor at the Institute for Classical Philology, Byzantine Studies and Neo-Greek Studies at the State University of Tbilisi , Georgia .

Dimadis is chairman of the European Society for Neo-Greek Studies .

In 2010 Dimadis received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest .

Focus of work

Dimadis' works are characterized by their diversity: the spectrum ranges from archaeological works, for example on ancient theater history , through modern Greek lexicography and Balkanology to dealing with modern modern Greek literature , especially prose from the 19th and 20th centuries, including editions - and reception problems , and from a literary sociological perspective with the interferences between literature and contemporary history , especially dictatorial regimes.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Πεζογραφία και εξουσία στη νεότερη Ελλάδα . Athens, Armos Publications 2018, 498 pages, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-960-615-162-0 . ["Prose and Power in Modern Greece"]
• Power and Prose Fiction in Modern Greece . Athens, Armos Publications 2016, 273 pages, 1st Reprint, ISBN 978-960-527-922-6 .
• Δικτατορία, Πόλεμος και Πεζογραφία 1936-1944. Γ. Θεοτοκάς, Μ. Καραγάτσης, Σ. Μυριβήλης, Λιλίκα Νάκου, Θ. Πετσάλης-Διομήδης, Π. Πρεβελάκης, Αγγ. Τερζάκης . Athens, Vivliopoleion tis “Estias” 2004, 538 pages, 2nd edition, ISBN 960-05-1141-1 . [“Dictatorship, War and the Greek Novel 1936–1944. Giorgos Theotokas, M. Karagatsis, Stratis Myrivilis, Lilika Nakou, Thanasis Petsalis-Diomidis, Pantelis Prevelakis, Angelos Terzakis "]
• Liberale schrijvers onder de dictatuur van Metaxas en tijdens de Bezetting (1936–1944) , 326 pages. Dissertation University of Amsterdam 1990. [“Liberal writers during the Metaxas dictatorship and occupation, 1936–1944”; in Greek]

Editorships

• Βαλκανική Βιβλιογραφία / Balkan Bibliography. Institute for Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki. Volumes I (1972) [1974] - V (1976) [1979] + Supplement, Volumes I - V.
• Λιλίκα Νάκου, ΜόσχωΤζαβέλλα. Φιλολογική επιμέλεια, πρόλογος και επίμετρο Κ. Α. Δημάδη. Athens, Ekdoseis Kastanioti 1995, ISBN 960-03-1447-0 .
• Proceedings of the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th European Congress of Modern Greek Studies, organized by the European Society of Modern Greek Studies. Athens, Ellinika Grammata 1999, ISBN Set 960-344-861-3; Athens, Ellinika Grammata 2007, ISBN Set 978-960-19-0078-0; e-book, ISBN Set 978-960-99699-0-1; e-book, ISBN Set 978-618-81771-3-0.
• Emmanuil Kriaras, Psycharis - selection from his works (original Greek texts with German translation), 1st edition 2010, 669 pages, ISBN 978-84-95905-32-1 .

Essays

• Ο Νίκος Καζαντζάκης την εποχή του φασισμού. Ioanna Spiliopoulou and Nikos Chrysos (eds.): Ο Νίκος Καζαντζάκης και η πολιτική. Athens, Ekdoseis Kastanioti 2019, pp. 53-78, ISBN 978-960-03-6563-4 . ["Nikos Kazantzakis in the era of fascism"]
• The Cultural Policy of the Metaxas Regime (1936–1941). In: Giorgos P. Pefanis (ed.): Η λάμψη του χρήματος στη νεοελληνική λογοτεχνία. Από την Κρητική Αναγέννηση στην αυγή του 21ου αιώνα. Athens, Ίδρυμα Κώστα και Ελένης Ουράνη 2014, pp. 161–213, ISBN 978-960-7316-64-6 .
• Kazantzakis, Spain and the road to its literary renewal. In: Elke Sturm-Trigonakis and Simela Delianidou (eds.): Languages ​​and cultures in (inter) action, part 1 - literary and cultural studies. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang Edition 2013, pp. 291–308, ISBN 978-3-631-64212-2 (print).
• The Spanish Civil War in the eyewitness accounts of Nikos Kazantzakis (1936) and Spiros Melas (1939). In: Horst-Dieter Blume, Cay Lienau (ed.): Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) and his time (Choregia. Münstersche Greece Studies, No. 6). Münster 2008, pp. 43–50.
• Socialism, Nationalism and Greek Prose 1922–1935. In: Wolfgang Dahmen, Petra Himstedt-Vaid, Gerhard Ressel (eds.): Crossing borders: Traditions and identities in Southeast Europe. Festschrift for Gabriella Schubert. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag 2008, pp. 72–84 (Balkanological Publications, Vol. 45).
• The circumstances leading to the first German translation of a Greek novel after 1830: Ο Εξόριστος του 1831, by Alexandros Soutsos. In: Modern Greek Studies Yearbook [University of Minnesota], Vol. 22/23 (2006/2007): 91-106, ISSN  0884-8432 .
• Le Théâtre d'Abdera (données archéologiques). [IIIème Congrès International d'Études du Sud-Est Européen, Bucarest, 4-10 September 1974]. In: Balkan Studies, Vol. 15.2 (1974): 308-321.
• Ποιος ο Βασίλειος στους Φυγάδες του Καβάφη; In: Νέα Εστία, Vol. 92 (1972): 1688-1692. ["Who is Vasileios in Kavafis' poem Fygades?"]
• Για τη θέση της αρχαίας Πιστύρου. Ο Προυσίας είχε περάσει στη Θράκη; In: Θρακικά Χρονικά, Vol. 26 (1967): 111-113. [“About the location of the ancient Pistyros. Was Prousias really in Thrace? "]

literature

• Λεξικό Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας. Πρόσωπα - έργα - ρεύματα - όροι. Athens, Ekdoseis Pataki 2007, pp. 484-485.
• Tudor Dinu (ed.): In honorem Constantini Dimadis. Preface by Olga Cicanci . Bucharest University Publishing House, Bucharest 2011 (Neograeca Bucurestiensia 2), book advertisement
• Isabel García Gálvez y Olga Omatos Sáenz (eds.): Tolmiros Skapaneas. Homenaje al professor Kostas A. Dimadis. Vitoria-Gasteiz. Sociedad Hispánica de Estudios Neogriegos, 2012, 573 pages. [Estudios Neogriegos, Number 14 (2011-2012)].

Web links

• Official website at the Free University of Berlin (there also in the list of Working Group for Neo-Greek Studies in the Federal Republic of Germany)
• Personal page on the website of the European Society of Neo-Greek Studies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest