Kurt Batt

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Kurt Batt (born July 11, 1931 in Hamburg , † February 20, 1975 in Rostock ) was a German literary scholar , critic and editor .

Life

Batt grew up in Teterow and studied German in Leipzig from 1951 to 1959 . Until 1959 he was a lecturer in German and literary history at the Rostock Conservatory. He received his doctorate in 1958 as Dr. phil. at the Philosophical Faculty of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. In 1959, at the age of 28, he became a lecturer or chief editor at Hinstorff Verlag Rostock. There he supervised numerous young authors, including being the editor of Franz Fühmann for many years . In addition, he lectured at universities in Poland , Hungary and West Germany and, since 1964, has also worked for the literary magazine " Sinn und Form ".

Since 1966 he has been a member of the Rostock Kulturbund district leadership and the advisory board for literary studies of the Aufbau-Verlag and employee of the publishing house and book trade administration of the GDR Ministry of Culture . From 1967 to 1971 he was on the board of the German Writers' Association . In 1974 he received the Heinrich Mann Prize .

In addition to his work as a lecturer, Batt worked primarily on German literature of the 18th and 19th centuries (including Fritz Reuter , Jeremias Gotthelf , Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ).

Batt died in Rostock in early 1975 at the age of 43.

The tragic end of Kurt Batt, who (...) perished of a heart attack after the Rostock party bureaucracy had pushed him out of the publishing house, belongs as a bad part of the regional literary situation in the yet to be written overall account of a Mecklenburg literary history, as it is at the same time far moreover points.

Works

  • (as editor): Fritz Reuter. Collected works and letters. 9 volumes. Rostock 1967
  • Fritz Reuter. Life and work . Volume IX Collected Works and Letters. Rostock 1967
  • Anna Seghers. Development and works . Leipzig 1973
  • The execution of the narrator . Frankfurt (Main) 1974
  • Revolt Intern. Considerations on the literature in the FRG. Leipzig 1974
  • Contradiction and Agreement: Essays on Literature . Leipzig 1978
  • (as editor): Lichtenberg: Aphorisms, essays, letters. Leipzig: Dieterichsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 3rd edition 1970 (most recently: Weltbild-Verlag, Augsburg 2003), with a detailed introduction by Batt

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Mann Prize . Academy of Arts. Retrieved December 22, 2014.
  2. ^ Online review of Reinhard Rösler's book: Authors, Debates, Institutions - Literary Life in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1945-1952 , Hamburg 2003, on h-net.

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personal data
SURNAME Batt, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, critic and editor
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 1975
Place of death Rostock