Kurt Roeske

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Kurt Roeske (born January 3, 1933 in Potsdam ) is a German classical philologist and author of numerous textbooks and specialist books.

Life

In December 1953 Kurt Roeske graduated from the Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium in Frankfurt. He studied classical philology at the universities of Frankfurt and Tübingen . From 1971 to 1979 he headed the Dilthey-Gymnasium in Wiesbaden. From 1979 to 1986 Kurt Roeske was director of the German School in Athens . From 1986 until his retirement in 1997 he was headmaster of the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz. He is co-author of the Greek textbooks "Lexis" and "Eklogai" as well as the grammar "Typoi". "Lexis" introduced the Greek language for the first time with (initially simplified) original texts. The audio cassette "Akoute" built a bridge to modern Greek on the basis of the "Lexis".

Since his retirement, Kurt Roeske has offered study trips into the ancient world and, as a lecturer at the Volkshochschule Mainz, offers courses on topics from ancient literature and philosophy. In 2017, he initiated a series of four lectures each with the title "Paths to the World of Antiquity" at the Erbacher Hof Academy of the Diocese of Mainz.

He was a founding member of the "Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship" foundation founded in 1999 and was a deputy chairman of the board until 2015.

Awards

After retiring in 1997, Kurt Roeske was managing director of the Friends of Mainz University for ten years. In 2009, he was awarded the Diether von Isenburg Medal for his services to this association . In 1997 Roeske was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2018 he received an honorary doctorate from the Department of History and Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Fonts (selection)

Books

  • Antigone's deadly disobedience. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009.
  • Attica as reflected in ancient evidence. Fischer and Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2003.
  • The late return of Odysseus. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005.
  • Medea's betrayed love. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007.
  • We asked Socrates. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004.
  • Sicily as reflected in ancient evidence. Rutzen, Ruhpolding 2011.
  • Venus and Aphrodite. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008.
  • Paths into the world of antiquity. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2014.
  • Euripides: Medea. Newly translated and introduced. BOD, Norderstedt 2014.
  • Cyprus as reflected in ancient evidence. Rutzen, Ruhpolding 2013.
  • with Patrick Schollmeyer : Cyclades. From Delos to Santorini. Nünnerich-Asmus-Verlag, Mainz 2017.
  • Crete. The island of myths reflected in ancient evidence. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019.
  • Visiting ancient Rome. Meeting point monuments: ancient authors meet. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019.
  • with Patrick Schollmeyer: From Troy to Halicarnassus. Asia Minor Aegean coast as reflected in ancient testimonies from Homer to the Apostle Paul. A cultural and historical travel guide. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2020.

Audio books

  • Narcissus and Goldmund. Ovid / Benjamin Britton, with Brigitte Goebel (speaker), Christian Petrenz (oboe), Würzburg (Königshausen & Neumann), 2005
  • All's well that ends well, with Brigitte Goebel (speaker), Silke Aichhorn (harp), Würzburg (Königshausen & Neumann), 2007
  • Medea, with Brigitte Goebel (speaker), Christian Petrenz (oboe); Composition: Anno Schreier, Mainz (Studio Tonmeister), 2008

Essays

  • Didactic and methodological considerations on Greek grammar teaching, in: AU XI / 3, 1968, pp. 64–82
  • Franz Kafka's story "The Metamorphosis" and Homer's Iliad, in: AU XXI / 5, 1978, pp. 6-18
  • Greek textbooks, in: AU XXII / 1, 1979, pp. 9-96
  • Interpretation in the reading phase. Tasks, goals, possibilities, in: AU XXXII / 6, 1989, pp. 5–20
  • "Zeus, whoever he is." (Aeschylus). God and man in antiquity, in: Holger Lamm (Ed.): 50 Years of the German-Greek Society, Wiesbaden, (Chelmos), 2009, pp. 37–56
  • The rediscovery of Greece in the 19th century. Reports from contemporary witnesses, in: NeaFoni, Nov. 2007, pp. 34–45, January 2008, pp. 27–34
  • Iphigenia in Orem and Aulis. Neil LaBute, Aischylos and Euripides, in: Michael Frings (Ed.): Vernetzt Sprachunterricht, Stuttgart (ibidem), 2017, pp. 195-204
  • Death for the fatherland. Two fallen speeches: Pericles and Abraham Lincoln. In: Michael Frings et al. (Ed.): Networked language teaching . Stuttgart (ibidem), 2017, pp. 205-214
  • The oath in the "Medea" of Euripides. in: Forum Classicum 3/2015, pp. 167–173

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of alumni and friends of Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium eV: from alumni - for alumni - about alumni: Kurt Roeske. (No longer available online.) In: vere.hvgg.de. February 15, 2013, archived from the original on February 23, 2017 ; accessed on February 23, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Verein.hvgg.de
  2. ↑ Petra Giegerich: Kurt Roeske receives the Diether von Isenburg medal. In: uni-mainz.de. November 6, 2009. Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Kurt Roeske receives an honorary doctorate from the Department of History and Cultural Studies. In: uni-mainz.de. May 3, 2018, accessed July 16, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Viola Bolduan: Classical philologist Kurt Roeske receives an honorary doctorate from Johannes Gutenberg University. In: Allgemeine-zeitung.de. May 8, 2018, accessed July 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Roeske, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam