Kurt Wais

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Kurt Wais (born January 9, 1907 in Stuttgart , † September 13, 1995 ) was a German Romance scholar , Germanist and comparativeist .

life and work

Wais did his doctorate in Tübingen with Gerhard Rohlfs on Henrik Ibsen and the problem of the past in the context of contemporary intellectual history (Stuttgart 1931) and qualified as a professor in comparative literature and Romance philology on the anti-philosophical worldview of the French Sturm und Drang 1760–1789 (Berlin 1934). Wais was a member of the Kampfbund for German Culture and later a " NSDAP party candidate". In 1936/37 he took the chair for Romance Philology at the University of Halle . From 1939 to 1942 he was associate professor in Tübingen and from 1942 to 1945 full professor in Strasbourg . From 1946 to 1952 he was a lecturer in Tübingen, Stuttgart and Bamberg. From 1952 to 1954 he was visiting professor in Tübingen. From 1954 he was an associate professor there, first for comparative literature, from 1958 also for Romance philology. From 1961 to 1975 he was a full professor of Romance philology and comparative literature at the University of Tübingen .

Fonts

Monographs

  • The father-son motif in the poetry , 2 vols., Berlin 1931
  • Henrik Ibsen worked in Spain, France, Italy, Braunschweig in 1933
  • Mallarmé. A poet at the end of the century , Munich 1938, 2nd expanded edition 1952
  • Early epic of Western Europe and the prehistory of the Nibelungenlied. Vol. 1. The songs about Krimhild, Brünhild, Dietrich u. her early relationships outside Germany , Tübingen 1953
  • Two poets from South America. Gabriela Mistral. Rómulo Gallegos , Berlin / Neuwied 1955
  • At the borders of national literature. Comparative essays , Berlin 1958
  • French landmarks from Racine to Saint-John Perse , Berlin 1958
  • The narrator Italo Svevo. Works and reception , Krefeld 1965
  • European literature in comparison. Collected essays , ed. by Johannes Hösle, Dieter Janik and Wolfgang Theile, Tübingen 1983

Editorships

  • Double versions of French poetry from Marot to Valéry , Halle 1936, 2nd revised edition, Tübingen 1963
  • The contemporary poetry of the European peoples , Berlin 1939
  • Research problems in comparative literary history. International contributions to the Tübingen literary historians conference, September 1950 , Tübingen 1951, 2nd episode (edited together with Fritz Ernst ) Tübingen 1958
  • The Arthurian novel , Darmstadt 1970 (= ways of research 157)
  • Interpretations of French poems , Darmstadt 1970, 2nd edition 1990

literature

  • Contributions to comparative literary history. Festschrift for Kurt Wais on his 65th birthday , with the assistance of Wolfgang Eitel ed. by Johannes Hösle, Tübingen 1972
  • Chetana Nagavajara: Kurt Wais (1907-1995). Pioneer of German comparative literature, in: Weimarer Contributions 54, 2008, pp. 448–451
  • Wido Hempel in: Romanische Forschungen 107, 1995
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : Also a national science? German Romance Studies under National Socialism. In: Romanistische Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte 22, 1998, p. 267, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 25-opus-58102 .
  • Kurt Wai's estate in the German literature archive in Marbach

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank-Rutger Hausmann: Also a national science? German Romance Studies under National Socialism. In: Romanistische Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte 22, 1998, p. 267, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 25-opus-58102
personal data
SURNAME Wais, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wais, Kurt Karl Theodor; Wais, Kurt KT
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist, Germanist and comparativeist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1995