Leonore Krenzlin

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Leonore Krenzlin (* 1934 in Leipzig ) is a German Germanist .

Life and career

Leonore Krenzlin studied German at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1953 to 1957 , where she worked as a research assistant from 1959 to 1964.

From 1970 to 1990 she was a research assistant at the Central Institute for the History of Literature at the Academy of Sciences in the GDR . She was a collaborator and author on the history of German literature , (Volume 10: 1917–1945), which was written by a collective of authors led by Hans Kaufmann and Dieter Schiller. She researched and published on the literature of National Socialism, on the writers of the " inner emigration " (including Friedrich Griese , Willy Sachse and Ernst Wiechert ), on the problem of remigration after 1945 and on GDR literature .

Her dissertation from 1978 Hermann Kant - Leben und Werk appeared as a book for the first time in 1979. It is available in several editions (3rd expanded edition 1988) and is considered the standard work of the Hermann Kant biographies .

Leonore Krenzlin is the eldest daughter of the art historian Herbert Zschelletzschky . She lives in Berlin and has two daughters, Kathleen Krenzlin and Nele Krenzlin. She has been married to the German specialist Dieter Schiller since 1979 .

Publications (selection)

  • Münz-Koenen, Ingeborg / Therese Hörnigk / Gudrun Klatt / Leonore Krenzlin / Ursula Reinhold (author collective): Literary life in the GDR 1945–1960. Literary concepts and reading programs (literature and society) . Berlin, Akademie-Verlag 1979
  • Hermann Kant . Life and work . Berlin, VEB Verlag Volk und Wissen 1980
  • About the documents: Journalism 1957–1980 by Hermann Kant . Selection: Leonore Krenzlin, Aufbau Verlag Berlin and Weimar 1981
  • Looking for a changed way of life. Ernst Wiechert's “The Simple Life”. In: Experience Nazi Germany Novels in Germany 1933–1945. Ed. V. Sigrid Bock and Mund Manfred Hahn, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and Weimar 1987, pp. 384–411
  • «The formalism plenary». The introduction of an art-political argumentation model in: J. Cerny (Ed.): Fractions, crises, turning points. New surveys of GDR history, Leipzig 1990, p. 50ff.
  • From youth communique to poet scolding . In: Clear-cutting. The 11th plenum of the Central Committee of the SED in 1965. Studies and documents. Ed. V. Günter Agde. Berlin 1991, pp. 148-158
  • Big controversy or little dialogue? Attempts at conversation and breaking points between external and internal literary emigrants . In: Gallery. Revue culturelle et pedagogique, Luxembourg, 15 (1997) 1, p. 725
  • Social retraining and a new lifestyle: The “ Bitterfeld Way ” and a look at Brigitte Reimann , in: Als I have two lives (1998), pp. 121–132
  • Behind the open letters. The initial spark and motivational network of the dispute between internal and external emigration . In: Literature in the political field of tension in the post-war period. Minutes of the international conference on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1st German Writers' Congress in 1947. Ed. Ursula Heugenkamp and Ursula Reinhold, Berlin 1998, pp. 169–186
  • Education behind barbed wire. The value and dilemma of Ernst Wiechert's conservative opposition . In: The Third Weimar. Classics and Culture in National Socialism. Edited by Lothar Ehrlich, Jürgen John and Justus H. Ulbricht, Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar Vienna 1999, pp. 149–161
  • Autobiography as a determination of one's position. Ernst Wiechert's “Forests and People” in the context of the time of origin , in: Assurance and Consolation - About Ernst Wiechert , Ed. Hans-Martin Pleßke / Klaus Weigelt, Frankfurt / Main 1999, (Writings of the International Ernst Wiechert Society; Vol. 2 ) ISBN 3-89501-784-1
  • Red sailor and resistance fighter. The unknown writer Willy Sachse. In: Utopia creative. Discussion of socialist alternatives. Issue 102, April 1999, pp. 47-55
  • The Mecklenburg writer Friedrich Griese : blood and soil ideologist, local poet or socially critical narrator? , in: Approach to Friedrich Griese - Life and Work (2000), pp. 11–24, ISBN 978-3-910170-45-2
  • Gerhard Scholz and his circle: Comments on an unconventional draft of effective literature and literary studies . In: Weimar Classic in the Ulbricht Era, Cologne [u. a.] 2000, pp. 195-217
  • Fantastic detours into the historical space , in: Yearbook of the Anna Seghers Society 9/2000
  • Collaboration on: Turning the world upside down, because that's what it boils down to: The correspondence between Bettina von Arnim and Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Ed. Ursula Püschel , Bielefeld Aisthesis, 2001
  • The "Eastern War" in GDR fiction . In: We are the masters of this country: causes, course and consequences of the German attack on the Soviet Union , Babette Quinkert (ed.) - Hamburg 2002
  • Between all stools - Ernst Wiechert in the political public 1933 to 1947 , in: Of lasting things - About Ernst Wiechert, ed. Bärbel Beutner / Hans-Martin Pleßke, Frankfurt / Main 2002 (publications of the International Ernst Wiechert Society; Volume 3 ), ISBN 3-8301-0402-2
  • Returnees of the First World War: A comparison of the motifs of Friedrich Griese's “Fire” with two earlier novels by Ernst Wiechert , in: Das Frühwerk Friedrich Grieses (2002), pp. 66–80
  • (together with Dieter Schiller :) Letters from exile to Moscow. The correspondence between Anna Seghers and the editors of the Moscow magazines “Das Wort” and “Internationale Literatur” between 1933 and 1945 . In: Argonaut ship. Yearbook of the Anna Seghers Society, No. 11, Berlin 2002, pp. 261–303
  • A local legend and the ideological pitfalls of a novel: On Friedrich Griese's “The White Heads” (1939) . In: Monika Schürmann / Reinhard Rösler (eds.), Literature and literary politics in the Third Reich. The Doberaner Dichtertag 1936–1943, Rostock 2003, pp. 211–234
  • Polemical catchphrase and National Socialist battle term: The formula “blood and soil” in literature. In: Seven decades of experience: January 30, 1993. Ed. Thuringian Forum for Education and Science eV, Jena 2003, pp. 119–136
  • Espacepublic et exclusion. Two polémiques littéraires dans l'Allemagne de l'après-guerre. in: Valerie Robert (ed.): Intellectuels et polemiques dans l'espace germanophone. Paris 2003, pp. 175-186
  • After the pyre. Reactions of writers in the German Reich In: Burning books. Memories of May 10, 1933. Ed. Margrit Bircken u. Helmut Peitsch, Potsdam 2003, pp. 84–94
  • Faust in production? GDR variations in dealing with the classic . In: Goethe in the GDR. Concepts, points of contention and new perspectives. Series: Issues on GDR history No. 79, ed. v. Herbert Meyer, Helmut Meier, Detlef Nakath, Peter Welker. Berlin 2003, pp. 47-55
  • The matter of the soil and the blood. The narrator's dilemma, Friedrich Griese . In: Mythical Mecklenburg. Early texts by Friedrich Griese. Contributions to the 3rd Lehsten Literature Day. Edited by Association for the promotion of culture, art and education in the countryside. Federchen Verlag, Neubrandenburg 2004, pp. 63–83
  • History of Failure - History of Learning? Reflections on the situation before and after the “Great Controversy” and the motivation of its actors . In: Foreign homeland. Remigration and literary life after 1945. Ed. Irmela von der Lühe and Claus-Dieter Krohn . Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2005
  • Brown, the lignite and the ethos of production. On the social context of the play "Die Kipper" by Volker Braun. In: Argonaut ship. Yearbook of the Anna Seghers Society, No. 15, Berlin 2006, pp. 153–162
  • Inner Emigration - Blurring and Chances of a Literary Concept , in: Yearbook of the Hans Fallada Society 5/2006
  • Entangled in history: Friedrich Griese's local historical novel “The Duke” , in: Mecklenburg und seine Geschichte 2007, pp. 26–34.
  • Refusal of respect and the design of an alternative world. Ernst Wiechert's novel "The Exotic" . In: An interview with Ernst Wiechert. Encounters and insights into his work. Edited by Leonore Krenzlin u. Klaus Weigelt, De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, pp. 167–183. (Writings of the International Ernst Wiechert Society, Vol. 4).
  • Thomas Mann and Ernst Wiechert. A relationship between animosity and insight . In: An interview with Ernst Wiechert. Encounters and insights into his work. Edited by Leonore Krenzlin u. Klaus Weigelt, De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, pp. 15–33. (Writings of the International Ernst Wiechert Society, Vol. 4).
  • Ghost dance and Masurian melancholy. Ernst Wiechert's unpublished first novel “Der Buchenhügel” . In: An interview with Ernst Wiechert. Encounters and insights into his work. Edited by Leonore Krenzlin u. Klaus Weigelt, De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, pp. 131–144. (Writings of the International Ernst Wiechert Society, Vol. 4).
  • Present and utopia. Brecht's “Büsching Fragment” and “Moritz Tassow” by Peter Hacks . In: Good people are good everywhere. Hacks and Brecht. Aurora Verlag, Berlin 2010, pp. 59–75.
  • “I don't pick up a stone”. Thomas Mann's first letter to Walter von Molo. In: First letters from exile 1945–1950. Impossible conversations. Case studies of literary and artistic exile. Ed. V. Primus Heinz Kucher, Johannes F. Evelein, Helga Schreckenberger, edition text + kritik, Munich 2011, pp. 85–103
  • "You still don't return to a foreign country ...". The first letters of Johannes R. Becher. In: After the war. After exile? First letters / first letters. Case studies from social science and philosophical exile. Ed. V. Detlef Garz and David Kettler, edition text + kritik, Munich 2012
  • Friedrich Griese - life and work. In: Friedrich Griese and his time in the Fünfeichen camp. Edited by of the Fünfeichen working group, Neubrandenburg 2012
  • Camp frustration and Antifa. To depict the fate of the prisoners of war in GDR literature. In: Elke Scherstjanoi (Hrsg.): Russlandheimkehrer. The Soviet captivity of war in the memory of the Germans. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 1912, pp. 97-112
  • "Worries and power. A play about reality and utopia in the early GDR. In:" ... and take the opposite. Social utopias in hacks. Ed. V. Kai Köhler, Aurora Verlag Berlin 2013, pp. 97–112
  • "I wasn't a politicized writer, but a political person ..." - author's voice and fire death in Hermann Kant's post-reunification story "Kormoran". In: Literature Without a Country? Writing strategies of a GDR literature in a united Germany. Vol. 2, ed. v. Mirjam Meiser and Janine Ludwig, Association for the Promotion of Scientific Publications by Women, Eschborn 2014, pp. 121–135
  • Apotheosis or condemnation? Friedrich Griese's play Man made from earth. In: People made from words. Contributions from the Lehsten Literature Days to the work of Friedrich Griese Federchen Verlag Neubrandenburg 2014, pp. 34–50
  • Franz Villon's little brother. The young beer man in the GDR (1953–1965) . In: Reizland GDR. Interpretations and self-interpretations of literary East-West migrants. Edited by Margrid Bircken and Andreas Degen. V&R unipress Göttingen 2015, pp. 149–177
  • Committed literature in the GDR? . In: Writers and Revolution. Documentation of the anniversary conference 2013. Ed. Ian King and Steffen Ille (series of publications by the Tucholsky Society, vol. 8), Röhrig Universitätsverlag St. Ingbert 2015, pp. 169–184
  • Emigrants in their own country? On dealing with the expression 'inner emigration'. In: Between Inner Emigration and Exile. German-language writers 1933–1945, de Gruyter Berlin / Boston 2016, pp. 11–27
  • (together with Dieter Schiller :) Review of a lost country. Studies and sketches on the literature of the GDR (= explorations - drafts - experiences, vol. 22). Edition Schwarzdruck , Gransee 2019, ISBN 978-3-96611-000-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Krenzlin, Leonore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig