Manfred Haiduk
Manfred Paul Otto Haiduk (born March 27, 1929 in Breslau ) is a German literary scholar .
Life
Haiduk, the son of a tailor and a seamstress, went to school in Breslau and completed an administration apprenticeship in Neustrelitz . From 1948 to 1950 he attended the workers and farmers faculty in Rostock and then studied German, history and psychology at the University of Rostock until 1954 . In 1958 he became ibid with the work nature and language of the polemical writings of Thomas Mann in humanities doctorate . 1968 followed his habilitation with the dramatist Peter Weiss .
From 1968 to 1972 Haiduk was director of the Rostock Baltic Sea studio of the German television station (successor to Konrad Kutzner). He was a member of the SED and was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1978 .
Haiduk was professor for literary studies and later for cultural theory and aesthetics at the Wilhelm Pieck University Rostock, today's University of Rostock . His main focus is the literature of the 20th century, especially the works of Thomas Mann and Peter Weiss . His correspondence with Peter Weiss was published in 2010 with the title This and Beyond the Border .
Haiduk is considered one of the best experts on the dramatic work of Peter Weiss and was close friends with the playwright until his death in 1982. Between 1965 and 1978 he was involved in almost all Weiss productions at the Rostock Volkstheater as a scientific advisor. Up until the 1980s, the Rostock theater was the home stage of Peter Weiss in the GDR . Haiduk edited in the GDR a. a. the Weiss pieces Der Turm , Marat / Sade , Gesang vom Lusitanischen Popanz , Vietnam Discourse and the Strindberg translations. The emergence of Weiss' most important work The Aesthetics of Resistance and its publication in the GDR followed Haiduk intensively between 1974 and 1983. Together with Peter Weiss, he edited their last-hand edition , the original text of which, authorized by Weiss, has only been published by Henschel-Verlag to this day , not by the licensor Suhrkamp .
As a former university professor, Manfred Haiduk is the role model for the fictional character Dr. Halbach in the novel Changes in the higher semesters by the author Wolfgang Trampe , published in 1982 by Aufbau-Verlag . Detlef Hamer dedicated the chapter annual work with Manfred Haiduk to him in his work Mein Kurzes Leben , published in 2012 .
Haiduk is an honorary member of the International Peter Weiss Society .
Works (selection)
- Nature and language of the polemical writings of Thomas Mann . Rostock 1960 (= dissertation, University of Rostock 1960).
- The playwright Peter Weiss . 2., ext. u. revised Edition Henschelverlag, Berlin 1977.
Web links
- Literature by and about Manfred Haiduk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Manfred Haiduk in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haiduk, Manfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haiduk, Manfred Paul Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |