Martin Greiner

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Martin Greiner (* 23. November 1904 in Leipzig , † 7. November 1959 in Kassel ) was a German Germanist and literary scholar .

Life

Martin Greiner - a son of the engraver Richard Greiner - studied German, philosophy and history at the University of Leipzig from 1925 after attending the Alte Nikolaischule . His academic teachers included the Germanists Hermann August Korff , Theodor Frings and Georg Witkowski , the historians Erich Brandenburg , Alfred Doren and Siegmund Hellmann , the philosophers Hans Driesch and Theodor Litt, and the religious philosopher Paul Tillich . Greiner received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1929 under Theodor Frings with a dissertation on the early romantic feeling for nature under Ludwig Tieck and Novalis . As a scholarship holder of the Notgemeinschaft der deutschen Wissenschaft , he first worked in Berlin for Arthur Hübner and Julius Petersen , before starting his habilitation with Walther Brecht in Munich.

At the end of 1934, Martin Greiner and Irene Kahn, a daughter of the composer Robert Kahn, married . Shortly before his habilitation - after the National Socialists came to power - Greiner had to give up his planned academic career because of his wife's Jewish origins and take on activities in publishing. After an internship at the Koehler & Volkmar AG bar assortment in Leipzig, Greiner worked as a publishing editor at L. Staackmann Verlag. As a result of an exclusion procedure from the Reichsschrifttumskammer , he has not been able to publish his own texts since 1937. In 1944, Martin Greiner was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to the forced labor camp near Osterode .

After the end of the Second World War , the family came together again in Leipzig: The wife Irene Greiner and two children had had to live in hiding in Bützow ( Mecklenburg ) since the end of 1943 . On September 24, 1945, Martin Greiner was one of the founding members of the CDU in Leipzig in the Soviet occupation zone , where he worked as an assistant to Korff. Martin Greiner was able to do his habilitation with Korff and Frings in 1947 with the work The feeling of nature in the poetry of the 19th century . His appointment as full professor for modern language and literature within the Philosophical Faculty followed in April 1948.

When Hans Mayer from the Faculty of Social Sciences, which was dissolved in 1951, was appointed full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in July 1952, there were considerable conflicts between the two professors. For this reason, Greiner and his family moved from the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany in the same year . From 1955 he taught at the University of Giessen , where he was appointed full professor for literary studies and German literary history in 1958.

Martin Greiner died on November 7, 1959 as a result of a car accident. The children Gottfried (* 1940), Martina (* 1944) and Thomas (* 1948) came from his marriage.

Publications

Monographs

  • Between Biedermeier and bourgeoisie. A chapter of German literary history under the sign of Heine. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1954
  • Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel 1741–1796. Academic lecture at the annual celebration on July 1, 1958 in Giessen. Writings from the Justus Liebig University Giessen. Wilhelm Schmitz, Giessen 1958
  • The emergence of modern popular literature. Studies on the trivial novel of the 18th century. Posthumously edited and edited by Therese Poser. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1964

editor

  • Heinrich Heine . With an afterword from the editor. 2 volumes. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1956
  • Johann Gottfried Schnabel : The island rock castle. In an arrangement by Ludwig Tieck. With an afterword from the editor. Reclam, Stuttgart 1959

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Gerald Wiemers: The literary scholar Martin Greiner.
  2. ↑ Ralph Jessen : Academic Elite and Communist Dictatorship. The East German university teaching staff in the Ulbricht era. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, p. 365
  3. ↑ a b c Martin Greiner: The emergence of modern entertainment literature. Studies on the trivial novel of the 18th century. Edited and edited by Therese Poser. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1964, p. 146
  4. ^ Walther Brecht in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  5. ↑ a b c d Gerald Wiemers: Short career, but rich apprenticeship. P. 34f
  6. ↑ The Jews of Bützow
personal data
SURNAME Greiner, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1959
Place of death kassel