Michael Knoche

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Michael Knoche (2018)

Michael Knoche (born April 26, 1951 in Werdohl ) is a German German scholar and librarian .

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Knoche attended the old-language state Görres-Gymnasium (Düsseldorf) , where he passed his Abitur in 1970. From 1971 to 1979 he studied German, Catholic theology and philosophy in Tübingen and completed his studies with a state examination in these subjects. From 1978 to 1980 he trained for the higher library service in Karlsruhe and Cologne. 1985 also followed in Tübingen a doctorate in German studies on the subject of “Folk literature and folk writing associations in Vormärz. Theoretical and institutional aspects of a literary movement ”. This was followed, among other things, as a research assistant at Springer Verlag in Heidelberg from 1986 to 1990. From 1991 to 2016 Knoche was director of the Central Library of German Classics (later Duchess Anna Amalia Library ). He has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 2019 .

Awards

  • 2008: Gutenberg Prize of the City of Mainz and the International Gutenberg Society
  • 2008: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2013: International League of Antiquarian Booksellers "Patron of Honor Award"
  • 2017: "Golden Luther Medal" from the Luther Foundation

Fonts (selection)

  • Folk literature and folk writing associations in Vormärz. Literary theoretical and institutional aspects of a literary movement . Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 978-3-7657-1369-9 (dissertation, archive for the history of the book industry; vol. 27).
  • The library is on fire. A report from Weimar . 4., corr. and exp. Edition Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1385-9 .
  • with Manfred Hamm, Claudia Kleinbub: The Duchess Anna Amalia Library. A portrait . 2nd, edition Otto Meissner Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-87527-124-9 .
  • On the way to the research library. Studies from the Duchess Anna Amalia Library . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-465-04278-5 .
  • The idea of ​​the library and its future . 3rd edition Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3236-2 .

literature

  • Christa Jansohn: Michael Knoche and the development of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library at a glance: numbers, data, facts. In: "Books are just thick letters to friends": Festgabe for Michael Knoche. Library director of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library for 25 years (1991–2016). LIT, Münster 2016.
  • 300/25 years = supralibros. Announcements of the Society Anna Amalia Library Issue 19, September 2016 [including 33 contributions]

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personal data
SURNAME Knoche, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Werdohl / Westphalia