Peter Becher (literary historian)

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Peter Becher (born November 3, 1952 in Munich ) is a German literary historian and writer . His father was the expellee politician and CSU member of the Bundestag Walter Becher , who was one of the founders of the association named after Adalbert Stifter in 1947: Munich District Court VR 4185 Adalbert Stifter Association May 5, 1947. His mother comes from Styria. Since 1986 he has been managing director of the Adalbert Stifter Verein . At the Federal Foundation for Flight, Displacement, Reconciliation, he is a member of the scientific advisory group. Likewise with the center against evictions .

Life

Becher does not come "from a Sudeten German dignitary family" for liqueur production. as he said in the broadcast of December 28, 2006, 8.15 p.m. Dr. Peter Becher Managing Director of the Adalbert Stifter Verein eV in conversation with Dr. Eberhard Büssem put it right:

“Let me start with the ' Becherovka ': We are repeatedly referred to this company, which used to be called 'Becherbitter'. It is true that the founder of this liquor company comes from broader relatives, but he is not a direct ancestor of mine. ... The liqueur factory came from one branch, so to speak, and we from a somewhat poorer branch. "

In his high school years he played as a handball player in the national junior team. After graduating from the Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium in Munich, he did community service and then studied German and history. In 1981 he received his doctorate from Friedrich Prinz in Munich, a member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1979, with a thesis on literary and historiographical depictions of the fall of the Danube monarchy . He gained his first professional experience in youth work (BdP) at Bayerischer Rundfunk, his father was also a broadcasting councilor: “The state parliament delegated five of its members, including for the GB / BHE party, to this mixed body that has to watch out for Bavarian radio / NDU the Dr. Walter Becher… “There was no employment at the Goethe-Institut because of joining the Adalbert Stifter Verein:

“Because I actually already had the prospect of a job at the Goethe-Institut after I had passed the selection process, which I was very happy at the time. But then the year of preparation, which you have to complete there, has been suspended for a whole year. Exactly in this year the management position of the Adalbert-Stifter-Verein was advertised because my predecessor Johanna von Herzogenberg has retired. So I applied and thought, 'Why not?' I was almost amazed when I was offered this position. And of course my family background also plays a role. My family on my father's side comes from Karlsbad. So I also had an affinity for the cultural history of this country. "

- Till Janzer : Interview: Kultursalon - “No fear of contact” - the Adalbert Stifter Association and relations with the Czech Republic from May 4, 2017

Becher is a member of the Czech PEN , the Advisory Board for the German-Czech Discussion Forum (2000–2012), the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts , there has been a holder of the “Pro meritis” medal since 2003, and a corresponding member of the Adalbert Stifter Institute of Upper Austria.

He is a member of the SPD and the social democratic Seliger community . He promotes the center against evictions .

In his capacity as managing director of the Adalbert Stifter Verein , Peter Becher is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg.

Peter Becher is married and lives in Pullach near Munich.

Awards

Publications

  • The fall of Kakania. Representation of a historical phenomenon. Frankfurt a. M. 1982 (Phil. Diss.).
  • Oh, founder. A Czech-German correspondence with Ludvík Vaculík . Munich 1991.
  • Between Munich, Prague and Vienna. Essays and feature sections . Munich 1995.
  • Adalbert Stifter. Longing for harmony. A biography . Regensburg 2005.
  • Night flight , novel. Passau 2009.
  • The lion from Vyšehrad. Essays, feature sections, speeches. Passau 2012.

Editing

  • Bohemia. View across the border. Travel reading book. Together with Hubert Ettl. Viechtach 1991
  • Prague hub. On German emigration in Czechoslovakia 1933–1939. Together with Peter Heumos. Munich 1992
  • Same pictures, same words. Germans, Austrians and Czechs in the caricature 1848–1948. Together with Jozo Dzambo. Munich 1997
  • German-Czech Almanac 2000. Together with Ivan Binar. Munich 2000
  • German-Czech almanac 2002. Together with Ivan Binar. Munich 2001
  • Literature under the swastika. Bohemia and Moravia 1939–1945. Together with Ingeborg Fiala-Fürst. Prague 2005
  • Praha-Prague 1900–1945. City of literature for two languages. Together with Anna Knechtel. Passau 2010
  • Kafka and Prague. Literature, cultural, social and linguistic historical contexts. Together with Steffen Höhne and Marek Nekula. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2012
  • with Jozo Džambo and Anna Knechtel: Prague - Province. Interactions and contrasts in the German-language regional literature of Bohemia, Moravia and Sudeten Silesia. Arco, Wuppertal 2014, ISBN 978-3-938375-53-2 .
  • Kakan contexts. Talk about the center of Europe. Otto Müller, Salzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7013-1216-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Becher, Peter: The beginnings of the Adalbert Stifter Verein (1947–1953). In: 50 Years of the Adalbert Stifter Association 1947–1997. Munich 1998, 12-22; Paleczek, Raimund: From Prague to Munich. The founders of the Adalbert Stifter Association. In: 60 years of the Adalbert Stifter Association. Ceremony, Chronicle 1998–2007, Colloquium. Munich 2008, 141–153; Pohl, Karin: Between Dependence and Promotion. The early years of the Adalbert Stifter Verein (1947–1957) in ibid., 155–170.
  2. ↑ https://www.sfvv.de/de/stiftung/wissenschaftlicher-beraterkreis
  3. ↑ K.-M. Gauss: Everyday life in the world. Two years and many more. Vienna 2015. p. 304.
  4. ↑ https://www.br.de/fernsehen/ard-alpha/sendung/alpha-forum/peter-becher-gespraech100.html
  5. ↑ K.-M. Gauss: Everyday life in the world. Two years and many more. Vienna 2015. p. 305.
  6. ↑ Who was "Dr. WB "? In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1959, pp. 27 f . ( online - June 3, 1959 ).
  7. ↑ Till Janzer: “No fear of contact” - the Adalbert Stifter Association and relations with the Czech Republic. In: Radio Praha. May 4, 2017, Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ http://www.sudetendeutsche-akademie.eu/promeritis.php
  9. ↑ People by our side
  10. ↑ Comments on motivation ( Memento from May 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Mug, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian and writer, managing director of the Adalbert Stifter Verein
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich