Peter Stein (Germanist)

Peter Stein (* 1941 ) is a German specialist in German .

Life

After studying in Marburg and Hamburg, he was lecturer at the German Center in Norrköping (Sweden) in 1966/67, and received his doctorate in Hamburg in 1971 . From 1968 to 1974 he was in the Hamburg school service. From 1974 to 1986 he was an academic adviser in teaching German, from 1986 to 2004 he taught as academic director and (from 1999) as an adjunct professor in the field of language and communication of the master’s course in applied cultural studies . From 1987 to 1988 Stein was dean of the educational sciences department, and from 1990 to 1992 prorector of the University of Lüneburg. In 1994 he was one of the co-founders of the Vormärz Research Forum (FVF, Bielefeld). In 1997 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hanover, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences with the Venia for Modern German Literature History and Modern German Press History.

His research areas are literature from the German pre-March period (1815–1848); Politics and literature; Heinrich Mann; Writing culture and press history.

Fonts (selection)

• Political consciousness and artistic creative will in political poetry 1780–1848 (= dissertations in the humanities and social sciences . Volume 12). Lüdke, Hamburg 1971, ISBN 3-920588-12-6 (also dissertation, Hamburg 1971).
• as editor: Theory of Political Poetry. 19 essays (= Nymphenburg Texts on Science . Volume 13). Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-485-03213-1 .
• The Vormärz period problem (1815–1848) (= Metzler Collection . Volume 132). Metzler, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-476-10132-0 .
• as editor: How much literature do students need? Critical balance and new perspectives in literary teaching . Metzler, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-476-30183-4 .
• The NS-Gaupresse 1925–1933. Research report - source criticism - new inventory. Munich u. a .: Saur, 1987, (= Dortmund contributions to newspaper research, vol. 42), ISBN 3-598-21299-2
• The northeast Lower Saxony daily press. From the beginning to 1945. A manual. Stade: Landschaftsverband, 1994, ISBN 3-9801919-5-8 .
• as editor with Florian Vaßen : 1848 and the German Vormärz . (= Forum Vormärz research . Yearbook 3) Aisthesis, Bielefeld 1998, ISBN 3-89528-195-6 .
• as editor with Wolfgang Beutin : Willibald Alexis. An author between pre-march and post-march . (= Vormärz studies . Volume 4) Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89528-275-8 .
• as editor with Wolfgang Bunzel and Florian Vaßen: Romantik und Vormärz. On the archeology of literary communication in the first half of the 19th century. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89528-391-6 .
• Heinrich Mann . Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-10340-4 .
• Writing culture. A story of writing and reading . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-15404-5 .
  • Writing culture. A story of writing and reading . Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-89678-564-8 .
    • Writing culture. A story of writing and reading. 2nd, revised edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-23635-0 .
      • Writing culture. A story of writing and reading. 2nd, revised edition. Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-89678-695-1 .
• as editor with Hartmut Stein: Chronicle of German literature. Data, texts, contexts . Kröner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-520-84201-5 .

• as editor: Heinrich Mann. Essays and journalism. Volume I: May 1889 to August 1904. (with the assistance of Manfred Hahn and Anne Flierl). Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-89528-935-4 .
• The ends of the song. Problems of aesthetic operativity in the literature of the German Vormärz . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-6082-3 .
• Literature and public life. Heinrich Mann's way into the modern age . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-8260-6969-7 .

Web links

• Directory of Germanists: Apl. Prof. Peter Stein
• Leuphana University of Lüneburg: Prof. Dr. Peter Stein, retired