Roland Berbig

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Roland Berbig (born May 12, 1954 in Quedlinburg ) is a German literary scholar . He was a professor of modern German literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Life

Roland Berbig studied English , American , German and pedagogy at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1974 to 1978 . In 1981 he received his doctorate with the work Interpretative Investigations on Poetic Forms of Inheritance using selected examples of Hölderlin's reception in GDR poetry and then worked as a research assistant at the Film Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg and at the Humboldt University . In 1994 he completed his habilitation with the writing of writer profiles and literary associations. Contribution to the literary history of Berlin in the 19th century and was an adjunct professor at Humboldt University from 2000 to 2019 .

He is a member of the board of the Theodor Fontane Society , his main research areas are literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Theodor Fontane , Günter Eich , Uwe Johnson and GDR literature .

Publications

As a writer

  • with Bettina Hartz: Theodor Fontane in literary life. Newspapers and magazines, publishers and associations . (= Writings of the Theodor Fontane Society, Vol. 3). de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-016293-8 .
  • with Josefine Kitzbichler: Theodor Fontane Chronik , five volumes. de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-018910-0 .
  • At the edge of the world. Günter Eich in Geisenhausen 1944–1954 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1259-3 .
  • Günter Eich and Baden-Baden (= traces, issue 114). German Schiller Society, Marbach am Neckar 2017, ISBN 978-3-944469-16-4 .

As editor

  • with Erdmut Wizisla : "Where I'm from ...". Uwe Johnson in the GDR Edition Context, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-86161-008-6 .
  • with Thomas Herold, Gesine Treptow, Thomas Wild: Uwe Johnson. Friendships. Conversations, documents, essays . Edition Context, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931337-40-5 .
  • Silent Mail - Unofficial writers' contacts between West and East. From Christa Wolf to Günter Grass to Wolf Biermann . Ch. Links, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-349-9 .
  • Fontane as a biographer (= writings of the Theodor Fontane Society, Vol. 7). de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022478-8 .
  • Discontinued model »GDR literature«. Essays and documents . Ch.links, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86153-974-2 .

literature

  • Katrin von Boltenstern, Michaela Nowotnick: "The world takes place in corners". For Roland Berbig - instead of a commemorative publication . Berlin 2019.

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Footnotes

personal data
SURNAME Berbig, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg