Rolf Bräuer

This article deals with the literary scholar, medievalist and translator Rolf Bräuer. For anglists and literary theorists see Rolf Breuer , for bank managers see Rolf-E. Breuer .

Rolf Bräuer (born December 30, 1933 in Magdeburg ; † February 10, 2017 ) was a German literary scholar , medievalist and translator.

Rolf Bräuer was born in 1933. After completing his doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin , Bräuer completed his habilitation there in 1968. Subsequently, he was Professor of Older German Literature at the Institute for German Philology at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald , where he continued after his retirement continued to hold a teaching position.

Bräuer died at the age of 83.

Fonts (selection)

Scientific writings:

• 1965: The three versions of the legendary novel of St. Oswald and the problem of the so-called minstrel poetry . Berlin: Humboldt University. Dissertation.
• 1969: The structure of the courtship scheme as the dominant building principle of early bourgeois German epic poetry . Berlin: Humboldt University. Habilitation thesis .
• 1970: Sociology of literature and epic structure of German minstrels and hero poetry
• 1990 (ed.): History of German literature. Vol. 2., The hero minne, triuwe and êre: literary history of the Middle High German heyday. Berlin: people and knowledge. ISBN 3-06-102749-1
• 1992 (Mithrsg.): Medieval literary historiography: Gustav Ehrismann zum Gedächtnis; (Symposium Greifswald, September 18 to September 23, 1991) . Göppingen: Kümmerle. ISBN 3-87452-814-6
• 1991: Poetry of the European Middle Ages. A guide through the narrative literature. Munich: CH Beck. ISBN 3-406-34563-8
• 1998 (Ed.): The German literature of the Middle Ages in a European context; Greifswald conference, September 11-15, 1995 , ISBN 3-87452-897-9

Translations:

• 1963: Vladimir Maximov , I want to live . Berlin: Verl. Kultur u. progress
• 1969: Sinowi Jurew , Mr. Gropper's strange death . Berlin: Verl. Kultur u. progress
• 2003: Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Guilt and Atonement . Paperback. Berlin: construction. ISBN 978-3746620329
• 2008: Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Guilt and Atonement . Hardback edition. Berlin: construction. ISBN 978-3746661025

Web links

• Literature by and about Rolf Bräuer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Rolf Bräuer in the state bibliography MV
• Entry in the directory of Germanists

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice in the Ostsee-Zeitung from February 18, 2017.