Sibylle Penkert

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Sibylle Penkert (born October 8, 1935 in Hindenburg , Upper Silesia) is a German literary historian .

Life

After graduating from high school in Helmstedt in 1955, Sibylle Penkert trained as a translator and interpreter at the SDI ( Munich ) and at the ADI (now FTSK) (University of Mainz, Germersheim Department ), completing a Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency. From 1957 she studied German and history at the University of Göttingen with Albrecht Schöne and Percy Ernst Schramm . She was responsible feuilleton-editor of the student newspaper prism , as in 1959 the poem Missa Profana of Reinhard Döhlpublished there in her absence and subsequently became the subject of a process that led to a fundamental judgment on the freedom of art (BVG 1962). She received her doctorate in 1967 with a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on the art historian and anarchist writer Carl Einstein .

From 1967 to 1976 she worked as assistant to Peter Michelsen at the University of Heidelberg (DFG habilitation grant from 1971–1973) and was then appointed for a year as an associate professor at Ohio State University . After working at the Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel and at the Hermann Hesse Archive in Bern, she went to the University of Witten-Herdecke as a research assistant to the Rector (re-established 1982–1986). She then worked at Deutsche Welle (Cologne) as a media scientist and journalist for international film festivals and edited the Helge Pross archive at the Siegen University. From 1993 to 1994 she taught at the Russian State Humanistic University in Moscow (RGGU) as a professor of baroque poetry and from 1994 to 1997 as a visiting professor in the same area at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). From 1997 to 1998 she switched to the University of Essen as a lecturer , from 1998 to 1999 she was professor at New York University and finally from 2000 to 2009 she was professor of the Johann Gottfried Herder program at the State Buryat University in Ulan Ude (RUS). In addition, she was visiting professor at Tomsk University (RUS). In 2001 she was awarded the professorship hc for Eastern Europe / Central Asia by the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. She published four books and numerous essays on the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries. Her focus is on Jewish art and literature on the political history of the 20th century since 1963.

Publications

Own contributions

  • 1969: Carl Einstein. Contributions to a monograph (= Palaestra 255). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen: MDZ Munich
  • 1970: Carl Einstein . Introduction with an appendix to unpublished legacy texts, 2 illustrations and 2 letter facsimiles (series Verschollene and Vergessene der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz), Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden
  • 1973: three hundred years later. Unknown Grimmelshausen manuscripts, various illustrations, in: Yearbook of the German Schiller Society, Vol. 17, Marbach, 1973, pp. 3–20. ISBN 352087301X
  • 1983: The literary documentary as a scientific medium (with the example of Penkert / Wilms-Film 1977: Grimmelshausen - Chronicler of terrible time , Hessischer Rundfunk, 45 minutes), in: Texts and literary genres (Ed. Wolfgang Bachofer), Erich Schmidt Vlg., Berlin , Pp. 723–735 (= congress lecture Germanistentag Hamburg 1979). ISBN 3503016392
  • 1988: Modern World View and German Baroque Literature , in: German and German Lessons in the Age of Technology, Vol. 1 (History of Science) Niemeyer Vlg., Tübingen, pp. 43–57. ISBN 3484105925
  • 1996: Biographical information from the Helge Pross estate (Franz Neumann) , in: Helge Pross. Biographical information from the estate. Sabine Hering (ed.), Elke Hüwel (red.), 1st edition, Siegen 1996, p. 23 f., P. 29-32 and passim
  • 1996: From Afro-Cubism to the "informe" discourse on myths. On Carl Einstein's "Negerplastik" , in: Protomoderne (Ed. Carola Hilmes / Dietrich Mathy), Aisthesis VIg., Bielefeld, pp. 127–142, ISBN 3895281794

Editing

  • Emblem and Emblematic Reception: Comparative Studies on the History of Effects from the 16th to the 20th Century. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1978. ISBN 9783534053964
  • Cultural transfer and gender research. Transcultural and Gender Studies. Edited by Sibylle Penkert and Sigrid Bauschinger . Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002 to 2013 (10 volumes)

Remarks

  1. missa profana. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  2. UNIVERSITIES / STUDENTS: The avant-garde - DER SPIEGEL 32/1959. Retrieved on July 20, 2020 (see also Spiegel 42/1960).
  3. 'Carl Einstein. Contributions to a monograph '. Göttingen 1969: MDZ Munich.
  4. Sabine Hering / Elke Hüwel: Helge Pross: Trailblazer in women's research. Biographical information from the estate. Pp. 15, 84 , accessed on July 20, 2020 .
  5. Johann Gottfried Herder Program