Silvia Schlenstedt

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Silvia and Dieter Schlenstedt in 1993 on Usedom

Silvia Schlenstedt (born April 10, 1931 in Wuppertal ; † March 16, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German German philologist and literary scholar .

Schlenstedt's family is of Jewish origin and had to flee into exile in 1934. The escape led the family to Spain and France as well as to Switzerland . In 1946 the family returned to Germany, four years later they moved to the GDR . Her father, Walther Pollatschek , described this time in the children's book Three Children Come Through the World (1947).

Schlenstedt studied German literature at the Humboldt University , where she in 1959 with a dissertation on the Svendborg poems by Bertolt Brecht doctorate . She then worked as an employee of the German Institute at Humboldt University. She later went to the Central Institute for the History of Literature at the Academy of Sciences in the GDR, where she was instrumental in the creation and publication of the Lexicon of Socialist German Literature (1963).

In 1976 she completed her habilitation . Six years later she was appointed professor. One of her most important areas of work was research into Spanish exile, the results of which were published in volume 6 of the series Art and Literature in Antifascist Exile 1933-1945 (Leipzig 1979-87, 7 volumes). In addition, she dealt intensively with German-Jewish literature and the poetry of Expressionism. In the 2000s she worked on the edition of Anna Seghers .

She was married to the German specialist Dieter Schlenstedt . An older sister of Silvia Schlenstedt is the artist Doris Pollatschek .

Publications (selection)

  • as ed. with Simone Barck, Tanja Bürgel, Volker Giel and Dieter Schiller: Lexicon of socialist German literature from the beginnings to 1945. Leipzig 1963.
    • Also as: Lexicon of socialist literature. Your story in Germany until 1945 . Stuttgart 1994.
  • "Variation in E flat major. Weltanschauung motifs and epic design in MW Schulz 'novel" We are not dust in the wind "." In: Weimar Contributions 1964, pp. 346–358.
  • "The WE and the I of Volker Braun". In: Weimar Contributions 1972, pp. 52–69.
  • Lexicon of socialist German literature from the beginnings to 1945. Monographic-biographical presentations . Berlin 1973.
  • with Hans Kaufmann and Dieter Schiller. History of German Literature , Vol. 9: From the end of the 19th century to 1917 , Vol. 10: From 1917 to 1945 . Berlin 1973-74.
  • World in socialist poem. Poets, methods and international tendencies in conversation. Berlin 1974.
  • as editor: Rainer Maria Rilke, poems. Leipzig 1975.
  • Parting away. German poetry in the decisive field of the revolutions of 1917 and 1918. Berlin 1976.
  • "Poetry in the overall production plan. A working principle of Brecht and problems of poems in exile." In: Weimar Contributions 1978, Vol. 24.2, pp. 5–29.
  • as editor: Iwan Goll , poetry album. Berlin 1982.
  • Introduction, the counter-attack. Antifascist weekly. Leipzig 1982.
  • Whoever writes acts. Strategies and procedures of literary work before and after 1933. Berlin 1983.
  • Stephan Hermlin, homme de lettres. Conversation between Silvia Schlenstedt and Stephan Hermlin in the summer of 1983. Berlin 1983.
  • with Dieter Schlenstedt: "Avant-garde, working class, heritage. Conversation on Peter Weiss'" The Aesthetics of Resistance "." In: Sinn und Form 1984, pp. 68–97.
  • as editor: letters to Hermlin. 1946-1984. Berlin / Weimar 1985.
  • Stephan Hermlin. His life and work. Berlin 1985.
  • as editor: Hermann Kesten, The children of Gernika . Leipzig 1985.
  • "" I can't speak the language of this cool country ": German-language poetry after 1900 by female poets of Jewish origin." In: Women, Literature, History , ed. v. Hiltrud Gnüg and Renate Möhrmann. Stuttgart 1985, pp. 387-402.
  • as publisher: Spain files Arendt. Found texts of Erich Arendt from the war in Spain. Rostock 1986.
  • as editor: Else Lasker-Schüler, I'm looking for a city everywhere. Poems, prose, letters. Leipzig 1988.
  • "Searching for stability in an unstable situation. The cultural work of German Jews in Germany after 1933 and the poet Gertrud Kolmar." In: Sinn und Form 1989, pp. 727-742.
  • "Hidden misfortunes and releasing memories. Signs of the self-image of socialist authors of Jewish origin in German literature after 1945." In: The Jewish Self-Portrait in European and American Literature , ed. v. Hans-Jürgen Schrader, Elliott M. Simon and Charlotte Wardi. Berlin 1996, pp. 171-186.
  • as editor: Anna Seghers, Transit . Berlin 2001.
  • as editor: Anna Seghers, On the way to the American embassy and other stories . Hildesheim 2008.
  • as ed. with Helen Fehervary, Christiane Zehl Romero and Bernhard Spies: Anna Seghers, Briefe 1924–1942. Berlin 2008.
  • as ed. with Helen Fehervary: Anna Seghers, Erzählungen 1933–1947. Berlin 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ berliner-zeitung.de

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personal data
SURNAME Schlenstedt, Silvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2011
Place of death Berlin