Thomas Michael Mayer

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Thomas Michael Mayer (born November 29, 1946 in Munich ; † June 17, 2010 in Marburg ) was a German German studies scholar and Georg Büchner researcher.

After studying German, Mayer received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1978 . He was a university assistant there and moved to the Philipps University of Marburg in 1981 . Here he set up the Georg Büchner Research Center - Literature and History of the Vormärz and prepared an application for funding for a historically critical Büchner edition in the long-term program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) . He had been academic advisor at the Institute for Modern German Literature in Marburg since 1986 and was co-editor of the Büchner edition, the first volumes of which appeared in 2000. In 2003 he left the Georg Büchner Research Center , where he had worked closely with its director Burghard Dedner for many years . He retired in 2009.

In 1979 Mayer became the founding chairman of the Georg Büchner Society , which he headed until 1996. From 1981 to 2000 he edited nine volumes of the Georg Büchner Yearbook, some alone. In 1981 he organized the 1st International Georg Büchner Symposium in Darmstadt and in the same year he was the first to receive the Hessian Culture Prize . He was also instrumental in planning the Büchner exhibition in Darmstadt in 1987. Since the 1990s he has been one of the main participants in controversies within Büchner research, for example with Jan-Christoph Hauschild .

Fonts

  • Büchner and Weidig - Early Communism and Revolutionary Democracy. On the distribution of the text of the "Hessischen Landboten" , Edition Text & Criticism, Munich 1979 (= Edition Text + Criticism , special volume) (at the same time FU Berlin, phil. Diss., 1978), ISBN 978-3-921402-63-4 .
  • (Ed. With Reinhard Görisch): Research reports on the republican movement in Hesse 1831–1834. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 978-3-458-14044-3 .
  • (with Walter Grab ): Georg Büchner and the revolution of 1848. The Büchner essay by Wilhelm Schulz from 1851. Text and commentary. Athenaeum, Königstein 1985, ISBN 978-3-7610-8310-9 .
  • (Ed.): Georg Büchner. Life, work, time. Catalog. Exhibition on the 150th anniversary of the "Hessischer Landboten" , Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 1985, ISBN 978-3-922561-36-1 .
  • (Ed.): Georg Büchner , Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-458-14331-5 .
  • (Ed. With Erika Gillmann, Reinhard Pabst and Dieter Wolf ): Georg Büchner on "Hund" and "Kater". Unknown letters of exile. Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 1993, ISBN 978-3-89445-161-5 .
  • (Ed.): Georg Büchner: Complete works and writings. Vol. 3,1: Danton's death. Text , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2000 (= Marburg Edition , Volume 3.1), ISBN 3-534-14520-8 .
  • (Ed. With Burghard Dedner ): Georg Büchner: Leonce and Lena. Study edition , Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-15-018248-2 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Harro Zimmermann: Büchner's Laughter. A great biography and the little war of the Germanists . In: Die Zeit , September 30, 1994; Documentation of letters to the editor from 2001 ; Johannes Saltzwedel: The editor as a titan . In: Der Spiegel , December 18, 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Thomas Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 2010
Place of death Marburg