Ulf-Thomas Lesle

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Ulf-Thomas Lesle (born April 18, 1947 in Cuxhaven ) is a German philologist and cultural scientist , author , publicist and dramaturge .

life and work

Ulf-Thomas Lesle studied German, folklore, history and theater studies and was awarded a doctorate in 1986 at the University of Hamburg. phil. PhD.

From 1981 to 1987 Lesle was the first dramaturge for Low German drama at the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater . With translations (including Ludvig Holberg , Henrik Ibsen ) and arrangements of folk pieces (including Wolfgang Kohlhaase , Fitzgerald Kusz ), he set artistic standards under the direction of Konrad Hansen .
From 1996 to 2012, Lesle was managing director at the Institute for Low German Language Bremen and lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and Literature at the University of Bremen.

Lesle characterizes Low German as a combination of dialects that is covered by the "Standard German language" - the Low German dialects are structurally "almost identical" to Standard German . Because the Low German dialects today neither have their own language nor form a historically grown, uniform cultural area, Lesle criticizes their instrumentalization as a resource for identity politics.

Lesle pleads "urgently for a cultural-scientific opening" of the academic subject Low German so that the reference system of values, norms and behavior in dealing with Low German can be properly analyzed.

Lesles' research focuses on the Low German movement , its history of political ideas and mentality, and the history of the landscape and culture of Northern Germany .

Publications (selection)

  • Sway . In: G. Cordes / D. Möhn (Ed.): Handbook on Low German Linguistics and Literature Studies. Berlin 1983, pp. 508-535.
  • 80 years of Ohnsorg theater or the arduous attempt to take Low German theater seriously . In: TheaterZeitSchrift 1983, no. 8, pp. 104–111.
  • The Low German Theater. From “völkischer Not” to literary comfort . Hamburg 1986. (Hamburg, University, dissertation 1986).
  • as ed. with U. Jarnach: Albert Hotopp. Fishing cutter HF 13 . Hamburg 1986.
  • Hamburg as the "center point and source of strength". The "Low German Movement", its requirements and connections . In: I. Stephan / H.- G. Winter (eds.): "Love that throws anchor in the abyss". Authors and the literary field in Hamburg in the 20th century. Berlin, Hamburg 1990, pp. 69-82.
  • Ludolf Wienbarg: Refugee. A German biography . In: I. Stephan / H.-G. Winter (ed.): "Heil über dir Hammonia". Hamburg in the 19th century. Hamburg 1992, pp. 109-126.
  • "Go over there". The GDR (almost) viewed from the outside . In: R. Herrmann-Winter (Ed.): Native language between exclusion and ideological integration. Frankfurt am Main 1998, pp. 67-76.
  • Low German and the North German stage movement . In: Regional Fundamentalism? History of the homeland movement in the city and country of Oldenburg. Oldenburg 1999, pp. 198-217.
  • Bestseller of the bourgeoisie and course book of the Low German. "Rembrandt as an educator" by August Julius Langbehn . In: Kieler Blätter zur Volkskunde 32 (2000), pp. 51–83.
  • Low German between yesterday and tomorrow: accelerating history and the search for identitas . In: R. Peters / HP Pütz / U. Weber (ed.): Vulpis Adolatio. Fs. For H. Menke on his 60th birthday. Heidelberg 2001, pp. 429-449.
  • Imagined community: Low German identity constructions . In: FW Michelsen et al. (Ed.): Dat 's ditmal allens, wat ik weten do, op' anner time more. Fs. 100 years of Quickborn. Hamburg 2004, pp. 387-404.
  • Regional historical images: Klaus Groth and the Low German . In: A. Betz / R. Faber (Ed.): Culture, literature and science in Germany and France. Würzburg 2004, pp. 175-183.
  • Alfred Toepfer. Merchant and patron . In: Future, Home, Lower Saxony. Fs. 100 years of the Lower Saxony Homeland Federation. Delmenhorst 2005, 143-158.
  • as ed. with R. Goltz: Dat Land so free un wiet. From Lüttenheid to Apfelbaumchaussee. 150 years of Low German literature . Hamburg 2006.
  • Johann Diedrich Bellmann's dialogue story "Lüttjepütt" and the construction of the homeland. In: W. Müns (Hrsg.): Ehren Namen hefft se van dem Schönen Springe, de to the south on the roof and night lopt, where hard it is frustrating. Fs. 100 years of Quickborn. Hamburg 2007, pp. 452-469.
  • as publisher: cultural space and language images. Low German yesterday and tomorrow . Bremen 2007.
  • Cuxhaven. City eighth 'n Diek. Coastal landscape, dyke construction and a large river in the course of time . Co-author: N. Schumann. 1st edition Cuxhaven 2013.
  • The own and the foreign. The "Fall of Low German" . In: Zs. Für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 66/1 (2014), pp. 32–55.
  • Identity project Low German. The definition of language as a political issue . In: R. Langhanke (Ed.): Language, Literature, Space. Fs. For W. Diercks. Bielefeld 2015, pp. 693–741.
  • with Karl Heinz Roth : Völkische Networks: Alfred Toepfer and the foundation company ACT / FVS A research review . In: Zs. Für Geschichtswwissenschaft Vol. 63 (2016) H. 3, pp. 213–234.
  • Low German movement . In: Michael Fahlbusch , Ingo Haar , Alexander Pinwinkler (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Völkischen Wissenschaften. 2. completely revised and exp. Edition Berlin 2017, pp. 1532–1542.
  • German and Low German. Liaison in the shadow of an essentialism In: Michael Fahlbusch, Ingo Haar, Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann, Julien Reitzenstein (eds.): Völkische Wissenschaften: origins, ideologies and aftermath. Berlin / Boston 2020, pp. 79–101.

Web links

Wiktionary: own language  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ U.-T. Lesle: Imagined community: Low German identity constructions. In: Friedrich W. Michelsen et al. (Ed.) Dat 's ditmal allens, wat ik weten do, op' n anner time more. Fs. 100 years of Quickborn. Hamburg 2004, p. 399.
  2. ↑ See U.-T. Lesle: Identity Project Low German. The definition of language as a political issue. In: R. Langhanke (Ed.): Language, Literature, Space. Fs. For Willy Diercks. Bielefeld 2015, pp. 693–741.
  3. ^ I. Schröder: The future of the academic subject Low German. In: D. Stellmacher (Ed.): To the science of Low German. Contribution to a technical jubilee and documentation of a chapter of German history at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Neumünster 2005, p. 48.
personal data
SURNAME Lesle, Ulf-Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and cultural scientist, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuxhaven