Viktor Žmegač

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Viktor Žmegač (born March 21, 1929 in Slatina , Slavonia ) is a philologist and literary historian . Among other things, he wrote treatises on Rilke , Brecht , Goethe , Schiller and Kafka . Žmegač received the Friedrich Gundolf Prize in 1987 and the Herder Prize in 1993 . He is a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . Žmegač is the leading representative of the Zagreb School , a line of thought and research that ties in with the formal sociology of literature of the early Georg Lukács . He is one of the three "companions of many decades" to whom Dieter Borchmeyer wrote his book Was ist Deutsch? A nation's search for itself is devoted "in gratitude and friendship".

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Viktor Žmegač was born in Slatina, where he attended elementary school. Love for literature came from his mother, and love for music from his grandma. He went to high school in Virovitica and Osijek. He studied German and musicology in Zagreb and Göttingen. He received his doctorate in 1959. He lectured at universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. From 1971 until retirement in 1999, he taught German literature at the Department of German Studies at the Philosophical Faculty in Zagreb. He has been an emeritus since 2002.

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • The music in Thomas Mann's work. (= Zagreb German Studies. 1). Zagreb 1959.
  • Art and reality. On literary theory in Brecht, Lukács and Broch. Bad Homburg / Berlin / Zurich 1969.
  • The European novel. History of his poetics. Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1990.
  • Tradition and innovation. Studies in German-language literature since the turn of the century. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1993, ISBN 3-205-98007-7 .
  • The historical and the typological Jew. Studies of Jewish Figures in Turn-of-the-Century Literature. Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-484-32089-3 .
  • Od Bacha do Bauhausa. Povijest njemačke kulture. [From Bach to Bauhaus. History of German Culture]. Matica hrvatska, Zagreb 2006, ISBN 978-953-150-791-2 .
  • Majstori europske glazbe od baroka do sredine 20. stoljeća. [Master of European music from the baroque to the middle of the 20th century]. Matica hrvatska, Zagreb 2009, ISBN 978-953-150-863-6 .
  • Strast i Konstruktivizam duha. Temeljni umjetnički pokreti 20. stoljeća. [Basic 20th Century Art Movements]. Matica hrvatska, Zagreb 2014, ISBN 978-953-341-023-4 .

Editorships

  • with Reinold Grimm: lwan Goll : The eternal Methuselah . Text and materials for interpretation. de Gruyter, Berlin 1966.
  • Marxist literary criticism. Athenaeum, Bad Homburg 1970.
  • Methods of German literary studies. A documentation. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  • Well-tempered murder. On the theory and history of the detective novel. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  • with Zdenko Škreb: On the critique of literary methodology. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1973.
  • with Aleksander Flaker: Formalism, Structuralism and History. Librarian, Königstein / Ts. 1974.
  • The great German storybook. Athenaeum, Königstein / Ts. 1979, ISBN 3-7610-8047-6 .
  • History of German literature from the 18th century to the present . Athenaeum, Königstein / Ts.
  • German literature at the turn of the century . (= New Scientific Library, Literary Studies. Volume 133). Athenaeum-Hain-Scriptor-Hanstein Hain, Königstein / Ts. 1981, ISBN 3-445-02108-2 .
  • with Erwin Streitfeld: Schiller's letters. With introduction and commentary. Athenaeum, Königstein / Ts. 1983, ISBN 3-7610-8168-5 .
  • with Dieter Borchmeyer : Modern literature in basic terms. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1987. (Second, expanded edition, Niemeyer, Tübingen, 1994.)
  • with Zdenko Škreb and Ljerka Sekulić: Scriptors History of German Literature. From the beginning to the present. Librarian, Königstein / Ts. 1981, ISBN 3-589-20782-5 (ud T. Small history of German literature from the beginnings to the present. Athenaeum, Königstein 1984, ISBN 3-7610-8306-8 ; extended by two chapters: Small history of German literature from the beginnings to the present. Cornelsen, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-454-33801-8 ). - The work was originally published in Croatian: Književnost njemačkoga jezičnog izraza. Mladost, Zagreb 1974.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Magerski : Make school. On the history and topicality of the sociology of literature. In: Zagreb German Studies. Issue 24/2015, pp. 193–220.
personal data
SURNAME Žmegač, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zmegac, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian philologist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Slatina (Croatia)