Volker Schupp

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Volker Schupp (2015)

Volker Schupp (born February 12, 1934 in Karlsruhe ) is a German German philologist and university professor . He is known for his broad-based research on German literature and language from its origins to modern times. Between 1983 and 1987 he was rector of the University of Freiburg . In 2002 he retired.

Life and accomplishments

From 1954 to 1961, Volker Schupp studied German, Latin, French, history and philosophy at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich and the Sorbonne (Paris) . In 1962 he did his doctorate in Freiburg under Friedrich Maurer and passed the state examination in German, French and Latin. Until 1963 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Historical Regional Studies, and until 1969 Friedrich Maurer's research assistant at the German Seminar. He received a habilitation grant from the DFG and qualified as a professor in Germanic Philology in 1971.

In May 1971 he became full professor for older German studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1975/76 he was Dean of the Department of Philology there. From April 1, 1978 on, he held the chair for Germanic Philology in Freiburg. In 1982/83 he was dean of the Philological Faculty III and spokesman for the Joint Committee of the Philological Faculties.

From 1983 to 1987 he was rector of the University of Freiburg, and from 1986 to 1988 chairman of the state rectors' conference of Baden-Württemberg . He retired in 2002, but is still active as a university professor and researcher.

In 2000 he advocated the purchase of the Donaueschingen Nibelung Manuscript C by the Badische Landesbibliothek .

He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Brothers Grimm Society .

Private

Volker Schupp has been with Renate Schupp, born in 1963. Judge, married. Their marriage had three children, two sons and a daughter.

Honors

Volker Schupp received the following honors:

  • Chevalier de L'Ordre des Palmes académiques
  • Freiburg University Medal
  • Dr. hc from the University of Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iași (Romania)
  • Senator hc from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Grigore T. Popa" in Iași

Publications

Among other things, Volker Schupp published the following writings:

  • Volker Schupp, editing: Rudolf Bühler: Southwest German language atlas: register volume . Elwert, Marburg 2012.
  • Theodor Nolte, Volker Schupp (Hrsg.): Middle High German Sangspruchdichtung of the 13th century (=  Reclam's Universal Library . No. 18733 ). Reclam, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-15-018733-3 (edited, translated and commented).
  • Emil Gött : O Academia! Drama in five acts . Appendix with unpublished letters from Emil Strauss . Ed .: with an afterword by Volker Schupp. Edition Isele, Eggingen 2003, ISBN 3-86142-280-8 .
  • Klaus Gantert: The library of Freiherr Joseph von Laßberg . a failed acquisition attempt by the Royal Library in Berlin in the middle of the 19th century (=  Euphorion, supplements to the Euphorion . Issue 42). Winter, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-8253-1276-3 (with a foreword by Volker Schupp).
  • Anna Keck (ed.): Ze hove and an der strâzen. German literature of the Middle Ages and its “seat in life” . Festschrift for Volker Schupp on his 65th birthday. Hirzel, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-7776-0940-4 .
  • Hugo Steger, Volker Schupp, Eugen Gabriel: Introduction to the Southwest German Language Atlas . Part II. Elwert, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-7708-1101-1 .
  • Hugo Steger, Volker Schupp, Bernhard Keller: Comments on the Southwest German Language Atlas . 1. Delivery. Elwert, Marburg 1997, ISBN 3-7708-1082-1 .
  • Volker Schupp, Hans Szklenar: Ywain at Rodenegg Castle. A picture story based on Hartmann von Aue's "Iwein" . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1996, ISBN 3-7995-4248-5 .
  • Volker Schupp (Ed.): Alemannisch in the Regio. Contributions to the 10th workshop of Alemannic dialectologists in Freiburg / Breisgau 1990 (=  Göppingen work on German studies . No. 593 ). Kümmerle, Göppingen 1993, ISBN 3-87452-835-9 .
  • Hugo Steger, Volker Schupp, Eugen Gabriel: Introduction to the Southwest German Language Atlas . Part I. Elwert, Marburg 1993, ISBN 3-7708-1015-5 .
  • Volker Schupp, Meinhold Lurz, Barbara Noth: Emil Gött: Documents and representations on life, poetry and early life reform . In: Literary Topography . No. 2 . Kulturamt, Freiburg im Breisgau 1992, ISBN 3-925016-86-4 .
  • Hugo Steger: Southwest German Language Atlas . Ed .: Volker Schupp. Elwert, Marburg 1989 (production manager: Eugen Gabriel. EDP editing: Rudolf Bühler; Bernhard Keller).
  • Volker Schupp (ed.): Godefridus [Haguenonensis]: The Carmen sex festorum Beatae Mariae Virginis and the other Latin poems by Gotfried von Hagenau . ( freidok.uni-freiburg.de [PDF; 546 kB ] from the MS. 4,319 of the Strasbourg Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire (BNU)).
  • Volker Schupp (Ed.): German Riddle Book (=  Reclams Universal Library . No. 9405 ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-15-009405-4 .
  • Volker Schupp: Poetic summiteers. The first literary ascent of the Black Forest Mountains (=  Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe. Lectures . No. 9 ). Badische Bibliotheksgesellschaft, Karlsruhe 1985, ISBN 3-89065-010-4 (Lecture given at the opening of the exhibition "Johann Peter Hebel - a re- encounter for his 225th birthday" on September 27, 1985 in the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe / Volker Schupp).
  • Volker Schupp, Reinhard Pietsch (ed.): Emil Gött: Zettelsprüche. Aphorisms (=  writings from the Freiburg im Breisgau University Library . No. 7 ). University Library, Freiburg i. Br. 1984.
  • Baltherus Seckinganus : Fridolin - the holy man between the Alps and the Rhine. A German Fridolin life, printed in Basel around 1480 . Ed .: Wolfgang Irtenkauf . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1983, ISBN 3-7995-4044-X .
  • "Wollzeilergesellschaft" and "Ketten". Impulses from early folklore and German studies (=  writings of the Brothers Grimm Society . No. 6 ). Elwert, Marburg 1983, ISBN 3-7708-0772-3 .
  • Volker Schupp, Reinhard Pietsch. (Ed.): Emil Gött: "Self-talk". Aphorisms (=  Badische Series . No. 9 ). Waldkircher Verlagsgesellschaft, Waldkirch 1982, ISBN 3-87885-077-8 (in collaboration with the Emil-Gött-Gesellschaft. With an afterword by Hans Killian).
  • Diary of the trip to Baden and the Black Forest: 1836 . In: Albert Kreuzhage, Volker Schupp (Hrsg.): Kulturgeschichtliche Miniatures . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1982, ISBN 3-7995-4032-6 .
  • Volker Schupp: Studies on Williram von Ebersberg (=  Bibliotheca Germanica . No. 21 ). Francke, Bern / Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7720-1394-5 .
  • Volker Schupp (Hrsg.): German Rätselbuch (=  Universal Library . No. 9405/9409 ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-15-009405-4 .
  • Volker Schupp: German political poetry of the 13th century from Walther von der Vogelweide to Frauenlob . 1971 (habilitation thesis, Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg).
  • Volker Schupp: Septenar and design. Studies on the interpretation of the Our Father, on De VII Sigillis a. to the Palestine song Walthers von der Vogelweide (=  Philological Studies and Sources . Issue 22). E. Schmidt, Berlin 1964 (dissertation, Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg, May 21, 1962).
  • Volker Schupp: The babest is ze junc. How the Pope enters German poetry with Walther von der Vogelweide. In: Peter Klimczak and Christer Petersen (eds.): Popestar. The Pope and the media . Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86599-254-3 , p. 239-250 .
  • Volker Schupp: Reinmar von Zweter , poet Emperor Friedrich II. In: Rüdiger Schnell (Hrsg.): The imperial idea in German poetry in the Middle Ages . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 978-3-86599-254-3 , pp. 247–267 ( uni-freiburg.de [PDF] also as a special edition by the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Homepage at the University of Freiburg; Retrieved February 1, 2013.
  2. ↑ On the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Volker Schupp .
  3. ↑ Volker Schupp: The end of a library. To the auctions from the Donaueschingen court library. In: Marbach Working Group for the History of German Studies. Communications 17/18 (2000), pp. 14-17.
  4. ↑ List of literature on the website of the University of Freiburg.
personal data
SURNAME Schupp, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe