Volkmar Hansen

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Volkmar Hansen (born April 16, 1945 in Burg near Magdeburg ) is a German literary scholar . From 1993 to 2012 he was director of the Goethe Museum in Düsseldorf.

Live and act

After attending school in Frankfurt am Main (Textor Volksschule, Carl Schurz Gymnasium) and Bonn (Friedrich Ebert Gymnasium), Volkmar Hansen passed the school leaving examination in 1966. He then studied German and history at the University of Bonn (1966–1969) and the University of Düsseldorf (1969–1974), where he received his doctorate in 1974 with the dissertation of Thomas Mann's Heine Reception . In 1989 he qualified as a professor for modern German literary studies.

From 1974 to 1992 he was the chief editor of the historical-critical complete edition of Heine's works published by Manfred Windfuhr .

From 1993 to 2012 Hansen was executive director of the Anton and Katharina Kippenberg Foundation and director of the Goethe Museum (Düsseldorf) . From 1995 to 2007 he was a member of the board of directors of the Goethe Society , from 1999 its vice-president.

Hansen is honorary professor at the Institute for German Studies at Düsseldorf University and two honorary doctorates from Akaki Tsereteli University in Kutaisi (Georgia) and the Moscow State Open Pedagogical University (MGOPU). From 2002 to 2012 he was chairman of the working group of independent cultural institutes and from 2003 to 2012 a member of the German Commission for UNESCO

Awards

  • Awarded the Italian Order of Merit with the rank of Commendatore (2004)
  • Awarded the Portuguese Order of Saint Michael, House Order of the Bragança Royal Family, with the rank of Comendador (2008)
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (2011)

Fonts (selection)

  • Thomas Mann's Heine reception (dissertation). Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1975
  • Ed. (Together with Gert Heine): Question and answer. Interviews with Thomas Mann 1909–1955 . Albrecht Knaus, Hamburg 1983
  • Thomas Mann (Metzler Collection). Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1984
  • Ed. (Together with Heike Spies ): The return to reason. Classic between 1932 and 1968 . Catalog for the exhibition in the Goethe Museum Düsseldorf from 7.5 to 13 August 1995. Goethe Museum, Düsseldorf 1995
  • Goethe, the Rhine and the Rhinelander . Cologne-Düsseldorfer Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt AG., Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-00-000822-5
  • Ed. (Together with Gonthier-Louis Fink and Alberto Destro): Europe as Goethe saw it . Catalog for the exhibition in honor of Goethe's 250th birthday Goethe-Museum, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 978-0-380-53832-4
  • Main and secondary routes to Goethe (Measure and Value / Düsseldorfer Schriften zur deutschen Literatur, Volume 2), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2005, ISBN 978-3-631-53863-0
  • Ed. (Together with Heike Spies and Regine Zeller): The idea of ​​GOETHE. 50 years of the Goethe Museum . Catalog of the anniversary exhibition from June 30th to September 24th 2006. Goethe-Museum, Düsseldorf 2006. ISBN 3-9811005-0-6

Book and magazine articles

  • Thomas Mann's story 'Das Gesetz' and Heine's image of Moses . In: Heine yearbook . 13: 132-149 (1974)
  • "Union Goethe". Hauptmann's orientation towards Goethe. In: Walter Engel and Jost Bomers (eds.): Current events and view of life. The topicality of Gerhart Hauptmann's literature. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1987, pp. 192-202
  • Heine, Heinrich . In: Walter Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon , Vol. V, Gütersloh u. Munich 1990, pp. 129-153
  • Thomas Mann's relationship with Heinrich Heine . In: Düsseldorf contributions to Thomas Mann research: Series of publications by the Thomas Mann Society Düsseldorf, vol. 1. Düsseldorf 2011, pp. 15–36
  • "The two-way conversation between Ms. Venus and Tannhauser". Heine's dialogue poems . In: Christina Johanna Bischoff, Till Kinzel , Jamila Mildorf (eds.): Das Dialoggedicht / Dialogue Poems . Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2017, pp. 335–356

research paper

  • "Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! ”The image of Karl Gutzko in research; with a view of Ludolf Wienbarg. In: Alberto Martino (ed.): Literature in the social movement. Articles and research reports on the 19th century. Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1977, pp. 488-542.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Falk-Report.De
  2. ^ Institute for German Studies
  3. ↑ Falk-Report.De
personal data
SURNAME Hansen, Volkmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Castle near Magdeburg