Walter Dietze (Germanist)

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Walter Dietze (born May 22, 1926 in Leipzig ; † September 11, 1987 in Weimar ) was a German German philologist and professor at the University of Leipzig . From 1975 to 1982 he was Director General of the National Research and Memorial Centers for Classical German Literature in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Weimar.

Life

Dietze, the son of a typesetter , attended elementary school from 1932 to 1936 and then until 1943 the Wilhelm-Wundt-Schule, an upper secondary school in Leipzig. In 1943/44 he was drafted as an air force helper for flak auxiliary service. In 1944 he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht and fought in World War II . In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , was brought to the Soviet Union and attended several Antifa schools there . He returned to Leipzig and graduated from high school in 1950 . Until 1954 he studied German, Slavonic , history and philosophy at the University of Leipzig. Walter Dietze was a student of Martin Greiner there . In 1951 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).

After completing his academic studies and obtaining his doctorate in 1954, Dietze became a perception lecturer in 1959 and qualified as a professor in 1961 in the research area of ​​17th century German literary and intellectual history . From 1963 to 1975 he was a professor with a teaching position for modern and contemporary literary history and head of the department for the history of modern German literature at the Institute for German Literary History and also head of the department for German studies at Leipzig University. In 1967 Dietze became a full member of the Academy of Sciences (AdW) of the GDR. From 1971 to 1975 he was dean of the faculty for language, art and education at the University of Leipzig. In 1975 he became a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

From 1975 to 1982 Dietze was Director General of the National Research and Memorial Center for Classical German Literature in Weimar. Dietze was at times visiting professor in the Soviet Union and in the United States of America . In 1982 he retired .

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Dietzes research was devoted to problems of the Baroque , German Enlightenment and Classical periods . He published in particular on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as well as on recent German literature and comparative literature . From 1964 he was co-editor of the series “New Contributions to Literary Studies”. In the 1970s and 1980s he was also the editor of the Russian edition of the journal “History of German Literature” at the Maxim Gorky Institute for World Literature in Moscow .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Young Germany and German classical music. Berlin 1958.
  • as ed. (with own contributions): Erbe und Gegenwart. Essays on comparative literature. Structure, Berlin 1972.
  • 333 Limericks . Selected, imported, translated, annotated & edited by Walter Dietze ; Edition Leipzig, 1977
  • Johann Gottfried Herder. Berlin, Weimar 1980.
  • Small world, big world. Essays on Goethe. Berlin 1982.
  • Poetry of humanity. Berlin 1985.
  • with A. Dietze: Eternal Peace? Document of a German discussion around 1800. Leipzig 1989.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Dietze in the catalog members of predecessor academies of the Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In: www.bbaw.de . 2014.
  2. ^ Walter Dietze in the membership directory of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . On: www.saw-leipzig.de . 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Dietze, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and university professor in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1987
Place of death Weimar