Walter Falk

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Walter Falk (born February 8, 1924 in Sandweier ; † September 18, 2000 in Marburg ) was a German literary scholar and philosopher, co-founder of the Marburg Circle for Epoch Research and author of the literary component analysis.

Life

After returning from captivity, Falk studied German , philosophy , English and Romance studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . 1957 followed by a doctorate in German studies. Between 1960 and 1965, Falk was a lecturer in German language and literature at the University of Madrid . After his return he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Modern German Literature at the University of Marburg . 1968 followed the habilitation and the professorship for modern German literature in Marburg. Walter Falk was visiting professor at the University of Cairo from 1976 to 1979 in order to test his discovery of the component structure of meaning in literature in the Arabic-speaking world . Retired in 1989, he held lectures and seminars at the University of Marburg until his death.

Publications (selection)

  • Suffering and transformation. Rilke , Kafka , Trakl and the epoch style of impressionism and expressionism . Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1961 (= Trakl Studies, Vol. 6).
  • The Nibelungenlied in its epoch. Revision of a romantic myth. Carl Winter University Press, Heidelberg 1974.
  • From structuralism to potentialism. An attempt at the theory of history and literature. Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1976 (= Fermenta philosophica ).
  • The collective dream of war. Epochal structures in German literature between " naturalism " and " expressionism ". Carl Winter University Press, Heidelberg 1977.
  • The epochal background of the anti-authoritarian movement. A contribution to the literary diagnosis of social history . Publishing house Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main and Bern 1983 (= contributions to the new epoch research, vol. 2).
  • (Ed. :) Handbook of literary component analysis. Theory, operations, practice of a method of New Epoch research. In cooperation with the members of a Marburg research seminar. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main, Bern and New York 1983 (= contributions to new epoch research, vol. 3).
  • The devil's return. Alarming signs of the times in the latest poetry. Burg Verlag, Stuttgart and Bonn 1983.
  • (Ed. :) Parallel Egypt. The epoch-historical conditions in Egyptian and German literature of the 20th century. In collaboration with the members of the “Cairene Present Diagnosis” project. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main, Bern, New York and Nancy 1984 (= contributions to New Epoch Research, Vol. 4).
  • The order in history. An alternative interpretation of progress. Burg Verlag, Stuttgart and Bonn 1985.
  • The discovery of the potential historical order I. Small writings 1956–1984. Part I: The way to component analysis. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, Bern and New York 1985 (= Contributions to New Epoch Research, Vol. 5).
  • The discovery of the potential historical order II. Small writings 1956–1984. Part II: The way to the component order in history. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, Bern and New York 1985 (= Contributions to New Epoch Research, Vol. 5).
  • Franz Kafka and the Expressionists in the Late Modern Age. Publishing house Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main, Bern, New York and Paris 1989 (= contributions to the new epoch research, vol. 10).
  • Knowledge and belief today. From Evolution to Fulguration Theory: New Requirements for Conversation. Burg Verlag, Stuttgart and Bonn 1990 (= Teinach Talks, Vol. 6).
  • Václav Havel's letters from prison. Where people are at home - a dialogue. Publishing house Mar Werner Imhof, Taunusstein 1994.
  • Knowledge and belief around 2000. On a world-shattering problem and its origin. From the estate, ed. by Harald Seubert . Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2003, ISBN 3-506-72330-8 .

literature

  • Helmut Bernsmeier / Hans-Peter Ziegler (eds.): Change and continuum. Festschrift for Walter Falk on his 65th birthday , Frankfurt a. M. 1992.
  • Harald Seubert : Signs of history between the ages. Studies on the history of the epochs from 1770 to 2000. Selected works on system and history , Hamburg 2005.
  • Harald Seubert: Walter Falk , in: Staatspolitisches Handbuch Volume 3, Verlag Antaios, Schnellroda 2012. pp. 55–57. On-line

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personal data
SURNAME Falk, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandweier near Baden-Baden
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 2000
Place of death Marburg ad Lahn