Walter Hinck

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Walter Hinck (born March 8, 1922 in Selsingen ; † August 21, 2015 in Landau in the Palatinate ) was a German Germanist and writer .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1940, Hinck served in the Wehrmacht and was a prisoner of war until 1950 . In 1956 Hinck received his doctorate at the University of Göttingen and was there from 1957 to 1962 as a research assistant at the Department of German Philology. In 1962 he moved to Kiel University as an assistant , where he completed his habilitation in 1964 .

From 1964 to 1987 he worked as a professor for modern German language and literature at the University of Cologne . His main focus was on German drama from the 18th to the 20th century and poetry from modern times to the present. He was a member of the PEN Center Germany and since 1974 a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Since 2009 he has been a corresponding member. Hinck wrote a large number of essays, but also narrative literature.

From 1965 to 2010 he lived with his wife in Rösrath . The Hinck couple had lived in Landau in the Palatinate region since 2010. He was awarded the Kassel Literature Prize (1992) and the Prize of the Frankfurt Anthology (2003).

Publications (selection)

  • The modern drama in Germany. Göttingen 1973.
  • The poem as a mirror of the poet. On the history of the German poetological poem. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1985, ISBN 3-531-07273-0 .
  • German studies as literary criticism. To contemporary literature. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-37385-4 .
  • The wound Germany. Heinrich Heine's poetry in the conflict between the national idea, Judaism and anti-Semitism. Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-458-16117-1 .
  • Theater of hope. From Enlightenment to the Present. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-37995-X .
  • Walter Jens Un homme de lettres. For the 70th birthday. Kindler, 1993, ISBN 3-463-40171-1 .
  • Magic and Daydream: The Poet's Self-Image in German Poetry. Insel Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-458-16650-5 .
  • Story poetry. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995, ISBN 3-525-01357-4 .
  • The modern drama in Germany. From expressionist to documentary theater. Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht, 1997, ISBN 3-525-01204-7 .
  • The dramaturgy of the late Brecht. (= Palaestra. 229). Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht, 1997, ISBN 3-525-20537-6 .
  • In the change of times. Life and literature. Bouvier, 1998, ISBN 3-416-02804-X .
  • Stations of German poetry. From Luther to the present. Göttingen 2000.
  • as publisher: Century Chronicle. German stories of the 20th century. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-15-050030-3 .
  • Goethe - man of the theater. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002, ISBN 3-525-33478-8 .
  • Self-approaches. Autobiographies in the 20th century from Elias Canetti to Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 2004. (Also as a licensed edition for the Scientific Book Society)
  • Novel chronicle of the 20th century. An eventful time in the mirror of literature. DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7984-4 .
  • Perception of life: From writing as a part-time job . Bouvier, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-416-03177-6 .
  • Born in 1922 . Biographical sketches. Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03345-9 .
  • The last few days in Berlin. Three stories, afterword by Ulla Hahn . Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03346-6 .
  • Song of the Exiles. German-language exillyric from Ulrich von Hutten to Bertolt Brecht . Reclam, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-15-010835-2 .
  • When love verses become elegies. About lost illusions. Ten stories . Bouvier, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-416-03381-7 .

literature

  • Matthias Buth: Hope Thal Poetry - An Essay. Walter Hinck on his 90th birthday - he lived on the Sülz for 45 years. In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 83 (2013), pp. 160–163.
  • Hartmut Steinecke : Obituary for Walter Hinck at the meeting of the class for the humanities on February 10, 2016. In: Yearbook North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences (2017), pp. 101-105 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (KStA) of August 24, 2015 Medien. Obituary for Cologne Germanist Walter Hinck. A life for living literature , by Markus Schwering , accessed on August 24, 2015.
  2. ↑ Information on Hinck's personal page , accessed on 23 August 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hinck, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Singing
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2015
Place of death Landau in the Palatinate