Walter Monk

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Walter Mönch (born October 28, 1905 in Rathenow ; † April 2, 1994 in Bremen ) was a German Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Mönch did his doctorate in Berlin on Charles Nodier. Relationship between the transfer of experience and the way of thinking in the determination of the essence of literary influence (published as Charles Nodier and the German and English literature. A study on the romantic way of thinking in France , Berlin 1931, reprint Nendeln 1967). He completed his habilitation in 1935 with The Italian Plato Renaissance and its Significance for France's Literary and Spiritual History (1450–1550) , Berlin 1936, reprint Nendeln 1967. As a staunch supporter of National Socialism , Mönch became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 and was head of the Berlin Foreign Office of the NSDDB . From 1938 to 1941 he was a personal full professor in Heidelberg , from 1941 to 1945 full professor there, and from 1938 to 1945 head of the interpreting institute in Heidelberg. At the instigation of the group leader for culture at the head of the military administration in occupied Belgium, Franz Petri , he became a visiting professor in Liège from 1941 to 1944 and president of the German Scientific Institute in Brussels . Its task was the Germanization . From 1942 Gerhard Hess was his representative in Heidelberg .

After the Second World War, Mönch was banned from working and living at the University of Heidelberg because of his activities. From 1953 he was a full professor for recycling , from 1956 a full professor at the Mannheim Business School and in 1963 rector there. From 1964 until his retirement in 1972 he was a full professor of Romance philology in Tübingen . He has always denied participation in the Germanization policy for himself.

Fonts

  • French poetry from the Renaissance to the present in the mirror of problems of the history of ideas , Berlin 1933, reprint Nendeln 1967
  • (Translation from the French) Robert de Traz Chouteau, French soldiery , Berlin 1935
  • (Ed.) Voltaire's correspondence with Friedrich the Great and Katharina II , Hans von Hugo Verlag, Berlin, 1944
  • French literature in the XVI. Century. A national political intellectual history of the French Renaissance , Berlin 1938
  • Voltaire and Frederick the Great. The drama of a memorable friendship. A study of the literature, politics and philosophy of the XVIII. Century , Stuttgart / Berlin 1943
  • The feast. Encounters of occidental poets and philosophers , Hamburg 1947
  • (Translation from French) Paul Vialar , The Great Pack , Hamburg 1949
  • (Ed.) Kleines deutsches Kulturlesebuch , Heidelberg 1952, 2nd edition 1955, 3rd edition 1959
  • The sonnet. Shape and History , Heidelberg 1955
  • (Ed.) Mannheim Business School , Basel / Brilon 1957
  • Bridge over the ages. Otto Heuschele , his work a. his life for poetry , Stuttgart 1960
  • German culture from the Enlightenment to the present. Events, shapes, currents , Munich 1962, 2nd edition 1971
  • French theater in the 20th century. Cross sections and horizons. An essay , Stuttgart 1965
  • France's culture. Tradition and revolt from classical to surrealism , Berlin / New York 1972
  • Out of my life. Experience. Shape. Considerations , Elztal-Dallau 1981
  • Hector Berlioz 1803-1869. An artist's life in the European world of poetry and music , Frankfurt / Bern / New York 1985
  • Weimar. Society - Politics - Culture in the First German Republic , Frankfurt / Bern / New York 1988
  • The topicality of antiquity. Past and Present , Frankfurt 1992
  • Livy and Tacitus. The two most important historians of Roman antiquity , Frankfurt 1993

literature

  • Walter Mönch, From my life. Experience. Shape. Considerations , Elztal-Dallau 1981
  • From French cultural and intellectual history. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Walter Mönch , ed. by Werner Dierlamm and Wolfgang Drost, Heidelberg 1971
  • Economy and culture. A festive greeting to old friends, colleagues and students on his 80th birthday to the Romance scholar Walter Mönch, former rector of the University of Mannheim , ed. by Kurt-Friedrich Bohrer, Heidelberg 1986
  • Art and reality in the mirror of European thought. Festschrift for the 85th birthday of Walter Mönch . [For the] Romain Rolland Society in Germany ed. by Mariaülle-Keeding, Bonn 1991
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : Also a national science? German Romance Studies under National Socialism, in: Romance Journal for Literary History 22, 1998, p. 295 ( online ; PDF; 10.7 MB)
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann: "Even in war, the muses are not silent": the German Scientific Institutes in World War II. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001, ISBN 3-525-35357-X , pp. 256-276

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gravestone of Ursula and Walter Mönch at genealogy.net
  2. ↑ The University of Heidelberg under National Socialism , Wolfgang U. Eckart, Volker Sellin, Eike Wolgast, Springer, Berlin, 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-21442-7
  3. ↑ Frank-Rutger Hausmann: “Even in war, the muses are not silent” , p. 267
  4. ↑ Frank-Rutger Hausmann: “Even in war the muses are not silent” , p. 275f
  5. ↑ s. on this, Frank-Rutger Hausmann, "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the Third Reich. 2nd edition, Frankfurt a. Main 2008. pp. 349-351
personal data
SURNAME Monk, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Rathenow
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1994
Place of death Bremen