Walter Pape

Walter Pape

Walter Pape (born February 18, 1945 in Burg near Magdeburg ) is a German German studies scholar and professor of modern German literature at the University of Cologne .

Life

Pape studied German, English and political science in Heidelberg. He received his doctorate in 1972 and completed his habilitation in 1980 at the University of Cologne. He has been a university professor there since 1988. In 1983 and 1985 he was visiting professor at the University of California and 1991 Resident Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute of the University of California at Irvine.

From 1993 to 1996 Pape was Managing Director of the Institute for German Language and Literature at the University of Cologne. He is also the commissioner for the Germanistic institute partnership with the Institute for German Studies at Charles University in Prague and the commissioner for the partnership between the Institute for German Language and Literature and the German Department at Cambridge University.

From 1997 to 2003 he was Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. During this phase, on November 8, 2000, he became the Senate Commissioner for the university partnership with Charles University in Prague. From 2003 to 2005 he was Vice Dean of the Philosophical Faculty and at the same time Senator of the Philosophical Faculty. Since autumn 2005 Pape has been head of the Center for International Relations and Public Relations at the Philosophical Faculty (ZIB). From October 1, 2006 to September 30, 2007, Pape was again Managing Director of the Institute for German Language and Literature.

Walter Pape has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor since 1985 and has been its chairman since 1996. He has also been President of the International Arnim Society since 1999 .

Fonts

• Joachim Ringelnatz . Parody and self-parody in life and work. With a Joachim Ringelnatz bibliography and a list of his letters. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 1974 (sources and research. NF 62).
• Wilhelm Busch. Stuttgart: Metzler 1977 (Metzler Collection. 163).
• The literary children's book. Studies of origin and typology. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 1981.
• Written for children. Forms and types of German children's literature. Course unit 1: Systematic part. Course unit 2: Historical-typological part. Distance University Comprehensive University: Hagen 1985.
• Aesthetic illusion. Theoretical and Historical Approaches. Edited by Frederick Burwick and Walter Pape. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 1990.
• 1870/71 - 1989/90: German Unifications and the Change of Literary Discourse. Ed. by Walter Pape. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 1993 (European Cultures. 1).
• Reflecting Senses: Appearance and Perception in Literature, Culture, and the Arts. Ed. by Walter Pape and Frederick Burwick. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 1995.
• The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. Edited by Walter Pape and Frederick Burwick in collaboration with the German Shakespeare Society. Bottrop: Peter Pomp 1996.
• Storytelling and popular education. The literary work of Jeremias Gotthelf. Edited by Walter Pape, Hellmut Thomke and Sylvia Serena Tschopp. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1999.
• Germany and Eastern Europe: Cultural Identities and Cultural Differences. Ed. by Keith Bullivant, Geoffrey Giles, and Walter Pape. Amsterdam: Rodopi 1999 (Yearbook of European Studies. 13).
• The other food. Cannibalism as a motif and metaphor in literature. Edited by Daniel Fulda and Walter Pape. Freiburg i. Br .: Rombach 2001 (Rombach Sciences? Litterae series. 70).
• Arnim and the Berlin Romanticism. Art, literature and politics. Berlin Colloquium of the International Arnim Society. Edited by Walter Pape. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2001 (writings of the International Arnim Society. 3).
• Romantic constructions of identity: nation, history and (auto) biography. Glasgow Colloquium of the International Arnim Society. Edited by Sheila Dickson and Walter Pape. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2003 (publications of the International Arnim Society. 4).
• The “Wunderhorn” and Heidelberg Romanticism: Performance, Orality, Writing. Edited by Walter Pape. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2005 (publications of the International Arnim Society. 5).
• A view in the rear mirror. Romantic Aesthetics, Culture, and Science Seen from Today. Festschrift for Frederick Burwick on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Ed. by Walter Pape. Trier: wvt, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2006 (Studies on English Romanticism. NF 3).
• Romantic imagery of flow. Body, soul, poetry. Edited by Walter Pape. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2007 (publications of the International Arnim Society. 6).

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2009 . 22nd edition. Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23629-7 , Vol. 3, p. 3059.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Pape in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website