Werner Keller (Germanist)

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Werner Keller (* 16th January 1930 in Calmbach , Black Forest, † 23. February 2018 in Cologne ) was a German Germanist and literary scholar . Keller was a university professor and honorary president of the Goethe Society .

Life

Werner Keller was professor and director at the Institute for German Language and Literature at the University of Cologne . The main focus of his teaching and research were: literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially the Weimar Classic , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Friedrich Hölderlin , dramas of naturalism , theory and poetics of modern drama and the history of poetry .

Werner Keller was President of the International Goethe Society in Weimar from 1991 to 1999 . V. Under Keller's presidency, the links between the Goethe Society and the countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Georgia and the Far East were expanded.

Keller died in February 2018, a good month after his 88th birthday, in his apartment in Cologne-Braunsfeld .

Honors

In January 2000, Keller was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon. In 2010 he was awarded the Golden Goethe Medal by the Goethe Society. Since 1994 he has been a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt .

Works (selection)

As an author

Articles on, among others, Andreas Gryphius , Rolf Hochhuth , Henrik Ibsen , Franz Kafka , Heinrich von Kleist , Johann Anton Leisewitz , Reinhold Schneider and Botho Strauss .

  • The god of the tragedian Hebbel . In: Ulrich Ernst (Ed.): Architectura poetica. Festschrift for Johannes Rathofer on his 65th birthday . Böhlau, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-412-03090-2 , pp. 437-460.
  • The religiosity of the late Goethe . In: Valérie Lawitschka (Ed.): Hölderlin. Philosophy and poetry . Hölderlinturm, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-86142-246-8 , pp. 291-306.

Books

  • The pathos in Schiller's youthful poetry . DeGruyter, Berlin 1964 (also dissertation, University of Tübingen 1960).
  • Goethe's poetic imagery. A foundation . Fink Verlag, Munich 1972 (plus habilitation thesis, University of Cologne 1969).
  • Interpretation. Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Faust I . Reclam, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-15-950015-2 .
  • "Anyway, life ...". Contributions to Goethe's poetry and thinking . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0452-9 .
  • The voice of poetry. Insights and views on literature from the baroque to the present . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0657-8 .

As editor

  • Essays on Goethe's “Faust I” . Wissenschaftliche Buchgemeinschaft, Darmstadt 1984, ISBN 3-534-03976-9 (= ways to research ; 145).
  • Essays on Goethe's “Faust II” . Scientific book club, Darmstadt 1991, ISBN 3-534-06718-5 .
  • Friedrich Hebbel: Werke Hanser, Munich 1978 (2 vol.).
  • Goethe yearbook . Böhlau, Weimar 1991 ff.
  • Poetics of Drama . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1976, ISBN 3-534-06128-4 ( Paths of Research ).
  • (with Hans Dietrich Irmscher): Drama and Theater im, 20. Century. Festschrift for Walter Hinck . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1983, ISBN 3525207549 .
  • "Urfaust". "Faust, a fragment", "Faust, a tragedy". Parallel printing of the three versions . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1985, ISBN 3-458-32325-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Schwering: Obituary: Goethe as the central sun . ksta.de , February 27, 2018, accessed on February 27, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Calmbach , Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2018
Place of death Cologne