Werner Milch (Germanist)

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Werner Milch (born January 16, 1903 in Breslau ; † April 21, 1950 in Baden-Baden ) was a German German philologist and literary historian .

life and work

Werner Milch was born as the son of a professor in Breslau and attended grammar school in Greifswald and Breslau. He then studied literature and modern languages ​​in Breslau and Berlin. Semesters abroad took him to Uppsala (Sweden) and London. He did his doctorate and also obtained the title of Bachelor of Art (B.A.) in London . Until 1933 he taught as an institute assistant at the University of Breslau and also worked as a lecturer for the Silesian Radio Lesson .

He was then dismissed from his offices as part of the Nazi race laws and had to make ends meet with makeshift jobs. At times he was able to evaluate Arnim's estate at Wiepersdorf Castle and work on his book about Bettine von Arnim .

During the pogrom on November 9, 1938 , Milch was deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He was released on December 14th and emigrated with his wife to Switzerland in June 1939, from there to Great Britain. There he worked as a lecturer at University College Exeter and King's College London .

After 1945, Milch returned to Germany, acted as a liaison for the German Educational Reconstruction Committee (GER) and was appointed to the professorship of German and comparative literary history at the University of Marburg in 1949 , which had been vacant since the death of Max Kommerell in 1944. In the same year he founded the German Academy for Language and Poetry with 48 other writers (including Adolf Grimme , Erich Kästner and Marie Luise Kaschnitz ) . Milch died unexpectedly in 1950 at the age of 47 in Baden-Baden from the effects of pneumonia.

Milk dealt scientifically with the baroque poet Daniel von Czepko , with Sophie von La Roche and Bettina von Arnim .

Works (selection)

  • Gustav Adolf and the 30 Years War . Jena 1926
  • Johanna Schopenhauer - your position in intellectual history . undated, undated
  • Daniel von Czepko - Spiritual writings . Berlin 1930
  • Daniel von Czepko - Secular poetry . Berlin 1932
  • Christoph Kaufmann . Frauenfeld 1932
  • Arno Holz - theorist, fighter, poet . Berlin 1933
  • Daniel von Czepko - personality and performance . Wroclaw 1934
  • Hermann Stehr - His poetic world and its problems . Berlin 1934
  • Sophie von La Roche - The grandmother of the Brentanos . Frankfurt a. M. 1935
  • Solitude , 1937.
  • The Story of German Youth 1880-1933 . 1944.
  • Bettine and Marianne . Zurich 1947
  • Streams, formulas, manifestos. Three lectures on the history of German literature in the 20th century . Marburg 1949
  • On the tasks and limits of literary history . Mainz 1950
  • Small writings on literary and intellectual history . Heidelberg 1957
  • Czepko, Daniel von Werke: [1] 1963
  • Czepko, Daniel von Werke: [2] 1963
  • The young Bettine 1785–1811 - A biographical attempt . Heidelberg 1968

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eva-Juliane Meschke: guest and stranger. Jochen Klepper - Letters to Friends . Eckart-Verlag, Witten 1961, p. 182. Sonja Hilzinger: Elisabeth Langgässer - A biography . 1st edition, Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86650-250-5 ; on Werner Milch p. 251.
  2. ↑ Michael Assmann, Herbert Heckmann (Ed.): Between Criticism and Confidence. 50 years of the German Academy for Language and Poetry. Wallstein, Göttingen 1999, p. 22.
personal data
SURNAME Milk, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and literary historian of Jewish descent
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1950
Place of death Baden-Baden