Werner skirts

Werner Röcke (born April 25, 1944 in Sopot / Danzig ) is a German literary scholar and Medievalist .

Werner Röcke studied German and Protestant theology in Göttingen and Berlin from 1963 to 1969. In 1975 he received his doctorate. From 1975/76 to 1984 he held teaching positions at the University of Essen , the Free University of Berlin and the University of Hanover . From 1984/85 to 1986 he was a substitute professor at the University of Bayreuth and lecturer at the University of Hamburg . In 1985 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin. In 1986 he became Professor of Older German Philology at the University of Bayreuth. In 1991/92 he was Vice President of the University of Bayreuth. From 1993 to 2011, Röcke taught as a professor for older German literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

His research focuses on the cultures of laughter in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period, the history of the novel, the hermeneutics of the foreign, the staging of violence and the avoidance of violence in literature and culture of the Middle Ages, the history of mentality and historical anthropology .

Röcke is the editor of various book series and co-editor of the magazines Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch and Brüder Grimm Gedenken .

Fonts

Monographs

• The joy of evil. Studies on a poetics of the German Schwankromans in the late Middle Ages . Munich 1987, ISBN 3-7705-2397-0 .
• Ulenspiegel. Late medieval literature in transition to modern times . Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-513-54203-8 .
• Feudal anarchy and sovereignty. Possible effects of didactic literature: Thomasin von Zerklaere 'Der Wälsche Gast' . Bern et al. 1978.

Editorships

• The ring. Text, translation, commentary / Heinrich Wittenwiler. Edited, translated and explained. Berlin / New York 2012. ISBN 978-3-11-025384-9 .
• together with Hans-Rudolf Velten: Lachgemeinschaften. Cultural stagings and social effects of laughter in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period . Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-018236-X .
• with Marina Münkler : The literature in the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age . Munich 2004 ( Hanser's Social History of German Literature , Volume 1).
• Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus, 1947–1997 . 2nd unchanged edition. Bern 2004, ISBN 3-03-910471-3 .
• with Christoph König and Hans-Harald Müller : The history of science in German studies in portraits . Berlin / New York 2000.
• with Helga Neumann: Comical alternative worlds. Laughter and literature in the Middle Ages and early modern times . Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 1999.
• with Ursula Schaefer : Orality - Writing - Changing the World. Literary communication and interpretation schemes of reality in the literature of the Middle Ages and the early modern period . Narr, Tübingen 1996 ( ScriptOralia , Volume 71).
• Berthold von Regensburg : Four sermons. Middle High German / New High German . Edited and translated. Reclam, Stuttgart 1983 ( Reclam's Universal Library , Volume 7974-7977).

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Röcke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Werner Röcke in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Page from Skirts at Humboldt University Berlin