Wilhelm Gössmann

Wilhelm Gössmann (born October 20, 1926 in Rüthen -Langenstrasse; † January 2, 2019 ) was a German literary scholar .

Scientific career

Gössmann's school education was interrupted by military service and imprisonment. After graduating from high school, he studied German , philosophy and theology in Münster and Munich from 1946 to 1955 , where Gössmann received his doctorate in 1955 with a dissertation on Annette von Droste-Hülshoff .

From 1955 to 1960 he worked as a lecturer at Sophia University and the University of Tokyo . In 1962 he became a professor at the Weingarten University of Education , and in 1968 Gössmann moved to the Rhineland University of Education . From 1980 until his retirement in 1991 he was professor of German literature at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Cultural engagement

In addition to his academic work, Gössmann was involved in many ways in the sense of cultural mediation and popularization of literature. From 1973 to 1983 he was chairman of the Heinrich Heine Society . He was also a founding member of the Christine Koch Society and the Sauerland Literary Association. He also acted as chairman of »Initiative. Association for the Promotion of Culture in the Country ". He has also published poetic texts and books on theological topics.

Private

Gössmann had been married to Elisabeth Gössmann since 1954 and had two daughters. He lived in Düsseldorf and Rüthen. Since his student days, Gössmann was a member of the Catholic student association in the KV Hansea-Halle in Münster.

Fonts

A detailed compilation of his publications up to 2001 is available:

• Martin Hollender: Science - Literature - Religion. Bibliography Wilhelm Gössmann 1954–2001 . Grupello Verlag , Düsseldorf 2001. ISBN 3-933749-64-6 .

author

• The problem of guilt in the work of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , Tokyo 1956, DNB 480160392 (dissertation, University of Munich, Philosophical Faculty, June 11, 1956, 164 counted sheets, 4 [ typescript ]).
• German cultural history in plan . Hueber , Munich 1960; Revised new edition: Grupello, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-89978-045-0 .
• Sacred language . Hueber, Munich 1965.
• Credibility in usage. Style-critical and language didactic studies . Hueber, Munich 1970.
• But you will laugh. Glosses for Christians . Herder , Freiburg im Breisgau 1976. ISBN 3-451-17222-4 .
• Sentences instead of essays. Written work at primary level . Schwann , Düsseldorf 1979. ISBN 3-590-15374-1 .
• Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: Me and mirror image. To understand the poet and her work . Droste , Düsseldorf 1985. ISBN 3-7700-0678-X .
• Poetization - politicization. Pictures of Germany in literature up to 1848. Schöningh , Paderborn 1994. ISBN 3-506-73408-3
• Heine and the Droste, a literary contemporaneity . Grupello, Düsseldorf 1996. ISBN 3-928234-46-3 .
• Literature as the lifeblood, mediation, reading pleasure, writing impulses (= Grupello facts ), Grupello, Düsseldorf 1999. ISBN 3-933749-15-8 . ( Directory of dissertations, pp. 295-302).
• Landscape and culture as a life experience. Essays and literary texts . Westfälische Verlagsbuchhandlung Mocker & Jahn, Soest 2012. ISBN 978-3-87902-123-9 .

editor

• Confessions. Heine in the consciousness of today's authors . Droste , Düsseldorf 1972. ISBN 3-7700-0327-6 .
• Heine in German class. A literary didactic concept. Schwann , Düsseldorf 1978. ISBN 3-590-15380-6 .
• The late Heine, 1848–1856. Literature, politics, religion. Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 1982. ISBN 3-455-09910-6 .
• Joseph von Eichendorff: its literary and cultural significance . Schöningh , Paderborn 1995. ISBN 3-506-73409-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Gössmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wilhelm Gössmann in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituaries , accessed on January 10, 2019