Wilhelm Solms
Wilhelm Solms , actually Wilhelm Prinz zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (born January 5, 1937 in Lich ), is a German specialist in German .
Life
Solms studied German and musicology at the University of Munich and at the University of Music in Vienna . He obtained his Magister Artium degree in 1967 and received his doctorate in 1970 with a thesis on Goethe's West-Eastern Divan (book title later: Goethe's preparatory work on the Divan ).
From 1964 to 1972 Solms was initially the administrator of a research assistant position and from 1974 to 1977 research assistant at the Institute for Modern German Philology at the University of Munich. In 1977 he moved to the University of Marburg as a professor of communication studies and media didactics , where he retired in 2001. Guest lectureships took him to the Yerevan State University in Armenia in 2004 and 2006 .
His research and publication focus are the literature of the 19th century, Goethe, Grimm's fairy tales , gypsy images in literature and antiziganism . Solms is a co-founder of the Society for Antiziganism Research e. V., since 2000 first chairman of the association and publisher of this society's newsletter. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg.
Wilhelm Solms is married to Milicent Princess zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich born. von Boch-Galhau (born July 13, 1937 in Mettlach ). The couple have two sons and two daughters. Solms is the brother of the agricultural entrepreneur Philipp Reinhard zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich , the publicist Dorothea Countess Razumovsky and the politician Hermann Otto Solms . Friedrich L. Sell is a half-brother.
In April 2016 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Scientific offices
- Board spokesman for the Working Group on Literary Societies and Memorials (ALG) in Berlin (1986–2004)
- Chairman of the Marburg Literature Forum (1988–2002)
- Vice President of the European Fairy Tale Society (1989–1993)
- Chairman of the Kulturförderkreis Mittelhessen (1992–1994)
- Chairman of the Society for Antiziganism Research (since 2000)
Publications (selection)
- The moral of Grimm's fairy tales. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-23520-9 (first Primus, Darmstadt 1999, ISBN 3-89678-123-5 ).
- André Eisermann tells fairy tales about devils. CD. Texts collected and edited by Wilhelm Solms and Sigrid Früh. Weltbild, Augsburg 2010, (overall title: The mysterious fairy tale forest ), ISBN 978-3-8337-2008-6 .
- "Cultureless People"? Reports on "Gypsies" and self-testimonies from Sinti and Roma. I-Verb.de, Seeheim 2006, ISBN 978-3-9808800-8-4 (= contributions to antiziganism research , volume 4).
- Gypsy pictures: a dark chapter in German literary history; from early modern times to romanticism. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3833-4 .
- (Ed.): Obituary for Romanian German literature. Hitzeroth, Marburg 1990, ISBN 3-89398-034-2 .
- with Sigrid Früh (Ed.): Fairy tales of devils. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-12219-8 .
- Goethe's preparatory work for the Divan. Fink, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7705-0842-4 (= Munich German Studies , Volume 12, also dissertation at the University of Munich , Philosophical Faculty, 1970, under the title: Philological studies on the West-Eastern Divan ).
Awards
- 2011 wild female award
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Solms in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of Solms at the University of Marburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Solms, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, Wilhelm Prinz zu (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lich |