Willi Beitz

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Willi Beitz (complete: Willi Günther Erich Beitz) (born September 7, 1930 in Gottberg , Pyritz district (now Poland ); † January 14, 2020 in Leipzig ) was a German Slavist , university lecturer and painter .

Life

Origin, childhood and school time

Beitz was born in Gottberg, then part of the Pyritz district of Pomerania . Today the place is called Boguszyny and belongs to Poland . His parents were the businessman Erich Beitz and the housewife Emma Beitz, née Schadewald. Beitz attended elementary school in Gottberg from 1937 to 1941. From 1941 to 1945 he went to grammar school in Arnswalde in Pomerania, now Choszczno in Poland. In 1945 and 1946, at the end of the Second World War , he interrupted school attendance and the family moved to Mecklenburg due to the expulsion of the Germans from Poland . From 1946 to 1949, Beitz attended high school in Neubrandenburg and graduated from high school.

Studies, doctorate, habilitation

From 1949 to 1953, Beitz studied Slavic and German at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . He completed his studies as a graduate philologist (Slavic). In 1957 he received his doctorate there with a thesis on AS Serafimovič in his transformation from critical to socialist realist with Ferdinand Liewehr and Johann Dembowski. In 1964, he also completed his habilitation in Greifswald with a thesis on The Positive Hero in the Soviet contemporary novel 1954–1961 . The reviewers were Ferdinand Liewehr, Harri Jünger and Hans Jürgen Geerdts .

Scientific activity

From 1953 to 1962, Beitz worked at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Greifswald. From 1953 to 1956, Beitz was a scientific aspirant and lecturer in Soviet literature . From 1956 to 1959 he had a position as a research assistant. In 1959 he was appointed to a lectureship in Soviet literature, which he held until 1962.

From 1962 to 1969, Beitz worked at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . From 1962 to 1967 he was a lecturer in Soviet literature there. In 1967 he was appointed full professor of Russian and Soviet literature there.

In 1969, Beitz was appointed full professor for Russian and Soviet literature at the University of Leipzig , Section German and Literary Studies. From 1970 to 1974 he was Deputy Director for Research and from 1974 to 1976 Director of the Cultural Studies and German Studies Section. Beitz taught in Leipzig at his own request until he retired in 1992.

Awards and offices

In 1975, Beitz received the National Prize of the GDR III. Class for science and technology in a collective. From 1986 to 1989, Beitz was Vice President of the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (MAPRJAL) . From 1986 to 1989 he was chairman of the GDR National Committee of MAPRJAL.

painting

Beitz was an autodidact as a painter . He had been pursuing this hobby since childhood, but had little time for it due to his job. After retiring at his own request in 1992, he was able to devote himself more intensively to his beloved hobby. He painted watercolors , acrylic paintings and, in the last few years, mostly pastels . Beitz was an honorary member of the German Pastel Society. He exhibited his pictures in Tangermünde in 1999 and 2000, and from 2000 in Leipzig and Markkleeberg medical practices. In 2004 and 2010 he had exhibitions at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung , in 2009 at the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and in 2013 at the Westphalschen Haus in Markkleeberg.

Publications

  • Varlam Shalamov - the narrator from the hell of Kolyma . Leipziger Uni-Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3865837325 .
  • Michail Scholochow - in a duel with time: Contributions to life and work (Bremen contributions to the history of literature and ideas) . Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2009.
  • Scholokhov and Stalin . GNN-Verlag, Schkeuditz 2007, ISBN 978-3898192668 .
  • Ralf Schröder - on life and work. Letters from Bautzen II: Debates about Bulgakow, Ehrenburg, Aitmatow, Trifonow, Tendryakov . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony, Leipzig 2005.
  • Ralf Schröder. The Difficult Life of an Eminent Slavist Volume 1: Memoirs, Contributions to His Work, Bibliography . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 978-3937209111 .
  • The Russian Revolution in 1917 and the left on the way into the 21st century . GNN-Verlag, Schkeuditz 1998, ISBN 978-3932725708 .
  • Soviet literature today, conversations-essays-interviews . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1980.
  • Introduction to multinational Soviet literature . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1983. Alexander Serafimowitsch . VEB Verlag Language and Literature, 1961.

As editor

  • From Dostoevsky to Kundera: Contributions to the European novel and the theory of the novel . GNN-Verlag, Schkeuditz 1999, ISBN 978-3898190206 .
  • From Thaw to Perestroika: Russian Literature Between the Fifties and the Nineties . Peter Lang AG - Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1994, ISBN 978-3906750972 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willi Beitz at trauer-angebote.de. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  2. ^ Literature by and about Willi Beitz in the catalog of the German National Library gnd information. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Willi Beitz at uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  4. ↑ AS Serafimovič in his change from critical to socialist realist at dnb. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  5. ↑ The positive hero in the Soviet contemporary novel 1954-1961 at dnb. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  6. ↑ Willi Beitz at deutsche-pastell-gesellschaft.de. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Beitz, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beitz, Willi Günther Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist, literary historian, university professor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Gottberg , Pyritz district
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2020
Place of death Leipzig