Willi Flemming

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Grave of Willi Flemming in the main cemetery in Mainz

Willi Flemming (born January 22, 1888 in Berlin , † December 17, 1980 in Budenheim ; full name: Willi Karl Max Flemming ) was a German theater scholar and Germanist .

Life

Education and professional career

Willi Flemming, son of the leather goods manufacturer Max Wilhelm Louis Flemming (1856–1934), graduated from high school in 1906 at the Luisenstädtische Real-Gymnasium in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . Then he took the study of German literature, philosophy and art history at the Universities of Berlin , Freiburg and Marburg in before 1914 at Ernst Elster in Marburg Dr. phil. received his doctorate . In addition, he stayed in Great Britain between 1912 and 1913 for study purposes .

After taking part in the First World War as a war volunteer , he completed his habilitation in 1919 for German literary history at the University of Rostock , where he was appointed associate professor in 1924 . In 1927 he took up an extraordinary professorship at the University of Amsterdam , in 1929 he returned to Rostock, where he succeeded Wolfgang Golther in the chair for New German Philology and Theater Studies, which he held until his dismissal in 1945. Between 1943 and 1945 he also represented professorships for Clemens Lugowski and Wolfgang Mohr at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

After the end of the Second World War, Flemming fled to the West for political reasons , accepted a professorship for German philology and theater studies at the University of Mainz in 1946 and retired in 1956 . In 1968 he was awarded the Gutenberg statuette of the city of Mainz , presented by Mayor Jockel Fuchs . Flemming was particularly concerned with the history of theater and published works on baroque and classical theater. Flemming published the six-volume work Barockdrama between 1930 and 1933 .

Memberships and functions in the Third Reich

From 1933 Willi Flemming was a supporting member of the SS , a member of the Nazi teachers' association , Reich lecturer, state consultant for the promotion of German literature and Gau written commissioner for Mecklenburg . On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP . Although he was dismissed from university for political reasons in 1945, he was given a chair in Mainz a year later.

Other publications (selection)

editor

  • The order drama, Ph. Reclam jun., Leipzig, 1930
  • The Silesian Art Drama, Ph. Reclam jun., Leipzig, 1930
  • The drama of the traveling stage, Ph. Reclam jun., Leipzig, 1931
  • The German baroque comedy, Ph. Reclam jun., Leipzig, 1931

author

  • Epic and Drama: Attempts to interpret their essence, G. Braun, Karlsruhe, 1925
  • The essence of the art of acting, C. Hinstorffs Verlag, Rostock, 1927
  • Goethe and the theater of his time, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne, Mainz, 1968
  • Nature and tasks of popular literary historiography, F. Hirt, Breslau, 1944
  • Insights into German literary baroque, Hain, Meisenheim am Glan, 1975

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Flemming, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flemming, Willi Karl Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1980
Place of death Budenheim