Winfried Engler

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Winfried Franz Engler (born December 17, 1935 in Saulgau , Upper Swabia , † March 22, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German Romance philologist .

Life

Winfried Engler studied Romance studies, history and philosophy at the universities of Tübingen , Munich and Paris from 1955 to 1960 . In 1960 he was with the work on " Henri Michaux : The Michauxbild 1922-59" at the University of Tübingen to Dr. phil. PhD . He was a research assistant and later academic advisor at the International and Interpreting Institute of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim .

In 1968 Engler received a call as associate professor at the University of Education in Berlin . In 1971 he was appointed full professor of French language and literature. In 1980 he became professor and later director at the Institute for Romance Philology at the Free University of Berlin . He was vice dean and dean of the faculty. In 2004 he retired .

From 1955 to 2010 he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Cheruskia Tübingen in the CV .

Act

Engler's main research interests are literary history as a genre history , problems of the intertextuality of the historical novel since the beginning of Walter Scott's reception , the narrative of history in general and lexicography .

Since 1989, Engler has been particularly active as the representative of the Governing Mayor of Berlin for the city partnership with the French capital Paris . For many years he was president of the German-French Society Berlin and was involved in the Union Interalliiée and the Cercle Franco-Allemand. In 1995 he became a representative of ARD on the ARTE program advisory board

He has received numerous awards and honors and is Vice President of the German Society of Members of the French Legion of Honor and the French National Order of Merit.

honors and awards

Fonts

  • Henri Michaux . The Michaux picture 1922-1959 . [Precise], [Tübingen] 1964, OCLC 35153359 , DNB 481007105 (dissertation University of Tübingen, Philosophical Faculty, August 5, 1960, 312 pages [VI, 276, XXXVIII signed sheet]).
  • The French novel from 1800 to the present (= Dalp Collection , Volume 97), Francke, Bern / Munich 1965, OCLC 607312 , ISBN 3-317-00643-9 .
  • History of the French novel. From the beginning to Marcel Proust (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 346). Kröner, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-520-34601-X .
  • Lexicon of French Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 388). 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-38803-0 .
  • with Rita Schober: 100 years of Rougon-Macquart in the course of the history of reception. Fool Francke Attempto, 1995, ISBN 3-8233-4145-6 .
  • An overview of the history of French literature. Reclam, Ditzingen 2000, ISBN 3-15-018032-5 .
  • French romance. Narr, 2003, ISBN 3-8233-6042-6 .
  • with Thomas Gil, Alexander Nebrig, Iwan D'Aprile, Thomas Becker: Enlightenment between national culture and universalism. Wehrhahn, 2007, ISBN 3-86525-210-9 .
  • Hispanidad 1898 or the invention of the new Spain . Edition Tranvia. Verlag Frey, 2012, ISBN 978-3-938944-58-5 .
  • ... allons voir si .... In: Klaus-Dieter Ertler (Ed.): Romance Studies as Passion , Volume III, pp. 109–123, Lit 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-50622-1 .

literature

  • Brunhilde Wehinger (Hrsg.): Plurale Lektüren: Studies on language, literature and art. Festschrift for Winfried Engler. Walter Frey, 2007, ISBN 3-938-94416-1 .
  • Brunhilde Wehinger: Adventure of the narrator. To the Romanist Winfried Engler on the 80th In: Der Tagesspiegel from December 17, 2015, p. 28.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Univ.-Prof. em. Dr. Winfried Engler on the website of the Free University of Berlin , accessed on February 12, 2011
  2. ^ A b Winfried Engler: Wowereit presented the Federal Cross of Merit. ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Rathaus aktuell. of the city ​​of Berlin , December 4, 2003.
  3. ^ People and faces of the region: Winfried Engler. WM-Verlag (accessed February 12, 2011).
personal data
SURNAME Engler, Winfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engler, Winfried Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Saulgau , Upper Swabia
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2018
Place of death Berlin