Wolf Steinsieck

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Wolf Steinsieck

Wolf Steinsieck (born June 24, 1946 ) is a German Romanist .

Life

Steinsieck spent his youth in Paris and came to Aachen with his parents in 1963. After graduating from the Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium Aachen , he studied history , Romance languages ​​and philosophy . He then taught French cultural and literary studies at the Institute for Romance Philology at RWTH Aachen University . His teaching and research focus included in particular seminars and exercises on French literature from the Middle Ages to Romanticism, seminars and exercises on Old and Middle French, exercises on history, cultural studies and regional studies of France, French for historians, preparation of teaching materials and French literature from the Middle Ages , the Renaissance, the Classical, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

From January 2003 to January 2011, Steinsieck was the chairman of the Aachen-Reims e. V. and has been deputy chairman of the association since January 20, 2011. From May 2010 to August 2015, Wolf Steinsieck was Honorary Consul of the Republic of France for Aachen and the city region of Aachen, based in Haus Matthéy at Aachener Theaterstraße 67 .

In October 2003 he was awarded the Ordre des Palmes Académiques with the status of a Chevalier for his services to the spread of the French language and French culture as well as his services to the intellectual Franco-German exchange . In addition, in August 2019, President Macron honored him with the insignia of a Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite , which was presented to him on October 23 in the White Hall of Aachen City Hall by the French Ambassador Anne-Marie Descôtes .

Wolf Steinsieck is married to the director of the Franco-German cultural institute and her husband's successor as French honorary consul Angelika Ivens, who was awarded the insignia of a knight in the Ordre National du Mérite in 2018.

Fonts

  • Wolf Steinsieck: The function of travel and letter literature in the Enlightenment, examined using the example of the Lettres chinoises of the Marquis d'Argens . Mayer, Aachen 1975. ISBN 3-87519-034-3 .
  • Jean Racine: Phèdre: tragédie en cinq actes . Translated and edited by Wolf Steinsieck. Reclam, Stuttgart 1995. ISBN 3-15-000839-5 .
  • François Rabelais : Gargantua. Translated and commented by Wolf Steinsieck, afterword by Frank-Rutger Hausmann . Reclam, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-15-008764-3 .
  • The old French Roland song . Translated and commented by Wolf Steinsieck, afterword by Egbert Kaiser. Reclam, Stuttgart 1999. ISBN 3-15-002746-2 .
  • La Farce de Maître Pierre Pathelin. Translated and commented by Wolf Steinsieck, afterword by Konrad Schoell. Romanistischer Verlag, Bonn 2004. ISBN 3-86143-154-8 .
  • François Rabelais: Gargantua, Pantagruel , with 29 wood engravings by Gustave Doré . Translated and commented by Wolf Steinsieck, translation of the verses and afterword by Frank-Rutger Hausmann. Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-008764-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Wolf Steinsieck is the new Honorary Consul of France , in Aachener Zeitung on May 5, 2010
  2. ↑ Martina Stöhr: Angelika Ivens receives the Order of Merit in Aachen City Hall , in: Aachener Nachrichten of April 18, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Steinsieck, wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1946