Wolfgang Binder (Germanist)
Wolfgang Binder (* 14. May 1916 in Ulm , † 1. March 1986 in Unterstammheim ) was a German germanistischer literary scholar .
Life
Wolfgang Binder's father Otto was director of the Tübingen grammar school from 1922 . From 1925 to 1934 Wolfgang Binder attended the grammar school himself. After labor service and military service in 1934/35, he studied German literature, philosophy and ancient languages at the universities of Tübingen , Berlin and again Tübingen from 1936 to 1942 . Well-known scholars shaped his course, such as the Germanists Hermann Schneider , Paul Kluckhohn and Julius Petersen or the philosophers Max Wundt and Nicolai Hartmann . In 1941, while working at the Birklehof-Hinterzarten educational center , Binder also attended courses given by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1942, Binder passed the state examination in Tübingen in the subjects of Greek, Latin, German, philosophy and archeology. In 1943 he received his doctorate there under Hermann Schneider on Goethe's Faust . Between his doctorate and his habilitation in 1955, he was the first managing director of the newly founded Hölderlin Society from 1943 to 1952 . The post- doctoral thesis, Dicht und Zeit in Hölderlin's work , submitted to Paul Kluckhohn, remained unprinted. From 1956 to 1959 he was a lecturer at the University of Cologne ; In 1957/58 he also held a chair at the University of Göttingen . From 1959 to 1964 he worked in Cologne as a full professor for modern German literary history. From 1964 to 1985 he was a full professor of modern German literary history at the University of Zurich alongside Emil Staiger . After his retirement, he held a visiting professorship at the University of Basel in the 1985/86 winter semester .
Binder was married to Suse Jacob from 1944; From this connection came the future Berlin filmmaker Konstanze Binder (born 1946). In 1981 Binder married the Germanist and later writer Elisabeth Binder , b. Etter.
research
Wolfgang Binder did research in particular on Friedrich Hölderlin and on poetry and philosophy of the German classical period.
Works
Monographs
- Goethe's “Faust”: The scene “And what is allotted to humanity” , Giessen 1944, reprint: Amsterdam 1968.
- The Image of Man in Modern German Literature , Zurich 1969.
- Hölderlin essays , Frankfurt am Main 1970.
- Literature as a school of thought: a lecture , with two chapters by Klaus Weimar , Zurich 1972.
- References: Studies on German Literature , Zurich, Munich 1976.
- The monstrous and the ordered: Switzerland in Goethe's work , Zurich 1979.
- Goethe texts - Schubert songs , Winterthur 1982.
- The epochs of modern German literature from 1500 to the present. Scriptum for the lecture , Zurich, 1st edition 1975, 5th edition 1983.
- Friedrich Hölderlin: Studies , ed. by Elisabeth Binder and Klaus Weimar , Frankfurt am Main 1987.
- Holderlin and Sophocles: A Lecture , ed. by Uvo Hölscher , Tübingen 1992.
Editing
- Friedrich Schiller : Dramen , Tübingen [1950].
- with Alfred Kelletat : Friedrich Hölderlin : Friedensfeier: Collotype of the fair copy and its preliminary stages , Tübingen 1959.
- with Alfred Kelletat: Hölderlin yearbook , 1955/56 to 1965/66.
- with Hugo Moser : Philological Studies and Sources , 1963 ff.
- with Emil Staiger : Zurich contributions to German literary and intellectual history , 1974 ff.
literature
- Rolf Tarot (Ed.): Aufzüge: Studien zur deutschen Literatur. On the occasion of Wolfgang Binder's 60th birthday on May 14, 1976 , Zurich 1976 (with Vita, p. 387 f.).
- Klaus Weimar : Committed to the spirit . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 16, 1985.
- Jochen Hieber : Wolfgang Binder . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 4, 1986.
- Martin Meyer : Wolfgang Binder . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 4, 1986.
- Klaus Weimar: Find, understand, explain . In: Tages-Anzeiger , March 6, 1986.
- Bernhard Böschenstein : Wolfgang Binder in memory . In: Hölderlin-Jahrbuch , Vol. 25 (1986/87), pp. 285–287.
- Klaus Weimar (Ed.): Friedrich Hölderlin. Studies by Wolfgang Binder, Frankfurt am Main 1987 (afterword, pp. 272–278).
- Detlef Haberland : Binder, Wolfgang. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 185-187.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Binder in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Binder, Wolfgang. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Binder, Wolfgang |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1916 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulm |
DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1986 |
Place of death | Unterstammheim |