Wolfgang Binder (Germanist)

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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.

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personal data
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