Wolfgang Riehle

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Wolfgang Riehle (* 24. November 1937 in Stuttgart , † 31 July 2015 in Graz ) was a German - Austrian literary scholar and Shakespeare - expert . Until his retirement he taught at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz.

Life

Wolfgang Riehle was born in Stuttgart on November 24, 1937 . He first attended the humanistic grammar school in Ulm . It was early influenced by the traditional ev. Theol. Seminars Maulbronn and Blaubeuren (1953–57). He studied English , German and Latin studies in Tübingen , Durham (UK) and Munich . He received his doctorate in 1964 with a dissertation on speaking aside in Shakespeare at the English seminar of the University of Munich with Wolfgang Clemen . In 1972 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on metaphor in English mysticism in the Middle Ages . As a private lecturer, he took over a professorship at the University of Heidelberg's English Department in 1972 . From 1973 he held the professorship in English Studies III (English literature with special emphasis on drama and media studies ) at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz . Since the early 1980s he has also led a student theater group at the Institute for English Studies and began practical staging work. On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the University of Graz, Riehle staged Plautus' Menaechmi and Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors in a closely interwoven double performance. This project was based on the conviction , which at that time was still little used for its scientific knowledge value , that the practical performance engagement with drama texts can be very profitable for your literary theoretical analysis and interpretation . From this methodical approach, Riehle succeeded in proving in his comprehensive monograph Shakespeare , Plautus and the Humanist Tradition that Shakespeare's dramas not only emerged from the local folk drama tradition , but also from the active reception of the classical and ancient comedy tradition, especially of the highly vital Titus Maccius Plautus are to be understood. Riehle applied his text-based method of interpretation again in his monograph on the first tetralogy of Shakespeare's History Plays. A renewed turn to English mysticism of the Middle Ages arose for him through his decision to write a supplementary volume dedicated to English mysticism to Kurt Ruh's history of occidental mysticism. Riehle died on July 31, 2015 at the age of 77 in Graz. One of his last works, a monograph on mysticism by Johann Sebastian Bach , remained unfinished.

Services

Riehle was a founding member of the Medievalist Association and was a board member of the German Shakespeare Society West from 1985 until the end of 1992, when the German Shakespeare Society reunited in the following year. In 1994 he organized the German Anglist Day in Graz and contributed his own theater production of George Bernard Shaw's The Dark Lady of the Sonnets . In 2006 he retired . Riehle was a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . His research interests were: English Middle Ages, especially English mysticism of the Middle Ages and Geoffrey Chaucer , Shakespeare and his time, history of English drama with special consideration of practical aspects of theater, libretto research, interdisciplinarity and comparative studies .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Studies on the English mysticism of the Middle Ages . C. Winter University Press, Heidelberg 1977.
  • The Middle English Mystics . Routledge, London / Boston 1981.
  • TS Eliot . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1979 (= income from research, vol. 106). ISBN 3-534-07371-1 .
  • Shakespeare, Plautus and the Humanist Tradition . Boydell & Brewer, Cambridge 1990.
  • Geoffrey Chaucer . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994 (rororo Monographien, Vol. 422). ISBN 3-499-50422-7 .
  • Shakespeare's trilogy King Henry VI and the beginnings of his dramatic art . University Press C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997.
  • Daniel Defoe . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2002 (Rowohlt's Monographs 50596). ISBN 3-499-50596-7 .
  • English mysticism of the Middle Ages . CH Beck, Munich 2011.
  • The Secret Within. Hermits, Recluses and Spiritual Outsiders in Medieval England . Translated by Charity Scott-Stokes. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 2014.

literature

  • Hugo Keiper, Maria Löschnigg, Doris Mader (eds.): Metamorphoses. English literature and tradition. Festschrift for Wolfgang Riehle . University Press C. Winter, Heidelberg 2006 (= English Research, Vol. 355). ISBN 3-8253-5095-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.pax-requiem.at/web/decedent/5647
  2. www.anglistik.uni-graz.at ( Memento from August 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. See here and below: www.w-riehle.com ( Memento from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. See http://austria-forum.org/ebook/wbin/ambrosius.html#book=PAUG/Band_27_100_Jahre_Anglistik&pagenum=25&layer=default1&pageid=000024&thumbview=2p
  5. see: Shakespeare, Plautus and the Humanist Tradition Boydell & Brewer, Cambridge 1990.
  6. ^ Studies on the English mysticism of the Middle Ages, University Press C. Winter, Heidelberg 1977.
  7. a b Wolfgang Riehle died , accessed on March 26, 2018
  8. See http://www.mediaevistenverband.de/mediavistik/professuren/anglistik/
  9. See http://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/
  10. See Dr. phil., o. Prof. Wolfgang Riehle ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  11. See professors and lecturers ( Memento from July 11, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )