Wolfram Groddeck

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Wolfram Groddeck (born May 24, 1949 in Giessen ) is a Swiss German literary scholar and edition philologist .

Life

Wolfram Groddeck studied German, philosophy and musicology at the Universities of Basel and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1979 with preparatory work for volume 14 (drafts for poetics) of the Frankfurt Hölderlin edition, on which he worked with DE Sattler from 1976 to 1979 . He then worked as an assistant at the German Department of the University of Basel, where he completed his habilitation in 1986 with a thesis on Nietzsche's Dionysus dithyrambs and was appointed associate professor for text criticism and rhetoric in 1993. In 1994 Groddeck was one of the co-founders of the Institute for Text Criticism eV in Heidelberg. From 1997 to 2004 he was a regular visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and in 1998 the Max Kade professorship in Ann Arbor.

From 2006 until his retirement in 2014 he taught modern German literature as a full professor at the University of Zurich . 2001–2009 Groddeck was President of the Robert Walser Society , Zurich. In 2004 he started the Critical Robert Walser Edition together with Barbara von Reibnitz , of which 13 volumes have now been published. In addition, Groddeck has continued u. a. dealing with questions of edition theory, with Rilke , Gottfried Keller , Heinrich Heine and especially Nietzsche (essays and lectures) and with Hölderlin (including a monograph on bread and wine ) . In 2017, Groddeck received the Friedrich Nietzsche Prize .

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Friedrich Nietzsche - "Dionysus Dithyrambs". De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1991. Volume 1: Friedrich Nietzsche, “Dionysus-Dithyramben”. Text genetic edition of the preliminary stages and fair copies. LVI and 156 pages, 144 facsimiles. Volume 2: The "Dionysus Dithyrambs". Significance and origin of Nietzsche's last work. XXII and 484 pages, ISBN 978-3-11-012195-7 .
  • Talking about rhetoric. To a style of reading. Klostermann / Nexus. Frankfurt am Main 2020 (2nd, revised edition 2008), ISBN 978-3-465-04523-6 .
  • Holderlin's elegy “Brod und Wein” or “Die Nacht”. Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 2012 (2nd, revised edition 2015) (edition TEXT 8), ISBN 978-3-86600-140-4 .

Edited volumes and magazines

  • Physiognomy and Pathognomy. For the literary representation of individuality . Festschrift for Karl Pestalozzi, ed. by Wolfram Groddeck and Ulrich Stadler. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, ISBN 978-3-11-013716-3 .
  • Text. Critical contributions . On behalf of the Institut für Textkritik eV ed. by Roland Reuss, Wolfram Groddeck and Walter Morgenthaler. Stroemfeld: Basel, Frankfurt am Main 1995ff., Issues 1–15
  • Intersections. Parallels. Literature and literary studies in the “Writing Room Basel” . Edited by Wolfram Groddeck and Urs Allemann. Bruckner & Thünker, Basel / Cologne 1995, ISBN 978-3-905208-19-1 .
  • Interpretations. Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. Edited by Wolfram Groddeck, Reclam, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-15-017510-1 .
  • Text criticism / editing literature. MLN. Edited by Wolfram Groddeck, German Issue, April 2002, Vol. 117, No. 3.
  • Robert Walser's “Far Distance”. New contributions to research. Edited by Wolfram Groddeck, Reto Sorg, Peter Utz and Karl Wagner. Fink Verlag, Munich 2007 (2nd edition 2008), ISBN 978-3-7705-4517-9 .
  • Green Heinrich. Gottfried Keller's book of life - reread. Edited by Wolfram Groddeck. Chronos, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-03-400947-8 .
  • Writing and time in Franz Kafka's octave books. Edited by Caspar Battegay, Felix Christen and Wolfram Groddeck. Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0537-3 .
  • Tradition as a provocation. Gottfried Keller and Robert Walser. Edited by Ursula Amrein, Wolfram Groddeck, Karl Wagner. Chronos, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-0340-1128-0 .

Editions

  • Friedrich Hölderlin, Complete Works (Frankfurt edition) , together with DE Sattler: Vols. 2, 3, 6 and 14: Verlag Roter Stern, Frankfurt am Main 1976–1979.
  • Rainer Maria Rilke: Duinese elegies, the sonnets to Orpheus. Critically edited after the first prints in 1923. Reclam, Stuttgart 1997.
  • Robert Walser: Critical edition of all prints and manuscripts , together with Barbara von Reibnitz. Schwabe / Stroemfeld, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 2007ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 17th edition (1996). Vol. 1, p. 1129.
personal data
SURNAME Groddeck, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss German literary scholar and edition philologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH to water