Central Institute for the History of Literature

The Central Institute for the History of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (ZIL) was an institute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in East Berlin . It existed from 1969 to 1991 . The Center for Literary Research, founded in 1996, emerged from the Central Institute .

history

The first institute seat in the Academy of Sciences

The seat of the institute in the Prenzlauer Promenade from 1983

The Central Institute emerged from the Institute for German Language and Literature as part of a reform of the Academy of Sciences. The institute's headquarters were initially at Otto-Nuschke-Straße 22/23 (today Jägerstraße ) in Mitte , which is now the building of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . In 1983 the institute moved together with the social science institutes into a prefabricated building in Prenzlauer Promenade 149–152 in Pankow , which is now used as a studio building. The first director of the institute was Werner Mittenzwei , then the Slavist Gerhard Ziegengeist , who publicly supported Wolf Biermann's expatriation in 1977. From 1981 to 1990 Manfred Naumann was director of the institute. Numerous editions of works and encyclopedias were created in the Central Institute. In 1985, Karlheinz Barck began preparing the dictionary of basic aesthetic terms , which appeared in 2000. After the dissolution of the institute, the library became part of today's Leibniz Center for Literary Research.

Known employees

• Gerd Adloff (* 1952), poet
• Werner Bahner (1927–2019), Romanist
• Karlheinz Barck (1927–2012), Romanist
• Simone Barck (1944–2007), historian
• Ganna-Maria Braungardt (* 1956), translator
• Karlheinz Kasper (* 1933), Slavist
• Hans Kaufmann (1926–2000), Germanist
• Kurt Krolop (1930–2016), Germanist
• Fritz Mierau (1934–2018), Slavist
• Werner Mittenzwei (1927–2014), theater scholar
• Manfred Naumann (1925–2014), Romance studies
• Brigitte Sendet (* 1944), Romance philologist
• Dieter Schlenstedt (1932–2012), Germanist
• Silvia Schlenstedt (1931–2011), Germanist
• Ilja Seifert (* 1951), politician
• Klaus Städtke (* 1934), Slavist
• Hans-Günther Thalheim (1924-2018), Germanist
• Wolfgang Thierse (* 1943), politician
• Nyota Thun (* 1925), Slavist
• Robert Weimann (1928–2019), English studies
• Gerhard Ziegengeist (1927–2005), Slavist

literature

• Petra Boden / Dorothea Böck (ed.): Modernization without modernity. The Central Institute for the History of Literature at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1969–1991), Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jana Lubasch, Halina Hackert, Ruth Huebner: "Umwuchtungen". THE CHANGING HISTORY OF THE ZfL LIBRARY - ZfL BLOG. Retrieved May 13, 2020 (German). 
2. ↑ Prenzlauer Promenade 149-152 | openBerlin eV Retrieved on May 13, 2020 . 
3. ↑ GDR CULTURAL POLICY: staying power - DER SPIEGEL 17/1977. Retrieved July 15, 2020 . 
4. ^ Obituary for Manfred Naumann (1925-2014) by Wolfgang Klein. Retrieved May 18, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Barck, Karlheinz, Martin Fontius, and Wolfgang Thierse: “HISTORISCHES WÖRTERBUCH ÄSTHETISCHER GRUNDBEGRIFFE”, in: Archive for Concepts History 32 (1989): 7–33, www.jstor.org/stable/24362753.
6. ^ Journal of the Varnhagen Gesellschaft 16. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .