Harald Weinrich
Harald Weinrich (* September 24, 1927 in Wismar ) is a German writer, essayist, poet, linguist, linguist and literary theorist. His published first time in 1993 " text grammar of the German language " is regarded as a standard work.
Curriculum vitae
Weinrich received his first professorship as a linguist with 32 in Kiel and was later appointed to Cologne to Bielefeld and Munich. He was appointed professor at the Paris Collège de France in 1992, where he taught until 1998. He was a visiting professor at the Universities of Michigan and Princeton and a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. At the Scuola Normale in Pisa, he held the Galileo Chair.
Together with Irmgard Ackermann he has in his time as a professor of " German as a Foreign Language " at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich (from winter semester 1978/79 ) introduced the literary reception of German immigrant literature, leading to the establishment of the awarded annually among others from 1985 Adelbert von Chamisso Prize for German -writing authors of non-German origin led.
He is member of several national and foreign academies and the PEN center of Germany. As a member of German language it supports the living German action.
Portrait
There is the famous Weinrich sound, his style, which emphasizes him among so many other German scholars writing. He writes clearly, gracefully, even solved cheerful, but this detachment is always restrained by Ernst, the Roman manly virtue of gravitas. [ ... ] The age of 32 was already Weinrich professor - in Kiel. Then we went to Cologne to Bielefeld, where he co-founded a new type of university ( the magic word at that time was " interdisciplinarity ") to Munich. Yes, and then the call came on an ordinary chair of Romance Languages at the legendary " Collège de France " in Paris. A German professor in this 1529 founded by Francis I. Institute is sensational, " an important event in European science policy," Wolf wrote Lepenies. The now twice Emeritus has all the prices obtained, which come in its domain in question. And an important he himself created: the " Adelbert von Chamisso Prize " of the Robert Bosch Foundation for German -writing Aliens '. (Hans -Martin Gauger: ' Our time is almost the 80th birthday of the great linguistic and literary scholar Harald Weinrich in: . "Tagesspiegel" 24 September 2007)
Awards
Weinrich is an honorary doctorates from the universities of Bielefeld, Heidelberg and Augsburg. It was in 1977 awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize for scientific prose. In 1990 he was awarded the Friedrich- Märker Prize, the 1992 Karl Vossler Prize, in 1993 the brothers Grimm Prize of the city of Hanau, 1996 Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster ( Westphalia ), 2002 the Adelbert von Chamisso prize of the Robert Bosch Foundation, 2003 Joseph- Breitbach Prize.
- 2013: Prix Européen de l' Essai Charles Veillon, the European Essay Prize Charles Veillon for his life's work.