Käte Hamburger

Kate Hamburger ( born September 21, 1896 in Hamburg, † April 8, 1992 in Stuttgart) was a German German literature, literary scholar and philosopher. She was extraordinary ( unpaid ) professor at the University of Stuttgart.

Life and work

Kate Hamburg in 1922 received his doctorate with a thesis on Schiller ( " Schiller's analysis of man as the basis of its culture and philosophy of history. A contribution to the problem of individualism, presented on the basis of his philosophical writings " ) in Clement BÄUMKER in Munich. Expelled by the Nazis because of her Jewish origins, she emigrated to Sweden in 1934 and returned in 1956 from exile in the Federal Republic of Germany. While she worked as a language teacher, journalist and author in Sweden, she continued her literary work continued among other things, with an impressive overall assessment of the work of Leo Tolstoy; Since 1955 she worked as a lecturer since 1957 as scheduled unless a professor at the Technical University of Stuttgart; she now wrote, inter alia, numerous studies Thomas Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke.

Especially her literary theory examination The Logic of Literature (1957, submitted under the title " The logical system of the seal " ), with which it is at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart (now the University of Stuttgart) habilitation for general literature, established their international standing within the literature (see also: Epic preterite ). Together with Eberhard Lammert and Franz Karl Stanzel Kate Hamburger has accelerated the methodological reorientation of the German German -1950s towards a rational and analytical methodology.

Honors

The university town of Göttingen honored Kate Hamburger with the naming of a street ( Kate Hamburger way ). The Federal Ministry of Education and Research has a program of support for the humanities under the title " Kate Hamburger Kolleg " hung up.

Works (selection)

• Thomas Mann and the romance: a problem- historical study ( = New research work on the intellectual history of German and roman peoples, Volume 15. .. ), Berlin: Junker and Dünnhaupt 1932
• Leo Tolstoy. Shape and problem. Bern 1950; 2nd edition, Göttingen 1963 ( = Small Vandenhoeck Series 159/160/161 )
• The Logic of Literature. 4th edition, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-608-91681-4.
• Truth and aesthetic truth. Ibid., 1979, ISBN 3-129-33230-8.
• The pity. Ibid., 1985, ISBN 3608913920, ISBN 3518018981
• Heine and Judaism. Lecture held in Stuttgart March 18, 1982 at the Württemberg Library Society, ibid, 1982