Walter Hinck Explained

Walter Hinck
Birth Date:8 March 1922
Birth Place:Selsingen, Nether saxony, Germany
Death Date:21 August 2015
Death Place:Landau, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
Nationality:German
Occupation:Germanist and writer
Years Active:1964–1987 (professor)

Walter Hinck (8 March 1922 – 21 August 2015[1]) was a German Germanist and writer. He was professor of German literature at the University of Cologne from 1964 to 1987.

Life and career

Born in Selsingen,[2] Hinck served in the Wehrmacht after his Abitur in 1940 and was a prisoner of war until 1950.[3] [4] In 1956 Hinck earned his doctorate at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen with the dissertation "Die Dramaturgie des späten Brecht" (The Dramaturgy of the Late Brecht) and worked there from 1957 to 1962 as scientific assistant at the Seminar for German philology. In 1962 he moved to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel as an assistant, where he obtained his habilitation in 1964.

From 1964 to 1987 he was Professor of Modern German Language and Literature at the University of Cologne. His work focused on German drama from the 18th to the 20th century, and contemporary poetry. He was a member of the PEN Centre Germany and since 1974 a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. He was a corresponding member since 2009. Hinck wrote a large number of essays as well as narrative literature.

From 1965 to 2010 he lived with his wife in Rösrath. Since 2010 they lived in Landau in Landau in der Pfalz. He was awarded the Kassel Literary Prize (1992) and the prize of the Frankfurter Anthologie (2003).

Hinck died in Landau at age 92.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Schwering . Markus . 23 August 2015 . Nachruf auf Kölner Germanist Walter Hinck Ein Leben für die lebendige Literatur . . Cologne . de . 1 February 2020.
  2. News: Lovenberg . Felicitas von . 24 August 2015 . Ein Leser, den man nicht enttäuschen wollte . . Frankfurt . de . 1 February 2020.
  3. News: Breidecker . Volker . 25 August 2015 . Germanist und Autor Walter Hinck ist tot . . Munich . de . 1 February 2020.
  4. http://www.walter-hinck.de/biographie.html Details on Hinck's personal page
  5. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758237114 Das moderne Drama in Deutschland : vom expressionistischen zum dokumentarischen Theater
  6. News: Wittstock . Uwe . 8 March 2002 . Glückwunsch! Walter Hinck 80 . . Berlin . de . 1 February 2020.