The Institut für Literatur Johannes R. Becher Leipzig (1955-1993). Varying Paths of Literary Production in the Conflict between Cultural and Political Usurpation, Pedagogical Experimentation, and Poetic Obstinacy.

该项目旨在对莱比锡文学学院Johannes R. Becher进行全面研究，在那里，创造性写作的过程和形式是在规范的等级制度下培养和传承的。1955年至1993年间，约有1000名毕业生在贝歇尔学院接受教育，其中包括一些后来著名的民主德国作家。尽管主要以社会历史为导向，但对学院近40年的历史进行批判性回顾，迄今为止在德意志民主共和国的文学史上没有发挥任何作用。例如，这项研究将关注影响众多民主德国作家写作过程和文学生涯的美学、创造性教学和文化政治维度。除了目击者的报告外，位于莱比锡萨克森州国家档案馆的研究所遗产档案库也将作为广泛的来源基础。贝歇学院的文学作品也尚未受到彻底的审查。它的写作和形成过程以文学和诗歌文本的形式记录在大约500篇毕业论文中，这些论文存放在莱比锡德国文学研究所的档案中。在本研究项目的框架内，这些作品样本的起源背景将被描述，以便深入了解个别作家的早期作品，并深入了解当代美学和诗学的范围。此外，它们将从文学史、生产美学、创造性教学法和制度史的有利角度进行文学研究和分析。最后但并非最不重要的是，将建立一个数据库，为设想的文本分析的语料库和以德意志民主共和国文献为重点的相关研究项目提供系统的访问

The project aims at presenting a comprehensive study of the Leipzig Institute of Literature Johannes R. Becher where processes and forms of creative writing were fostered and passed on under a normative hierarchy. At the Becher Institute around 1,000 graduates, including a number of later renowned GDR writers, were educated between 1955 and 1993. Despite its principally socio-historical orientation, a critical review of the history of the Institutes nearly 40 years of existence has to date played no role in the literary history of the GDR. This study would concern, for example, the aesthetic, creative-didactic, and culturally-political dimensions influencing the writing processes and literary careers of numerous GDR writers. In addition to eyewitness reports, the archival repository of the Institutes estate housed in the State Archive of Saxony, Leipzig will also serve as an extensive source basis. The literary production of the Becher Institute has also not yet been subjected to a thorough examination. Its writing and formation processes were recorded in approximately 500 graduating theses in the form of literary and poetic texts, which are located in the archives stored at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. In the framework of this research project, the origination contexts of these work samples are to be described in order to gain insight into the early production of individual writers and into the gamut of contemporary aesthetics and poetics. Moreover, they will be made accessible and analyzed for the study of literature from the vantage points of literary history, production aesthetics, creative didactics, and institutional history. Last but not least, a data bank is to be established, providing systematic access to the corpus of the envisaged text analyses and for associated research projects focussing on GDR literature