Konstantinos A. Dimadis


Konstantinos A. Dimadis is a Greek scholar and emeritus professor in Modern Greek studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Education and career

After studying at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 1964 he became a research associate at the 15th Ephorate of Classical Antiquities of East Macedonia and Thrace. His research enabled him to localize the administrative and religious centre of the city of Abdera in classical times and to discover the site of its Ancient theatre. In the academic year 1967/1968 Dimadis was appointed research associate at the Department of Linguistics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. From 1968 to 1973 he was a member of the editorial staff for the Dictionary of Medieval Greek Vernacular Literature, 1100-1669 by Emmanuel Kriaras, from 1973 to 1980 he worked as a research associate at the Balkan Studies (Greece)|Institute for Balkan Studies] in Thessaloniki. From 1978 to 1980, Dimadis also held a teaching position for Modern Greek at the department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. This was followed by a lectureship at the department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam from 1980 to 1992, where he received his doctorate in 1990 with a thesis on liberal writers during the dictatorship of Metaxas and the occupation.
In 1992 Dimadis was appointed professor of Modern Greek language and literature at the University of Groningen as successor to Willem J. Aerts. From 1996 until his retirement in 2007, he was professor of Modern Greek studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2001 he has also been an honorary professor at the Institute of Classical Philology, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the Tbilisi State University, Georgia.
Since 1985 Dimadis is the director of the International Summer School for Greek Language, History and Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece. Dimadis served as chairman of the from 2002 to 2018 and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest in 2010.

Academic interests

Dimadis’ works are characterized by their diversity: the spectrum ranges from archaeological works, such as the ancient history of theatre, and modern Greek lexicography and Balkan Studies to the study of modern Greek literature, especially the prose fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries. His interests focus on issues of editing and reception, and, from a literary-sociological perspective, on the interplay between literature and contemporary history, especially dictatorial regimes.

Books

  • Ο Νίκος Καζαντζάκης και η πολιτική μέσα από δημοσιογραφικά και ταξιδιωτικά του κείμενα, Εισαγωγή Νίκος Ψιλάκης, Ηράκλειο 2025, σελ. 247, ISBN: 978-618-87260-1-7
  • Άγγελος Τερζάκης. Κείμενα πνευματικής ευθύνης . Φιλολογική έκδοση με σχόλια, Θεσσαλονίκη: University Studio Press 2024
  • Πεζογραφία και εξουσία στη νεότερη Ελλάδα. Athens, Armos Publications 2018, 500 pp., 2nd edition,.
  • Power and Prose Fiction in Modern Greece. Athens, Armos Publications 2016, 273 pp., 1st Reprint,.
  • Δικτατορία, Πόλεμος και Πεζογραφία ''1936-1944. Γ. Θεοτοκάς, Μ. Καραγάτσης, Σ. Μυριβήλης, Λιλίκα Νάκου, Θ. Πετσάλης-Διομήδης, Π. Πρεβελάκης, Αγγ. Τερζάκης. Athens, Vivliopoleion tis “Estias” 2004, 538 pp., 2nd edition,.
  • Η “νέα λογοτεχνία” κατά την περίοδο της μεταξικής δικτατορίας και της Καστοχής/ Liberale schrijvers onder de dictatuur van Metaxas en tijdens de Bezetting '', PhD University of Amsterdam 1990, 326 pp.

    Edited books / volumes

  • Βαλκανική Βιβλιογραφία/Balkan Bibliography. Institute for Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki. Vols. I - V + Supplement, Vols. I - V.
  • Λιλίκα Νάκου, Μόσχω Τζαβέλλα. Φιλολογική επιμέλεια, πρόλογος και επίμετρο Κ. Α. Δημάδη. Athens, Ekdoseis Kastanioti 1995, 144 pp.,.
  • , organised by the European Society of Modern Greek Studies. Athens, Ellinika Grammata 1999, ; Athens, Ellinika Grammata 2007, ; e-book, ; e-book,.
  • Emmanuil Kriaras, Psycharis - Auswahl aus seinen Werken, 2010, 669 pp.,.

    Scholarly articles

  • Ο Νίκος Καζαντζάκης την εποχή του φασισμού. In: Ioanna Spiliopoulou and Nikos Chrysos : Ο Νίκος Καζαντζάκης και η πολιτική. Athens, Ekdoseis Kastanioti2019, pp. 53–78,.
  • The Cultural Policy of the Metaxas Regime. In: Giorgos P. Pefanis : Η λάμψη του χρήματος στη νεοελληνική λογοτεχνία. Από την Κρητική Αναγέννηση στην αυγή του 21ου αιώνα. Athens, Ίδρυμα Κώστα και Ελένης Ουράνη 2014, pp. 161–213,.
  • Kazantzakis, Spanien und der Weg seiner literarischen Erneuerung. In: Elke Sturm-Trigonakis und Simela Delianidou : Sprachen und Kulturen in Aktion, Teil 1 – Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang Edition 2013, pp. 291–308, .
  • Der Spanische Bürgerkrieg in den Augenzeugenberichten von Nikos Kazantzakis und Spiros Melas. In: Horst-Dieter Blume, Cay Lienau : Nikos Kazantzakis und seine Zeit. Münster 2008, pp. 43–50.
  • Sozialismus, Nationalismus und griechische Prosa 1922-1935. In: Wolfgang Dahmen, Petra Himstedt-Vaid, Gerhard Ressel : Grenzüberschreitungen: Traditionen und Identitäten in Südosteuropa. Festschrift für Gabriella Schubert, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag 2008, pp. 72–84, Balkanologische Veröffentlichungen Bd. 45,.
  • The circumstances leading to the first German translation of a Greek novel after 1830: Ο Εξόριστοςτου1831, by Alexandros Soutsos. In: Modern Greek Studies Yearbook , vol. 22/23 : 91-106,.
  • Τα πρώτα πεζογραφικά κείμενα του Άγγελου Τερζάκη και το θέμα της αναζήτησης μιας κοινωνικής ταυτότητας στην Ελλάδα του 1922. In: Symeio, vol. 2 : 211-220.
  • Le Théâtre d’Abdera. . In: Balkan Studies, vol. 15.2 : 308-321.
  • Ποιος ο Βασίλειος στους Φυγάδες του Καβάφη; In: Nea Estia, vol. 92 : 1688-1692.
  • Για τη θέση της αρχαίας Πιστύρου. Ο Προυσίας είχε περάσει στη Θράκη;In: ΘρακικάΧρονικά, vol. 26 : 111-113.

    Literature

  • Λεξικό Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας. Πρόσωπα - έργα - ρεύματα - όροι. Athens, Ekdoseis Pataki 2007, pp. 484–485.
  • Tudor Dinu : In honorem Constantini Dimadis . Foreword by Prof. Olga Cicanci. Publications of the University of Bucharest, Bucharest 2011, 280 pp.
  • Isabel García Gálvez y Olga Omatos Sáenz : Tolmiros Skapaneas. Homenaje al professor Kostas A. Dimadis. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Sociedad Hispánica de Estudios Neogriegos, 2012, 573 pp. .