Adolf Haslinger

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Adolf Haslinger (born March 23, 1933 in Saalfelden ; † January 7, 2013 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian English and German studies scholar . From 1995 to 2001 he was rector of the University of Salzburg .

Life

The memorial plaque at the Salzburg State Theater , suggested by Adolf Haslinger, commemorates world premieres of Thomas Bernhard plays.

Adolf Haslinger completed his studies in English and German at the University of Innsbruck in 1961 with a dissertation on the " Dialect Geography of the Pinzgau ". When the Institute for German Studies was newly founded at the University of Salzburg in 1964, he began to work there as an assistant. After his habilitation on “Epic Forms in Courtly Baroque Romance ” in 1969, he was appointed associate professor in 1973 and in 1976 he was appointed full professor for “ Austrian literature ”.

Adolf Haslinger was the director of the Salzburg Literature Archive, which he founded in 1977, and a member of the board of literary societies and associations. He was also the founding president of the "International Thomas Bernhard Society".

Act

Adolf Haslinger's research interests focused not only on baroque literature and the edition of the texts by Adalbert Stifter and George Saiko, but above all in contemporary Austrian literature , as his publications on HC Artmann , Konrad Bayer , Thomas Bernhard , Heimito von Doderer , Franz Innerhofer and Andreas Okopenko show. As a newly appointed professor of German studies, Adolf Haslinger founded the Salzburg Literature Archive in 1977, which was able to acquire valuable manuscripts and archive material from authors such as Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke and Stefan Zweig . As president of the Salzburg Rotary Club , Haslinger installed a memorial plaque at the Salzburg State Theater in 2001 to remind people that important premieres of Thomas Bernhard plays took place at this theater. He had a long-standing friendship with Nobel Prize laureate Peter Handke, with whom Haslinger had known since 1972 and about whom he has published several times.

The history and culture of the city of Salzburg was also a central focus of Adolf Haslinger's work, which is why he published the Salzburger Kulturlexikon together with Peter Mittermayer . In the early 1970s, for example, in his work on “ Joyce and Salzburg”, which was published more or less in secret in the “ Salzburg Year ” , he pointed out the special connection between the Irish author of the century and the Austrian cities of Feldkirch , Innsbruck and Salzburg. Although the significance of Salzburg for Joyce's work is rather minor, as Adolf Haslinger recognized as early as 1970, it is biographically interesting: "James Joyce and Salzburg, James Joyce and Austria, sober praise for the famous city, not a deep trace, a fleeting vacation, and yet a network of biographical details around the local reference. "

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  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Haslinger, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian German studies and English studies
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Saalfelden
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2013
Place of death Salzburg