Albert Berger (Germanist)

Albert Berger (* 1943 in Wals , Land Salzburg ) is an Austrian German philologist . From 1989 to 1993 he was rector of the then University for Educational Sciences in Klagenfurt , today's University of Klagenfurt .

Life

Albert Berger was born in what was then Wals, today Wals-Siezenheim . After graduating from high school , he studied German, history and philosophy at the University of Vienna , where he later worked as an assistant. In 1968 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of darkness and the art of language: Studies on the performance of language in the poems of Georg Trakl . In 1976 he completed his habilitation with the text Aesthetics and Bildungsroman: Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship Years .

In 1979 he was appointed full professor of modern German literature at the then University of Educational Sciences in Klagenfurt, where he worked until his retirement . In 1986 he was visiting professor at the University of Ljubljana . In 1989 he succeeded Günther Hödl as rector of the University of Klagenfurt , and in 1993 he was replaced by Willibald Dörfler in this function. From 2000 to 2002 he was Chairman of the Senate and from 2007 to 2011 Dean of the Faculty of Cultural Studies. In 2012 he was awarded the Ring of Honor of the University of Klagenfurt. Albert Berger initiated the establishment of the Robert Musil Institute for Literary Research at the University of Klagenfurt, of which Klaus Amann became director in 1994 .

Albert Berger is the father of the economist and skeptic Ulrich Berger .

Publications (selection)

• 1971: Darkness and the Art of Language: Studies on the Performance of Language in the Poems of Georg Trakl , Verlag Notring, Vienna 1971
• 1977: Aesthetics and Bildungsroman: Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre , Braumüller-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7003-0142-4
• 1983: Austrian literature of the thirties: ideological conditions, institutional requirements, case studies , together with Klaus Amann , Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 978-3-20507-252-2
• 1994: Beyond Discourse: Literature and Language in Postmodernism , together with Gerda Elisabeth Moser, Passagen-Verlag, Vienna 1994, ISBN 978-3-85165-107-2
• 1999: Josef Weinträger (1892–1945): Life and Work - Life in Work , Müller-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1999, ISBN 978-3-7013-1003-6

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Albert Berger at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Rings of honor for former rectors Albert Berger and Willibald Dörfler . Article dated December 6, 2012, accessed August 15, 2017.
2. ↑ University of Klagenfurt: O.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Albert Berger ( Memento from February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Klagenfurt: Musil medal for Univ.Prof.Dr. Klaus Amann . Article dated June 26, 2014, accessed August 15, 2017.