Albert Meier (Germanist)

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Albert Meier (* 1952 in Munich ) is a German literary scholar and was professor for modern German literary history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from 1995 until his retirement in 2017 .

Career

Meier studied German Philology, Philosophy and Italian Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1973 to 1978 and received his doctorate in 1980 from the University of Bremen with a thesis on Georg Büchner's aesthetics. From 1981 to 1989 he was initially a research assistant, then a research assistant at Bernhard Gajek's chair at the University of Regensburg . In 1990 his habilitation took place there with the thesis “Dramaturgy of Admiration. Investigations into the political-classicist tragedy of the 18th century ”. After further years as a senior scientific assistant at Gajek's chair, he was appointed to the long-vacant chair of Klaus-Detlef Müller in Kiel in 1995 .

Albert Meier was co-editor of the Goethe Yearbook from 2007 to 2015 and a member of the board of the Goethe Society from 2011 to 2019 ; since 2008 he has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg , since 2009 a member of the Center for Classical Research in Weimar .

Publications

Monographs

  • Georg Buechner. Woyzeck. Munich 1980.
  • Georg Büchner's aesthetics. Munich 1983.
  • Dramaturgy of admiration. Investigations into the political-classicist tragedy of the 18th century. Frankfurt / M. 1993.
  • (with Sabine Griese, Hubert Kerscher and Claudia Stockinger :) The reading list. Commented recommendations. Stuttgart 1994.
  • Karl Philipp Moritz. Stuttgart 2000.
  • Classic - Romantic. With the collaboration of Stephanie Düsterhöft. Stuttgart 2008.
  • Goethe: Poetry - Art - Nature. Stuttgart 2011.
  • Novella. An introduction. With the collaboration of Simone Vrckovski. Berlin 2014.
  • Postmodernism: Philosophy - Literature. With the collaboration of Zara Zerbe and Aljoscha Leptin. Kiel 2016. ( available online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data and list of publications are taken from the homepage [1] .

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personal data
SURNAME Meier, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich