Alexander von Bormann
Alexander von Bormann (born June 7, 1936 in Menzlin , Western Pomerania , † September 16, 2009 in Worpswede ) was a German German scholar , literary critic and journalist.
Life
Alexander von Bormann grew up on Gut Menzlin near Western Pomerania in a Baltic German family. At the Free University of Berlin he completed his habilitation in 1967 on the nature motif in German Romanticism with Joseph von Eichendorff . From 1971 until his retirement in 2006, Bormann held a professorship for Modern German Literature at the University of Amsterdam and throughout his life he endeavored to bring German-Dutch literary relations closer together and to promote sustainable exchange.
In Germany he appeared as a poetry reviewer a. a. for Deutschlandfunk , Frankfurter Rundschau and Berliner Tagesspiegel as well as publisher.
He lived with his wife Harda and their daughter in his adopted home, the Netherlands, in Laren . Bormann died in Worpswede in 2009 at the age of 73 after a long, serious illness.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alexander von Bormann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary by Thomas Rosenlöcher in the DLF
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bormann, Alexander von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist, literary critic and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Menzlin , Western Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 2009 |
| Place of death | Worpswede |