Alfons Klein (philologist)

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Alfons Klein (2010)

Alfons Klein (born April 5, 1935 in St. Wendel ) is a German teacher and writer .

Life

Alfons Klein was born the son of the engine driver Friedrich Klein and his wife Gertrude. From 1946 he attended the Wendalinum grammar school in St. Wendel, where he graduated from high school in 1955. From 1955 to 1957 he studied classical philology and German at the universities of Heidelberg , Tübingen and Saarbrücken . In 1960 he successfully passed his first state examination in Greek and Latin at Saarland University , followed by the second state examination in 1962 . In 1969 he passed another state examination in German studies at the same university. With a dissertation in German literary studies, he received his doctorate in 1990 at the University of Saarland with a thesis on Friedrich von Hagedorn .

From 1962 to 1971 Klein taught ancient languages ​​at the high school in St. Wendel. From 1971 to 1976 he taught Latin and German at the German School in Bilbao (Spain). After his return from Spain he worked from 1976 to 1980 as a teacher for the subject “ German as a Foreign Language ” at the preparatory college at Saarland University. He was then appointed deputy headmaster at the German School in Valdivia (Chile), where he taught "German as a Foreign Language" from 1980 to 1985. In 1985 he again switched to the preparatory college at Saarland University. In 1998, Klein retired.
Alfons Klein has been born with his wife Christa since 1960. Grisard married. Both have a daughter and two sons together. Klein lives and works in St. Wendel in northern Saarland.

Literary activity

In addition to his educational work, Alfons Klein has been a writer since the 1990s. His literary interest is the everyday life of ordinary people, whose life situations he describes precisely. In this context, Klein questions in his stories and novels the tension between striving for emancipation and bourgeois notions of order in the Adenauer period of the 50s and early 60s. The interactions between the regulatory powers "religion" and "bourgeoisie" and the claim to individual self-realization are his central theme. Klein often allows autobiographical elements to flow into his literary works. His literature is consistently characterized by a fine sense of humor, which he describes in a self-assessment as his "red literary line".
Klein undertakes numerous reading tours in German-speaking countries, including the Permanent Representation of Saarland to the federal government in Berlin (2011).

scientific publications

  • The desire to pursue the old. Productive reception of antiquity in the poetry of Friedrich von Hagedorn. St. Ingbert: Röhrig-Universitätsverl., 1990. 324 p. (Saarbrücker contributions to literary studies; 25) [Zugl .: Saarbrücken, Univ., Diss., 1990]. ISBN 3-924555-52-4
  • In a nutshell. Factual texts in "German as a foreign language" for foreign students. Wiesbaum, 1999
  • The same - 2nd edition, Meckenheim, 2007

Literary publications

  • War children. Narrative. Engelsbach : Fouqué Literaturverl., 1998. ISBN 3-8267-4275-3
  • People tell a lot, but a lot is also true. Stories. Trier: éditions trèves , 2004. ISBN 3-88081-479-1
  • And there is always air. Satirical verses. Trier: éditions trèves, 2007. ISBN 978-3-88081-489-9
  • Silvia's funeral. Narrative. Saarbrücken: Geistkirch-Verl., 2009. ISBN 978-3-938889-82-4
  • Ebb is always. "The Badger Sings" and other real life stories. Saarbrücken: Geistkirch-Verl., 2011. ISBN 978-3-938889-38-1
  • The English Queen's Cow. True stories and fabricated facts . Saarbrücken: Geistkirch-Verl., 2013. ISBN 978-3-938889-41-1
  • It is only that ma devon chatters. Human sensitivities and how to deal with them in prose, verse and patience. Saarbrücken: Geistkirch-Verl., 2015. ISBN 978-3-946036-42-5
  • You can't have everything in life - but some things can. Saarbrücken: Geistkirch-Verl., 2017. ISBN 978-3-946036-64-7
  • On distant shores. A German teacher in South America. Novel. Saarbrücken: Geistkirch-Verl., 2019. ISBN 978-3-946036-95-1

Sound carriers / image carriers

  • Small loud. Alfons Klein tells stories from real life. Saarbrücken: Gesitkircher Verl., 2014. (CD) ISBN 978-3-938889-47-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review of St. Wendel Events ( Memento from September 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Small, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Wendel