Benedikt Jeßing

Benedikt Jeßing (* 1961 in Steinfurt-Borghorst , Westphalia) is a university lecturer and professor for modern German literary studies with a focus on the 16th to 18th centuries at the German Institute of the Ruhr University in Bochum .

He studied biology and German at the University of Essen (now the University of Duisburg-Essen ), and in 1991 Jeßing received his doctorate in German at the Fern-Universität Hagen on Goethe's “Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre” and Uwe Johnson's “Conjectures about Jacob”. In 2004 Jeßing received his habilitation cumulatively. He is a respected expert on the literature of Goethe and the Goethe era, researches the literature of the 20th century and literary theory. Jeßing is chairman of the Goethe Society in Essen.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Drama Analysis. An introduction (2015, Erich Schmidt Verlag, ISBN 978-3-503-15551-4 )
• Modern German literary history (2008, Narr Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8233-6392-7 )
• Introduction to modern German literary studies (2007, Metzler Verlag, ISBN 978-3-476-02142-7 )
• Bibliography for literary scholars (2003, Reclam-Verlag, ISBN 3-15-017640-9 )
• Working techniques of literary studies (2001, Reclam-Verlag, ISBN 3-15-017631-X )
• Working techniques of literary studies (2017, Reclam-Verlag (published in the series Reclams Studienbuch Germanistik) ISBN 978-3-159-61201-0 ), extended by marginal columns with central terms, tables, graphs and memo boxes
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1995, Metzler Verlag, ISBN 3-476-10288-2 )

Editions

• Jochen Vogt in connection with the Old Synagogue in Essen. Red. Collaboration: Benedikt Jessing: "The past is not dead, it is not even past": National Socialism as reflected in post-war literature . Essen: Rigodon-Verl. 1984
• The post-summer (2005, Reclam-Verlag, ISBN 3-15-018352-9 )
• Metzler-Goethe-Lexikon (2004, Metzler Verlag, ISBN 3-476-02016-9 )

Web links

• Literature by and about Benedikt Jeßing in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Benedikt Jeßing
• Font directory