Burghard Damerau

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Burghard Damerau (born August 25, 1961 in Fahrdorf , Schleswig district , † June 5, 2002 in Berlin ) was a German literary scholar and Germanist .

Life

He studied philosophy, German, general and comparative literature and, after completing his doctorate, taught German literature at the Free University of Berlin from 1995 - “so vividly that many students almost enthusiastically adored him. He was able to unleash enthusiasm and euphoria and was a perfectionist, always well prepared. ”His special fields of research were the literature of the 20th century, especially Austrian literature and analytical literature.

His diaries, which contain 20 handwritten volumes, have not yet been published. He also wrote poems that his long-time partner, former Schaubühnen actress Libgart Schwarz, recited several times. When he committed suicide in June 2002, he left behind the completely completed study on the “truth of literature”, which was conceived as a habilitation thesis. The three main chapters of the thesis are chronologically devoted to the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and are each rounded off with a balance sheet of the results so that the study with its text-based interpretations develops like a manual.

A selection of literature by Burghard Damerau

  • Newcomers and attractions: Elfriede Jelinek's male figures around women with prestige, in: Studia austriaca X (2002), pp. 73–90
  • The truth of literature: gloss and misery of concepts, Königshausen and Neumann Verlag, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 9783826025693
  • Against the Grain: Essays on Literature, Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-8260-1707-0
  • Literature and other truths, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3351027958
  • "I was in you." Comments on eroticism by Paul Celan, in: Celan Yearbook 1998
  • End of the line own biography. On the legitimation of literature in Thomas Bernhard's prose, in: German-language literature of the 70s and 80s. Authors, tendencies, genres. Ed. V. Walter Delabar and Erhard Schütz. Darmstadt 1997, pp. 300-320
  • Assertions and Limits. To Thomas Bernhard. Würzburg 1996, ISBN 978-3-8260-1188-7
  • Prometheus myth: texts from Hesiod to René Char. Edited together with Wolfgang Storch. Leipzig 1995, ISBN 978-3-379-01528-8
  • Between a pipe dream and a matter of the heart. Interview with Wieland: Euthanasia, in: Open forms. Contributions to literature, philosophy and science in the 18th century. Ed. V. Bernd Bräutigam and Burghard Damerau. Frankfurt / M. 1997, pp. 118-139, ISBN 978-3-631-30163-0
  • The old in the new: Konrad Bayer's “sixth sense”, in: literature for readers 1996, pp. 126–135
  • The law of the like: On Peter Handke's three “attempts”, in: Zeitschrift für Germanistik 6 (1996), pp. 641–646
  • The usual and the idiosyncratic: What about language skepticism? In: Studia theodisca III. Ed. V. Fausto Cercignani. Milano 1996, pp. 53-76
  • The weapons of the grotesque: Kafka, fights and laughter, in: neohelicon 22 (1995) Heft 2, pp. 247-258, [1]
  • Thomas Bernhard and Rilke, in: Weimar Contributions 40 (1994). Pp. 462-467
  • On the articulation between their adaptations of Hölderlin and the film Antigone, see “Le Chemin passait par Hölderlin”, interview with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet by Burghard Damerau, in Wolfgang Storch, Brecht après la chute (Paris: L'Arche, 1993), pp. 94-106

Publications about Burghard Damerau

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/geb-1961/370306.html
  2. ↑ cf. about this: https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/burghard-damerau/die-wahrheit-der-literatur.html
  3. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/geb-1961/370306.html
personal data
SURNAME Damerau, Burghard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Fahrdorf , Schleswig district
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 2002
Place of death Berlin