Burkhard Müller (literary critic)

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Burkhard Mueller

Burkhard Müller (born December 10, 1959 in Schweinfurt ) is a lecturer in Latin at the Technical University of Chemnitz , freelance literary critic and author .

Müller is a journalist and part-time Latin lecturer at the University of Chemnitz. As a book author, he publishes on a wide range of topics, for example from evolutionary theory (critical examination of Darwin) to anti-religious fundamental criticism and literary criticism. Müller also regularly writes literary reviews in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Müller's contributions can also be found in the cultural magazine Merkur . In Chemnitz he organizes readings together with Eske Bockelmann at Weltecho , a cultural center in the city center. In 2008 he was awarded the Alfred Kerr Prize awarded in 2012 the translators bark by the literary association of German-speaking translators and scientific works , VdÜ, for special contributions to literary translation. Müller is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

In connection with a critical review of a book by Jochen Hörisch (Müller had told Hörisch in his review that Hörisch urgently needed a “serious friend”, to which Hörisch countered that Müller might need “a friend or a psychotherapist”), the Perlentaucher came to one written discussion between Müller and Hörisch.

Publications

  • Karl Kraus . Mimesis and criticism of the medium. Dissertation. Metzler & Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995.
  • Lost lands. A world history in postage stamps. To Klampen, Lüneburg 1998.
  • Stephen King . The miracle, the evil and the death. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3-608-91888-5 .
  • The happiness of animals. Objection to the theory of evolution . Fest, Berlin 2000. Updated new edition Pomaska-Brand, Schalksmühle 2009.
  • Final line. Critique of Christianity. 2nd Edition. To Klampen, Springe 2004, ISBN 978-3-934920-41-5 .
  • The king wept. Schiller and the drama of world history. To Klampen, Springe 2005, ISBN 978-3-934920-58-3 .
  • The tears of Xerxes. From the story of the living and the dead. To Klampen, Springe 2006, ISBN 978-3-934920-91-0 .
  • Air dogs. Portraits of German literary modernism. To Klampen, Springe 2008, ISBN 978-3-86674-027-3 .
  • B - a German trip. Rowohlt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3871346637 .
  • Apollo and Daphne. A Metamorphosis Story , To Cleats, Jump 2020, ISBN 978-3866746114 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ The animal behaves impossibly. In: FAZ.net . November 14, 2000, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  2. ↑ www.literaturkritik.de
  3. ↑ [1] , [2] - Essays at Perlentaucher
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt