Christian Liedtke (literary scholar)

Christian Liedtke (* 1964 in Hamburg ) is a German German scholar and archivist at the Heinrich Heine Institute in Düsseldorf .

Liedtke studied German and philosophy at the universities in Hamburg, Cincinnati (USA), Cologne and Bonn. He taught at the German Department of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn as a research assistant from 1991–1998 and as a lecturer from 1998–2001. As a research assistant at the Heinrich Heine Institute, he worked on the online edition and the digital information system Heinrich Heine portal from 2002 to 2008 . Since 2008 he has been responsible at the Heinrich Heine Institute for the archive with the Heine collection, the collections on Robert Schumann and the general autograph collection, as well as for editing the Heine yearbook .

As an author and co-author, Liedtke has published several monographs and numerous essays on Heine. In 2019 he held the Max Kade Professorship at the University of Cincinnati .

Fonts (selection)

Heinrich Heine . Rowohlt, Reinbek b. Hamburg 1997 (Rowohlt's monographs). 5th edition 2004. Revised and expanded new edition 2006. 3rd edition of the new edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-50685-7 .
(Ed.): Heinrich Heine. New ways of research . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-534-14466-X .
(Ed.): Heinrich Heine in portrait. How the artists of his time saw him . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-455-09513-5 .
“On top of the world!” Through Paris with Heine . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2010 (with Gerhard Höhn ), ISBN 978-3-455-40255-1 .
(Ed.): Literature and publishing in Vormärz . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-89528-858-6 .
Heinrich Heine in Hamburg . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2014 (with Sylvia Steckmest), ISBN 978-3-95462-233-7 .
Heinrich Heine. An ABC . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-455-81351-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Liedtke, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Germanist and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH	1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg