Christof Wingertszahn

Christof Wingertszahn (* 1958 in St. Wendel / Saar ) is a German literary scholar and museum director.

Wingertszahn studied German language and literature , philosophy and art history at the Saarland University with a master's degree (1984). In 1990 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the narrative work of the romantic Achim von Arnim . From 1993 to 1996 he was a research associate at the Weimar Classic Foundation (Arnim edition, Nietzsche archive), after which he headed the critical Moritz edition department at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . In 2008 he completed his habilitation with a work on Goethe's friend Karl Philipp Moritz .

Since 2013 he has been the director of the Goethe Museum in Düsseldorf . He is co-editor of two great classic editions:

• Ludwig Achim von Arnim: works and correspondence . Historical-critical edition. Weimar Arnim edition (planned 40 volumes);
• Critical Karl-Philipp-Moritz-Edition (planned 13 volumes).

Wingertszahn is a lecturer and honorary professor at the Institute for German Studies at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . He taught at universities in Saarland, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Braunschweig and Tokyo.

Fonts

• Ambiguity and ambivalence in the narrative work of Achim von Arnim . Röhrig, St. Ingbert
• Anton Reiser and the 'Michelein'. New finds on quietism in the 18th century . Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover 2002, ISBN 9783932324598
• Anton Reiser's world. A youth in Lower Saxony 1756–1776. Exhibition catalog for the 250th birthday of Karl Philipp Moritz . Exhibition in the Hanover City Library from September 4 to October 14, 2006. Wehrhahn Verlag, Hanover 2006
• (Ed.): "The village has now become here". Karl Philipp Moritz today . Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-86525-157-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Achim von Arnim: Works and Correspondence
2. ^ Critical Karl Philipp Moritz Edition
3. ^ Institute for German Studies