Christophe Fricker
Christophe Etienne André Fricker (* 1978 in Wiesbaden ) is a German literary scholar, writer, editor and translator.
Life
After studying political science , German and musicology in Singapore , Freiburg im Breisgau and Halifax , he did his doctorate on Stefan George at St John's College in Oxford . Until summer 2010 he was Managing Director of the German language program at Duke University . In autumn 2011 he was Craig-Kade Writer-in-Residence at the Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures in Rutgers and a 2012 Fellow at the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst . From 2012 to 2014 he carried out a Marie Curie research project on Ernst Jünger at the University of Bristol .
In 2009 he edited the correspondence between the George Circle members Friedrich Gundolf and Friedrich Wolters .
Awards
- Prize of the Young Literature Forum Hesse-Thuringia (1995)
- Izaak Walton Killam Pre-doctoral Scholar at Dalhousie University (2002–2003)
- Translator-in-residence of the Junge Oper Rhein-Main (2004-2005)
- Merkur Essay Prize (2007)
- Hermann Hesse Prize (sponsorship award, 2009)
Writings and editorships (selection)
- The beautiful eye of the beholder. Publishing house J. Frank , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940249-24-1 .
- Larkin Terminal. Plöttner Verlag , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-938442-63-0 .
- Friedrich Gundolf - Friedrich Wolters: An exchange of letters from the circle around Stefan George . Edited and introduced by Christophe Fricker. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-412202-99-6 .
- Meet your party: poems . Edition AZUR , Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-942375-17-7 .
- Ernst Jünger - André Müller: Conversations about pain, death and despair . Cologne u. a., Böhlau 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22486-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Christophe Fricker in the catalog of the German National Library
- resume
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Library.duke.edu
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fricker, Christophe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fricker, Christophe Etienne André |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |