Dieter Schlenstedt

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Dieter and Silvia Schlenstedt in 1993 on Usedom

Dieter Schlenstedt (born August 30, 1932 in Blankenburg (Harz) , † May 27, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German literary scholar .

Life

Schlenstedt studied from 1951 to 1955 German . Then he was a lecturer in the workers and farmers faculty at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Between 1963 and 1966 Schlenstedt worked as an editor for the literary magazine Weimarer Posts . From 1966 he was a research assistant at the Central Institute for the History of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , which was "wound up" in 1991. In 1991 he was elected the last President of the PEN Center (East) and was then a member of the PEN Center Germany . Schlenstedt received his doctorate in 1967 and was appointed professor in 1976 . In 1988 he was visiting professor at the University of Siegen , 1989 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , and 1993 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison .

Dieter Schlenstedt was married to Silvia Schlenstedt , née Pollatschek.

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Individual evidence

  1. Dieter Schlenstedt ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.zeitzeugen-tv.com  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeitzeugen-tv.com
  2. Frank Hörnigk : Fundamentally different. To the Germanist Dieter Schlenstedt on his 70th birthday. In: Friday v. August 30, 2002; Short vita in: Petra Boden / Dorothea Böck (Ed.): Modernization without modernity. The Central Institute for the History of Literature at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1969–1991) . Heidelberg 2004, p. 375.