Diethelm Brüggemann

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Diethelm Brüggemann (born February 1, 1934 - † June 16, 2015 ) was a German philologist .

Life

After studying German in Freiburg, he did his doctorate in 1967 with Ludwig Erich Schmitt in Marburg , in the same year he was appointed professor of German at the National University of Ireland in Dublin , later (1984–1988) in the same function at the Witwatersrand University Johannesburg . In his publications, Brüggemann increasingly dealt with questions of the hermetic and alchemical tradition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich von Kleist .

Brüggemann has four children, including the actress Anna Brüggemann and the filmmaker Dietrich Brüggemann .

Fonts (selection)

  • Makaria and Mercury. Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre as a hermetic novel, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3906763447
  • Alchemy without a laboratory. Breakdown of the cryptogram in Rembrandt's etching "Sogenannter Faust", In: Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 43 (2001).
  • Kleist. The magic. Königshausen & Neumann 2004, ISBN 3826028104
  • From the heart straight to the pen. The Germans in their letter boxes, DTV 1982, ISBN 3423005033
  • The Saxon Comedy. Studies on the style of language, Böhlau-Verlag 1997, ISBN 3412580708
  • The broken crown. Novel . Alpheus-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945385-06-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Diethelm Brüggemann: Obituary notice
  2. ^ Website of Diethelm Brüggemann ( Memento from September 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )