Dietrich Weber

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Dietrich Weber (* 26. July 1935 in Rathenow ; † 14. September 2008 ) was a German Germanist and literary scholar .

Born and raised in Havelland, Weber received his doctorate in 1963 from the University of Hamburg . In 1967, he came as a researcher Herbert Singers († 1970) at the University of Cologne , where he in 1974 habilitated . In 1975 Dietrich Weber was appointed professor of general literary studies at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , where he made great contributions as the founding dean of the linguistic and literary studies department .

In addition to narrative research , the work of the Austrian writer Heimito von Doderer was the focus of his research. Dietrich Weber, who retired in 2000, was an honorary member of the Heimito von Doderer Society , a member of the Wuppertal Center for Narrative Research and one of the main editors of the Wuppertal Writings on General Literary Studies.

Fonts (selection)

  • Heimito from Doderer. Studies on his novels . Beck, Munich 1963 (book edition of the dissertation)
  • Theory of analytic narration , Beck, Munich 1975 (book edition of the habil.
  • Heimito von Doderer , Beck, Munich 1987
  • Narrative literature , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998

literature

  • Narrated world - world of narration. Festschrift for Dietrich Weber , ed. by Rüdiger Zymner, Cologne 2000 ISBN 3-934977-01-4

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personal data
SURNAME Weber, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Rathenow
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2008
Place of death Rathenow