Dirk Hoterer
Dirk Heißerer (born June 29, 1957 in Koblenz ) is a German literary scholar and author.
Life
After studying German, philosophy, art history and ethnology in Bonn and Munich, Dirk Heißerer received his doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on Carl Einstein . He worked for several years as a study tour guide in Italy, conceiving trips from a literary point of view.
Since 1988 he has been organizing literary walks and excursions between Munich and Lake Garda under his own direction .
For his book Where the Ghosts Wander. A topography of the Schwabing Bohème around 1900 , he received the Schwabing Art Prize in 1993; later the "silver pen" of the "Society for the Promotion of Literature" (1997) and the "Premio Amelia Molteni" (2001) of the municipality of Gardone Riviera for his book Meeresbrausen, Sonnenglanz. Poets on Lake Garda .
While doing research for his book Wellen, Wind und Dorfbanditen. Literary explorations on Lake Starnberg (1995) he succeeded in discovering the "Villino", Thomas Mann's former summer house in Feldafing , where between 1919 and 1923 several parts of the Zauberberg were created. The building, which was located on the premises of the Bundeswehr Command Support School until 2012 and is now owned by the Benedictus Hospital Tutzing-Feldafing, has been a literary memorial since 1999.
The lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilians University (1992–2000, 2006) and at the University of Leipzig (2007/08) is also the editor ( Erika Mann , Kadidja Wedekind , Franz Hessel , Rudolf Schlichter ).
Since 1999 he has been the first chairman of the Thomas Mann Forum Munich e. V. and has been publishing the Thomas Mann series (TMSR) since 2003 . In spring 2005 his book Im Zaubergarten was published. Thomas Mann in Bavaria . A new edition of the classic Where the ghosts wander with the new subtitle Literary Walks through Schwabing was published in 2008. In the spring of 2009 came his study Die wiederfinde Pracht. Franz von Lenbach, the Pringsheim family and Thomas Mann . My news service was last published in 2013 , the edition of Hedwig Pringsheim's letters to Katia Mann from 1933 to 1941 (Göttingen, Wallstein Verlag, two volumes).
The German Thomas Mann Society awarded Dirk Heißerer the Thomas Mann Medal in autumn 2009.
Awards
- Schwabing Art Prize 1993
- Silver pen 1997
- Premio Amelia Molteni 2001
- District Medal of the District of Upper Bavaria for Culture and Homeland Care 2008
- Thomas Mann Medal 2009
Works (selection)
- Where the ghosts wander. A topography of the Schwabing Bohème around 1900. Diederichs Verlag, Munich 1993. New edition by Verlag CH Beck 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56835-0
- Waves, wind and village bandits. Literary explorations on Lake Starnberg. Diederichs Verlag, Munich 1995. New edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-424-35047-0
- Sea showers - sunshine. Poets on Lake Garda. Diederichs Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-424-01476-1
- Thomas Mann's “Villino” in Feldafing on Lake Starnberg 1919–1923. P. Kirchheim, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-87410-089-8
- In the magic garden. Thomas Mann in Bavaria. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52871-6
- Franz von Lenbach, the Pringsheim family and Thomas Mann. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0430-7
Web links
- Literary walks and excursions
- Thomas Mann Forum Munich e. V.
- Magic Mountain Feldafing
- The rediscovered splendor
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hotter, Dirk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koblenz |