Eckart Kleßmann

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Eckart Kleßmann (born March 17, 1933 in Lemgo ) is a German journalist , writer and historian who mainly deals with the 19th century .

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Eckart Kleßmann is the youngest son of the surgeon Gustav Kleßmann (1893–1974) and Käthe Westheermann (1894–1962), his older brother was the art historian Rüdiger Klessmann . After graduating from high school in Lemgo in 1953, he first studied art history in Tübingen , Munich and Göttingen until 1956 .

From 1956 to 1960, Kleßmann completed his training as a retail and publishing bookseller in Stuttgart , after which he worked there as an editor of the evangelical-conservative weekly newspaper Christ und Welt . After moving to Hamburg in 1961, Kleßmann initially worked as an editor and publisher's authorized signatory, and from 1964 to 1970 he worked as an editor of the literary supplement to the daily newspaper Die Welt . Kleßmann was then editor of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit until 1976 .

Kleßmann has been a freelance writer since 1977. In 1981 he wrote a history of the city of Hamburg. In addition, Kleßmann wrote several books on German Romanticism, including a biography of Caroline Michaelis / Böhmer / Schlegel / Schelling , as well as several volumes of poetry. Since 1995 he has lived in his adopted home Bengerstorf near Boizenburg / Elbe. In 2007, Kleßmann published autobiographical episodes about his childhood during the Nazi era .

In 1984 Kleßmann taught as a visiting professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire . In 1989 he was awarded the Irmgard Heilmann Prize and in 1998 the Lion Feuchtwanger Prize of the Berlin Academy of the Arts . He is a member of the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg , the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and the Patriotic Society of 1765 , as well as an honorary member of the Telemann Society.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Unicorn hunt . Poems. DVA, Stuttgart 1963.
  • The world of romance . Desch, Munich 1969.
  • Undine shadow . Wulff, Dortmund 1974 (collection of poems).
  • Seascapes . Corvus, Frankfurt am Main 1975 (collection of poems).
  • Caroline. The life of Caroline Michaelis-Böhmer-Schlegel-Schelling 1763-1809 , List, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-471-77935-3 , later as a completely revised new edition under the title: "I was bold, but not outrageous", life Caroline Schlegel-Schelling , Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1992, ISBN 3-7857-0619-7 ; List-TB 60838, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-548-60838-9 .
  • Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia. Shape of a turning point. List, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-471-77932-9 .
  • German romanticism . DuMont, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7701-1039-0 .
  • History of the city of Hamburg . Hofmann and Campe, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-455-08803-1 ; New edition at: Die Hanse, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-434-52596-3 .
  • ETA Hoffmann or the depth between star and earth. A biography. DVA, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-421-06386-9 ; New edition: Insel-TB 1732, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-458-33432-7 .
  • Hamburg - A city reader . Insel, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-458-33012-7 .
  • Christiane - Goethe's lover and companion . Artemis, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-596-11886-7 .
  • The Mendelssohns - Pictures from a German Family . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-458-33223-5 .
  • The wonderful course of things. The life story of Matthias Claudius . Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-407-80832-1 ; Revised new edition: TvR, Jena 2010, ISBN 978-3-940431-13-4 .
  • MM Warburg & Co 1798–1998. The story of a banking house . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-933374-27-8 .
  • Prince Pückler and Machbuba . Rowohlt, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-87134-270-X ; Revised new edition: TvR, Jena 2014, ISBN 978-3-940431-26-4 .
  • Georg Philipp Telemann . Ellert and Richter, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-8319-0159-7 .
  • Wings spread over you - A childhood 1933–1945 . Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89528-633-9 .
  • Napoleon and the Germans . Rowohlt, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-87134-561-6 .
  • Goethe and his dear Germans - views of a difficult relationship (= The Other Library . Vol. 307). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-8218-6220-0 .
  • The lost ones. The soldiers in Napoleon's Russian campaign . Structure, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-351-02755-1 .
  • University trustees. Five enlightened women between Rococo, Revolution and Romanticism , AB - Die Andere Bibliothek GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8477-2013-3 .

Editorships

  • Napoleon's Russian campaigns in eyewitness accounts . Karl Rauch, Düsseldorf 1964.
  • Germany under Napoleon in eyewitness accounts . Karl Rauch, Düsseldorf 1965.
  • The Wars of Liberation in eyewitness accounts . Karl Rauch, Düsseldorf 1966.
  • About Bach. Of musicians, poets and lovers. An anthology (Reclams Universal Library No. 18065). 2nd, expanded edition, Reclam, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-15-018065-1 .
  • The four Seasons. Poems (Reclam paperback; No. 20193). Reclam, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-15-020193-0 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ member entry of Eckart Kleßmann at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 10/11/17.
personal data
SURNAME Kleßmann, Eckart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemgo