Erdmut Wizisla
Erdmut Wizisla (born June 19, 1958 in Leipzig ) is a German literary scholar.
Wizisla studied German in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1994 with a thesis on Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht . He has headed the Bertolt Brecht Archive since 1993 and the Walter Benjamin Archive at the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 2004 . Since May 2013 he has been an honorary professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin . He is also a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Board of Trustees of the Kurt Wolff Foundation .
Publications
Erdmut Wizisla is known through numerous publications on Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt , Uwe Johnson and others. a. emerged.
- 2006: as editor with Detlev Schöttker: Arendt and Benjamin: texts, letters, documents ; Suhrkamp paperback. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main ISBN 978-3-518-29395-9 .
- His most recent publication is the first edition of the entire correspondence between Brecht and Helene Weigel (as far as it has survived), published in 2012 by Suhrkamp Verlag , ISBN 978-3-518-41857-4 , under the title I learn: glass + cup washing. Letters 1923-1956.
Web links
- Literature by and about Erdmut Wizisla in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literary scholar Erdmut Wizisla. From construction worker to expert for Brecht and Benjamin. Moderation Ulrike Timm. Deutschlandfunk Kultur - In conversation. July 15, 2019 text online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wizisla, Erdmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |