Eva Kaufmann

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Eva Kaufmann (born October 29, 1930 in Berlin ; † July 18, 2019 there ) was a German literary scholar and university teacher .

Live and act

After graduating from secondary school, Eva Kaufmann initially trained as a foreign trade correspondent at the Lette Association from 1947 to 1949 . In 1951 she graduated from the Workers and Farmers Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin . There she then studied German until 1955 . From 1955 to 1962 she worked as a university assistant at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin and the Humboldt University. From 1962 to 1963 she was a scientific aspirant at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . From 1964 to 1968 she worked there as an assistant at the German Institute. In 1966 she received her doctorate from Humboldt University with a thesis on Arnold Zweig . Between 1968 and 1974 she was an assistant at the German Institute in Jena and Berlin. In 1973, he completed his habilitation on German literary history 1917–1923. In 1975 she was appointed full professor at the German Studies Section at Humboldt University. From 1979 she headed the newly established chair for comparative literature. Eva Kaufmann was retired in 1990 .

In October 1991 Eva Kaufmann was one of the co-founders of the Anna Seghers Society in order to research the life and work of one of the most important German storytellers and to keep her work alive.

In 1998 Eva Kaufmann was one of the co-founders of the Brigitte Reimann Society. With essays, lectures and lectures, she contributed to preserving the literature of women who wrote in the GDR.

Eva Kaufmann was temporarily married to the literary scholar Hans Kaufmann .

Publications (selection)

  • Arnold Zweig's path to the novel. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1967.
  • Demands on life and strength development. Anna Seghers. A portrait. In: German literature by women. Vol. 2. Beck-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-33021-5 .
  • Irmtraud Morgner, Christa Wolf and others. Feminism in GDR literature. In: Literature in the GDR. Retrospectives. Special edition text + kritik . Munich 1991, ISBN 978-3-883-77383-4 .
  • Images of women and the male gaze. In: Argonaut ship. Yearbook of the Anna Seghers Society 5 (1996).
  • together with Ursula Schröter, Renate Ullrich: “Living as a whole person.” Life claims of East German women . Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-930-41276-1 .
  • Promising marginal figures. Essays. With etchings by Nuria Quevedo . Federchen-Verlag, Neubrandenburg 2000, ISBN 3-910170-44-7 .
  • Ed .: Anna Seghers, Stories 1967–1980. Vol. II / 6 of the Anna Seghers work edition in 25 volumes. Structure, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-351-03467-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tabular curriculum vitae and photos on the Humboldt University website.
  2. ↑ On the death of Prof. Dr. Eva Kaufmann | anna-seghers.de - News. Retrieved on August 28, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ On the death of Prof. Dr. Eva Kaufmann. Brigitte-Reimann-Gesellschaft, July 26, 2019, accessed on August 28, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Kaufmann, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 2019
Place of death Berlin