Friedmar Apel

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Friedmar Apel (born September 7, 1948 in Osterode am Harz ; † October 21, 2018 in Bielefeld ) was a German literary scholar , Germanist and writer. He taught comparative literature at Bielefeld University .

life and work

Apel studied general and comparative literature, philosophy and English in Berlin and Bloomington (Indiana) . He received his doctorate in 1977 with a study on the theory and history of the art fairy tale and habilitated in 1981 at the TU Berlin on literary translation . After visiting professorships in Berlin, Atlanta , Siegen and Regensburg , he was appointed professor of comparative literature at the University of Paderborn in 1987 . In 2000 he took over the chair for German literature in a European context at Bielefeld University .

Apel's research interests were primarily in the literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He published books on the semiotics of fashion and motorcycling, on the “German landscape”, on the angelic conception of romanticism and its expression in artistic and literary works, as well as a short biography of Hugo von Hofmannsthal . He regularly wrote reviews in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and edited numerous books, including several volumes with Erich Fried's Shakespeare translations in the Wagenbach publishing house and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's aesthetic writings in the Insel publishing house . As co-editor he was responsible for the complete edition of Ror Wolf's works .

In his novel Das Buch Fritze (2003), Apel dealt with his childhood in Eichsfeld and the drug death of his younger brother. With Nanette's memory , he presented a Berlin key novel in 2009 .

He died in October 2018 at the age of 70. He was married and had four children.

Works (selection)

  • Dressed, undressed. Images and texts about the staged life . Ullstein Verlag 1991, ISBN 3886791211 .
  • German spirit and German landscape. A topography . Knaus Verlag 1998, ISBN 3813500918 .
  • You have to digest hard chunks. What is a good translation? To the dispute over " Lempriere's dictionary ". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 30, 1993 SZ, p. 15ff.
  • Longing for Heaven: The Visibility of Angels . Insel pocket book 2001, ISBN 3458344268 .
  • Nanette's memory . Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3518420539 .
  • The eye reads with you: On the visuality of literature . Carl Hanser Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3446235694 .

Web links

Commons : Friedmar Apel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tilman Spreckelsen : On the death of the literary scholar Friedmar Apels. In: faz.net . October 24, 2018, accessed October 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Steinfeld : Friedmar Apel has died. In: sueddeutsche.de . October 25, 2018, accessed October 26, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Friedmar Apel. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: P-Z. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 20.
  4. ^ Thomas Klingebiel: Mourning for Bielefeld literary scholar Friedmar Apel. In: nw.de . October 26, 2018, accessed October 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Apel, Friedmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, Germanist and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterode am Harz
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2018
Place of death Bielefeld