Günter Häntzschel

Günter Häntzschel (born August 10, 1939 in Göttingen ) is a German specialist in German. He taught German literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the University of Regensburg .

Life

After a two-year book trade apprenticeship in Hanover, studies in Göttingen, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Besançon and Munich, his doctorate as Dr. phil. (1967) and habilitation (1975) he was Professor of German Literature at the University of Munich and visiting professor at the University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, USA from 1979 to 2004 ; at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages ​​Hyderabad, India; at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA and Max Kade Professor at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA. In 1967 he married the literary scholar Hiltrud Häntzschel . He has three children, the journalist Jörg Häntzschel, the goldsmith Heike von Schlebrügge and the graphic designer Ole Häntzschel . From 1990 to 1999 Häntzschel was President of the Hebbel Society , from 1999 to 2006 Chairman of the Goethe Society in Munich. His research areas are German literary history from the 18th century to the present day and the social history of literature. He is co-editor of “treibhaus. Yearbook for the literature of the fifties “1 (2005) ff.

Publications (selection)

• Tradition and originality. Allegorical representation in the work of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. 1969.
• Johann Heinrich Voss. His translation of Homer as a language-creative achievement. 1977.
• Education and culture of bourgeois women 1850–1918. 1986.
• The German-language poetry anthologies 1840–1914. Social history of 19th century poetry. 1997.
• Hiltrud and Günter Häntzschel: “I became a character in a novel.” Wolfgang Koeppen 1906–1996. 2006.
• Günter Häntzschel, Adrian Hummel, Jörg Zedler: German-language literature of the 1950s. Fictional literature in sources, analyzes and interpretations. 2009.
• Collect (l) egg (stem). Literary collecting in the 19th century. 2014.
• Annette Kolb: Works. Four volumes. Edited by Hiltrud and Günter Häntzschel. 2017.

literature

• keep writing. write again. German-language literature of the fifties. Festschrift for GH 2004.
• Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon of the 20th Century, 3rd edition 1988, column 400 f.
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online.

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Häntzschel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Günter Häntzschel on the website of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich