Gerhard Kluge (literary scholar)

Gerhard Kluge (* 1935 in Sayda ) is a German Germanist and professor emeritus in the Netherlands.

Life

Kluge began his studies in 1953 at the University of Leipzig a . a. with Hermann August Korff . In 1957 he passed the state examination. After completing his studies, he fled the GDR to the FRG, where he started over at the University of Cologne a . a. at Paul Böckmann . Kluge received his doctorate from Böckmann in 1963 with the dissertation Game and Joke in Romantic Comedy - On the Structure of Comedy Poetry in German Romanticism . He completed his habilitation with a text-critical edition of Friedrich Schiller's Don Karlos , which appeared as volumes 6 and 7 of the Schiller National Edition .

In 1975, Gerhard Kluge was appointed to a chair for modern German literature at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, today Radboud University Nijmegen , where he made a contribution to the modernization of the study of German literature.

In 2000, Gerhard Kluge retired and now lives in Dresden.

Publications

As an author

• Games and jokes in romantic comedy - On the structure of the comedy poetry of German romanticism , dissertation, Cologne, 1963.

As editor

• Friedrich Schiller : Don Karlos . Edited by Paul Böckmann and Gerhard Kluge, 1973, Schiller's works. National Edition, Vol. 6, Vol. 7.1, Vol. 7.2 ISBN 3-7400-0203-4 .
• Studies on Drama in the Federal Republic of Germany , Series: Amsterdam Contributions to Newer German Studies, Volume 16, 1983, ISBN 978-90-6203-625-7 .
• Essays on literature and art at the turn of the century , series: Amsterdam contributions to recent German studies, Volume 18, 1984, ISBN 978-90-6203-996-8 .
• Clemens Brentano : Prose IV. Stories: Text, readings and explanations , Kohlhammer, 1987, ISBN 978-3-17-009440-6 , in the series: Clemens Brentano: Complete Works and Letters , ed. v. Wolfgang Frühwald u. a.
• Friedrich Schiller : Dramen I , 1988 and “Dramen II”, 1989, in works and letters in twelve volumes , ed. v. Otto Dann et al., Deutscher Klassiker Verlag.

literature

• Guillaume van Gemert, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen: From Kosch to Kluge - Eighty Years of German Studies in Nijmegen , in: Retrospectives, Outlooks. On the history of German studies in the Netherlands , ed. v. Ton Naaijkens, 2009, ISBN 978-90-6701-028-3 .