Gerhard R. Kaiser

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Gerhard R. Kaiser (* 1943 in Mainz ) is a German specialist in German .

Kaiser studied literature in Tübingen and Mainz and was established in 1971 with a dissertation on Proust , Musil and Joyce Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1973 to 1993 he was Professor of Comparative Literature with a focus on Modern German Literature at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen , and from 1993 to 2008 Professor of Modern German Literature / Comparative Literature at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . In 2002 he was visiting professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed. With Olaf Müller) Germaine de Staël and her first German audience. Literary politics and cultural transfer around 1800 . Winter, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8253-5316-2
  • Mme de Staël “De l'Allemagne” and Goethe's reflections on “world literature”. In: Goethe yearbook. Volume 128, 2011.
  • (Ed.) German reports from Paris 1789–1933. Time experience in the city of cities . Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3018-4 .
  • Tiefurt: literature and life at the beginning of Weimar's great time . Wallstein, Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-8353-3659-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Gerhard R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz