Hans-Albert Walter (literary scholar)

Hans-Albert Walter (born June 3, 1935 in Hofheim am Taunus ; † February 22, 2016 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German literary scholar with a focus on German exile literature .

Career

From 1976 to 1981 Walter headed the Hamburg Office for German Exile Literature (today: Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for German Exile Literature ) at the University of Hamburg. He then worked as a freelance science journalist and literary scholar.

In predominantly voluntary research, he dealt with German exile literature. His main work is his German Exile Literature 1933–1950 , which appeared in several volumes.

Awards

1988: Honorary doctorate from the University of Cologne
1993: Hessian Culture Prize for Science
2007: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Works (selection)

Hans-Albert Walter: German exile literature: 1933-1950 . Review by Irmela von der Lühe
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- Volume 1: The prehistory of exile and its first phase.
- Volume 1,1: The mentality of the Weimar Germans. The 'politicization' of the intellectuals. Stuttgart u. a. 2003, ISBN 978-3-476-00536-6 .
- Volume 1,2: Weimar left intellectuals in the field of tension between actions and repression. JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-476-00614-1 .
- Volume 2: European Appeasement and Overseas Asylum Practice. Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 978-3-476-00539-7 .
- Volume 3: Internment, Flight and Living Conditions in World War II . Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 978-3-476-00541-0 .
- Volume 4: Exile Press . Stuttgart u. a. 1978, ISBN 978-3-476-00385-0 .

Shake hands with the Lord, he's a refugee. Afterword by Herbert Wiesner. Leske Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-946595-00-7 . Eckart Löhr's review of re-visions.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ "Shake hands with the Lord, he's a refugee" , obituary by Hans-Harald Müller on literaturkritik.de, accessed on July 1, 2019.
↑ The Outsiders of the Republic. Hans-Albert Walter's large representation of the "German Exile Literature 1933–1950"
↑ In exile - in misery. The literary scholar Hans-Albert Walter describes impressively what it means to have to live in a foreign country

personal data
SURNAME	Walter, Hans-Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German literary scholar and exile researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hofheim am Taunus
DATE OF DEATH	February 22, 2016
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] "Shake hands with the Lord, he's a refugee" , obituary by Hans-Harald Müller on literaturkritik.de, accessed on July 1, 2019.

[2] The Outsiders of the Republic. Hans-Albert Walter's large representation of the "German Exile Literature 1933–1950"

[3] In exile - in misery. The literary scholar Hans-Albert Walter describes impressively what it means to have to live in a foreign country