Hans Wisskirchen

Hans Wißkirchen (born April 6, 1955 in Düsseldorf ) is a German literary scholar and museum director.

Life

Wißkirchen studied philosophy and German at the Philipps University of Marburg . It was 1985 in Marburg with a dissertation on Thomas Mann's sources to Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus Dr. phil. PhD. Until 1991, Wißkirchen was a research assistant at the University of Marburg. Since 1991 he worked at the Buddenbrookhaus in Lübeck and became its director in 1993. Since 2001, Wißkirchen has been director of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck Cultural Foundation , to which in 2006, in addition to its Buddenbrookhaus and Günter Grass-Haus, all municipal museums in Lübeck were directed.

Wißkirchen was appointed honorary professor for modern German literature at the University of Lübeck in 2006. He is President of the German Thomas Mann Society and Chairman of the Working Group of Literary Societies and Memorials .

Fonts

• Contemporary history in the novel. To Thomas Mann's "Zauberberg" and "Doktor Faustus". Bern 1986.
• The Mann family. Reinbek 1999.
• with Dietrich von Engelhardt : Thomas Mann and the Sciences. Lübeck 1999.
• Poets and their homes. The future of the past. Lübeck 2002.
• Thomas Mann's "Tonio Kröger". Ways of approach. Heide 2003 (with photos by Walter Mayr).
• with Thomas narrator: Thomas and Heinrich Mann in the mirror of the caricature. Paderborn 2003.
• with Dietrich von Engelhardt: "The Magic Mountain" - The world of science in Thomas Mann's novel. Stuttgart / New York 2003.

Web links

• Honorary professorship for New German Literature to Dr. Hans Wisskirchen. Communication from the University of Lübeck dated April 13, 2006.