Herbert Kraft (literary scholar)

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Herbert Kraft (born June 5, 1938 in Walsum , today Duisburg ) is a German literary scholar .

Live and act

Herbert force studied literature and a doctorate in 1962 in Tübingen Dr. phil. The habilitation for German Philology followed in 1970.

From 1972 to 2003 Herbert Kraft was a full professor of modern German literary history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . He also held visiting professorships in Armidale / Australia (1982 and 1985) and in Cairo (1988). Since 1997 he has been Dr. Suffered. hc from the University of Sheffield . In 2003 Herbert Kraft retired.

Herbert Kraft's main areas of work are Friedrich Schiller , Heinrich von Kleist , Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , Robert Musil and JMR Lenz, as well as the methodological and theoretical foundation of the edition philology .

Kraft is co-editor of the Schiller National Edition.

He has lived in Everswinkel since 1972 .

Publications (selection)

  • Kafka . Reality and Perspective , Bebenhausen 1972, 2nd edition 1983
  • Ed .: Andreas Streicher's Schiller biography . Mannheim, BI, 1974
  • The literary work of Walter Jens , Tübingen 1975
  • Edition Philology , Darmstadt 1990, 2nd edition Frankfurt am Main 2001
  • Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , Reinbek near Hamburg 1994, 4th edition 1998
  • Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. A picture of society , 1996
  • Historical-critical literary studies (literary studies. Theory and Examples, Volume 1) , Münster 1999
  • Musil , Paul Zsolnay Verlag , Vienna-Hamburg 2003
  • Literary didactics. Maturity as a teaching and learning goal (literary studies. Theory and examples, Volume 6) , Münster 2004
  • Kleist. Life and Work , Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2007
  • Poetry of the idea. The tragic poetry of Friedrich Hebbel . Tübingen 1971

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.wn.de/Muensterland/Kreis-Warendorf/Everswinkel/3040465-Vortrag-ueber-Theodor-Storm-zum-200.-Geburtstag-des-Dichters-Genauer-Beobachter-der-Gesellschaft
personal data
SURNAME Kraft, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Walsum