Ingrid Strohschneider-Kohrs

Ingrid Strohschneider-Kohrs (born August 26, 1922 in Hamburg ; † September 27, 2014 in Gauting ) was Professor of Modern German Literature at the Ruhr University in Bochum until she retired in 1987 . Her habilitation thesis on romantic irony is still considered a standard work on this subject.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1941, Strohschneider-Kohrs studied German , philosophy , history and geography in Hamburg and Tübingen . In 1948 she did her doctorate under Hans Pyritz on the essence of the tragic in Heinrich von Kleist's drama . After her assistantship, she passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in 1951 . 1957 habilitation them with the study The romantic irony in theory and design at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , where she then worked as a lecturer. In the winter of 1960/61 she represented Benno von Wieses' chair . In 1964 she was appointed to Bochum and was one of the few German women on a Germanic chair.

Strohschneider-Kohrs' research focuses on the literature of the Enlightenment, the Goethe era and naturalism . She published mainly on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and his Minna von Barnhelm , on the young Johann Wolfgang Goethe and his Clavigo , Arno Holz , Franz Kafka , Georg Trakl and Ingeborg Bachmann . At times she was co-editor of the Bochum magazine Poetica . She worked actively on the committees of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

The romantic irony in theory and design. Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1960.
Reason as wisdom. Studies on the late Lessing. Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1991.
Poetry and reflection. Essays on literature. Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-484-10790-1 .
Voice and language. Ingeborg Bachmann's version of the Undine theme. 2003, ISBN 3-87410-096-0 .

personal data
SURNAME	Strohschneider-Kohrs, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 26, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	September 27, 2014
Place of death	Gauting