Irmgard Egger

Irmgard Egger (born July 13, 1953 in Vienna ; died January 30, 2015 in Vienna) was an Austrian German scholar and literary scholar .

biography

Irmgard Egger studied at the University of Vienna German, English literature and philosophy on teaching . She did her doctorate in 1986 under Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler with a thesis on the novel cycle leather stockings by James Fenimore Cooper . After working as a teacher at the Rahlgasse grammar school, she completed her habilitation in 2000 with a thesis on the dialectic of the Enlightenment in Goethe's novels. This was followed by research stays in Pisa and Rome . After visiting lectureships in Zurich and at the Humboldt University in Berlin , she was finally appointed university lecturer in Vienna in 2006 and university professor in 2012.

Egger's main research areas were the Weimar Classics , German Romanticism , romantic aesthetics , the literary motif of the trip to Italy from Goethe to Rolf Dieter Brinkmann , as well as the relationship between literature and music and the visual arts .

Irmgard Egger: Lederstrumpf: a German book for young people; Investigation of the conditions and structures of literary transformation Vienna 1991, also dissertation 1986
Irmgard Egger: Dietetics and Asceticism: on the Dialectic of Enlightenment in Goethe's novels Munich 2001, also habilitation 2000
Irmgard Egger: Italian Travel: Perception and Literarization from Goethe to Brinkmann Munich 2006

personal data
SURNAME	Egger, Irmgard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian Germanist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	July 13, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	January 30, 2015
Place of death	Vienna