Jürgen Egyptien

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Jürgen Egyptien (2016)

Jürgen Egyptien (born August 24, 1955 in Aachen ) is a German writer and literary scholar .

Life

Jürgen Egyptien grew up in Bayreuth and graduated from the Couven-Gymnasium in 1975 . After completing his civil service in ambulance transport, he studied German and political science at RWTH Aachen University from 1976 and graduated in 1981. He then worked as a literary critic for newspapers, magazines and the radio. In 1986 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on late medieval epics in German Medieval Studies (with Thomas Cramer ). 1987/88 he received a scholarship from the DFG ( German Research Foundation ) in Vienna and opened up the estate of the Austrian writer, politician, cultural philosopher and art theorist Ernst Fischer (1899–1972). During his stay in Vienna, J. Egyptien became aware of the Austrian author Hans Lebert (1919–1993), whose narrative work he edited from 1991 to 1995 in the Black Library he founded at the Vienna Europa Verlag in Vienna . After his return from Vienna, Egyptien worked at the German Institute of RWTH Aachen University, where he completed his habilitation in 1996 with a monograph on Hans Lebert and where he was appointed associate professor in 2004. In addition to his teaching activities, he carried out editorial and organizational functions in the literature business. From 1999 until the cessation of its publication in 2007 he was part of the editorial team of the Amsterdam magazine Castrum Peregrini and founded the series 'Figures around Stefan George '. At the same time he was deputy chairman of the Stefan-George-Gesellschaft and first chairman of the Aachen Peter Klein Literature Forum , which held over 40 readings with German-speaking authors. Subsequently, Egyptien was chairman of the Walter-Hasenclever-Gesellschaft from 2006 to 2014 , which awarded its € 20,000 literary prize to Herta Müller , Christoph Hein , Ralf Rothmann and Michael Lentz during this period . From 2008 to 2012 he was a member of the editorial team of the thirteen- volume Killy literary lexicon and was particularly responsible for the literature of the 20th century . His preferred research areas are turn-of-the-century literature, classical modern poetry, and post-war essays and prose . Since 2007 he has been working with the Cologne essayist Albrecht Fabri (1911–1998), with whom he was in contact in the 1990s.

Since the mid-1980s published Jürgen Egyptien poems, stories, short prose and poetics essays in magazines (u. A. Literary magazine , the hear , Passauer Pegasus , Signum ) and anthologies . In 1990 he received the Erika Burkart grant for poetry .

Works

Fiction

  • In the language of Zwie. Poems. Dresden 2005.
  • Conversations with Albrecht Fabri. Warmbronn 2009.
  • Calabash . Poems. Düsseldorf 2015.
  • Opposition cooperation. Poems. Color lithographs by Thomas Kaminsky. Horn: Edition Thurnhof 2019 (oxohyph 105).

Editorships (selection)

  • Mr. Moriz German-Austrian. A Jewish tale between assimilation and exile. Graz 1988.
  • Hans Lebert : The wolf skin. Novel. Vienna, Zurich 1991.
  • Hans Lebert: The circle of fire. Novel. Vienna, Zurich 1992. Paperback edition Frankfurt a. M. 1995.
  • Jens Rehn : Nothing in sight. Novel. Vienna, Zurich 1993.
  • Hans Lebert: The ship in the mountains. Eerie tales. Vienna, Zurich 1993.
  • Walter Muschg : Conversations with Hans Henny Jahnn . Aachen 1994.
  • Hans Lebert: The white face. Stories. Vienna, Munich 1995.
  • Ernst Gundolf : Works. Essays, letters, poems, drawings and pictures. Amsterdam 2006.
  • Albrecht Fabri: The comma as a lever in the world. Reviews and portraits. Warmbronn 2007.
  • The Second World War in narrative texts between 1945 and 1965. Munich 2007.
  • Wolfgang Koeppen . New ways of research. Darmstadt 2009.
  • Hans Lebert: Poems. Vienna 2010.
  • Albrecht Fabri: Art and Obscenity. Warmbronn 2011.
  • Albrecht Fabri: blurbs. Warmbronn 2012.
  • Reminder in text and images. On the representation of war and the Holocaust in literary and cinematic work in Germany and Poland. V&R Unipress July 17, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8471-0144-4 .
  • Albrecht Fabri reading book. Düsseldorf 2014.
  • Albrecht Fabri: Early Writings. Essays and reviews from the time of the Third Reich Frankfurt a. M. 2016.
  • Ernst Fischer: New art and new people. Graz 2016.
  • Zs. M. Michael Ansel u. H.-E. Friedrich: The essay as a universal genre of the age. Discourses, topics and positions between the turn of the century and the post-war period. Leiden, Boston: Brill 2016 (Amsterdam Contributions to Newer German Studies 88).
  • Stefan-George-Werkkommentar Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2017.
  • Albrecht Fabri: Film Scripts. Warmbronn: Ulrich Keicher 2018.

Specialist publications (selection)

  • The 'Anschluss' as the fall of man. Hans Lebert's literary work and intellectual figure. With e. Preface by Elfriede Jelinek . Vienna 1998.
  • Introduction to German-language literature since 1945. Darmstadt 2006. Audio book version. Darmstadt 2008.
  • Stefan George at Stift Neuburg . Marbach a. N. 2009.
  • Wolfgang Koeppen. Pigeons in the grass . Braunschweig 2010.
  • Albrecht Fabri as an essayist. A tautology . Warmbronn 2011.
  • Alfred Andersch . Zanzibar or the final reason . Braunschweig 2012.
  • Friedrich Gundolf in Heidelberg. Marbach a. N. 2013.
  • Stefan George. Poet and prophet. Biography. Darmstadt: Theiss 2018
  • Irmgard Keun in Cologne. Heidelberg: Morio 2019 (stations 25)
  • Hans Lebert. A biographical silhouette. Vienna special number 2019.

Awards

  • 1990 Erika Burkart grant for poetry

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Egyptien, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen