Jürgen Manthey

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Jürgen Manthey (born October 17, 1932 in Forst , Lausitz ; † December 13, 2018 in Lübeck ) was a German writer and literary scholar .

job

Manthey headed the literary editorial department at Hessischer Rundfunk . He was chief editor at Rowohlt Verlag , edited the Rowohlt literary magazine and the series das neue buch , and also worked as a translator.

From 1986 to 1998 he was Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the University of Essen . He lived as a freelance author and literary critic in Lübeck. He became widely known for his book about Königsberg (Prussia) . In the last ten years of his life he worked on an unfinished project about the Baltic Sea, for which he left 2000 handwritten pages.

Manthey was a member of the PEN Center Germany . He died in December 2018 at the age of 86 in Lübeck.

Works (selection)

  • Literary magazine 10 role models . Reinbek 1979, ISBN 9783499251191 .
  • Hans Fallada. With testimonials and photo documents. 11th edition. Reinbek 1998, ISBN 9783499500787 .
  • If looks could be witness. A psychohistorical study of vision in literature and philosophy . Munich 1991, ISBN 9783446138551 .
  • In Germany and around Germany. A glossary . Frankfurt am Main 1995, Die Other Bibliothek series , ISBN 9783821841311 .
  • Achilles immortality. From the origin of storytelling . Munich 1997.
  • Koenigsberg. History of a world citizenship republic . Munich 2005, ISBN 3446206191 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Manthey has died. In: buchmarkt.de . December 13, 2018, accessed December 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Peter Intelmann: Mourning for Jürgen Manthey. In: LN Online . December 13, 2018, accessed December 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Jürgen Manthey. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: P-Z. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 604.
  4. ↑ On the death of Jürgen Manthey - "He was responsible for the German avant-garde of his time". In: deutschlandfunk.de . December 13, 2018, accessed December 14, 2018 . Miriam Zeh: On the death of Jürgen Manthey - "He was responsible for the German avant-garde of his time". Michael Krüger in conversation. (mp3 audio, 8.9 MB, 9:44 minutes) In: Deutschlandfunk broadcast “Büchermarkt”. December 13, 2018, accessed December 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Manthey, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, literary scholar, editor and translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Forst (Lausitz)
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 2018
Place of death Lübeck