Jan Bürger (writer)

Jan Bürger (born October 3, 1968 in Braunschweig ) is a German writer and literary scholar .

Life

Jan Bürger studied German language and literature as well as political science in Hamburg and received his doctorate in 2000 from Hans Henny Jahnn . At the University of Hamburg he worked for the "Hans Henny Jahnn Laboratory" until 1997. He wrote numerous articles for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and was editor of the journal Literaturen (Berlin) from 2000 to 2002 .

Since then he has been working as a research assistant at the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar , where he is in charge of the “ Siegfried Unseld Archive”. He is co-editor of Hans Henny Jahnn's letters (Hoffmann and Campe, 1994) and editor of the correspondence between Jahnn and Ernst Kreuder (Die Mainzer Reihe, 1995). In 2003 his Jahnn biography The Stranded Whale was published for the first time. In 2013 he published a highly acclaimed cultural history of the Neckar. In 2014 he was visiting professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. He is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg .

Works (selection)

• Extended trip. Novel. Kowalke, 2000, ISBN 3-932191-16-1 .
• The stranded whale. The immoderate life of Hans Henny Jahnn. The years 1894–1935. Structure Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-351-02552-1 . Updated new edition by Hoffmann and Campe, 2017, ISBN 978-3-455-50380-7 .
• Ed .: I am not inside. Approaches to Gottfried Benn . Klett-Cotta-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-608-93621-1 .
• Benn's double life or how to put yourself together. German Literature Archive Marbach, 2006, ISBN 3-937384-21-9 .
• Heimito von Doderer and the Kirchheimer Tunnel in Lauffen a. N. German Literature Archive Marbach, 2008, ISBN 978-3-937384-42-9 .
• Max Frisch: The diary. German Literature Archive Marbach, 2011, ISBN 978-3-937384-76-4 .
• The Neckar. A literary journey. CH Beck, 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64692-8 .
• Ed. With Sandra Hiemer: "Love is nonsense". Letters from Hans Henny Jahnn to his wife Ellinor Phillips. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-455-40505-7 .
• As editor: Max Frisch - Alfred Andersch: Correspondence. Diogenes, 2014, ISBN 978-3-257-06879-5 .
• Ed .: Joseph Roth: Travels to Ukraine and Russia. CH Beck, 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-72631-6 .
• Ed .: Joseph Roth: Pariser Nights: Feuilletons and Letters. CH Beck, 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72631-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jan Bürger - Author's Lexicon. Retrieved December 8, 2019 . 
2. ↑ All employees - DLA Marbach. Retrieved December 8, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Alexander Kosenina: Jan Bürger: Der Neckar: In your valleys my heart woke me up . June 20, 2013, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 8, 2019]).
4. ↑ - Short Swabian literary history. Accessed December 8, 2019 (German). 
5. ^ Recent Visiting Faculty. Retrieved December 8, 2019 . 
6. ↑ archimania.de: Members - Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg. Retrieved December 8, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Stranded whale. In: TLS. Retrieved December 8, 2019 (UK English). 
8. ↑ Marc Reichwein: Neckar trip: This river spills over mentally . July 11, 2013 ( welt.de [accessed December 8, 2019]).
9. ↑ Beatrice von Matt : Joseph Roth in Paris: Feuilletons and letters . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 14, 2019 ( nzz.ch [accessed December 8, 2019]).