Joseph P. Strelka

Joseph P. Strelka (born May 3, 1927 in Wiener Neustadt ) is an Austrian Germanist.

Life

Joseph P. Strelka grew up in Wiener Neustadt. He studied German philology with Oskar Benda from 1945 to 1950 and obtained his doctorate with the dissertation Feudal-Romantic Movements in Renaissance Literature and their Development. At the beginning of the 1950s, he headed the cultural office of the city of Wiener Neustadt. Until 1958 he headed the literary studies working group at the Institute for Science and Art and completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna . In 1964 he was appointed Associate Professor of German Literature at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. From 1966 to 1971 he taught at Pennsylvania State University, then until 1997 at the State University of New York in Albany.

Awards

• 1978 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
• 1981 President's Award for Excellence in Research from the State University of New York at Albany
• 1989 Culture Prize of the City of Wiener Neustadt
• 1997 Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the State of Lower Austria

Publications

• Service to poetry. Speeches and speeches. A selection. Collection of articles, Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-631-34266-7 .
• Descendants of Odysseus: Austrian literature in exile since 1938. Edition Patmos Volume 1, Francke Verlag, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-7720-2880-2 .
• The parabolic Franz Kafka . Edition Patmos Volume 5, Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-7720-2884-5 .
• Poeta doctus Hermann Broch . Collection of articles, Edition Patmos Volume 6, Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-7720-2885-3 .
• Robert Musil . Perspectives of his work. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-631-50711-9 .
• Exile, counter-exile and pseudoexile in literature. Edition Patmos Volume 8, Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-7720-2887-X .
• Ernst Schönwiese . Work and life. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-631-53221-0 .
• Arthur Koestler . Author - fighter - visionary. Biography, Edition Patmos Volume 10, Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-7720-8144-4 .
• Forgotten and misunderstood Austrian authors. Edition Patmos Volume 12, Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7720-8287-0 .
• Poets as messengers of humanity. Literary lighthouses in the chaos of the fog of our time. Edition Patmos Volume 14, Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7720-8386-0 .
• Dante and the Templar Gnosis. Edition Patmos Volume 16, Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-7720-8443-0 .
• Dante - Shakespeare - Goethe and the traditional chain of western authors. Edition Patmos Volume 18, Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-7720-8530-7 .
• Encounters with spiritual greats from which I grew internally. A book of thanks. Autobiography, Edition Patmos Volume 20, Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7720-8573-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Joseph P. Strelka in the catalog of the German National Library
• Austrian National Library : Short bio on Joseph P. Strelka