Karl Alfred Blüher

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Karl Alfred Blüher (born June 24, 1927 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German Romance studies and literary scholar .

He has been married to the French university lecturer and poetry translator Eliane Blüher born in 1950 . Ailloud and has two daughters, the film scholar Dominique Blüher and the economist Anne-Françoise Blüher.

Academic career

After studying Romance , German , Slavic , Classical Philology and Philosophy in Leipzig , Aix-en-Provence and Freiburg im Breisgau , he received his doctorate in 1959 from Hugo Friedrich with a dissertation on Paul Valéry's "Mon Faust" and received his habilitation in 1967 in Freiburg of the German Research Foundation with a paper about the Seneca reception in Spain. From 1970 until his retirement in 1992 he was a full professor and director of the Romance Department at Kiel University .

Blüher is head of the Paul Valéry Research and Documentation Center at the University of Kiel and has been publishing the international journal "Forschungen zu Paul Valéry / Recherches valéryennes" there since 1988 with Jürgen Schmidt-Radefeldt (Rostock).

His research interests lie in the areas of French and Spanish literary studies. He dedicated over fifty publications to Paul Valéry and edited his poetry, dialogues and plays for Insel Verlag . He has also published a large number of works on Antonin Artaud and the Nouveau Théâtre , Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett , on Alain Robbe-Grillet and the Nouveau Roman , as well as on novels and poetry. His research on the Spanish Siglo de Oro , the reception of Seneca, neo-Gothicism and moral studies , especially Baltasar Gracián and Francisco de Quevedo , has received international attention.

Publications (selection)

  • Strategy of the mind. Paul Valéry's fist. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1960.
  • Seneca in Spain. Studies on Seneca reception in Spain from 13th to 17th Century. Francke, Munich 1969.
    • Spanish translation: Séneca en España. Investigaciones sobre la recepción de Séneca en España desde el siglo XIII hasta el siglo XVII. Gredos, Madrid 1983.
  • With J. Schmidt-Radefeldt: Paul Valéry. Poétique et Communication. Actes du Colloque International de Kiel 19-21 oct. 1977. Klincksieck, Paris 1979.
  • Modern French theater. Adamov - Beckett - Ionesco. Scientific book society, Darmstadt 1982 (= ways of research , vol. 532).
  • Paul Valery. Perspectives de la reception. Special edition of Œuvres et Critiques , IX, 1 (1984).
  • The French novella. Francke, Tübingen 1985 (UTB 49).
  • Paul Valéry: Dialogues and Theater. Works, Vol. 2. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
  • Paul Valéry: Eupalinos. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  • Antonin Artaud and the “Nouveau Théâtre” in France. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1991.
  • With J. Schmidt-Radefeldt: Paul Valéry. Le cycle de "Mon Faust" devant of the semiotique théâtrale et l'analysis textuelle. Actes du Colloque international de Kiel, 15-17 oct. 1987. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1991.
  • with J. Schmidt-Radefeldt: Paul Valéry: Poetry and Prose, Works, Vol. 1. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • with A. de Toro: Jorge Luis Borges. Variaciones interpretativas sobre sus procedimientos semióticos y bases epistemológicas. Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1992, 2 1995
  • Robbe-Grillet between modern and post-modern. "Nouveau Roman", "Nouveau Cinéma" and "Nouvelle Autobiography". Narr, Tübingen 1992.
  • with J. Schmidt-Radefeldt: Paul Valéry: De l'Allemagne I et II. L'Harmattan, Paris 2002–2003.

literature

  • A. de Toro (Ed.): Texts, contexts, structures . Contributions to French, Spanish and Hispanic American literature. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Karl Alfred Blüher. Narr, Tübingen 1987.

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personal data
SURNAME Blüher, Karl Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)