Klaus Amann

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Klaus Amann (born February 22, 1949 in Mittelberg , Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian literary scholar .

Life

Klaus Amann grew up in a family of unskilled workers in the Kleinwalsertal . In his childhood he mainly read books by Karl May . At the age of 14 he started school in Stams . From 1971 to 1976 he studied German and English at the University of Vienna and obtained his doctorate on Adalbert Stifter's Der Nachsommer under Herbert Seidler . From 1976 he was an assistant at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Klagenfurt and completed his habilitation in 1986 with The 'Anschluss' of Austrian writers to the Third Reich . In 1994 he became head of the Robert Musil Institute for Literary Research / Carinthian Literature Archive at the University of Klagenfurt. Visiting professorships at the University of Vienna in 1990 and at the University of Leiden in 1991 were appointed as Ao in 1997. University professor and in 2005 the appointment to the newly created professorship for the history and theory of literary life at the Robert Musil Institute, which he held until his retirement in 2014.

Awards

Publications

  • Literature lessons or should students be taken seriously? Carinthia-Verlag, Klagenfurt 1980, ISBN 3-85378-171-3 .
  • Adalbert Stifter's "Post-Summer". Study of the didactic structure of the novel. Diss. University of Vienna, Braumüller, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-7003-0168-5 .
  • PEN politics, emigration, national socialism. An Austrian writers' club . Böhlau, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-205-07226-X .
  • The connection of Austrian writers to the Third Reich. Institutional and historical consciousness aspects. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-610-08936-9 .
  • with Helmut Grote: Hermann Broch's "Vienna Library" . Annotated directory of the reconstructed inventory. Böhlau, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-205-05321-4 .
  • The poets and politics: essays on Austrian literature after 1918. Deuticke, Falter-Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85463-119-7 .
  • Payday. The connection of Austrian writers to the Third Reich. Philo, Bodenheim 1996, ISBN 3-8257-0024-0 .
  • "Because I have to write. And you have to be silent about the rest." Ingeborg Bachmann and the literary public. Drava-Verlag, Klagenfurt 1997, ISBN 3-85435-281-6 .
  • Robert Musil - literature and politics. With a new edition of selected political writings from the estate. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-55685-2 .
  • Robert Musil: Klagenfurt edition (KA). Annotated edition of all works, letters and posthumous writings. With transcriptions and facsimiles of all manuscripts. Edited by Walter Fanta, Klaus Amann and Karl Corino. Klagenfurt: Robert Musil Institute of the Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt. DVD edition 2009.
  • with Doris Moser (Ed.): four-volume work edition by Christine Lavant , in the making since 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Professor Klaus Amann: The way into the open. In: DiePresse.com. November 21, 2014, accessed January 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Amann, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Mittelberg (Vorarlberg)