Klaus Jeziorkowski
Klaus Jeziorkowski (born January 7, 1935 in Chemnitz ; † September 7, 2006 ) was a German literary scholar .
life and work
After graduating from high school, Jeziorkowsk spent six months at a commercial bank in Bremen , which was followed by a semester as an unskilled worker at the blast furnace of the Dortmund-Hörder Hüttenunion . He works for the Hessischer Rundfunk and studied German and geography at the universities in Marburg , Munich , Freiburg and Saarbrücken .
In 1966 he received his doctorate at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with the dissertation Rhythm and Figure: On the Technique of Epic Construction in Heinrich Böll's "The Disposer" and "Billiards at Sixteen" . In 1979 he completed his habilitation, also in Frankfurt, on the subject of literarity and historicism: observations on its manifestation in the 19th century using the example of Gottfried Keller .
Jeziorkowski was Professor of German Literature at the University of Frankfurt am Main from 1973 to 1997 . He mainly deals with the German-language literature of the 19th and 20th centuries and has published on Heinrich Böll, Gottfried Keller, Heinrich von Kleist, Friedrich Hölderlin and Franz Kafka, among others.
He regularly wrote book reviews for the magazines Der Spiegel and Die Zeit .
Jeziorkowski lived in Dreieich. He died of mesothelioma cancer ( asbestosis ) at the age of 71 .
literature
- Ingo Wintermeter (Ed.): Kleine Lauben, Arcadien and Schnabelewopski: Festschrift for Klaus Jeziorkowski. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995
Web links
- Klaus Jeziorkowski . In: German Digital Library
- Literature by and about Klaus Jeziorkowski in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ The late death . In: Der Spiegel from November 6, 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jeziorkowski, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 2006 |