Klaus Meyer-Minnemann

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Klaus Meyer-Minnemann (born July 13, 1940 in Hamburg ) is a German Romanist .

Life

From 1946 to 1959 he attended schools in Hamburg. After graduating from high school in 1959, he studied Romance philology, German and general literature in Hamburg, Berlin and Bordeaux from 1959 to 1967 , and summer courses in Santander and Perugia . After the first state examination in 1968 for teaching at grammar schools in French and German, he was lecturer for German at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional and El Colegio de México in Mexico City from 1969 to 1971 . After receiving his doctorate in Romance Philology in 1967 at the University of Hamburg, he was a research assistant at the Romance Department at the University of Hamburg from 1967 to 1969 and from 1971 to 1976 . After his habilitation in 1976 for Romance Philology at the University of Hamburg, he was department head and professor C3 at the University of Trier from 1976 to 1978 . From 1978 until his retirement in 2005 he taught as a university professor C4 at the University of Hamburg. In 1996 he was awarded the Order of Andrés Bello by the President of the Republic of Venezuela Rafael Caldera in recognition of his services to the spread of Hispanic literature and culture.

His main areas of work are genre theory, narratology, the Spanish novela picaresca and its dissemination, Spanish-American literature of the Independencia, the Spanish-American novel of the 19th and 20th centuries, Spanish-language literature of the fin de siècle and the historical avant-garde movements including Concrete Poetry and Octavio Paz .

Fonts (selection)

  • The tradition of the classic Stire in France. Themes and motifs in the satirical verse Théophiles de Viau . Berlin 1969, OCLC 427106681 .
  • The Spanish-American novel of the fin de siècle . Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-484-60138-8 .
  • as editor: Avant-garde and Revolution. Mexican poetry from López Velarde to Octavio Paz. Spanish - German. An anthology . Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-921600-52-9 .
  • as editor with Sabine Schlickers: La novela picaresca. Concepto genérico y evolución del género (siglos XVI y XVII) . Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-86527-445-8 .

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