Klaus Oettinger

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Klaus Oettinger (* 1937 in Mannheim ) is a German German scholar and literary historian .

Life

Klaus Oettinger grew up in Schwetzingen and graduated from the Hebel Gymnasium there in 1956. He studied German , philosophy , history and geography at the universities of Heidelberg , Münster , Vienna and Paris . In 1962 he passed the state examination and received his doctorate in 1967 with a thesis on Christoph Martin Wieland . He then worked as a research assistant at the Department of Literature at the University of Konstanz, where he completed his habilitation in 1975 with a study on art and law.

After teaching at the University of Trier and the Technical University of Darmstadt, Klaus Oettinger was Professor of Modern German Literature History at the University of Konstanz from 1980 to 2005 .

Oettinger published numerous articles on the literature of Goethe's time. He made editions by and publications on authors of Alemannic culture.

Works (selection)

  • Imagination and experience. Studies on the narrative politics of CM Wieland. 1970.
  • Art without barriers? On the legal interpretation of the guarantee of artistic freedom of the Basic Law (Art. 5, Para. 3). As art, art is not justifiable - on the justification misery of the judiciary in decisions on the matter of art. In: Poetics and Hermeneutics. IX, 1981.
  • Baron Ignaz von Wessenberg . On its history of validity in the church public , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 128th year 2010, pp. 119–137 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Oettinger in the DAAD's online directory for university German studies (1999), accessed on August 19, 2012.
  2. ↑ Series of publications of the Leverbund Lörrach, No. 45, p. 2a.
personal data
SURNAME Oettinger, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim