Klaus R. Scherpe

Klaus Rüdiger Scherpe (born May 13, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German specialist in German and university professor.

Life

Scherpe studied English, German, theater studies and journalism at the Free University of Berlin from 1959 to 1966 . During this time he spent the academic year 1962/63 as a scholarship holder of the Fulbright Commission at Stanford University in the USA, where he also obtained his master's degree in 1963. In 1966 he worked as a lecturer at Princeton University, where he oversaw a Group 47 meeting, among other things. In 1967 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1968 to 1970 he was initially assistant to the German studies specialist Eberhard Lämmert at the Free University of Berlin , whom he followed from 1970 to 1972 at the University of Heidelberg.

After a substitute professor at the University of Hamburg between 1972 and 1973, Scherpe was appointed Professor of Modern German Literature at the Free University of Berlin in 1973, an office he held until 1993. In that year he accepted a professorship for modern German literary studies (literature and cultural studies / media) at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he was director of the Institute for German Literature from 1996 to 1998 .

Scherpe held numerous visiting professorships, for example at the University of Oslo, the University of Aarhus, the Instituto Orientale in Naples and at the Nehru University in New Delhi . In 1988 he was visiting professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia and in 1990 he was a guest at the Tateshina Seminar of the Japanese Association of German Studies. From 1991 to 1992 he was visiting professor at Stanford University with a grant from the Foreign Office. More recently, he has been visiting professor in Santa Barbara / USA and in Buenos Aires.

Editorships (selection)

• since 1972 founding and editing of the series "Literature in the Historical Process" (with Gert Mattenklott , new series of the series 1982–1990)
• since 1991 founding and co-editing of the series “Literature, Culture, Gender. Studies on literature and cultural history "(with Sigrid Weigel , Inge Stephan)

Offices and Awards

• since 1997 organizer (and founder) of the “Mosse Lectures” at Humboldt University
• 1998–2002 Head of the DFG research project "Literary and cultural history of the foreign"
• 1992–2000 expert reviewer from the German Research Foundation
• 2004–2006 speaker of the graduate school “Coding of Violence in Media Change” at the Humboldt University

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus R. Scherpe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page about Scherpe at the Humboldt University Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 18th edition (2001), Vol. 2, p. 2765.