Klaus Reichert (English studies)

Klaus Reichert talks about his non-fiction book Cloud Service. Figures of the Fugitive , nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair 2017 prize.

Klaus Manfred Karl Reichert (born May 22, 1938 in Fulda ) is a German English scholar , translator , poet and essayist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Gießen, Reichert studied philosophy and languages in Marburg , London , Gießen and Frankfurt am Main . From 1964 to 1968 he worked as a publisher's editor, from 1975 to 2003 he taught as a professor for English studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 1993 he founded the Center for Research into the Early Modern Age at Goethe University and was its managing director until 2006. From 2002 to 2011 he was President of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt. Reichert was the editor of the work edition (Collected Works) by Virginia Woolf in S. Fischer Verlag . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Klaus Reichert stood with his book Cloud Service. Figures of the fugitive on the shortlist for the Leipzig Book Fair 2017 award .

The testament of Sisyphus. In: Joachim Sartorius (Hrsg.): Spinette of the darkness. About Malcolm Lowry . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-499-25177-9 .
Fortuna or the persistence of change . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1985.
Multiple sense of writing. To Finnegans Wake . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
Throat sounds. Poems. Residence, Salzburg 1992.
The Song of Solomon . Translated, transcribed and commented by Klaus Reichert. Residence, Salzburg / Vienna 1996
The strange Shakespeare. Hanser, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-446-19498-3 .
I would be a naval hero. Poems. Young and Young, Salzburg 2001.
The never-ending task. Hanser, Munich 2003.
Everyday world of the epoch. Essays on the work of James Joyce. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
William Shakespeare: The Sonnets . Prose translation by Klaus Reichert. Young and Young, Salzburg / Vienna 2005
Learn to read. About modern literature and the human right to poetry. Hanser, Munich 2006.
Desert days. Insel, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2007.
Cloud service. Figures of the fugitive. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-397228-3 .
Paul Celan. Memories and letters. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-42926-6 .

Literature by and about Klaus Reichert in the catalog of the German National Library
Klaus Reichert: Understanding the world in German. German-speaking scholars should use the formal and lexical wealth of the German language. (dw-world.de)
Multiple sense of writing. To Finnegans Wake, Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1989. Review. (online ( Memento from January 12, 2006 in the Internet Archive ))
Marburg UniJournal. Volume 34, 2009, p. 67. (uni-marburg.de)
Klaus Reichert: To the picture of Szondis. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. February 19, 2005 (nzz.ch)
A supplementary parallelogram that will not be continued . Klaus Reichert in conversation with Katarina Agathos about Dubliner by James Joyce. Length: 46'10. BR radio play Pool 2012.

personal data
SURNAME	Reichert, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Reichert, Klaus Manfred Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German English scholar, translator, poet and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 22, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fulda