Klaus Schröter (literary scholar)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Klaus Max Paul Schröter (born July 3, 1931 in Königsberg ; † January 2017 in Hamburg ) was a German literary scholar and literary historian .

Live and act

Klaus Schröter was the son of Hans Schröter and Ilse Schröter born. Brummund.

From 1957 to 1969 he worked at the University of Hamburg on bibliographies by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock . In 1961 he was with a dissertation on Heinrich Mann to Dr. phil. PhD . 1966/1967 he was an associate professor at Stony Brook University in the college network of the State University of New York .

From 1969 to 1972 he was a professor of comparative literature at Columbia University , where he was also a consultant for German language and literature in the preparation of the New Columbia Encyclopedia . He was then a professor at Stony Brook University until 1981 and was visiting professor at the University of Hamburg (1974/1975) and at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (1976/1977).

From 1982 he was editor of publications at Rowohlt Verlag .

Klaus Schröter was a member of the Germanistic Society of America and its secretary from 1972 to 1981. He was a member of the Goethe Society and the German Thomas Mann Society .

Fonts

His most important works include monographs on Thomas Mann , Heinrich Mann , Alfred Döblin and Heinrich Böll , which have appeared in several editions.

  • Collaboration: Goethe Bibliography. Winter, Heidelberg 1955–1968, DNB 456776222 .
  • Literary influences in Heinrich Mann's youth and early work, 1892–1907. Their importance for his overall work. Dissertation. University of Hamburg 1960, DNB 481055851 .
  • Thomas Mann in personal testimonies and photo documents. Appendix with the collaboration of Helmut Riege. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1964, DNB 454487231 . 28th edition 1997, ISBN 978-3-499-50093-0 . E-Book 2014, ISBN 978-3-644-50201-7 .
Italian: Mondadori, Milan 1966, DNB 578612925 .
Swedish: Gleerup, Lund 1968, DNB 578612933 .
Dutch: De Haan, Haarlem 1979, ISBN 90-228-4078-6 .
Catalan: Edicions 62, Barcelona 1990, ISBN 84-297-3050-8 .
Portuguese: Círculo de Leitores, Lisbon 1998, ISBN 972-42-1895-3 and Temas e Debates, Lisbon 2001, ISBN 972-759-395-X .
Romanian: Universitas, Bucharest 1998, ISBN 973-601-606-4 .
Turkish: Kavram Yayınları, Beyoğlu 1999, ISBN 975-366-154-1 .
  • Heinrich Mann's beginnings. To the basics of his complete works. Metzler, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 454487223 .
  • Heinrich Mann in personal testimonies and photo documents. Appendix with the collaboration of Helmut Riege. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1967, DNB 458892289 . 20th edition 2002, ISBN 978-3-499-50125-8 . E-Book 2015, ISBN 978-3-644-55361-3 .
  • Literature and contemporary history. From Hase and Koehler, Main 1970, ISBN 978-3-7758-0771-5 .
  • Heinrich Mann. Subject, age, effect. Metzler, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 978-3-476-00192-4 .
  • Alfred Döblin in self-testimonies and photo documents. Appendix with the collaboration of Helmut Riege. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1978, ISBN 978-3-499-50266-8 . 6th edition 1999.
  • Heinrich Böll in personal testimonies and photo documents. Appendix with the collaboration of Helmut Riege. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1982, ISBN 978-3-499-50310-8 . 10th edition 1997. E-Book 2017, ISBN 978-3-644-40096-2 .
Lithuanian: Baltos Lankos, Vilnius 2000, ISBN 9955-00-055-4 .

Editor:

literature

  • About Klaus Schröter. In: Klaus Schröter, Uwe Naumann, Hans Wißkirchen: The Manns. Rowohlt E-Book, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-644-40390-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author entry in Heinrich Böll. Rowohlt E-Book, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-644-40096-2 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Schröter, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schröter, Klaus Max Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH January 2017
Place of death Hamburg