Klaus Schuhmann

Klaus Schuhmann (born September 30, 1935 in Oberwiesenthal ; † March 7, 2020 ) was a German specialist in German .

Klaus Schuhmann studied German and philosophy in Leipzig . He received his doctorate in 1962 , followed by his habilitation in 1972 . From 1975 to 1998 he was a full professor at the University of Leipzig for modern German literature of the 20th century.

Works (in selection)

• The poet Bertolt Brecht 1913–1933. Berlin 1964; Revised version Munich 1971, ISBN 3-423-04075-0
• Investigations into Brecht's poetry. Themes, forms, extensions. Berlin 1973
• Worldview and Poetics. For the representation of reality in the poetry of the FRG up to the mid-seventies. Berlin 1979
• (as ed.): Sankt Ziegenzack jumps out of the egg. Texts, images and documents on Dadaism in Zurich, Berlin, Hanover and Cologne. Leipzig 1991
• 20th century poetry, materials for a poetics. Reinbek 1995
• Walter Hasenclever, Kurt Pinthus and Franz Werfel at the Kurt Wolff Verlag in Leipzig (1913–1919). A digression into the history of publishing and literature into the Expressionist decade. (= Leipzig - history and culture; 1). Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-934565-83-2 .
• “I go as I came: poor and despised.” Life and work of Max Herrmann-Neisses (1886–1941). Bielefeld 2003
• "I am the brown you criticize ..." Ways to and with Volker Braun's literary work. Leipzig 2004
• Leipzig transit. Forays into literary history from Wedekind to Vespers. Leipzig 2005
• "Since a conversation we have been and hear from each other" - a course book for the poem network of German poetry of the 20th century. Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 978-3-89528-536-3
• "I don't need a tombstone ...". Brecht's literary work in the context of 20th century literature. Leipzig 2006
• History of German Literature. Literature of the FRG. Berlin 1983, 2nd edition 1985 (pp. 43–67, pp. 220–243, pp. 420–482)

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Schuhmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website from Klaus Schuhmann