Klaus Weimar

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Klaus Weimar (born August 20, 1941 in Hamburg ) is a Swiss-German literary scholar and literary theorist . He is known for his work on the theoretical and methodological foundations and the history of German studies .

Life

Weimar studied German, theology and philosophy at the universities of Göttingen , Hamburg and Zurich from 1961 to 1967 . He received his doctorate in 1967 with Wolfgang Binder in Zurich and completed his habilitation there in 1974 with a thesis on literary hermeneutics . From 1969 to 1978 he was an assistant, then senior assistant at the University of Zurich. From 1978 he worked as a freelancer and taught until 2010 as a private lecturer (from 1982 as adjunct professor) at the University of Zurich. During this time he was also a lecturer in Munich and Friborg, substitute professor in Gießen, Göttingen, Tübingen and Konstanz, visiting professor at Indiana University in Bloomington and several times at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and visiting scholar at the Center for Literary Research in Berlin. In 2007, he was awarded the University of Hamburg , the honorary doctorate .

research

Weimar emerged primarily with work on the theoretical foundations of literary studies and the history of the discipline . In addition, poetry, especially that of Klopstock and Goethe, is a focus of his research.

Works

Monographs

  • Experiment about the prerequisites and origins of romanticism . (Diss.) Tübingen, Niemeyer 1968.
  • Historical introduction to literary hermeneutics , Tübingen: JCB Mohr, 1975.
  • Anatomy of Marxist literary theories , Bern: Francke, 1977.
  • Encyclopedia of Literary Studies , Munich: Francke, 1980 - 2nd ed. 1993.
  • Goethe's poems 1769-1775. Interpretations to a beginning , Paderborn: Schöningh, 1982 - 2nd edition 1984
  • together with David E. Wellbery : Goethe: Harzreise im Winter. An interpretive controversy . Paderborn, Schöningh 1984, ISBN 3-506-75054-2
  • History of German literary studies up to the end of the 19th century , Munich: Fink 1989 - 2nd unaltered edition 2003.

Editorships

  • Wolfgang Binder: Friedrich Hölderlin. Studies . Edited by Elisabeth Binder and Klaus Weimar. (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch materials. 2082) Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, ​​1987.
  • Real Lexicon of German Literary Studies . Revision of the Real Lexicon of German Literary History, together with Harald Fricke, Klaus Grubmüller and Jan-Dirk Müller ed. by Klaus Weimar. Volume I. Berlin, New York, de Gruyter 1997, ISBN 3-11-010896-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Weimar, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-German literary scholar and literary theorist
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg