Konrad Schoell

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Konrad Schoell (born July 6, 1938 , † July 4, 2014 in Kassel ) was a German Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Schoell received his doctorate in 1966 at the University of Freiburg with the thesis Das Theater Samuel Becketts (Munich 1967) and at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg with Leo Pollmann he qualified as a professor with the work The comic theater of the French Middle Ages. Reality and Play (Munich 1975).

Schoell taught Romance philology from 1973 to 1992 as a professor of Franco-Romance literature at the University of Kassel and from 1992 to 2003 at the University of Erfurt , where the Institute for Romance Studies was founded under his direction.

In 1995 Schoell was the founding chairman of the Franco-Romanists Association .

Other works

  • The French drama since the Second World War , 2 volumes, Göttingen 1970
  • Avant-garde theater and popular theater. Studies on drama and theater of the 20th century in Romania , Frankfurt am Main / Bern 1982
  • The French Comedy , Wiesbaden 1983, Darmstadt 1983
  • (Ed. With Martin Brunkhorst and Gerd Rohmann) Beckett and contemporary literature , Heidelberg 1988
  • (Ed.) Literature and Theater in Contemporary France. Opposition and Convergence , Tübingen 1991
  • La farce du quinzième siècle , Tübingen 1992
  • (Ed. With Eckhard Höfner) Narrated world. Studies of narratives in France, Spain and Latin America. Festschrift for Leo Pollmann , Frankfurt am Main / Madrid 1996
  • (Ed. With Eva Erdmann) Le comique corporel. Mouvement et comique dans l'espace théâtral du XVIIe siècle , Tübingen 2006
  • (Ed.) French literature. 20th century. Theater , Tübingen 2006
  • About Samuel Beckett's work. Essays and Studies , Kassel 2008 ( http://www.uni-kassel.de/upress/online/frei/978-3-89958-398-4.volltext.frei.pdf )

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personal data
SURNAME Schoell, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1938
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2014
Place of death kassel