Leo Kreutzer

Leo Kreutzer (born March 10, 1938 in Düren , lives in Cologne) is a German literary scholar .

Career

Kreutzer studied German , Romance languages and philosophy in Tübingen , Nancy and Cologne . In 1964 he received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen. phil. From 1965 to 1969 he was Hans Mayer's assistant at the Technical University of Hanover, where he qualified as a professor in 1969 in the subject of 'Modern German Literature'. After his habilitation, he worked for four years as a literary editor for West German television in Cologne. In 1974 he followed Hans Mayer to the chair for “Newer and Latest German Literature” at, as it was now called, University of Hanover .

From 1980 onwards, Kreutzer developed the concept of literary studies with an intercultural 'double view' for non-simultaneous social development problems and modernization conflicts in the course of regular visiting professorships at African universities and in dealing with the methods of conventional comparative literature. In the 1990s, this resulted in the ' Ecole de Hanovre ', a 'school' that enabled African doctoral and post-doctoral students supervised by Kreutzer to develop the conceptual basis for a 'development-oriented' German studies in Africa with their qualification for their implementation as a university professor To connect 'Départements d'Allemand' of universities in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa.

At the end of the winter semester 2002/03, Kreutzer retired. He lives in Cologne and is committed to the ' Citizens ' Community of Cologne Old Town '.

Publications

• Epistemology and Prophecy . Hermann Broch's novel trilogy The Sleepwalkers . Tübingen (Niemeyer) 1966.
• Alfred Doblin . His work until 1933. Stuttgart (Kohlhammer) 1970.
• Heine and communism . Göttingen (Vandenhoeck) 1970.
• The beautiful corpse on Rue Bellechasse. Something about writing, playing, filming (with Elmar Buck and Jürgen Peters ), Reinbek (Rowohlt) 1977.
• My God Goethe. Essays. Reinbek (Rowohlt) 1980.
• Literature and Development. Studies on a literature of non-simultaneity. Frankfurt a. M. (Fischer) 1989.
• Dreaming dancing drums. Heinrich Heine's future. Frankfurt a. M. (Suhrkamp) 1997.
• How life plays. A biography in texts, ed. v. Kai Bachmann, Arne Drews u. Jürgen Peters. Hanover (revonnah Verlag) 2004.
• Goethe in Africa. The intercultural literary studies of the École de Hanovre in African German studies. Hanover (Wehrhahn Verlag) 2009.
• His father and her mother. Two stories. Hanover (Wehrhahn Verlag) 2010.
• Goethe's modernism. Essays. Hanover (Wehrhahn Verlag) 2011.
• Read differently . Essays on literature. Hanover (Wehrhahn Verlag) 2011.
• Dialectical humanism . Herder and Goethe and the culture (s) of the globalized world. Hanover (Wehrhahn Verlag) 2015.

Honors

• 2006: Honorary doctorate from the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar
• 2009: Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class awarded by Federal President Köhler .

Web links

• Kreutzer's homepage
• Excitingly up-to-date. Leo Kreutzer on Goethe's "Modernism" . Literature review by Ursula Homann.
• "Strange Germany nostalgia". German Studies in Africa .
• Welfengarten . Yearbook for Essayisms. Ed. Leo Kreutzer u. Jürgen Peters. Revonnah Verlag, Hanover
• World garden . Yearbook for Intercultural Thinking. Eds. Leo Kreutzer and David Simo. Wehrhahn Verlag, Hanover