Manfred Jurgensen

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Manfred Jurgensen (2016)

Manfred Jurgensen (born March 26, 1940 in Flensburg ) is a German - Australian literary scholar , Germanist and writer .

Life

Manfred Jurgensen grew up in Flensburg and has lived in Australia since 1961 . He studied German at the University of Melbourne and at the University of Zurich , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1968 with a thesis on Goethe's aesthetics . From 1981 to 1999 he was Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Queensland ; he was also visiting professor in Germany , Switzerland , the United States and South Africa . Jurgensen was the editor of a number of specialist literary journals , from 1984 to 1996 he was also the editor of the literary magazine Outrider and numerous works on contemporary German-speaking authors and on German-Australian cultural relations. In addition to his work as a literary scholar and critic , Jurgensen also works as an author . Initially, he wrote his works partly in German , partly in English , and from the 1990s almost exclusively in English. He now lives in Kangaroo Point , near the center of Brisbane, and is a writer of narrative works, poetry and plays .

Manfred Jurgensen is u. a. Member of the International Association for German Studies , the International PEN and the Australian Society of Authors . He has received a number of Australian literary grants and in 1997 the Australian Medal of Honor " Order of Australia " and the German Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his contribution to the promotion of German-Australian cultural relations .

He is a multiple Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, most recently at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Jurgensen's literary, especially lyrical, works in English and German have received multiple awards. The literary study "The Most Fabulous Thing in the World". The death in German literature was published in 2010. His last publications are the volume of poetry The River. Love Songs of an Alien Son (2016) and the novel Deutschlands Ende (2017).

Works

Works in German

  • Return to exile , Melbourne 1964
  • Max Frisch, the dramas , Bern 1968
  • Stations , Bern 1968
  • Symbol as an idea , Bern [u. a.] 1968
  • Stays , Bern 1969
  • Max Frisch, the novels , Bern [a. a.] 1972
  • Contemporary German Literary Theory , Munich 1973
  • About Günter Grass , Bern [u. a.] 1974
  • Defense substitute , Flensburg 1978
  • The fictional self , Bern [u. a.] 1979
  • Internal Security , St. Michael 1979
  • Narrative forms of the fictional self , Bern [u. a.] 1980
  • Ingeborg Bachmann , Bern [a. a.] 1981
  • Thomas Bernhard , Bern [a. a.] 1981
  • Contemporary German women authors , Bern 1983
  • Conjuration and Redemption , Bern [u. a.] 1985
  • Karin Struck , Bern [a. a.] 1985
  • Test subject , Kreuzlingen [u. a.] 1986
  • German trip , Bern [a. a.] 1990
  • My yesterday. Memories of Flensburg. With an introduction and drawings by Günter Kunert , Schleswiger Druck & Verlagshaus, Schleswig 2009
  • "The most fabulous thing in the world": Death in German literature , Tuebingen 2010
  • Love and other legends. Poems , Aachen 2011
  • Near distance. Poems , Aachen 2012
  • Small border traffic , Roman, K. Fischer Verlag, Aachen 2012

Works in English

  • Signs and voices , St. Lucia, Queensland 1973
  • Kind of dying , Melbourne 1976
  • A winter's journey , Sydney 1979
  • The skin trade , Brisbane 1983
  • Women, writers, women writers , St. Lucia, Qld. 1984
  • Waiting for cancer , Brisbane 1985
  • A Difficult Love , Brisbane 1987
  • Selected poems 1972-1986 , Newstead 1987
  • My operas can't swim , Milton, Qld. [u. a.] 1989
  • The partiality of harbors , Sydney [u. a.] 1989
  • Eagle and emu , St. Lucia, Queensland 1992
  • Intruders , Brisbane 1992
  • Shadows of Utopia , Rockhampton 1994
  • Midnight sun , Wollongong, NSW 1999
  • Carnal knowledge , Carindale, Qld. 2000
  • The Trembling Bridge , Briar Hill, Vic. 2004
  • The Eyes of the Tiger , Briar Hill, Vic. 2005
  • The American Brother , Ormond, Vic. 2007
  • Under the Skin , Ormond, Vic. 2009
  • Five Weeks at Humanitas, Ormond, Vic. 2010
  • the last Australia Day, Brisbane 2011

Editing

  • Grass , Bern [u. a.] 1973
  • Böll , Bern [a. a.] 1975
  • Frisch , Bern [u. a.] 1977
  • Studies in Swiss literature , St. Lucia 1977
  • Handke , Bern [a. a.] 1979
  • Bernhard , Bern [a. a.] 1981
  • Ethnic Australia , Brisbane 1981
  • Materials Max Frisch, Homo faber , Stuttgart 1982
  • Materials Max Frisch, Stiller , Stuttgart 1982
  • Women's literature , Bern [a. a.] 1983
  • Wolf , Bern [a. a.] 1984
  • Keith Leopold : Selected writings , New York [u. a.] 1985
  • Australian writing now , Ringwood 1988
  • The German presence in Queensland over the last 150 years , Canberra 1988
  • Johnson , Bern [u. a.] 1989
  • Outrider 90 , Brisbane 1990
  • Earth wings , Brisbane 1991
  • Queensland, Words and All , Brisbane 1993
  • Riding Out , Brisbane 1994
  • Cheating and Other Infidelities , Brisbane 1995
  • German-Australian Cultural Relations since 1945 , Bern [u. a.] 1995
  • A Sporting Declaration , Brisbane 1996

Translations

literature

  • Walter Tonetto: Exiled in Language: The Poetry of Margaret Diesendorf, Walter Billeter, Rudi Krausmann, and Manfred Jurgensen . Academica Press, Lewiston NY 2001, ISBN 978-1930901247 .
  • Volker Wolf (Ed.): Reading and Writing . A. Francke Verlag, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 978-3772021497 .

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personal data
SURNAME Jurgensen, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Australian literary scholar, Germanist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg