Marie-Louise Roth

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Marie-Louise Roth-Zimmermann (born August 1, 1926 in Haguenau , Alsace ; † May 25, 2014 ) was a Franco-German literary scholar .

Life

Roth was the only daughter of the educators Gérard and Marie-Thérèse Zimmermann. After attending schools in Bischwiller and Haguenau , she lived with her family from 1942 to 1945 in an SS dispatch center in Schelklingen in Württemberg . After the end of the war and returning to Alsace , she studied at the University of Nancy and the University of Strasbourg . In 1953 she acquired the Agrégation d'allemand and taught first at the Lycée in Épinal , then at the Collège in Forbach . In 1954 she accepted a teaching position at the Saarland University and from 1956 worked as an assistant in the training of French Germanists.

In 1964 she got a reputation as a professor of German language and literature in the French section (Section Française) of the Department of German at the University of Saarland. It was not until 1976 that she did her doctorate at the University of Strasbourg with a thesis on Robert Musil . After completing her habilitation , she was appointed Professor of Modern German Literature at Saarland University. In 1992 she was retired .

Since 1956 she has been working on the work of the Austrian writer Robert Musil. In 1970 she founded the permanent office for Robert Musil research at Saarland University, today's "Office for Austrian Culture and Literature / Robert Musil Research". In 1974 she founded the International Robert Musil Society (IRMG) in Vienna with Bruno Kreisky , then Austrian Chancellor, as patron. Roth was president of the IRMG from 1974 to 2001, from 2001 its honorary president.

In 1953 she married Ernest Roth, whose father Ernst Roth was the youngest social democratic member of the Reichstag in Berlin in 1933.

Marie-Louise Roth has her experiences in the SS clearance camp in Schelklingen in her autobiography Thinking about Schelklingen. Memories of an Alsatian from the time in the SS resettlement camp documented.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Robert Musil. Ethics and aesthetics . Paul-List-Verlag Munich 1972
  • I think of rogue blades. . . , Röhrig 2001, ISBN 3-86110-275-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Saarbrücker Zeitung