Martin Stern

Martin Stern (born February 19, 1930 in Zurich ) is a Swiss literary scholar and university professor .

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Initially, Stern studied German at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in 1959 with a thesis on Hugo von Hofmannsthal's comedy fragment "Silvia im Stern". After completing his habilitation at the University of Zurich on "Images of Paradise in 18th Century Literature", he first taught at Harvard University and then in Frankfurt am Main . In 1968 Martin Stern (at the same time as Karl Pestalozzi ) was appointed professor for literary studies at the German Department of the University of Basel . Also in 1968 he initiated the founding of an International Hugo von Hofmannsthal Society and edited a volume of Hofmannsthal's complete edition ( The Difficult ). His most important fields of work include the Enlightenment of the Goethe era , Johann Nestroy , bourgeois realism , the Reformation drama, expressionism in Switzerland and the history of theater in Switzerland up to Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt . Stern taught at the University of Basel until 1997.

literature

• "Concealing Unveiling" . On theory and art of poetic disguise. Festschrift for Martin Stern. Edited by Wolfram Malte Fues and Wolfram Mauser . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 1995. ISBN 3-8260-1026-4

Web links

• Martin Stern (entry in the Library of Congress )
• Martin Stern at the Society for Research into German-Swiss Literature
• Martin Stern on his 80th birthday in the Basler Zeitung