Michael Maar

Michael Maar (born July 17, 1960 in Stuttgart ) is a German German philologist , writer and literary critic .

Michael Maar at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2012

Life

He is the son of Paul Maar and Nele Maar , b. Ballhaus . Maar studied German and psychology at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg .

For his dissertation on Thomas Mann (see also Geister und Kunst , 1995) he was awarded the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in 1995, to which he has been a member since 2002. From 1997 to 1998 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin , in spring 2002 visiting professor at Stanford University in California and from 2005 to 2006 a fellow at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation .

In 2008 he was accepted into the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . From 2011 to 2012 he was a Fellow of the International Morphomata College at the University of Cologne.

Since 1990 he has regularly published literary criticism in the German-language feature sections . His literary reviews deal primarily with modern classics .

He has two children and lives in Berlin .

Bibliography (selection)

• Image and text: literary texts in class . Goethe-Institut , Munich, Ref. 42, Office for Science. Didactics. Edited by Michael and Paul Maar . Learning tips from Jutta Weisz. 1988
• Ghosts and art. News from the magic mountain . 1995
• The fire and the water test. Essays on literature. 1997
• The wrong madeleine . Essays. 1999
• Marginal thoughts about antipooters . In: Jorge Luis Borges for the hundredth. Akzente (magazine) , Ed. Michael Krüger , H. 4, Carl Hanser, Munich 1999 ISBN 3446232192 ISSN  0002-3957 pp. 294-298
• Marcel Proust . Between the Belle Époque and the modern. (Editor and commentator) 1999
• The Bluebeard room . Thomas Mann and the guilt. 2000 (Translated into English: Bluebeard's Chamber. Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann. London 2003)
• Why Nabokov would have liked Harry Potter. 2002, ISBN 3-8270-0454-3
• The Etruscan light bulb . Essays and marginalia. 2003
• Lolita and the German lieutenant. Essay. 2005
• Leopards in the temple. To HC Andersen , Borges, Elias Canetti , GK Chesterton , Kafka , Lampedusa , Thomas Mann , Robert Musil , Nabokov , Powell , Proust, Virginia Woolf . 2007
• Solus Rex. The beautiful evil world of Vladimir Nabokov . 2007
• Help for the Hufflepuffs . Small guide to Harry Potter . 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23020-0
• Proust Pharaoh . Berenberg, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-937834-34-4 .
• Witches whisper. Why fairy tales are immortal . Berenberg, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3937834535
• The betrayed . Novel. CH Beck, Munich 2012
• Overcast and cool today. Great diaries from Samuel Pepys to Virginia Woolf . CH Beck, Munich 2013
• Tambourini's hump. Master of today. Speeches and reviews . CH Beck, Munich 2014

Awards

• Johann Heinrich Merck Prize (1995)
• Ernst Robert Curtius Prize (Sponsorship Prize 1995)
• Essay grant from the Lower Saxony Foundation (1998)
• Lessing Prize for Criticism (Promotion Prize 2000)
• Essay grant Baden-Württemberg (2001)
• Working grant from the Berlin Senate (2009)
• Heinrich Mann Prize (2010)
• Working grant from the German Literature Fund (2016/2017)

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Maar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Michael Maar at perlentaucher.de
• lyrikwelt.de short vita

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ik-morphomata.uni-koeln.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Current Fellows - Dr. Michael Maar  
2. ↑ Comparison with Musil, their common reference point Arthur Schopenhauer
3. ↑ execute Review by Andreas Platthaus in FAZ No. 166/2002, p. 44