Peter Gasser (Germanist)

Peter Gasser (* 1951 in Balsthal ) is a Swiss German studies specialist .

Gasser studied philosophy , Romance languages and German literature at the University of Neuchâtel , where he received his doctorate in 1991 . From 1987 to 1993 he was senior assistant at the German Department of the University of Lausanne . Since 1995 he has been a lecturer in German-speaking Swiss literature at the University of Neuchâtel.

In his writings he deals with a. with Jeremias Gotthelf , Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche .

Fonts (selection)

as an author

• Rhetorical philosophy. Attempts to read the metaphorical discourse in Nietzsche's “ Also sprach Zarathustra ” (European University Writings / Series 1, Volume 1371). Lang, Bern a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-906750-42-6 , (also dissertation, University of Neuchâtel 1991)
• Reading trips or dialogue across borders . Messeiller, Neuchâtel 2000 (together with Jürg Flury)

as editor

• Rousseauism. Nature Gospel and Literature . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-631-34916-5 (together with Jürgen Söring)
• “There is no greater crime than innocence”. To the crime novels by Glauser , Dürrenmatt , Highsmith and Schneider . Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0609-7 .
• Gotthelf. Interdisciplinary approaches to his work . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58338-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Gasser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Gasser on the website of the University of Neuchâtel
• Literature by and about Peter Gasser (Germanist) in the bibliographic database WorldCat