Renate Böschenstein-Schäfer
Renate Böschenstein-Schäfer (born October 22, 1933 in Düsseldorf , † June 25, 2003 in Siggen , Ostholstein ) was a Swiss-German literary scholar , university lecturer and translator.
Life
Renate Schäfer was born in the Rhineland. She graduated from high school in Solingen in 1953 and then studied German, Latin and philosophy in Bonn . She completed her studies in 1958 with a dissertation on the role of negation in the language of baroque poetry. From 1958 to 1964 she was an assistant for German literary studies at the Free University of Berlin. From 1969 to 1998 she taught at the side of her husband Bernhard Böschenstein at the University of Geneva , initially as a lecturer and finally as adjunct professor.
Research priorities
Psychoanalysis and literature; Idyll seal; Reception of antiquity and ancient myths in modern literature; Realism (especially Fontane); Poetry: Hölderlin, Droste-Hülshoff, Celan.
Works
Monographs
- The negation as a form of expression, with special reference to the language of Angelus Silesius . Diss.phil. Bonn 1959.
- Idyll . Stuttgart 1967, 2nd edition Stuttgart 1977 (= Metzler Collection. Realien zur Literatur, vol. 63).
- Hidden facets. Studies on Fontane . Edited by Hanna Delf von Wolzüge and Hubertus Fischer. Würzburg 2006.
- Idyll, death space and aggression. Contributions to Droste research . Edited by Ortrun Niethammer. Bielefeld 2007.
Editorships
- Doppelganger. Fantastic stories . Munich 1987.
A complete bibliography of Renate Böschenstein-Schäfer's publications up to 1998 can be found in the book: Antiquitates Renatae. German and French contributions to the effects of antiquity in European literature. Festschrift for Renate Böschenstein on her 65th birthday . Edited by Verena Ehrich-Häfeli, Hans-Jürgen Schrader and Martin Stern . Wuerzburg 1998.
Renate Böschenstein's estate is in the Theodor Fontane Archive in Potsdam.
Web links
- Literature by and about Renate Böschenstein-Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary by Angelika Overath in the NZZ on July 1, 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Böschenstein-Shepherd, Renate |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Böschenstein, Renate |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-German literary scholar and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 2003 |
| Place of death | Siggen , Ostholstein |