Sigrid Bauschinger

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Sigrid Bauschinger (born November 2, 1934 ) is a German specialist in German and was Professor of German Literature at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in the United States until her retirement in 2000 .

Life

Sigrid Bauschinger studied German and French literature and philosophy in Kiel, Freiburg and at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and was here in 1959 with the work of the maternal factory Else Lasker-Schüler The symbolism doctorate . She went to the United States and taught at Oberlin College in Oberlin , Ohio , and at Mount Holyoke College and Smith College in Massachusetts . She then went to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst as Professor of German Literature and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies .

She is primarily concerned with German literature of the 20th century, where she focuses primarily on German- Jewish authors as well as exile literature and German-American literary relations. After her retirement in 2000 she published, among other things, a biography about Else Lasker-Schüler , on which she had already published a standard work in 1980, as well as a family biography of the Cassirer family . She also wrote biographies on Lasker-Schüler and Esther Dischereit in the Jewish Women's Archive .

Publications (selection)

  • Manhattan myth. The fascination of a city. In: Sigrid Bauschinger, Horst Denkler , Wilfried Malsch (eds.): America in German literature. New World - North America - USA. Reclam, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-15-010253-7 , pp. 382-397.
  • Else Lasker-Schüler. Their work and their time (= poetry and science. 7). Stiehm, Heidelberg 1980, ISBN 3-7988-0038-3 .
  • The trumpet of reform. German Literature in New England, 19th Century. Francke, Bern et al. 1989, ISBN 3-317-01669-8 .
  • as editor: "I have something to say". Annette Kolb, 1870-1967. Exhibition of the Munich City Library. Munich, Diederichs 1993, ISBN 3-424-01188-6 .
  • The Berlin Moderns. Else Lasker-Schüler and Café Culture. In: Emily D. Bilski (Ed.): Berlin Metropolis. Jews and the New Culture, 1885-1918. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 1999, ISBN 0-520-22241-5 , pp. 58-101.
  • as editor: The Cheeky Muse. Literary and political cabaret from 1901 to 1999. = The Impudent Muse. Francke, Tübingen et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7720-2102-6 .
  • as editor with Paul Michael Lützeler : Margarita Pazi : Staub und Sterne. Essays on German-Jewish literature. Wallstein, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-357-2 .
  • Else Lasker-Schüler. Biography. Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-440-4 (several editions).
  • as editor: Else Lasker-Schüler: Works and Letters. Critical edition. Volume 8: Letters. 1925-1933. Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-633-54216-7 .
  • as editor: Rainer Maria Rilke - Eva Cassirer. Correspondence. Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0228-0 .
  • The Cassirers. Entrepreneurs, art dealers, philosophers. Family biography. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67714-4 .
  • Co-editor of the Amherst Colloquia on German Literature. Volume 13-19. Francke, Tübingen 1984-1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1987, Volume 1, p. 200
  2. ↑ Sigrid Bauschinger. Portrait of the female author at Wallstein Verlag; Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c Jewish Women's Archive: Sigrid Bauschinger. Author portrait; Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  4. ^ Christa Melchinger: Coolly disenchanted: Sigrid Bauschinger on Else Lasker-Schüler , Die Zeit, October 10, 1980
personal data
SURNAME Bauschinger, Sigrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, German and Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1934