Stephen Parker
Stephen Robert Parker (born April 22, 1955 ) is a British literary scholar.
Parker is a professor of German studies at the School of Modern Languages of Cardiff University . He was previously the Henry Simon Professor of German at the University of Manchester .
He studied Modern Languages (French and German) at the University of Leeds and wrote his doctoral thesis in German in Manchester. The work was supervised by Rhys Williams. In 1991 and 1992 he was a Research Fellow at the John Rylands Research Institute at the University of Manchester, and in 1993 and 1994 he was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Free University of Berlin .
From 2009 to 2012 he worked as a Research Fellow of the Leverhulme Trust , a traditional British foundation for the promotion of education and science.
In 2014 Parker's book Bertolt Brecht : A Literary Life was published by Bloomsbury , London; four years later the Suhrkamp Verlag published the German translation of the biography.
Publications (selection)
- Peter Huchel : A Literary Life in 20th Century Germany. Berne: Lang, 1998.
- with Peter Davies, Matthew Philpotts : The Modern Restoration. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2004.
- with Matthew Philpotts: Sense and Form: The Anatomy of a Literary Journal. Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies. 6, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
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Bertolt Brecht . London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
- German translation: Bertolt Brecht: A biography. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-42812-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Stephen Parker in the catalog of the German National Library
- David Walsh : A conversation with the Brecht biographer Stephen Parker
- Michaela Schmitz (Author): Review of Parker's Brecht biography on Deutschlandfunk on July 15, 2018
- Prof Stephen Parker - personal details (English)
- Richard Kämmerlings : "His life was so chaotic that he almost perished." A conversation with the Brecht biographer Stephen Parker , Die Welt on July 7, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Professor Stephen Parker. In: Cardiff University. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Stephen Parker. In: Suhrkamp Insel. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parker, Stephen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Parker, Stephen Robert; Parker, Stephen R. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1955 |