Susanne Klingenstein

Susanne Caroline Klingenstein (born April 17, 1959 in Baden-Baden ) is a German-American literary scholar.

Life

Susanne Klingenstein studied German, philosophy, history and American studies at the University of Mannheim (1978–1980), Stirling University (1980–1981), University of Heidelberg (1981–1986), Brandeis University (MA 1983) and finally at Harvard University (1987 –1989), where Isadore Twersky, Ruth R. Wisse, Sacvan Bercovitch, Helen Vendler and Lawrence Buell were among their teachers. She received her doctorate in Heidelberg in 1990. She wrote several articles in the feature section of the time . In 1993 she married the doctor R. James Klingenstein.

From 1993 to 2001 Susanne Klingenstein taught as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 2001 she moved to the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, where she was appointed Director of the Communication Curriculum, which she led until 2015. Today she lives as a freelance literary scholar and translator in Boston .

To date, Klingenstein has presented two studies in English and one in German on topics of Jewish culture, as well as several journal articles with reviews of new publications in The Journal of American History , Studies in American Jewish Literature , American Jewish History , Shofar , Weekly Standard and others . Since 1998 she has been writing regularly for the FAZ . She dedicated her monograph on the Yiddish writer Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh , published in 2015, to Karl Erich Grözinger and Martin Walser , who in the discussion and agreement with Klingenstein also took up this poet and wrote his own essay Shmekendike flowers. A memorial / A dermonung for Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (2014) to him. Her encounters (since 2009) and finally collaboration with Martin Walser (2011–2014) forms the basis of Susanne Klingenstein's experimental biography of the writer, which was published under the title Weg mit Martin Walser (2016).

Fonts (selection)

• Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991 (reprinted 1998)
• Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930–1990 . Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998
• " Sweet Natalie: Herman Wouk's messenger to the gentiles," in: Joyce Antler (Ed.): Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture . Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1998
• Mendele the bookseller. Life and work of Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh. A history of Yiddish literature between Berdichev and Odessa, 1835–1917 (= Jewish culture. Studies on intellectual history, religion and literature. Vol. 27). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-447-10145-5 .
• "Moische Kulbak: Life, Work and Death," in: Moische Kulbak, Die Selmenianer. Novel . Translated by Niki Graça and Esther Alexander-Ihme. Berlin: The Other Library, 2017.
• Paths with Martin Walser. Magic and Reality of a Writer. Weissbooks, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-86337-100-5 .
• Scholem Jankew Abramowitsch, The Travels of Benjamin the Third. Edited, translated and with an afterword by Susanne Klingenstein. Munich: Hanser, 2019.

Web links

• Literature by and about Susanne Klingenstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Susanne Klingenstein in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Susanne Klingenstein at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Search query at Die Zeit
2. ↑ Vita at Weissbooks.
3. ↑ Susanne Klingenstein: Mendele the bookseller , 2014, p. Vii
4. ^ Andreas Platthaus : His ride across Lake Constance , in: FAZ , September 17, 2014