Theo Elm

Theo Elm (born July 11, 1944 in Grafenau (Lower Bavaria) ) is a German specialist in German studies and a university professor .

Life

Elm studied at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and received his doctorate in 1972 with Ulrich Fülleborn with the dissertation Siegfried Lenz - "German Lesson". Commitment and realism in the contemporary novel . He completed his habilitation in 1980 with the habilitation thesis Die Moderne Parabel and in 1981 was appointed professor for modern German literary history at the same university.

In addition to the history of literature, one of Elm's research focuses was contemporary poetry. For the 1980s and 1990s he published anthologies with explanatory introductions.

In 2009 Theo Elm retired .

Publications (selection)

As author:

• Siegfried Lenz - German lesson , dissertation, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1974
• The German post-war novel , 1988
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe - The Elective Affinities - Basics and Thoughts for Understanding Narrative Literature , Diesterweg, 1991, ISBN 3-425-06034-1
• The modern parable , habilitation thesis, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2nd edition 1991, ISBN 3-770-52706-2
• The West German post-war novel, typescript from the Fernuniversität in Hagen, 1993
• The Social Drama , Reclam, 2004, ISBN 3-150-17645-X

As editor:

• Add. m. Hans Hiebel : Media and Machines: Literature in the Technical Age , Rombach Printing and Publishing House, 1991, ISBN 3-793-09059-0
• Crystallizations. German poetry of the eighties , published with an introduction, Reclam, 1992, ISBN 3-150-08827-5
• Add. m. Peter Hasubek: Fable and Parable. Cultural-historical processes in the 18th century , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-770-52943-X
• Poetry of the 1990s , published with introduction, Reclam, 2000, ISBN 3-150-18048-1

literature

• German Literature Lexicon . The 20th Century, Vol. 7 Dürrenmatt – Ernestus, Verlag de Gruyter, 2005, c. Wilhelm Kosch , ed. v. Konrad Feilchenfeldt , ISBN 3-908255-07-4 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. em. Theo Elm at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Entry on Theo Elm in the directory of Germanists