Thomas Kramer

Thomas Kramer (born September 16, 1959 in Zeitz ) is a German literary scholar.

Lecture at a symposium of the Karl May Society in Bonn 2016

Life

Between 1981 and 1986 he studied at the University of Leipzig and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . Since February 1, 2000, he has been a research assistant at Rüdiger Steinlein . In 2001 , Kramer qualified as a professor for modern German literature . He is a private lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the literary studies department.

Kramer became known to a wider audience primarily through his publications on the comic magazine Mosaik , to which he dedicated several books and articles. In addition, he mainly dealt with the adventure and entertainment literature of the Weimar Republic, the time of National Socialism and primarily the GDR. He is currently working on the creation of the handbook History of Children's and Youth Literature in the GDR , a DFG project for which he primarily writes the chapters "Tension and adventure literature in the GDR" and "Children's and youth magazines in the GDR". He is also involved in the DFG research project "Program history of GDR television history - comparative" and is working on the topic of "Literature adaptations in GDR television - a contribution to a history of style and reception of literary adaptations in the GDR".

Publications

• The mosaic fan book. The first 89 issues of "MOSAIK VON HANNES Hegen" , Berlin 1993 ISBN 3-320-01811-6 .
• The Mosaic Fan Book - Part Two. Issues 90 to 223 of the "MOSAIK VON HANNES Hegen" and unpublished text bases , Berlin 1994 ISBN 3-320-01848-5 .
• The Digedags at the Silbersee. In the footsteps of Karl May in the GDR comic MOSAIK . Special issue of the Karl May Society. No. 111. Karl May Society Hamburg 1997
• Micky, Marx and Manitu Contemporary and cultural history as reflected in a GDR comic 1955 - 1990; “Mosaic” as a focus of media experiences in NS and in the GDR . Weidler, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89693-195-4 , (Dissertation University of Leipzig 1989, 405 pages).
• Heiner Müller on the torture stake . AISTHESIS Essay Vol. 24. Aisthesis Verlag, 2006 ISBN 3-89528-548-X .
• The Orient Complex. The Middle East Image Past and Present . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0197-2 .
• Karl May: A biographical portrait. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-06237-7 .
• Handbook for children's and youth literature: SBZ / GDR. From 1945 to 1990 . JB Metzler, 2016 (as editor, with Rüdiger Steinlein and Heidi Strobel)

Web links

• Information for employees of the HU Berlin
• Literature by and about Thomas Kramer in the catalog of the German National Library