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Thomas Othmar Sprecher (born July 29, 1957 ; resident in Pfäfers and Zurich ) is a Swiss German literary scholar .

Life

He studied German and philosophy in Zurich and Berlin , then law. He is a lawyer and literary scholar in Zurich. From 1994 to 2012 he was head of the Thomas Mann Archives at ETH Zurich . As a specialist in foundation law, he is a member of various boards of trustees and has been president of the Swiss umbrella association Fondation des Fondateurs since 2007 .

Works (selection)

  • Felix Krull and Goethe. Thomas Mann's "Confessions" as a parody of "Poetry and Truth" (= European university publications. Series 1 German Language and Literature . Volume 841). Lang, Bern / Frankfurt am Main / New York 1985, ISBN 3-261-04039-4 (also dissertation, Zurich 1985).
  • Davos in the magic mountain. Thomas Mann's novel and its setting . Fink, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7705-3119-1 .
  • The creditors' committee in Swiss bankruptcy proceedings and inheritance proceedings with assignment of assets (= Zurich studies on procedural law . Volume 136). Schulthess, Zurich / Basel / Geneva 2003, ISBN 3-7255-4602-9 (also dissertation, Zurich 2003).
  • Literature and crime. Art and crime in European narrative prose around 1900 (= The Occident. New Series . Volume 36). Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-465-03915-0 (2nd, corr. And revised edition; the 1st edition 2011 - suspected of plagiarism - was withdrawn from the market by the publisher, and the "Confessed" author was allowed to habilitate again with a "revised version" following a disciplinary procedure by the responsible faculty; also habilitation thesis, Friborg 2010).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Result of the plagiarism check by VroniPlag Wiki (accessed on January 20, 2020).
  2. ↑ Joachim Güntner: Germanists do it too. nzz.ch November 19, 2015 (accessed January 20, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Speaker, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speaker, Thomas Othmar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1957