Udo Köster

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Udo Köster (* 1945 in Lenzkirch ) is a German specialist in German.

Life

He studied German, philosophy and sociology at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich and Berlin (FU). After receiving his doctorate in Berlin in 1970 and his habilitation in Hamburg in 1977, he taught there from 1977 to 2010 as a professor of German literature.

His main focus is the Enlightenment of the Peasants (18th / 19th Century), Vormärz, literature and society in the Empire and Viennese Modernism.

Fonts (selection)

  • Literary radicalism. Consciousness of time and philosophy of history in the development from Young Germany to the Hegelian Left . Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7610-4614-6 .
  • Overcoming naturalism. Theories and interpretations of German literature around 1900 . Hollfeld 1979, ISBN 3-921202-59-0 .
  • Literature and Society in Germany 1830–1848. Poetry at the end of the art period . Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-17-008359-7 .
  • Literature in the social process of the long 19th century. On the history of ideas and the social history of literature . Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 3-631-65894-X .

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