Volker Meid

Volker Meid (born May 8, 1940 in Darmstadt ) is a German literary scholar and editor of standard works on German literature .

Life

Meid taught from 1970 to 1982 as a professor of German literature at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst / USA, in Freiburg and Bielefeld . In addition to his work as an editor of general essays on German literature, Meid is particularly known for his research into literature from the early modern and baroque periods .

Fonts (selection)

as an author

• The Thirty Years War in German Baroque Literature. Reclam, Ditzingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-15-011145-1 (Michael Weise: Review , Wissenschaftlicher Literaturanzeiger, 2020).
• Grimmelshausen. Life, work, effect. Reclam, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-15-017682-5 .
• German literature in the Baroque era. From late humanism to early enlightenment 1570–1740 . CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58757-3 (History of German literature from its beginnings to the present; 5).
• Baroque poetry . 2nd edition Metzler, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-476-12227-8 (Metzler Collection; 227).
• Metzler Literature Chronicle. Works by German-speaking authors . 3rd edition Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02132-8 .
• Non-fiction dictionary on German literature . New edition Reclam, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-15-018129-1 .
• The German baroque novel . Metzler, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-476-10128-2 (Metzler Collection; 128).

as editor

• Daniel Casper von Lohenstein : Cleopatra. Tragedy . Reclam, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-15-018548-3 .
• Sachlexikon literature . Dtv, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-423-32522-4 .
• Paul Fleming : German poems . Reclam, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-15-002455-2 .
• Hans Jakob Christoffel of Grimmelshausen . The adventurous Simplicissimus Teutsch . New edition Reclam, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-15-050761-8 .
• Laugh without parole. Legal anecdotes . Piper, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-492-10649-8 .
• (with Ingeborg Springer-Strand): Johann Gottfried Schnabel. Rock Castle Island . Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-008421-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Meid in the catalog of the German National Library