Volker Neuhaus

Volker Neuhaus (born September 8, 1943 in Breslau ) is a German Germanist and professor emeritus for Modern Germans and Comparative Literature at the Institute for German Language and Literature at the University of Cologne . Today he lives in Osnabrück.

Neuhaus studied German, Protestant theology and comparative literature in Bonn and Zurich from 1962 to 1968 and graduated in 1967 with the state examination. In 1968 the doctorate followed, in 1975 the habilitation. From 1968 to 1977 he was first a speaker, then department head for literature and fine arts at the cultural group of the Federal Association of German Industry eV (BDI) . From 1977 until his retirement in 2008 he taught as a professor for German literature at the University of Cologne . As a lecturer he continues to teach (status: summer semester 2018) at the University of Osnabrück .

Volker Neuhaus was chairman of the Goethe Society. V. (Cologne).

Main areas of activity

The focus of the academic work of Volker Neuhaus includes the study of the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Günter Grass , whose editions Neuhaus publishes, as well as research into detective novels. From 1986 to 2005 he was editor of DuMont's crime library .

Works (selection)

• Types of multi-perspective narration . Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1971 (book edition of the dissertation), ISBN 3-412-00871-0
• The sensational novel of contemporary history in Germany 1855-1878. "Sir John Retcliffe" and his school. E. Schmidt, Berlin 1980 (book edition of the Habil. Script), ISBN 3-503-01628-7
• Günter Grass . 2., revised. and exp. Edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 1993 (Metzler Collection, Vol. 179), ISBN 3-476-12179-8
• Writing against the passing of time. On the life and work of Günter Grass . dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-423-12445-4
• Others are sleeping through their intoxication, mine is on the paper. Goethe's life in his poetry. DuMont, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-8321-7985-4
• Summit talks with Martin Luther. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Mann and Günter Grass , Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-7374-1066-3
• The Bible. Origin - Meaning - Effect , Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-7374-1110-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Neuhaus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Cologne

supporting documents

1. ^ University of Osnabrück, Institute for German Studies: Teachers. Retrieved August 9, 2018 . 
2. ^ University of Osnabrück, Institute for German Studies: University Professor Dr. phil. Volker Neuhaus. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .