Waldemar Fromm

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Waldemar Fromm (born August 5, 1961 in Sibiu ) is a German specialist in German and an adjunct professor for modern German literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , as well as head of the department for literature in Bavaria

After graduating from high school, Fromm studied German, psychology, linguistics and philosophy at the Universities of Heidelberg and Marburg . In 1996 he received his doctorate in Marburg on " Franz Kafka's poetics between process and castle".

Afterwards he was a research assistant at the PH Heidelberg and since 1999 at the chair for Bavarian cultural history Dietz-Rüdiger Moser . In 2004, Fromm completed his habilitation with a thesis "On the sayable and unspeakable in literature and aesthetics of the Enlightenment, romanticism and modernity" and in 2006 was appointed Academic Councilor at the Ludwig Maximilians University. Fromm has been an adjunct professor for modern German literature in Munich since 2011.

Fromm's research focuses on the history of literary subjectivity since the Enlightenment, Bavarian literary history, linguistic psychology as well as poetics and aesthetics. He is u. a. Editor of the Franz von Pocci edition and the Charles Sealsfield edition and member of the Institute for Bavarian History at LMU. He is also chairman of the Oskar Maria Graf Society .

Works (selection)

  • Artistic writing. Franz Kafka's poetics between “Proceß” and “Schloß”. Munich 1998.
  • At the limits of language. About the sayable and the unspeakable in literature and aesthetics of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and modernity. Freiburg i. Br. 2006.
  • together with Hermann Schöler: Working memory and language learning. Investigations on schoolchildren who have problems with their language development and who do not have problems with language. Heidelberg 1997.
  • together with Carolin Raffelsbauer: "Moser in Bavaria". On the occasion of the retirement and the 65th birthday of Dietz-Rüdiger Moser. Munich 2004.
  • Franz Graf von Pocci: Works. Munich 2008ff.
  • together with Ulrich Dittmann: Oskar Maria Graf. Rebel citizen of the world, not a Bavarian national poet. Regensburg: Blow 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.literatur-in-bayern.germanistik.uni-muenchen.de/fromm/index.html
  2. ^ Oskar Maria Graf-Gesellschaft: Board of Directors , accessed on March 19, 2016.