Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for German Exile Literature

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The Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for German Exile Literature is a research center for German exile literature . It is the only research facility of its kind at a German university. It has been headed by Doerte Bischoff since 2011 .

The research center was originally founded in 1970/71 as a Hamburg office for exile literature at the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Hamburg by Hans Wolffheim ; it was renamed in 2001 in honor of the founder of German exile literature research, Walter A. Berendsohn .

The research center contains the P. Walter Jacob archive. Jacob bequeathed his private archive to the workplace in 1977. His estate includes a library of around 4,000 volumes and other documents. The focus of the collection is an archive of more than 100,000 individual documents from German, European and South American newspapers.

The research center publishes the ExilOgraph journals and the series of publications in the P. Walter Jacob Archive .

literature

  • Brita Eckert: The Beginnings of Exile Research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1975. An overview [1] (56-page PDF document), in: Sabine Koloch (Hrsg.): 1968 in German literature / topic group “Post-War German Studies in Criticism” (literaturkritik.de archive / special editions) (2020).

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Head of the research center
  2. ^ Kai-Uwe Scholz: Wolffheim, Hans . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 351 .