Walter Baumgartner (literary scholar)

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Walter Baumgartner (born July 27, 1941 in Zofingen ) is a Swiss literary scholar and Scandinavian . He is emeritus professor for modern Scandinavian literatures at the University of Greifswald .

Life

Baumgartner studied German, Scandinavian, history and musicology at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), the University of Uppsala (Sweden) and the University of Oslo (Norway) from 1960 to 1970 . Both his doctorate (1975) and his habilitation (1980) took place at the University of Zurich.

From 1970 to 1976 he worked as a research assistant in Nordic studies at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , then from 1976 to 1980 he was an assistant at the University of Zurich. In 1979 he was visiting professor at the University of Chicago (USA) and from 1980 to 1994 he was professor at the Ruhr University Bochum . In 1994 he became professor for modern Scandinavian literatures at the Greifswald University, which was then named after Ernst Moritz Arndt . As a member of a naming commission set up by the Senate in 2009, Baumgartner wrote an expert opinion in favor of renaming the university.

Research and Teaching

Baumgartner is researching in an interdisciplinary project on casual literature in the Baltic Sea region in the early modern period at the universities of Greifswald, Copenhagen and Lund .

The focus of his work on modern Scandinavian literature includes the authors Knut Hamsun , Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg as well as newer Scandinavian poetry and music.

Others

Baumgartner performs with a tango orchestra and is involved in the Nordic Sound Festival . He is co-editor of the specialist journal Scandinavian Studies: the journal for the language, literature and culture of the Nordic countries .

Works (selection)

  • 1976: Tarjei Vesaas . An aesthetic biography . Neumünster (= Scandinavian Studies, edited by Otto Oberholzer, Vol. 5), ISBN 3-529-03305-7
  • 1979: Triumph of Irrealism. Reception of Scandinavian literature in the aesthetic context of Germany, 1860 to 1910 . (= Scandinavian Studies, edited by Otto Oberholzer, Vol. 10), Neumünster, ISBN 3-529-03310-3
  • 1987 (Ed.): Applications. Analysis of Scandinavian narrative texts . Frankfurt a. M., Bern, New York (= texts and studies on German and Scandinavian studies, edited by Heiko Uecker, vol. 13)
  • 1987 (Ed.): August Strindberg - works in chronological order. Volume 10, 1903-1905 . Frankfurt a. M.
  • 1993 (Ed.): True lyric middle "Central lyric"? A symposium on the discourse on poetry in Germany and Scandinavia. Frankfurt a. M. [u. a.]: Lang (= texts and studies on German and Scandinavian studies, no. 34, edited by Heiko Uecker), ISBN 3-631-46707-9
  • 1997: Knut Hamsun , illustrated by Walter Baumgartner with personal testimonies and photo documents. Rowohlt, Reinbek, ISBN 3-499-50543-6
  • 1998: The modernist Hamsun. Medrivende and frastøtende . Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo
  • 2003: (Ed. With Thomas Fechner-Smarsly): August Strindberg. The poet and the media . Munich
  • 2006 (Ed.): Baltic Sea Baroque: Texts and Culture . Berlin / Münster: Lit, ISBN 3-8258-9987-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's Dt. Scholars Calendar 2003, Vol. 1, p. 150.
  2. ↑ Expert opinion: Theses and reasoning against Arndt. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Appearance at the “Swedish Historians' Days” in Greifswald, 2008
  4. ↑ Nordischer Klang 2008 (imprint)
  5. ^ Journal of Scandinavian Studies ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nord-inst.uni-kiel.de
personal data
SURNAME Baumgartner, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss literary scholar, Scandinavian
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Zofingen , Switzerland