Werner Frick (Germanist)

Werner Frick at a lecture by Armin Grunwald , 2019 at the University of Freiburg.

Discussion after Grundwald's lecture Are we making ourselves superfluous with digitization? , 2019 University of Freiburg.

Werner Frick (* 1953 in Altensteig ) is a German Germanist ( literary scholar ).

Life

Werner Frick studied German, comparative literature, philosophy, history and musicology in Tübingen and Paris from 1971 to 1977 . In 1985 he received his doctorate under Klaus-Detlef Müller in Kiel and was then a research assistant at the Universities of Regensburg and Augsburg , and in 1997 he received his habilitation at the University of Augsburg. In 1998 he became a professor at the University of Mainz , in 1999 he was given the chair for Modern German and Comparative Literature at the University of Göttingen , and in 2004 he switched to the Chair for Modern German and Comparative Literature at the University of Freiburg .

Werner Frick is a full member of the Academies of Science in Göttingen (since 2002) and Heidelberg (since 2005).

Publications (selection)

• Providence and Contingency. Investigations into the semantics of fate in German and European novels of the 17th and 18th centuries . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1988 (= Hermaea. Studies on German Literature. 55) (Dissertation)
• "The Mythical Method". Comparative studies on the transformation of Greek tragedy in the drama of classical modernism . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1998 (= Hermaea. Studies on German Literature. 86) (Habilitation thesis)

Web links

Commons : Werner Frick  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website at the University of Freiburg