Werner Stauffacher (Germanist)

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Werner Stauffacher (born March 6, 1921 in Buchs SG ; † October 28, 2010 in Lausanne ) was a Swiss German literary scholar .

Life

Stauffacher studied German at the University of Geneva and graduated there in 1950 with a dissertation on Carl Spitteler's poetry with Gottfried Bohnenblust . He then worked as a teacher in Geneva and St. Gallen until 1953. From 1953 he was associate professor and from 1962 full professor for modern German literature at the University of Lausanne , where he taught until 1986. From 1960 to 1962 he was Dean and from 1979 to 1984 Vice Rector.

His research focus was on the one hand on the work of Carl Spitteler. He played a key role in the publication of Spitteler's «Gesammelte Werken», even if he was not in charge of it. In 1973 the biography of Spitteler followed. From the 1970s on, Stauffacher made a name for himself primarily as a Döblin researcher and was a co-founder of the International Alfred Döblin Society.

Works

  • Werner Stauffacher: Spitteler's poetry. Studies on the 'butterflies', the 'literary parables' and the 'bell songs', Basel: Hoenen 1950.
  • Werner Stauffacher: Carl Spitteler. Biography, Zurich: Artemis 1973.
  • Alfred Döblin: Amazon. Romantic trilogy, ed. v. Werner Stauffacher, Olten: Walter-Verlag 1988.
  • Carl Spitteler, Joseph Viktor Widmann : Correspondence, ed. v. Werner Stauffacher, Bern: Haupt 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Stauffacher: Spitteler's poetry. Studies on the 'butterflies', the 'literary parables' and the 'bell songs', Basel: Hoenen 1950.
  2. ↑ See Andrea Brunner: Werner Stauffacher. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland (Version 11.7.2011) https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/011690/2011-07-11/
  3. ↑ Cf. Carl Spitteler: Collected Works. Ed. V. Gottfried Bohnenblust, Wilhelm Altwegg, Robert Faesi. Zurich 1945–1958. Stauffacher was responsible for volumes seven: “Aesthetic Fonts” and nine “From the Workshop”.
  4. ^ Werner Stauffacher: Carl Spitteler. Biography, Zurich: Artemis 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Stauffacher, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchs SG
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2010
Place of death Lausanne