Wilhelm Richard Berger

Wilhelm Richard Berger (also: Willy R. Berger , Willy Richard Berger ; born November 25, 1935 in Dortmund , † June 19, 1996 in Cologne ) was a German literary scholar , writer and translator .

Life

William Richard Berger received his doctorate in 1968 at the University of Bonn with a work about Thomas Mann to the Doctor of Philosophy . From 1968 to 1971 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Cologne and from 1971 to 1978 in the same position at the University of Bonn . From 1978 to 1986 he worked as a publicist and freelance writer . In 1986 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bonn with a literary thesis on the Enlightenment image of China ; in the same year he received a professorship for German literature at the university in Namur, Belgium .

Wilhelm Richard Berger published his own poems in addition to specialist literary studies ; he also translated from French .

The mythological motifs in Thomas Mann's novel "Joseph and his brothers" , Cologne [u. a.] 1971
Lanzarote , Dortmund 1986 (together with Conrad Schumacher)
China image and China fashion in the Europe of the Enlightenment , Cologne [u. a.] 1990
Hans Sachs. Shoemaker and Poet , Frankfurt am Main 1994
The dreaming hero , Namur 2000
Mean disintegration time short , Weilerswist 2001

Charles Baudelaire : The Flowers of Evil , Munich 1982
Stéphane Mallarmé : Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard , Göttingen 1995
Paul Verlaine : Galante Feste , Munich 1980
Paul Verlaine : Poems , Stuttgart 1988

personal data
SURNAME	Berger, Wilhelm Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Berger, Willy R .; Berger, Willy Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Germanist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH	June 19, 1996
Place of death	Cologne