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Wynfrid Kriegleder (born April 12, 1958 in Obernberg am Inn ) is an Austrian literary scholar and Germanist. He is as ao. University professor at the University of Vienna .

Life

After attending the primary school in Obernberg am Inn, Wynfrid Kriegleder attended the federal high school in Ried im Innkreis , where he graduated in 1976. He then studied German and English at the University of Vienna. From 1981 to 1984 he was a study assistant at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna, from 1984 contract assistant and from 1985 university assistant. In 1985 he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna sub auspiciis with a dissertation on the Josephine author Joseph Franz Ratschky .

In January 1997, he completed his habilitation at the humanities faculty of the University of Vienna with a thesis on the image of the USA in German-language novels of the 18th and 19th centuries. Since this year he has been working as an associate professor at the University of Vienna. He was a visiting professor and research scholar at Berea College, Kentucky, Duke University , Yale University, and the University of Kansas . He also taught at the Universities of Szeged , Osijek and Antwerp .

Awards and honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Joseph Franz Ratschky. A monograph. With previously unpublished manuscripts . Phil. Diss. Vienna 1985
  • Forward to the past. The image of the USA in the German-language novel from 1776 to 1855 . Tübingen: Stauffenburg 1999. also habilitation thesis, Vienna 1997
  • (Ed.): David Christoph Seybold : Reizenstein. The story of a German officer . Vienna: Edition Praesens 2003
  • with Gustav-Adolf Pogatschnigg (Ed.): The stories of Charles Sealsfield. Magazine publications and templates . Vienna: Praesens 2009
  • A brief history of literature in Austria. People - books - institutions . Vienna: Praesens, 2011
  • with Gustav-Adolf Pogatschnigg (Ed.) Literary narratives of migration Europe - North America in the 19th century . Vienna: Praesens 2012
  • with Alexander Ritter (eds.): Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Karl May and others - edited, translated, intermedial. Vienna: Praesens 2013
  • 99 questions on Austrian literature . Vienna: Ueberreuter, 2014 ISBN 978-3-8000-7593-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c CV and publications
  2. Wynfrid Kriegleder on oeaw.ac.at