Heinz Schlaffer studies German language and culture

German studies

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 and is an emeritus

Emeritus

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 Professor of Literary Science of the University of Stuttgart

University of Stuttgart

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. He came out with particularly sensational essay

Essay

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s like "Die kurze Geschichte der deutschen Literatur" (The Short History of German Literature). He is married to Hannelore Schlaffer.

Life

Schlaffer received his first Literary Science Professorship at the Philipp's University - Marburg and changed to Stuttgart in 1975. He held the teaching position in that town from 1975 until his emeritus in 2004.

He published numerous Books, among others about Lyrik im Realismus (Poetry in Realism), Der Bürger als Held (The Townspeople as Heroes), aesthetic histories, Goethe's

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...

 Faust, Poesie und Wissen (Poetry and Knowledge), besides scientific writings like essays and literary criticisms in Tageszeitung

Die tageszeitung

die tageszeitung , was founded in 1978 in Berlin. It is a cooperative-owned German daily newspaper which is administrated by a workers' self-management...

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Selected works

• Das entfesselte Wort : Nietzsches Stil und seine Folgen (The Aroused Word: Nietzsche's
  Friedrich Nietzsche
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...
  
   Style and his Successors). Hanser, München 2007
• Poesie und Wissen : die Entstehung des ästhetischen Bewusstseins und der philologischen Erkenntnis (Poems and Knowledge: The Origins of Aesthetic Consciousness and the Philosophical Insight). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2005
• Die kurze Geschichte der deutschen Literatur (The Short History of German Literature). Hanser, München ; Wien 2002
• Faust zweiter Teil : die Allegorie des 19. Jahrhunderts (Faust Part II: The Allegory of the 19th Century). Metzler, Stuttgart 1989
• Der Bürger als Held : sozialgeschichtliche Auflösungen literarischer Widersprüche (The Townspeople as Heroes: Social-Historical Solutions of Literary Contradictions). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt (am Main) 1973
• Lyrik im Realismus : Studien über Raum und Zeit in den Gedichten (Poetry in Realism: Studies about Time and Place in Poems) Mörikes
  Eduard Mörike
  Eduard Friedrich Mörike was a German Romantic poet.-Biography:Mörike was born in Ludwigsburg. His father was Karl Friedrich Mörike , a district medical councilor; his mother was Charlotte Bayer...
  
  , the Droste and Liliencrons
  Detlev von Liliencron
  Baron Detlev von Liliencron born Friedrich Adolf Axel Detlev Liliencron was a German lyric poet and novelist from Kiel, the son of Louis Freiherr von Liliencron and Adeline von Harten....
  
  . - Würzburg 1966

Selected awards

• 2008 Heinrich Mann Prize
  Heinrich Mann Prize
  The Heinrich Mann Prize is a literary award given annually by the Berlin Academy of Art . The prize given for works with socially critical aspects in a character that would honor Heinrich Mann...
  
   for Essays of the Berliner Akademie der Künste

External links

• Literature by and on Heinz Schlaffer in the Catalog of the German National Library
  German National Library
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• Perlentaucher über den Autor, Kurzrezensionen seiner Werke (Perlentaucher about the Author, Short Review of his Works) (German)