Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography: German Writers

by Hardin, James N.

• ISBN13: 9780787644826
• ISBN10: 078764482X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

Summary

Provides coverage of world authors from all eras. Each volume focuses on a specific country or region, featuring entries on approximately 30-40 major literary figures. Essays discuss in detail both the author's major works and the most respected critical evaluations of those works.

Table of Contents

Rationale	xi
Introduction	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvi
Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)	3	(9)
Steve Dowden
Heinrich Boll (1917-1985)	12	(12)
Reinhard K. Zachau
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)	24	(15)
Herbert Knust
Hermann Broch (1886-1951)	39	(12)
Paul Michael Lutzeler
John Carson Pettey
Georg Buchner (1813-1837)	51	(9)
Rodney Taylor
Elias Canetti (1905-1994)	60	(6)
Thomas H. Falk
Paul Celan (Paul Antschel) (1920-1970)	66	(5)
James K. Lyon
Alfred Doblin (1878-1957)	71	(16)
Wulf Koepke
Annette von Droste-Hulshoff (1797-1848)	87	(9)
Monika Shafi
Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-1990)	96	(13)
Edson M. Chick
Theodor Fontane (1819-1898)	109	(10)
Glenn Guidry
Max Frisch (1911-1991)	119	(9)
Ehrhard Bahr
German Literature and Culture from Charlemagne to the Early Courtly Period	128	(17)
Francis G. Gentry
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)	145	(16)
Jane K. Brown
Gottfried von Straßburg (died before 1230)	161	(7)
Michael S. Batts
Gunter Grass (1927- )	168	(19)
Alan Frank Keele
Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872)	187	(7)
Hinrich C. Seeba
Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)	194	(5)
Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Johann Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1621 or 1622-1676)	199	(15)
Hans Wagener
Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664)	214	(12)
Blake Lee Spahr
Hartmann von Aue (circa 1160-circa 1205)	226	(14)
Will Hasty
Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946)	240	(17)
Roy C. Cowen
Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863)	257	(10)
A. Tilo Alt
Christoph Hein (1944- )	267	(12)
Phillip S. McKnight
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)	279	(10)
Robert C. Holub
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)	289	(24)
Joseph Mileck
Das Hildebrandslied (circa 820)	313	(6)
Brian Murdoch
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)	319	(12)
Stephen Paul Scher
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929)	331	(14)
Michael Winkler
Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843)	345	(10)
Lawrence Ryan
Uwe Johnson (1934-1984)	355	(15)
Robert K. Shirer
Ernst Junger (1895-1998)	370	(13)
Carl Steiner
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)	383	(24)
Richard H. Lawson
Georg Kaiser (1878-1945)	407	(23)
Ernst Schurer
Wiebke Strehl
Gottfried Keller (1819-1890)	430	(11)
Gail K. Hart
Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811)	441	(12)
James M. McGlathery
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)	453	(11)
Gerd Hillen
Martin Luther (1483-1546)	464	(14)
Jeffrey Jaynes
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)	478	(22)
Dieter W. Adolphs
Egon Schwarz
Robert Musil (1880-1942)	500	(12)
Michael W. Jennings
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)	512	(12)
Adrian Del Caro
Novalis (1772-1801)	524	(7)
William Arctander O'Brien
Old High German Charms and Blessings	531	(8)
Brian Murdoch
Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970)	539	(14)
Charles W. Hoffmann
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (Jean Paul) (1763-1825)	553	(14)
Wulf Koepke
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)	567	(22)
George C. Schoolfield
Hans Sachs (1494-1576)	589	(9)
Eckhard Bernstein
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)	598	(16)
John D. Simons
Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931)	614	(17)
Gerd K. Schneider
Anna Seghers (Netty Reiling Radvanyi) (1900-1983)	631	(8)
Gertraud Gutzmann
Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868)	639	(10)
Duncan Smith
Theodor Storm (1817-1888)	649	(10)
A. Tilo Alt
Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853)	659	(14)
Donald H. Crosby
Frank Wedekind (1864-1918)	673	(9)
Steve Dowden
Christa Wolf (1929 - )	682	(7)
Dieter Sevin
Wolfram von Eschenbach (circa 1170-after 1220)	689	(14)
Marianne Wynn
Contributors	703	(4)
Index	707