Licence ès Lettres (Fribourg), M.A. (Manchester), Ph.D. (East Anglia), Dr. phil. Habil. (Hamburg). Professor of European Literature
Background:
Areas of interest mainly in the
field of 19th and 20th century German literature.
Teaching:
19thc. German Prose Fiction; 20thc.
German Prose Fiction; Examples of 19thc. European Prose Fiction; Post-war
European Fiction; 20thc. European Autobiographical Writing; Kafka’s
Shorter Prose Fiction; Reading The Castle and The Trial;
Weimar Cinema; Creative Writing.
Publications
Monographs & Collected
Essays:
Carl Sternheim,
Stuttgart 1969
Der Mythus der Zerstörung in
Werk Alfred Döblins, Stuttgart 1980
Die Beschreibung des
Unglücks, Salzburg 1985
Unheimliche Heimat, Salzburg
1991
Logis in einem Landhaus, Munich 1998
Luftkrieg und
Literatur, Munich 1999
Prose Fiction
and Poetry:
Nach der Natur, Nördlingen
1988
Schwindel.Gefühle, Frankfurt 1990
Die
Ausgewanderten, Frankfurt 1993
Die Ringe des Saturn,
Frankfurt 1995
Most of these are also available in English, French,
Italian, Spanish, Dutch and other translations.