Karl Heinz Bohrer

Karl Heinz Bohrer (born September 26, 1932 in Cologne) is a German literary scholar and Essayist.

Life and Work

Karl Heinz Bohrer received a doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 1962 with a dissertation about the historical philosophy of the German Romantic and received his post doctorate lecturing qualifications at Bielefeld University with "Die Ästhetik des Schreckens - Die pessimistische Romantik und Ernst Jüngers Frühwerk" (The Aesthekics of the Terrors - The Pessimistic Romantic and Ernst Jünger's Early Work).

From 1968 until 1974 Bohrer was Literary chief of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Not in the least on the basis of differences in opinion with his successor, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Bohrer went for this paper as a correspondent to England in 1975. He would be appointed as the "Chair for newer German Literary History" at Bielefeld University. He would succeed Hans Schwab-Felisch in 1984 as publisher of Merkur, together with Kurt Scheel since 1991. Bohrer would emeritus from Bielefeld.

Bohrer lives in Paris and London. He had been married to Undine Gruenter until her death in 2002.

Awards

*1978 Johann Heinrich Merck Prize
*2000 Lessing-Preis für Kritik (Lessing Prize for Critics)
*2002 Gadamer Foundation Professor, Deutscher Sprachpreis (German Language Prize)
*2005 Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste (Greater Literary Prize of the Bavarian Academy of the Beautiful Arts)
*2007 Heinrich Mann Prize

External links

* [http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB=4.1/REL?PPN=120562987 Literature by and on Karl Heinz Bohrer] in the Catalog of the German National Library
* [http://zeus.zeit.de/text/archiv/1998/15/bohrer.txt.19980402.xml "Zu den Schriften Karl Heinz Bohrers - Der letzte Ästhet“] (To the Writings of Karl Heinz Bohrer) by Franz Schuh in Die Zeit No. 15/1998 (German)
* [http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bohrer/excerpts/index.html Excerpts from Karl Heinz Bohrer] from Stanford University
* [http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/presse/buz/bohrer.htm "Kein Abschied"] ("No Parting") - The Bielefelder University Paper (No. 190/1997) on the retirement of Bohrer
* [http://www.taz.de/index.php?id=archivseite&dig=2007/05/02/a0120 "Freier Geist und schöne Welt"] (Free Spirit and Beautiful World) The taz on the distribution of the Heinrich Mann Prize to Bohrer

Still no article on Undine Gruenter, who was far more famous than her husband? weak,