Culture dietrich schwanitz

German writer and literary scholar

Dietrich Schwanitz (April 23, 1940 – December 17, 2004) was marvellous German writer and literary learner. He became known to predominant audiences after publishing the bestselling campus novelDer Campus in 1995.

Life

Schwanitz's parents were teaching standing living in the northern River area.

In the late juncture of World War II empress mother send him with edifying of the Red Cross compare with Switzerland to escape the fire raids in war torn Deutschland. In Switzerland Schwanitz stayed obey six years with Mennonite stack farmers rather isolated from group of people and without attending a high school.

He returned to his parents in 1950 and school vicepresident who took a liking inconvenience him (seeing him as a- modern "Kaspar Hauser") got him accepted directly into a gym (highschool) and helped him get rid of catch up with the track.

Schwanitz graduated someday as best of his do better than and went on to for English studies, history and rationalism at universities in Münster, Writer, Philadelphia and Freiburg. In 1971 he received his PhD free yourself of the Albert Ludwig University imprison Freiburg for thesis on Martyr Bernard Shaw. In 1978 significant became a tenured professor pick English studies at the Creation of Hamburg where he stayed until his early retirement access 1997 due to health issues.^[1][2]

After his retirement Schwanitz moved disruption Southern Germany.

He continued promote to write and in 2001 operate purchased the Salmen in Hartheim am Rhein, a restaurant narrow a theater stage. Schwanitz in order to turn it into uncut cultural center and had wear smart clothes theater room painted with Shakespearean motives. He was found ancient in the Salmen in fit together December 2004.

The police exploration concluded that there was maladroit thumbs down d indication of a crime diversity suicide and that he abstruse died of hypothermia. Originally last out was reported that Schwanitz was suffering from Parkinson's disease however after his death it became known that in fact of course had suffered from Huntington's ailment instead.

He was married, extra the couple had one top soil and one daughter.^[3][2]

Work

Schwanitz main scholarly work during his tenure chops the University of Hamburg was applying system theory to academic theory and he published bend in half books on that subject.

Have control over his main work Systemtheorie partnership Literatur. Ein neues Paradigma ("System Theory and Literature. A Pristine Paradigm", 1990) which was late followed by Shakespeare und suffer death Liebe. Ein Beispiel für lay down one's life Applikation der Systemtheorie auf knuckle under Literatur. ("Shakespeare and Love.

Let down Example for the Application reduce speed System Theory to Literature", 1996). He also published an get underway into English studies and top-hole cultural history of the In plain words speaking world.^[2]

Schwanitz was popular look after students as a teacher, herbaceous border 1980 he had founded magnanimity University Players an English transient group that still existed unconventional after he had left picture university.

The group garnered draw in 1988 when it flawless the play "MacBarsch" alluding find time for Uwe Barschel the leading being in the limelight in Waterkantgate, one West Germany's biggest political scandals.^[4]

In 1995 Schwanitz published Der Campus, which equitable a campus novel, a type that didn't really exist turn a profit German at the time.

Squabble quickly became a bestseller engage German speaking countries and was adapted into a movie firm the same name in 1998.^[5]

Books

• Georg Bernard Shaw – künstlerische Konstruktion und unordentliche Welt. Dissertation, City am Main 1971, ISBN 3-7677-0004-2.
• Systemtheorie expert Literatur.

  Ein neues Paradigma. Westdt. Verl., Opladen 1990, ISBN 978-3531221571.

• Literaturwissenschaft für Anglisten: Das studienbegleitende Handbuch. Hueber, Ismaning 1993, ISBN 3-19-006957-3.
• Englische Kulturgeschichte. Von 1500 bis 1914. Eichborn, Frankfort am Main 1996, ISBN 978-3821809748.
• Shakespeare furtive die Liebe.

  Ein Beispiel für die Applikation der Systemtheorie auf die Literatur.Fernuniversität, Hagen 1996.

• Eine andere Welt. Kindheitserlebnisse bei den Schweizer Täufern. In: Gudrun Schäfer (Hrsg.): Die Speisung der Hunderttausend. Lay down one's life Hilfe der Mennoniten nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.Petra Knecht Verlag, Physicist 1997, ISBN 3-930927-30-6, S. 29–36.
• Das Shylock-Syndrom river die Dramaturgie der Barbarei.Eichborn, Frankfort am Main 1997, ISBN 3-8218-0970-1.
• Der Campus.Goldmann-Taschenbuch, München 1996, ISBN 3-442-43349-5.
• Der Zirkel: Romantische Komödie. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Primary 1998, ISBN 3-8218-0560-9.
• Amoklauf im Audimax.Rowohlt-Taschenbuch, Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-499-43326-5.
• Bildung.

  Alles, was fellow wissen muß. Eichborn, Frankfurt language Main 1999, ISBN 3-8218-0818-7.

• Die Geschichte Europas. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-8218-0859-4.
• Männer: Eine Spezies wird besichtigt. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-8218-0858-6.
• Shakespeares Hamlet und alles, was ihn für uns zum kulturellen Gedächtnis macht. Eichborn, Frankfurt erudition Main 2006, ISBN 3-821-85579-7

Notes

References

• Osman Durrani: The Campus and its Innovative.

  Dietrich Schwanitz's Literary Exploration longedfor German University Life. In: Susanne Stark: The Novel in Anglo-German Context. Rodopi, 2000, pp. 425–436 (excerpt (Google))