Dietrich Schwanitz
German writer
Why Is Dietrich Schwanitz Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dietrich Schwanitz was a German writer and literary scholar. He became known to larger audiences after publishing the bestselling campus novel Der Campus in 1995. Life Schwanitz's parents were teaching and living in the northern Ruhr area. In the late phase of World War II his mother send him with help of the Red Cross to Switzerland to escape the bombing raids in war torn Germany. In Switzerland Schwanitz stayed for six years with Mennonite mountain farmers rather isolated from society and without attending a school. He returned to his parents in 1950 and school director who took a liking in him got him accepted directly into a gymnasium and helped him to catch up with the curriculum. Schwanitz graduated ultimately as best of his class and went on to pursue English studies, history and philosophy at universities in Münster, London, Philadelphia and Freiburg. In 1971 he received his PhD from the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg for thesis on George Bernard Shaw. In 1978 he became a tenured professor for English studies at the University of Hamburg where he stayed until his early retirement in 1997 due to health issues.
Dietrich Schwanitz's Published Works
Published Works
- Bildung : Alles, was man wissen muss (2002) (49)
- Systemtheorie und Literatur (1990) (44)
- Systemtheorie und Literatur : ein neues Paradigma (1990) (19)
- Kommunikation und Bewußtsein (1993) (5)
- Rhetorik, Roman und die internen Grenzen der Kommunikation: Zur systemtheoretischen Beschreibung einer Problemkonstellation der »sensibility«. (1990) (4)
- Bücher : alles, was man lesen muss (2000) (3)
- Das Shylock-Syndrom, oder, Die Dramaturgie der Barbarei (1997) (3)
- Shakespeare stereoskopisch: Die Schule des Sehens und die Optik der Praxis (1993) (2)
- Die Geschichte europas (2000) (2)
- Verlorene Illusionen (1996) (2)
- 20. Literaturwissenschaft für Anglisten. Das neue studienbegleitende Handbuch. [Literary Studies for Students of English. A New Companion.] (1988) (1)
- Der Campus : Roman (1995) (1)
- Männer : eine Spezies wird besichtigt (2001) (1)
- Probleme der Interpretation und ihre systemtheoretische Verschärfung (1990) (0)
- Die Selbstreferentialität des Erzählens (1990) (0)
- Der Zirkel: Eine romantische Komödie (1999) (0)
- Alazon und Eiron (2009) (0)
- Das Subjekt und Hamlets Vaters Geist (1998) (0)
- Werbung für Literatur: das Bestseller-System (2009) (0)
- Die mediale Klassengesellschaft – politische Realität oder publizistischer Mythos? (2002) (0)
- Die undurchschaute Lösungstedinik des Detektivs Zehn Thesen zum Abstraktionsstil und zur Temporalstruktur des Kriminalromans (1982) (0)
- Die asymmetrische Welt (1990) (0)
- Hamlet oder die Systemtheorie (1988) (0)
- Zur systemtheoretischen Rekonstruktion einer literarischen Bestä tigung der Systemtheorie (1993) (0)
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