- Käte Hamburger
Käte Hamburger (born
September 21 1896 inHamburg ,Germany ; diedApril 8 1992 inStuttgart ,Germany ) was aGermanist , literary scholar andphilosopher . She was a professor at theUniversity of Stuttgart .Käte Hamburger earned her
doctorate in 1922 inMunich . Expelled by theNazis because of her Jewish heritage, she immigrated toSweden in 1934 and returned toGermany from her exile first in 1956. After having been active in Sweden as a language teacher, journalist, and writer, she wrote on her return to, among others,Thomas Mann andRainer Maria Rilke at the University of Stuttgart.Above all, her theoretical examination "Die Logik der Dichtung" (German: "The Logic of Poetry") established her international status within the field of
literary theory . Along withEberhard Lämmert and alsoFranz Karl Stanzel , Käte Hamburger advanced the systematic reorientation of Germanistics in Germany in the 1950s towards a rational and analytic methodology.Literature
* Käte Hamburger: "Die Logik der Dichtung", 4. Aufl., Stuttgart 1994. - ISBN 3-608-91681-4
* Käte Hamburger: "Wahrheit und ästhetische Wahrheit", Stuttgart 1979. - ISBN 3-129-33230-8
* Käte Hamburger: "Das Mitleid", Stuttgart 1985. - ISBN 3-608-91392-0
* Querelles. Jahrbuch für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Bd. 8, Johanna Bossinade und Angelika Schaser (Hg.): "Käte Hamburger. Zur Aktualität einer Klassikerin", Göttingen 2003. - ISBN 3-89244-650-4External links
* [http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB=4.1/REL?PPN=118545264 Literatur von und über Käte Hamburger] in the catalogue of
die Deutsche Bibliothek
* [http://www.fembio.org/frauen-biographie/kaete-hamburger.shtml Fem-Biographie: Käte Hamburger]
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