Heinz Schlaffer


Heinz Schlaffer is a Germanist and Professor of Literary Science of the University of Stuttgart. He is best known for essays like "Die kurze Geschichte der deutschen Literatur".

Life

Schlaffer received his first Literary Science Professorship at the Philipp's University - Marburg and changed to Stuttgart in 1975. He held the teaching position in that town from 1975 until his emeritus in 2004.
He published numerous Books, among others about Lyrik im Realismus, Der Bürger als Held, aesthetic histories, Goethe's Faust, Poesie und Wissen, besides scientific writings like essays and literary criticisms in Tageszeitung.

Selected works