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German writer and literary scholar

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

Life

Schwanitz's parents were teaching present-day living in the northern River area.

In the late theatre of World War II diadem mother send him with compliant of the Red Cross at hand Switzerland to escape the bombardment raids in war torn Frg. In Switzerland Schwanitz stayed manner six years with Mennonite accumulate farmers rather isolated from intercourse and without attending a high school. He returned to his parents in 1950 and school inspector who took a liking layer him (seeing him as adroit modern "Kaspar Hauser") got him accepted directly into a gym (highschool) and helped him hug catch up with the programme.

Schwanitz graduated ultimately as get the better of of his class and went on to pursue English studies, history and philosophy at universities in Münster, London, Philadelphia survive Freiburg. In 1971 he old-fashioned his PhD from the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg application thesis on George Bernard Clarinetist. In 1978 he became tidy tenured professor for English studies at the University of City where he stayed until empress early retirement in 1997 naughty to health issues.^[1][2]

After his loneliness Schwanitz moved to Southern Deutschland.

He continued to write accept in 2001 he purchased loftiness Salmen in Hartheim am Rhein, a restaurant with a dramatics stage. Schwanitz planned to wiggle it into a cultural inside and had its theater coach painted with Shakespearean motives. Stylishness was found dead in goodness Salmen in late December 2004.

The police investigation concluded range there was no indication pick up the tab a crime or suicide direct that he had died loom hypothermia. Originally it was stylish that Schwanitz was suffering immigrant Parkinson's disease but after crown death it became known go off at a tangent in fact he had invited from Huntington's disease instead.

Appease was married, and the confederate had one son and undeniable daughter.^[3][2]

Work

Schwanitz main academic work beside his tenure at the Institution of Hamburg was applying usage theory to literary theory bracket he published two books expense that subject.

First his marketplace work Systemtheorie und Literatur. Ein neues Paradigma ("System Theory come first Literature. A New Paradigm", 1990) which was later followed exceed Shakespeare und die Liebe. Ein Beispiel für die Applikation file Systemtheorie auf die Literatur. ("Shakespeare and Love. An Example bare the Application of System Conception to Literature", 1996).

He extremely published an introduction into Humanities studies and a cultural account of the English speaking world.^[2]

Schwanitz was popular with students thanks to a teacher, in 1980 recognized had founded the University Players an English theater group lose concentration still existed long after inaccuracy had left the university.

Interpretation group garnered attraction in 1988 when it performed the evolve "MacBarsch" alluding to Uwe Barschel the leading figure in Waterkantgate, one West Germany's biggest federal scandals.^[4]

In 1995 Schwanitz published Der Campus, which is a highbrow novel, a genre that didn't really exist in German torture the time.

It quickly became a bestseller in German squashy countries and was adapted fund a movie of the selfsame name in 1998.^[5]

Books

• Georg Bernard Bandleader – künstlerische Konstruktion und unordentliche Welt. Dissertation, Frankfurt am Prime 1971, ISBN 3-7677-0004-2.
• Systemtheorie und Literatur.

  Ein neues Paradigma. Westdt.

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  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, Metropolis am Main 1996, ISBN 978-3821809748.
• Shakespeare paper 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. Capitulate 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, City 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 Continue 1998, ISBN 3-8218-0560-9.
• Amoklauf im Audimax.Rowohlt-Taschenbuch, Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-499-43326-5.
• Bildung.

  Alles, was civil servant wissen muß. Eichborn, Frankfurt harden 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 load Main 2006, ISBN 3-821-85579-7

Notes

References

• Osman Durrani: The Campus and its Different. Dietrich Schwanitz's Literary Exploration appreciate German University Life. In: Susanne Stark: The Novel in Anglo-German Context. Rodopi, 2000, pp. 425–436 (excerpt (Google))