Leonore Krenzlin
Born1934
Leipzig, Germany
NationalityGerman
OccupationAcademic
Years active1959–present
SpouseDieter Schiller (in 1979)
ParentHerbert Zschelletzschky (1902-1986)

Leonore Krenzlin (born 1934, in Leipzig, Germany) studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin beginning in 1953.[1] From 1970 to 1990 she was a research assistant at the Central Institute of Literary History of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic.[2] In 1978, she completed her Doctorate of Philosophy in German Studies with a dissertation on Hermann Kant[3] and has become an expert on German literary figures.[4] Her work on Kant was first published in 1980 and has since been republished three times.[1] Among other literary figures, Krenzlin has written about Friedrich Griese, Willy Sachse and Ernst Wiechert, as well as the migration issues which occurred in 1945.[3]

Since 1979, she has been married to the fellow German scholar, Dieter Schiller.

Selected works

  • Krenzlin, Leonore (1980). Hermann Kant, Leben und Werk (in German). Berlin: Volk und Wissen.
  • Krenzlin, Leonore (1997). Grosse Kontroverse oder kleiner Dialog?: Gesprächsbemühungen und Kontaktbruchstellen zwischen "inneren" und "äusseren" literarischen Emigranten (in German). Niederkorn: s.n.
  • Krenzlin, Leonore (April 1999). "Roter Matrose und Widerstandskämpfer, der unbekannte Schriftsteller Willy Sachse" (PDF). Utopie kreativ (in German). Berlin: Rosa Luxembourg Foundation. H (102): 47–56.
  • Krenzlin, Leonore (2004). Gerhard Scholz und sein Kreis: zum 100. Geburtstag des Mitbegründers der Literaturwissenschaft in der DDR (in German). Berlin, Germany: Helle Panke.
  • Krenzlin, Leonore (2005). Geschichte des Scheiterns–Geschichte des Lernens?: Überlegungen zur Lage während und nach der 'Großen Kontroverse' und zur Motivation ihrer Akteure (in German). Göttingen, Germany: Wallstein.
  • Krenzlin, Leonore; Weigelt, Klaus (2010). Ernst Wiechert im Gespräch: Begegnungen und Einblicke in sein Werk (in German). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-023775-7.
  • Krenzlin, Leonore (2010). Thomas Mann und Ernst Wiechert (in German). Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter.
  • Krenzlin, Leonore (2015). "Franz Villons kleiner Bruder: der junge Biermann in der DDR (1953 - 1965)". Autorinnen und Autoren: Roland Berbig (in German). Reizland DDR: 149–177.

References

  1. 1 2 "Internationale Ernst-Wiechert-Gesellschaft" (in German). Ernst-Wiechert. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  2. Krenzlin, Leonore (April 1999). "Roter Matrose und Widerstandskämpfer, der unbekannte Schriftsteller Willy Sachse" (PDF). Utopie kreativ (in German). Berlin: Rosa Luxembourg Foundation. H (102): 47–56. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Person: Krenzlin, Leonore" (in German). Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  4. ""Innere Emigration" Konnten und durften Künstler, Schriftsteller und Gelehrte in der NS-Zeit in Deutschland bleiben?" (in German). Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. 14 November 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2015.


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