Helmuth Kiesel (born 1 August 1947) is a German

literary studies A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's ...

scholar who specializes in

German literature German literature () comprises those literature, literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy ...

from the period 1918 to 1945. He was professor of modern German literature at the

University of Bamberg The University of Bamberg () in Bamberg, Germany, specializes in the humanities, cultural studies, social sciences, economics, and applied computer science. Campus The university is partly housed in historical buildings in Bamberg's Old Town. ...

from 1987 to 1990 and at the

Heidelberg University Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (; ), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest unive ...

from 1990. Since 2015 he has been

professor emeritus ''Emeritus/Emerita'' () is an honorary title granted to someone who retirement, retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus". ...

. An expert on

Ernst Jünger Ernst Jünger (; 29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a German author, highly decorated soldier, philosopher, and entomology, entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir ''Storm of Steel''. The son of a successful busin ...

, Kiesel edited and commented Jünger's and

Carl Schmitt Carl Schmitt (11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist, author, and political theorist. Schmitt wrote extensively about the effective wielding of political power. An authoritarian conservative theorist, he was noted as a critic of ...

's correspondence, published by in 1999. Kiesel's 720 pages long biography of Jünger, ''Ernst Jünger. Die Biografie'', was published by in 2007.

Selected bibliography

* with : ''Gesellschaft und Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert. Voraussetzungen und Entstehung des literarischen Markts in Deutschland.'' Beck, Munich 1977, . * ''„Bei Hof, bei Höll“. Untersuchungen zur literarischen Hofkritik von Sebastian Brant bis Friedrich Schiller.'' Dissertation. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1979, . * ''Erich Kästner.'' Beck, Munich 1981, . * ''Literarische Trauerarbeit. Das Exil- und Spätwerk Alfred Döblins.''

Habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...

thesis. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1986, . * ''Wissenschaftliche Diagnose und dichterische Vision der Moderne. Max Weber und Ernst Jünger.'' Manutius, Heidelberg 1994, . * ''Geschichte der literarischen Moderne. Sprache, Ästhetik, Dichtung im 20. Jahrhundert.'' Beck, Munich 2004, . * ''Ernst Jünger. Die Biografie.'' Siedler, Munich 2007, . * ''Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur 1918 bis 1933''. C.H. Beck, Munich 2017, .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kiesel, Helmuth 1947 births Living people German literary historians Scholars of German literature German Germanists Academic staff of the University of Bamberg Academic staff of Heidelberg University