Heinz Ludwig Arnold

Heinz Ludwig Arnold
Born 29 March 1940
Darmstadt, Germany
Died 1 November 2011
Göttingen, Germany
Nationality German
Occupation Writer, literary journalist, publisher

Heinz Ludwig Arnold (29 March 1940 in Essen 1 November 2011 in Göttingen) was a German literary journalist and publisher. He was also a leading advocate for contemporary literature.[1][2]

Early years

Heinz Ludwig Arnold attended schools in Bochum and, subsequently Karlsruhe. He then studied Law at Göttingen for two terms before switching, for the next ten terms, to literary science, romance studies and philosophy. During his university vacations he worked between 1961 and 1964 as a private secretary to the soldier-turned-philosopher Ernst Jünger. Arnold's doctoral dissertation was never completed.

Career

In 1963, while still a student, he founded the literary newspaper text + kritik: the first edition was dedicated to Günter Grass. From 1978 Arnold also produced the Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur ("Critical lexicon of contemporary German-language literature") published by edition text + kritik,[3] to which between 1983 and 2008 he added the Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (KLfG) (Critical lexicon of contemporary non-German literature").

From 1995 Arnold was an honorary professor at the George Augustus University, Göttingen (GAU). He produced numerous books and editions of which the most notable was "Die deutsche Literatur seit 1945", his eleven volume anthology of post-1945 German Literature.[4]

In 2004 he started work on a third, fully reworked edition of the iconic (among students of German literature) Kindlers Literature Lexikon: this appeared, published by Metzler, in September 2009.

During his career Arnold undertook a series of in-depth interviews with leading authors including Heinrich Böll, Max Frisch, Günter Grass, Wolfgang Koeppen, Max von der Grün, Günter Wallraff, Peter Handke, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Gerhard Zwerenz, Walter Jens, Peter Rühmkorf and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Appearing initially in various book related publications, the original interview recordings from the years 1970 to 1999 (having a combined duration of 62 hours) were assembled and published in 2011.

Recognition

Output (selection)

as an author

as an interviewer

as a publisher

References

  1. "Der Erste unter den Sekundären (Archiv)". deutschlandfunk.de. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
  2. "Heinz Ludwig Arnold: Betriebsmacher – Kultur – Tagesspiegel". tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
  3. "Literatur • Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (KLG) | edition text+kritik". etk-muenchen.de. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
  4. "Die deutsche Literatur seit 1945". luise-berlin.de. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
  5. Auszeichnung – Bundesverdienstkreuz für Heinz Ludwig Arnold. reported by the Börsenblatt, report date 26 October 2011, accessed online 7 September 2014.
  6. Beschreibung und Hörproben auf der Website des Verlags, abgerufen am 25. Oktober 2011.
  7. Andreas Langenbacher: Eine abenteuerliche Reise. Buchbesprechung. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of 27 August 2011, access date 27 August 2011.
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