Karl Heinz Bohrer
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Karl Heinz Bohrer was a German literary scholar and essayist. He worked as a chief editor for literature of the daily FAZ, and became co-publisher and author of the cultural magazine Merkur. He taught at the Bielefeld University for decades, and also at Stanford University, California.
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Rüdiger SafranskiAlso won Wilhelm Heinse Medal
Claus PeymannAlso won Lessing Prize for Criticism
Hans WollschlägerAlso won Deutscher SprachpreisHans Egon HolthusenAlso won Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis
Franz AltAlso won Joseph E. Drexel award
Dolf SternbergerAlso won Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine ArtsAbout this person
Karl Heinz Bohrer was a German literary scholar and essayist. He worked as a chief editor for literature of the daily FAZ, and became co-publisher and author of the cultural magazine Merkur. He taught at the Bielefeld University for decades, and also at Stanford University, California. His autobiography appeared in two volumes in 2012 and 2017. Bohrer is regarded as a disputative intellectual thinker and critic, reflecting his time. He received notable awards for criticism, German language and literature, including the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize and the Heinrich Mann Prize. For his extensive work, Bohrer was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with Ribbon (2014).
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