Michael Maar

Michael Maar ( born July 17, 1960 in Stuttgart ) is a German German scholar, writer and literary critic.

Life

He is the son of Paul and Nele Maar Maar, born Ballhaus. Maar studied German and Psychology at the Otto -Friedrich- University of Bamberg. For his dissertation on Thomas Mann (also see ghosts and Art, 1995), he was awarded the 1995 Johann Heinrich Merck Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, which he joined in 2002 itself. From 1997 to 1998 he was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, in the spring of 2002, a visiting professor at Stanford University in California, 2005-2006 Fellow of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation. In 2008 he was elected to the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. From 2011 to 2012, he was a Fellow of the International College Morphomata at the University of Cologne.

Since 1990, he has regular literary critical publications in the German feuilleton. His literary criticism deal especially with the modern classics.

He has two children and lives in Berlin.

Bibliography (selection)

  • Image and text: literary texts in the classroom. Goethe -Institut, Munich, Ref 42, Center for Scientific. Didactics. Edited by Michael Maar and Paul Maar. Learning Notes by Jutta Weisz. 1988
  • Spirits and art. News from the Magic Mountain. 1995
  • The fire and the water sample. Essays on literature. 1997
  • The wrong Madeleine. Essays. 1999
  • Marcel Proust. Between Belle Époque and Modern (Editor and Commentary ) 1999
  • The Bluebeard Room. Thomas Mann and the guilt. 2000 ( Ex. into English. Bluebeard's Chamber Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann, London 2003)
  • Why Nabokov Harry Potter would have liked. 2002, ISBN 3-8270-0454-3
  • The bulb of the Etruscans. Essays and marginalia. 2003
  • Lolita and the German lieutenant. Essay. 2005
  • Leopards in the Temple. At Andersen, Borges, Canetti, Chesterton, Kafka, Lampedusa, man, Musil Nabokov, Powell, Proust, Woolf. 2007
  • Solus Rex. The beautiful nasty world of Vladimir Nabokov. 2007
  • Help for the Hufflepuffs. Small Guide to Harry Potter. 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23020-0
  • Proust Pharaoh. Berenberg, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-937834-34-4.
  • Hexengewisper. Why fairy tales are immortal. Berenberg, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3937834535
  • The dupes. (Novel), Beck, Munich 2012
  • Today Cloudy and cool. Great Diaries of Samuel Pepys to Virginia Woolf. Beck, Munich 2013

Awards

  • Johann Heinrich Merck Prize ( 1995)
  • Ernst Robert Curtius Prize ( Award 1995)
  • Essay Scholarship of the Foundation of Lower Saxony (1998)
  • Lessing Prize for Criticism ( Award 2000)
  • Essay Scholarship of Baden- Württemberg ( 2001)
  • Grant from the Berlin Senate (2009)
  • Heinrich Mann Prize (2010)
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