Heinz Ludwig Arnold Explained

Heinz Ludwig Arnold
Birth Date:29 March 1940
Birth Place:Essen, Germany
Death Place:Göttingen, Germany
Occupation:Writer, literary journalist, publisher
Nationality:German

Heinz Ludwig Arnold (29 March 1940  - 1 November 2011) 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 (Critical lexicon of contemporary German-language literature) published by,[3] to which between 1983 and 2008 he added the (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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Der Erste unter den Sekundären (Archiv). deutschlandfunk.de. 2014-09-06.
  2. News: Heinz Ludwig Arnold: Betriebsmacher – Kultur – Tagesspiegel. Der Tagesspiegel Online . 29 March 2010 . tagesspiegel.de. 2014-09-06.
  3. Web site: Suchergebnis zum Suchwort Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur | edition text+kritik. www.etk-muenchen.de.
  4. Web site: Die deutsche Literatur seit 1945. luise-berlin.de. 2014-09-06.
  5. http://www.boersenblatt.net/460599/ Auszeichnung – Bundesverdienstkreuz für Heinz Ludwig Arnold.
  6. http://www.quartino.de/programm/produkt.asp?IDProduct=68 Beschreibung und Hörproben
  7. Andreas Langenbacher: Eine abenteuerliche Reise. Buchbesprechung. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of 27 August 2011, access date 27 August 2011.