Hans Rudolf Vaget
Hans Rudolf Vaget (February 2, 1938 in Marienbad, Czechoslovakia) is Professor emeritus of German Studies at Smith College
Life
Hans Rudolf Vaget is Professor emeritus of German Studies at Smith College, where he taught from 1967 to 2004. A graduate of the Eberhard-Ludwigs Gymnasium, Stuttgart, he received his academic training at the University of Munich and University of Tübingen, the University of Wales at Cardiff and at Columbia University, New York. He has published widely in the field of German Studies from the 18th century to the present.[1]
In addition to Smith College, Vaget has taught at the University of California, Irvine; at Yale, at Columbia, at Princeton, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Middlebury College, and Hamburg University.
The emphasis of Vaget's scholarship has been on Goethe, Wagner, and Thomas Mann. A co-founder and former president; of the Goethe Society of North America, Vaget is one of the chief editors of the new edition of the works, the letters and diaries of Thomas Mann; a former co-editor of wagnerspectrum, a journal of Wagner Studies, and since 1985 a member of the Advisory Board of the Wagner Society of New York.[2]
Selected publications
Thomas Mann, Briefe III, 1924 - 1932, co-editor (Frankfurt/M: S. Fischer, 2011).
Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain." A Casebook in Criticism (New York: Oxford UP, 2008).
The Political Ramifications of Hitler's Cult of Wagner
Honors
Thomas-Mann-Medal, awarded by the German Thomas Mann Society (Lübeck 1994).
Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Bonn, 2001).
Mellon Emeritus Fellowship (New York, 2011).
Fellowship (Berlin Prize) from American Academy Berlin (Berlin 2012).
References
- ↑ https://www.smith.edu/academics/faculty/hans-vaget
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citeq at line 53: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value)., Wikidata Q18923194
External links
- Publications by and about Hans Rudolf Vaget in the German National Library. (in German)
- Publications by and about Hans Rudolf Vaget at Worldcat.
- A short biography & reviews at perlentaucher.de (in German)
- Review of Seelenzauber. Thomas Mann und die Musik (Frankfurt/M: S. Fischer, 2006, 2nd. ed. 2012).
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