Heinz Schlaffer

Heinz Schlaffer (21 June 1939 – 31 October 2023) was a German Germanist and Professor of Literary Science of the University of Stuttgart. He was best known for essays like "" (The Short History of German Literature).

Biography Heinz Schlaffer was born in Černošín on 21 June 1939. He received his first Literary Science Professorship at the Philipp's University – Marburg and changed to Stuttgart in 1975. He held a teaching position in that town from 1975 until his emeritus in 2004.

Schlaffer published numerous books, among others about , , aesthetic histories, Goethe's Faust, , besides scientific writings like essays and literary criticisms in Die Tageszeitung.

Schlaffer died on 31 October 2023, at the age of 84.

Selected works . Hanser, Munich 2007 . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2005 . Hanser, Munich; Vienna 2002 . Metzler, Stuttgart 1989 . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt (am Main) 1973 Mörikes, the Droste and Liliencrons. – Würzburg 1966

Selected awards 2008 Heinrich Mann Prize for Essays of the Berliner Akademie der Künste