Ruth Klüger
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Ruth Klüger (born October 30, 1931 in Vienna) is an Austrian-born professor of German literature. As a Jew in Nazi Germany, at the age of 11 she was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp together with her mother; her father had fled abroad. One year later she was moved to Auschwitz, then to Christianstadt, a subcamp of Gross-Rosen. Following the end of World War II in 1945 she settled in the Bavarian town of Straubing and later studied philosophy and history at the University of Regensburg.
In 1947 she emigrated to the U.S. and studied English literature in New York and German literature at Berkeley. Klüger obtained an M.A. in 1952, and later a Ph.D. in 1967. She worked as a college professor of German literature in Cleveland, Ohio, Kansas, and Virginia, and at Princeton and UC Irvine.
Klüger is a recognized authority on German literature, and especially on Lessing and Kleist. She lives in Irvine, California and in Göttingen.
[edit] Bibliography
Publications include:
- weiter leben. Eine Jugend, Göttingen 1992
- Katastrophen. Über die deutsche Literatur, Göttingen 1993
- Von hoher und niederer Literatur, Göttingen 1995
- Knigges Umgang mit Menschen, „Eine Vorlesung", Göttingen 1996
- Frauen lesen anders, Munich 1996
She has also published under the name Ruth Angress.
[edit] Prizes
Klüger has been awarded many prizes, including:
- Rauriser Literaturpreis (1993)
- Johann-Jacob-Christoph-von Grimmelshausen- Preis (1993)
- Niedersachsenpreis (1993)
- Marie-Luise-Kaschnitz-Preis (1995)
- nerkennungspreis zum Andreas-Gryphius-Preis (1996)
- Heinrich-Heine-Medaille (1997)
- Prix de la Shoah (1998)
- Thomas-Mann-Preis (1999)
- Preis der Frankfurter Antologie (1999)
- Goethe-Medaille (2005)
