Siegbert Salomon Prawer
Siegbert Salomon Prawer (born 15 February 1925 in Cologne, Germany and educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry and Jesus College, Cambridge) is Taylor Emeritus Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. He was Lecturer at the University of Birmingham from 1948 to 1963, Professor of German at Westfield College London from 1964, and became Taylor Professor in 1969. He is a Honorary Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.
His sister is the writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
He has written on German poetry and lieder, comparative literature, and film.
Works
- German Lyric Poetry : A Critical Analysis of Selected Poems from Klopstock to Rilke. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1952
- Mörike und seine Leser. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett 1960
- Heine. Buch der Lieder. London: Edward Arnold 1960
- Heine the Tragic Satirist: A study of the later poetry 1827-56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1961
- Penguin book of Lieder. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1964, editor and translator
- Essays in German Culture, Language and Society. London: University of London 1969, editor with R. Hinton Thomas, Leonard Wilson Forster, Roy Pascal
- Heine's Shakespeare: a study on contexts (1970) inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 5 May 1970. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1970
- The Romantic period in Germany. Essays by members of the London University Institute of Germanic Studies (1970), editor
- Seventeen modern German poets. London: Oxford University Press 1971, editor
- Comparative literary studies, an introduction. London: Duckworth 1973
- Karl Marx and world literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1976
- Caligari's children : the film as tale of terror. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1980
- Heine's Jewish comedy: a study of his portraits of Jews and Judaism. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1983
- A. N. Stencl : Poet of Whitechapel. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew studies 1984. 1st Stencl Lecture
- Coal-Smoke and Englishmen : a study of verbal caricature in the writings of Heinrich Heine. London: Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London 1984.
- Frankenstein's island: England and the English in the writings of Heinrich Heine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1986
- Israel at Vanity Fair : Jews and Judaism in the Writings of W. M. Thackeray. Leiden: Brill 1992
- Breeches and Metaphysics : Thackeray's German Discourse. Oxford: Legenda 1997
- W. M. Thackeray's European sketch books : a study of literary and graphic portraiture. Oxford, New York: P. Lang 2000
- The Blue Angel. London: British Film Institute 2002, (BFI Classics)
- Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. London: British Film Institute 2004, (BFI Modern Classics)
- Between Two Worlds : The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1919-1933. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books 2005 (Film Europa: German Cinema in an International Context)
- A Cultural Citizen of the World: Sigmund Freud's Knowledge and Use of British and American Writings. Oxford: Legenda 2009
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