Hans Rudolf Vaget (born February 2, 1938 in Marienbad, Czechoslovakia) is Professor emeritus of German Studies at

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Life

Hans Rudolf Vaget is Professor emeritus of

German Studies German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies often include classes on German culture, German hi ...

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

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and

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Wü ...

, 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. 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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treat ...

Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...

, and

Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novella ...

. A co-founder and former president; of the

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, Vaget is one of the chief editors of the new edition of the works, the letters and diaries of

; 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.

Selected publications

* ''Thomas Mann, der Amerikaner. Leben und Werk im amerikanischen Exil, 1938–1952'' (Frankfurt/M: S. Fischer, 2011; 2nd. ed. 2013) * Thomas Mann, ''Briefe III, 1924–1932,'' co-editor (Frankfurt/M: S. Fischer, 2011) * ''Im Schatten Wagners. Thomas Mann über Richard Wagner'', Texte und Zeugnisse 1895–1955 (Frankfurt/Main: S. Fischer, 3rd. ed. 2010 * ''Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain." A Casebook in Criticism'' (New York: Oxford UP, 2008) * ''The Political Ramifications of Hitler's Cult of Wagner''. Hamburg: Hamburg University Press, 2003,

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

External links

(in German) * ttps://www.perlentaucher.de/autor/hans-rudolf-vaget.html 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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