Heinz Ludwig Arnold (29 March 1940 – 1 November 2011) was a German literary journalist and publisher. He was also a leading advocate for contemporary literature.

Early years

Heinz Ludwig Arnold attended schools in

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and, subsequently

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. He then studied Law at

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for two terms before switching, for the next ten terms, to

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romance studies Romance studies or Romance philology ( an, filolochía romanica; ca, filologia romànica; french: romanistique; eo, latinida filologio; it, filologia romanza; pt, filologia românica; ro, romanistică; es, filología románica) is an acade ...

and philosophy. During his university vacations he worked between 1961 and 1964 as a private secretary to the soldier-turned-philosopher

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. Arnold's

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was never completed.

Career

In 1963, while still a student, he founded the literary newspaper

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: the first edition was dedicated to

Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Da ...

. From 1978 Arnold also produced the (''Critical lexicon of contemporary German-language literature'') published by , to which between 1983 and 2008 he added the (KLfG) ''(Critical lexicon of contemporary non-German literature"''). From 1995 Arnold was an honorary professor at the George Augustus University, Göttingen (GAU). He produced numerous books and editions of which the most notable was "Die deutsche Literatur seit 1945", his eleven volume anthology of post-1945 German Literature. In 2004 he started work on a third, fully reworked edition of the iconic (among students of German literature) Kindlers Literature Lexikon: this appeared, published by

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, in September 2009. During his career Arnold undertook a series of in-depth interviews with leading authors including

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, Wolfgang Koeppen,

Max von der Grün Max von der Grün (; 25 May 1926 – 7 April 2005) was a Germans, German novelist. Max von der Grün was born in Sankt Georgen (Bayreuth) and grew up in Mitterteich. After a clerical apprenticeship, he became a paratrooper during World War II in ...

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, Gerhard Zwerenz,

Walter Jens Walter Jens (8 March 1923 – 9 June 2013) was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer. He was born in Hamburg, and attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums from 1933 to 1941, when he gained his Ab ...

Peter Rühmkorf Peter Rühmkorf (25 October 1929 – 8 June 2008) was a German writer who significantly influenced German post-war literature. Rühmkorf's literary career started in 1952 in Hamburg with the magazine ''Zwischen den Kriegen'' ("Between the Wars") ...

and

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. Appearing initially in various book related publications, the original interview recordings from the years 1970 to 1999 (having a combined duration of 62 hours) were assembled and published in 2011.

Recognition

* 1998:

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awarded for contributions in Culture, Science and Journalism. * 2011:

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1. Klasse (''Federal Germany Cross of Merit: 1st class)''

Output (selection)

as an author

* ''Tagebuch einer Chinareise''. Verlag der Arche, Zürich 1978. * ''Krieger, Waldgänger, Anarch: Versuch über Ernst Jünger''. Wallstein, Göttingen 1990. * ''Die drei Sprünge der westdeutschen Literatur: Eine Erinnerung''. Wallstein, Göttingen 1993. * ''Was bin ich? Über Max Frisch''. Wallstein, Göttingen 2002. * ''Die Gruppe 47''. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004. * ''Von Unvollendeten: Literarische Porträts''. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005.

as an interviewer

* ''Gespräche mit Schriftstellern: Max Frisch, Günter Grass, Wolfgang Koeppen, Max von der Grün, Günter Wallraff''. C.H. Beck, München 1975. * ''Als Schriftsteller leben: Gespräche mit Peter Handke, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Gerhard Zwerenz, Walter Jens, Peter Rühmkorf, Günter Grass''. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1979. * ''Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Gespräche''. 4 Bände, Diogenes, Zürich 1996. * ''Meine Gespräche mit Schriftstellern 1970–1999''. 3 MP3-CDs mit Originaltonaufnahmen als Hörbuch, Quartino, München 2011. * ''Gespräche mit Autoren'', S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ; Rezension von Wolfgang Schneider im

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(DLF) vom 20. Januar 2013 ''Büchermarkt – Buch der Woche'': ''Sprachrohr des Zeitgeists

as a publisher

* ''Literaturbetrieb in Deutschland''. edition text+kritik, München 1971. * with E.-P. Wieckenberg: ''Autorenbücher''. C.H. Beck, München 1976 ff. * ''Handbuch zur deutschen Arbeiterliteratur''. 2 Bände, edition text+kritik, München 1977. * ''Die Gruppe 47. Ein kritischer Grundriß''. edition text+kritik, München 1980. *

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: ''Luft und Wasser – Gedichte und Bilder'', Edition Lutz Arnold im Steidl Verlag,

1988, . * with : ''Grundzüge der Literaturwissenschaft''. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag,

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1996. * ''Blech getrommelt. Günter Grass in der Kritik''. Steidl, Göttingen 1997. * with A. von Planta und U. Weber: ''Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Meine Schweiz''. Diogenes,

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1998. * with : ''Comics, Mangas, Graphic Novels.'' Text + Kritik Sonderheft. Richard Boorberg, München 2009, . * ''Ein abenteuerliches Herz. Ernst-Jünger-Lesebuch.'' Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2011, .Andreas Langenbacher: ''Eine abenteuerliche Reise.'
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References

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