Nicolai Riedel (born 17 October 1952 in

Lübeck Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat ...

) is a German

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

, author and an editor. Riedel worked for a long time as a

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in the library of the

German Literature Archive The Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (DLA - German Literature Archive), established in 1955, in Marbach am Neckar Marbach am Neckar is a town about 20 kilometres north of Stuttgart. It belongs to the district of Ludwigsburg, the Stuttgart re ...

Marbach am Neckar Marbach am Neckar is a town about 20 kilometres north of Stuttgart. It belongs to the district of Ludwigsburg, the Stuttgart region and the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart. Marbach is known as the birthplace of Friedrich Schiller, to w ...

. In addition, he is the author and editor of numerous bibliographical publications. These include works on

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Ernst Jünger Ernst Jünger (; 29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a German author, highly decorated soldier, philosopher, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir '' Storm of Steel''. The son of a successful businessman and ...

and

Günter Kunert Günter Kunert (; 6 March 1929 – 21 September 2019) was a German writer. Based in East Berlin, he published poetry from 1947, supported by Bertold Brecht. After he had signed a petition against the deprivation of the citizenship of Wolf Biermann ...

Biography and work

Riedel first studied German and philosophy at the

University of Mannheim The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Academy of Sciences'', ...

. This was followed by academic teaching from 1980 to 1989 and his

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in modern

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at the

University of Passau The University of Passau (''Universität Passau'' in German) is a public research university located in Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany. Founded in 1973, it is the youngest university in Bavaria and consequently has the most modern campus in the s ...

. Between the years 1989 and 2017 he was a

and head of the inventory and use department in the library of the German Literature Archive in Marbach, with a focus on the care of the special collections (poets and scholars' libraries, publisher's archives, topic- and author-specific bundles), inter-institutional lending and magazine logistics. In 2018 and 2019 he worked part-time in the literature archive and was responsible for the Marbach Schiller bibliography. For many years, Riedel was co-editor of the literary magazine "Passauer Pegasus"Brigitte Kronauer: Nicolai Riedel in: ''Ernst Augustin''
Edition Text + Kritik. Band 112, 1991, , P. 91 and a member of the Mecklenburg Literature Society and the German Schiller Society. Nicolai Riedel has lived in the baroque city of

Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg (; Swabian: ''Ludisburg'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is ...

since 1989.

Publications (selection)

Publications

* ''Untersuchungen zur internationalen Rezeption Uwe Johnsons.'' Olms, Hildesheim 1985, . * ''Uwe-Johnson-Bibliographie 1959–1998.'' Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, . * ''Ernst-Jünger-Bibliographie 1928–2002.'' Metzler, Stuttgart 2003, . * ''Internationale Günter-Kunert-Bibliographie 1947–2011.'' de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, . * ''Ernst-Jünger-Bibliographie 2003–2015.'' Metzler, Stuttgart 2016, . * ''Bibliographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Lyrik 1945–2020.'' Metzler, Heidelberg 2023, .

Publications (as editor)

* ''Erzähltechnik und Entfremdungsproblematik.'' MWA, Mannheim 1977. * ''Uwe Johnsons Frühwerk im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Literaturkritik.'' Bouvier, Bonn 1987. * with Carsten Gansel: ''Internationales Uwe-Johnson-Forum.'' 10 Bände, Lang, Frankfurt/M. 1990–2006. * with

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''„Alles Gefühl ist leiblich". Ein Stück Autobiographie'', Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar 2003, .

Periodic publications

* with Herman Moens: ''Marbacher Schiller-Bibliographie. Internationales Referenzorgan zur Forschungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte.'' In: ''Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft, 2006–2018'' (13 updates).

Other works (selection)

* Numerous bibliographical articles in the periodical "Text + Kritik" and in the "KLG". Individual essays in scholarly collections.

References

External links

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