Dieter Burdorf

Dieter Burdorf, born in 1960, is a German scholar of literature. After teaching at the universities of Hamburg, Jena, Flensburg, and Hildesheim, he became Professor of Modern German Literature and Literary Theory at Leipzig University in 2006. His publications include “Hölderlins späte Gedichtfragmente: »Unendlicher Deutung voll«” (1993), “Einführung in die Gedichtanalyse” (1995; revised 2015), “Poetik der Form. Eine Begriffs- und Problemgeschichte” (2001), “Friedrich Hölderlin” (2011), and “Geschichte der deutschen Lyrik. Einführung und Interpretationen” (2015).