Karl Heinz Bohrer

Karl Heinz Bohrer (1932–2021) was a German literary critic, editor and scholar. From 1984 to 1997, he was Professor of Modern German Literary History at Bielefeld University, and from 2003 he was a visiting professor at Stanford University. He edited the journal MERKUR from 1984 to 2012. His works include “Selbstdenker und Systemdenker. Über agonales Denken” (2011), “Granatsplitter. Erzählungen einer Jugend” (2012), “Ist Kunst Illusion?” (2015), and “Imaginationen des Bösen. Zur Begründung einer ästhetischen Kategorie” (2016). Bohrer was born in Cologne in 1932 and died in London in 2021.