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Karl Heinz Bohrer (1932 to 2021): "He has always remained a loner"
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Karl Heinz Bohrer is dead. As reported by Suhrkamp Verlag, the literary critic and theorist died in London at the age of 88.
Bohrer was born in Cologne in 1932. After studying German, he worked as a journalist, was a literary critic and editor in charge of literature at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, later editor of the cultural magazine Merkur. After his habilitation, he taught at several universities in Germany, France and the USA. In 2007 Bohrer was awarded the Heinrich Mann Prize.
Bohrer became known as a controversial critic and thinker of his time.
“He's always been a loner.
He almost stylized this status «, wrote the writer and publisher Michael Krüger in a review.
In his biography "Jetzt" Bohrer showed admiration for the discourse culture and student revolt of the 1960s.
Under the title “No will to power” he recently criticized the “reduction of politics to social welfare” as a mistake in federal politics.
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