A. E. Johann

Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born 3 Sep 1901
Died 8 Oct 1996

Places

Born in Poland
Active in Germany

Activities

Primary

Travel writer

Resources

Johann's Works

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The discrepancy between the German author A. E. Johann’s prolific output of novels, short stories, travelogues, and essays, and the glaring absence of his name in virtually all histories of German literature is striking. No ‘serious’ literary scholar seems to have deemed it worthy of his/her efforts to engage with Johann, disregarding a few recent exceptions. We have to turn to the often but by now unfairly maligned

Wikipedia

(German version) to find basic information about him and his vast body of texts, which this article hopes to expand, update, and improve without necessarily trying to vindicate him as an ‘outstanding’ but forgotten author. And there is a group of admirers who have formed a literary society dedicated to this writer (https://www.a-e-johann.de/). At issue is…

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Citation: Classen, Albrecht. "A. E. Johann". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 July 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15248, accessed 23 November 2024.]