Vondung, Klaus 1941-

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VONDUNG, Klaus 1941-

PERSONAL: Born July 16, 1941, in Ulm, Germany. Education: Attended University of Tübingen, 1960-61; University of Munich, Dr.Phil., 1969.

ADDRESSES: Home—Am Kornberg 34A, 57076 Siegen, Germany. Office—University of Siegen, FB2, 57068 Siegen, Germany. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: University of Munich, Munich, Germany, lecturer, 1968-71; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, visiting scholar, 1972-74; University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany, professor, 1976—, vice president, 1983-85. Visiting professor at University of Florida, 1979, University of Houston, 1990, Kansai University, 1991, and Kwansei Gakuin University, 1997, 2002.

WRITINGS:

Magie und Manipulation: Ideologischer Kult und politische Religion des Nationalsozialismus, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Göttingen, Germany), 1971.

Völkisch-nationale und nationalsozialistische Literaturtheorie, List (Munich, Germany), 1973.

(Editor) Das Wilhelminische Bildungsbürgertum: zur Sozialgeschichte seiner Ideen (essays), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Göttingen, Germany), 1976.

(Editor) Kriegserlebnis, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Göttingen, Germany), 1980.

Apokalypse in Deutschland, Taschenbuch (Munich, Germany), 1988, translated by Stephen D. Ricks as The Apocalypse in Germany, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 2000.

(Editor) The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volumes 2-3, translated from the German by Ruth Hein, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1997-1998.

(With Natalie Binczek and Nicola Glaubitz) Anfang offen: Literarische Übergänge ins 21 Jahrhundert, Winter (Heidelberg, Germany), 2002.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Mysticism and Modernity.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Historical Review, April, 2002, Peter Paret, review of The Apocalypse in Germany, p. 639.

Sewanee Review, fall, 2002, Heinz R. Kuehn, review of The Apocalypse in Germany, pp. 716-721.