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Walter Jens (8 March 1923 – 9 June 2013) was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer. He was born in Hamburg, and attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums from 1933 to 1941, when he gained his Abitur, before studying at the University of Hamburg. In the early 1940s, Jens joined the NSDAP.
Walter Jens war ein deutscher Altphilologe, Literaturhistoriker, Schriftsteller, Kritiker und Übersetzer. Er war Ordinarius für Rhetorik an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Präsident des PEN-Zentrums Deutschland und Präsident der Akademie der Künste zu Berlin.
Oct 2, 2023 · Walter Jens was the first among a group of young West German novelists who attempted to come to grips with the Third Reich. As a twenty-seven-year-old, in 1950 he concocted a dystopian plot in a novel reminiscent of Franz Kafka, Nein – Die Welt der Angeklagten (No – the World of the Accused).
Jun 10, 2013 · Walter Jens, a noted German author and literary historian who campaigned for tolerant debate in post-war Germany, has died. The 90-year-old once headed the German arm of the PEN organization and...
Walter Jens, one of Germany's most prominent public intellectuals whose image was tarnished by his membership of the Nazi party during World War II, has died aged 90, his university said...
Jun 10, 2013 · BERLIN: Walter Jens, one of Germany's most prominent public intellectuals whose image was tarnished by his membershi
Walter Jens. (b. 1923) Quick Reference. (Hamburg, 1923– ), was educated at the Johanneum in Hamburg, studied at Hamburg and Freiburg universities, and was from 1956 until his retirement professor of classical philology, from 1963 also the ... From: Jens, Walter in The Oxford Companion to German Literature » Subjects: Literature. Reference entries.
