Heinz Ludwig Arnold

Heinz Ludwig Arnold
Born	29 March 1940 Darmstadt, Germany
Died	1 November 2011 Göttingen, Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	Writer, literary journalist, publisher

Heinz Ludwig Arnold (29 March 1940 in Essen – 1 November 2011 in Göttingen) was a German literary journalist and publisher. He was also a leading advocate for contemporary literature.

Heinz Ludwig Arnold attended schools in Bochum and, subsequently Karlsruhe. He then studied Law at Göttingen for two terms before switching, for the next ten terms, to literary science, romance studies and philosophy. During his university vacations he worked between 1961 and 1964 as a private secretary to the soldier-turned-philosopher Ernst Jünger. Arnold's doctoral dissertation was never completed.

In 1963, while still a student, he founded the literary newspaper text + kritik: the first edition was dedicated to Günter Grass. From 1978 Arnold also produced the published by , to which between 1983 and 2008 he added the .

From 1995 Arnold was an honorary professor at the George Augustus University, Göttingen (GAU). He produced numerous books and editions of which the most notable was "Die deutsche Literatur seit 1945", his eleven volume anthology of post-1945 German Literature.

In 2004 he started work on a third, fully reworked edition of the iconic (among students of German literature) : this appeared, published by , in September 2009.

During his career Arnold undertook a series of in-depth interviews with leading authors including Heinrich Böll, Max Frisch, Günter Grass, Wolfgang Koeppen, Max von der Grün, Günter Wallraff, Peter Handke, Franz Xaver Kroetz, , Walter Jens, Peter Rühmkorf and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Appearing initially in various book related publications, the original interview recordings from the years 1970 to 1999 (having a combined duration of 62 hours) were assembled and published in 2011.

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