Walter Höllerer

Walter Höllerer (December 19, 1922 – May 20, 2003) was a German writer, literary critic and a literature graduate.

Walter Höllerer was born in Sulzbach-Rosenberg and became a soldier in 1942 during the Second World War. After 1945 he studied philosophy, history, German studies and comparative literature in Erlangen, Göttingen and Heidelberg and in 1949 he earned a Doctor title in Gottfried Keller School. He worked as a lecturer assistant from 1954 to 1958 at the University Frankfurt. In 1954, he attended regular sessions called the 47, which was a group of young German authors who spoke about postwar from the west BRD. During the early 60's he moderated literature broadcasts in a free broadcasting channel of Berlin. From 1959 to his retirement in 1988 he was a professor of literature studies at UT Berlin. Meanwhile he looked and researched a lot of professors from the USA.

During his research and work he published poems and novels, and put together critical statements for other literature works. In 1954 Höllerer put together the two-month newspaper Akzente, one of the most important literature forums in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1961 Höllerer published the newspaper Sprache im technischen Zeitalter (Language in the Age of Technology), in 1963 he brought up Colloquium Berlin to life. Through his hard work as a publisher and critic and a professor at TU Berlin he helped with the era of literature. In 1965 Höllerer married a photographer Renate from Mangoldt, she previously had two sons. In 1977 he founded literary archives in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, which he then embedded the newspaper Akzente into the archives.

In 1966 he was honored with the Fontane-Award and in 1993 together with Robert Creeley, the Horst-Bienek-award for lyrics and in 1994 the Rahel-Varnhagen-von-Ense-Medaille from Berlin. He was also honorary citizen and culture award winning from the city Sulzbach-Rosenberg.

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