Michael Winkler

Professor Emeritus

Education

• PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1966
• MA, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1963
• BA, St. Benedict’s College, 1961

Areas of Interest

• modern German and European literature
• art and culture of the European Fin de Siècle
• exile literature
• theories of literary criticism, translation and cultural transmission

Personal Statement

Selected Publications

• Rainer Maria Rilke—Lou Andreas Salomé: The Correspondence, ed. and trans. Michael Winkler and Edward Snow (New York: W.W. Norton, 2006). Paperback edition in 2008.
• Bruno Schwebel, As Fate Would Have It, trans. Michael Winkler (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2008).
• Peter Truschner, Serpent's Child, trans. Michael Winkler (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2006).
  
• Gerhard Roth, The Lake, trans. Michael Winkler (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2000).
• Rainer Maria Rilke, Diaries of a Young Poet, trans. Michael Winkler and Edward Snow (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997).
• Ed., Deutsche Literatur im Exil, 1933-1945: Texte und Dokumente, 5th edn. (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1997).

• "'His Majesty's Loyal Refugees': Hitlerflüchtlinge in der englischen Erzählliteratur," in Wulf Koepke and Jörg Thunecke (eds.), Preserving the Memory of Exile (Nottingham: edition refugium, 2008), 314-29.
• "Hermann Brochs Exilromane: Übersetzungen und Rezeption in Amerika," Exilforschung 25 (2007), 189-207.
  
• "Master and Disciples: The George Circle,” in Jens Rieckmann (ed.), A Companion to the Works of Stefan George (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2005), 145-59.
• “‘Jenseitssilben’ aus dem ‘Steinbruch der Wörter’: Zur lyrischen Sprache von Rose Ausländers Spätwerk,” in Jacques Lajarrige and Marie-Helene Queval (eds.), Gedichte de Rose Ausländer (Nantes: editions du temps, 2005), 183-90.
• “Metropole New York,” Exilforschung 20 (2002), 178-98.
• “Der George-Kreis,” in Hansers Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, vol. VII: Naturalismus, Fin de Siècle, Expressionismus, 1890-1918, ed. York-Gothart Mix (Munich: Hanser, 2000), 231-42.