In Spuren Gehen

The festschrift for Helmut Koopmann assembles contributions from renowned friends and colleagues reflecting the wide range of interests pursued by its dedicatee. The volume opens with a homage in the narrower sense, in the form of literary texts by present-day authors. There then follow articles centering on six of Koopmann's major interests in the field of literary studies: the theory and practice of scholarly editing, Classicism, Romanticism, Heinrich and Thomas Mann, exile and inner emigration, and 20th century poetics. This broad spectrum of epochs and authors, topics and methodologies is an in nuce reflection of some of the central present-day concerns in the field of (German) literary studies. The volume closes with a bibliography of Helmut Koopmann's publications.