*1944
1972
Marriage to Bettina Friedl →website
1963
Abitur (High School Diploma), Heilbronn
1963–1967
Study of American, English and German Literatures and Languages,
and Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg (Germany)
and
1967-1968
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
1970
Dr. phil., Heidelberg University
1973-1974
Yale University
1979
Habilitation, Heidelberg University
1970-1979
Assistant Professor, Heidelberg University
1979-1981, 1981-1986
Associate Professor (Privatdozent), Heidelberg University
1984
Visiting Professor, University of New Mexico
1986-1987
Visiting Professor,
1987-2008
Full Professor and Chair of American Studies,
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
1989-1993
Member of the Advisory Board of the German Association
of American Studies
1987-1988, 1990-1991
Head of Department, Anglistisches Institut,
Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf
1991-1992
Vice-Dean (Prodekan), Philosophische Fakultät,
Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf
1992-1993
Dean, Philosophische Fakultät,
Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf
1994-1996, 2000-2001, 2005-2006
Head of Department, Anglistisches Institut,
Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf
1967-1968
Jacob Gould Shurman Fellow, Cornell University
1972-1974
Independent Research Grant, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
1973-74
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
1979
Travel Research Grant, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
1984
Fulbright Travel Grant
1986
Award for Exceptional Academic Merits, Association of German University Professors
on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of Heidelberg University
(Förderpreis des Deutschen Hochschulverbandes)
2001-2002
Research Sabbatical, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2002-2003, July – October 2006, July – October 2007
Visiting Scholar, Center for the History of American Civilization,
Harvard University
1981
Der amerikanische Transzendentalismus:
workshop at the annual conference of the German Association of
American Studies
(organization and chair), Würzburg.
1989
Modernism and Thinking: Beginnings, Contexts, Continuations:
workshop at the annual conference of the German Association of American Studies (organization and chair), Laufen.
1991
Philosophical Aesthetics in America and Europe:
Comparisons, Conflicts, Contrasts:
workshop at the annual conference of the German Association of American Studies (organization and chair), Münster