Leonore Krenzlin (born 1934, in Leipzig, Germany) studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin beginning in 1953.[1] From 1970 to 1990 she was a research assistant at the Central Institute of Literary History of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic.[2] In 1978, she completed her Doctorate of Philosophy in German Studies with a dissertation on Hermann Kant[3] and has become an expert on German literary figures.[4] Her work on Kant was first published in 1980 and has since been republished three times.[1] Among other literary figures, Krenzlin has written about Friedrich Griese, Willy Sachse and Ernst Wiechert, as well as the migration issues which occurred in 1945.[3]
Since 1979, she has been married to the fellow German scholar, Dieter Schiller.
Selected works
Krenzlin, Leonore (1980). Hermann Kant, Leben und Werk (in German). Berlin: Volk und Wissen.
Krenzlin, Leonore (2005). Geschichte des Scheiterns–Geschichte des Lernens?: Überlegungen zur Lage während und nach der 'Großen Kontroverse' und zur Motivation ihrer Akteure (in German). Göttingen, Germany: Wallstein.
Krenzlin, Leonore (2015). "Franz Villons kleiner Bruder: der junge Biermann in der DDR (1953 - 1965)". Autorinnen und Autoren: Roland Berbig (in German). Reizland DDR: 149–177.