Thomas Etzemüller
Biographies
Read - research - tell

195 pp., paperback, 2 illustrations, € 16.90
ISBN: 978-3-593-39741-2 (Frankfurt/Main, New York: Campus, 2012)

Biographies are researched, written or used as sources by historians. Thomas Etzemüller undertakes a journey through historical, sociological and literary biographical research. He makes it clear that a person's life story is a complex construct. In addition, there is a "biographical paradox": people are always multi-layered, but the genre of biography requires the narrative unity of a life course from birth to death. How historians can deal with this contradiction is a central theme of this introduction.

Sehepunkte, December 2012 (Annotation)

H-Soz-u-Kult, 30 September 2013

ZfG, 2013

HZ, 2014

a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 2016