Background
Bernd, Clifford Albrecht was born on May 14, 1929 in Bronxville, New York, United States. Son of Wilhelm Ludwig and Bertha Maria (Albrecht) Bernd.
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This book offers a new understanding of the nineteenth-century German author Theodor Storm, taking seriously, for the first time, the heritage of the Danish muse in his life and major works. Bernd offers a Dano-German portrait of Storm, tracing the youth of the author in the bicultural borderland of Schleswig, where Storm lived under a succession of Danish monarchs until he was 36 years old, and learned to refer to the German states as Ausland (foreign territory). Highlighting the German nationalism that has prevented previous biographers, beginning with Storm’s own daughter, from drawing attention to the importance of Danish culture and literature in forming the author, Bernd then details Storm’s education and reading in the Danish language and literature, showing how he added a distinct Danish tone to his German poetry and also refashioned the German novella in the manner of Danish practitioners, and thus became a unique representative of a Danish literature situated in the German-speaking world. These achievements, inflected by transnational influence, should now help us to recognize Storm as a figure of exceptional importance in European letters.
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This pioneering work on poetic realism in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany and Switzerland studies the genesis and history of highly significant international literary movement which has remained outside the literary mainstream.Beginning with the 'father' of poetic realism, Poul Muller (1794-1838) and ending with the novels of the German writer Theodor Fontane (1819-98), Professor Bernd considers virtually all the significant writers of poetic realism, showing how each throws light on others and revealing previously overlooked connections and affinities. He argues that the masterpieces of 'poetic realism' should be seen in the context of common inter-European history rather thanas representatives of individual national literature; this approach allows him to trace similar themes and traits in authors working in different countries and languages - not readily apparent when considered in isolation. Major figures treated include Sten Blicher, Thomasine Gyllembourg, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Gottfried Keller, C.F. Meyer, Otto Ludwig, Theodor Fontane, Wilhelm Raabe and Klaus Groth.
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Bernd, Clifford Albrecht was born on May 14, 1929 in Bronxville, New York, United States. Son of Wilhelm Ludwig and Bertha Maria (Albrecht) Bernd.
Bachelor, New York University, 1950. Master of Arts, University Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 1958.
Instructor in German Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1958—1961, assistant professor German, 1961—1964. Associate professor of German University California, Davis, California, 1964—1968, professor of German, since 1968. Visiting professor German University Leicester, England, 1977.
Chair University California, Davis, California, 1965—1976. Member editorial board German Quarterly, 1988—1994.
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Member of Modern Language Association, Grillparzer Society (president since 1992), American Association Teachers of German (pres New Jersey chapter 1962-1964), Theodor Storm Gesellschaft, Germany (correspondent).
Married Eline Christa Schmidt-Nickels, December 29, 1972. Children: Matthias Albrecht, Christian Wilhelm.