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Clifford A. Bernd

Professor of German
Dr. phil., University of Heidelberg

Email: cabernd@ucdavis.edu
Office: 402 Sproul Hall
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Research Interests

• Age of Baroque
• German Classicism
• European Realism
• Hermeneutics
• Scandinavian Literature

Education

• BA New York University, 1950
• MA University of Maryland 1952
• Dr. phil. Universität Heidelberg, 1958 in German Literature
• Academic Positions
• Princeton University, Assistant Professor 1958-64
• University of California Davis, Professor since 1964, Chair 1965-76
• University of Leicester, Visiting Professor of German, 1977
• President NJ AATG, 1962-64

Books

• Theodor Storm's Craft of Fiction. University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages, No. 43. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. Second, augmented edition, University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages, No. 55. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966.
• Theodor Storm-Paul Heyse Briefwechsel, Kritische Edition. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, Vol. 1, 1969; Vol. 2, 1970; Vol. 3, 1974.
• German Poetic Realism. Twayne's World Authors Series. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1981.
• Poetic Realism in Scandinavia and Central Europe 1820-1895. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1995.
• Theodor Storm: The Dano-German Poet and Writer. New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 2003, 2nd printing 2005.

Edited Collections

• (with H. Nerjes, F. Sammern-Frankenegg, and P. Schaffer), Goethe Proceedings: Essays Commemorating the Goethe Sesquicentennial at the University of California, Davis. Studies in German Literaure, Linguistics, and Culture, No. 12. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1984. 988.
• Grillparzers "Der arme Spielmann": New Directions in Criticism. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House,1988.
• (with U. Schwab), Elfriede Stutz. Frühe deutsche Novellenkunst. Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, No. 560. Kümmerle Verlag, 1991.
• (with R. Pichl), The Other Vienna. The Culture Of Biedermeier Austria. Vienna: Verlag Lehner, 2002.

Selected Chapters and Articles

• "Die gegenwärtige Theodor-Storm Forschung." Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft3 (1954): 60-79.
• "Das Verhältnis von erlittenem und überwundenem Vergänglichkeitsgefähl in Storms Erzählhaltung." Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft 10 (1961): 32-38.
• "The Pattern of Reminiscence in Storm's 'In St. ]ürgen.' " Germanic Review 36 (1961): 137-147.
• "Das Erinnerungsmotiv in Storms 'In St. Jürgen.' " Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft 12 (1963): 27-37.
• "Die Leistungen der amerikanischen neueren Germanistik." Wirkendes Wort 15 (1965): 343-350 .
• "Ein unveröffentlichter Briefwechsel zwischen Storm und Ludwig Eichrodt" Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft 14 (1965): 12-19.
• "The Formal Qualitiesof Hölderlin's 'Wink für die Darstellung und Sprache.'" Modern Language Review 60 (1965): 400-404.
• "Keller's Comment on the Schimmelreiter in Thomas Mann's Essay 'Theodor Sturm: Fact or Fiction.'" Modern Language Notes 80 (1965): 635.
• "Thomas Mann's Meerfahrt mit Don Quijote. " German Quarterly 38 (1965): 652-659.
• "The Abdeckerszene in Kleist's 'Michael Kohlhaas.'" Studia Neophilologia 39 (1967): 270
• "Der Lutherbrief in Kleists 'Michael Kohlhaas.'" Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 86 (1967): 627-633.
• "On the Two Divergent Parts of Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas. " In Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature Presented to Ernst Rose, edited by R. A. Fowkes and V. Sander, 47-56. Eugen HutzIer? Verlag,1967.
• "Storms Literaturkritik-Ein Weg zum neuen Verständnis seiner Dichtung." Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft 17 (1968): 77-81.
• (with K.E. Laage), "Ein unbekannter Novellenentwurf Theodor Storms." Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft 18 (1969): 41-53.
• "Theodor Stürm." In Deutsche Dichter des 19. Jahrhunderts, edited by B. von Wiese, 487-506. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1969.
• "Theodor Storms Lyrik. Die Bedeutung von neuerworbenem Quellenmaterial für deren Neuverständnis." Nordelbingen 38 (1969): 104-111.
• "Clarity and Obscurity in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's Judenbuche. " In Studies in German Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Eine Festschrift for Frederic Coenen, edited by S. Mews, 64-77. Chapel Hill: N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1970.
• "Theodor Stürm und die Romantik." Schriften der Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft 21 (1973): 24-37.
• "Conscience and Passion in Gryphius's Catharina von Georgien. " in Studies in the German Drama: A Festschrift for Walter Silz, edited by D. H. Crosby and G. C. Schoolfield, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1974.
• "Enthüllen und Verhüllen in Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs Judenbuche. " In Festschrift für Friedrich Beissner, edited by U. Gaier und W. Volke, 20-37. Bebenhausen: Lothar Rotsch Verlag, 1974.
• "Enthüllen und Verhüllen in Annettevon Droste-Hülshoffs Judenbuche. " In Untersuchungen zur Literatur als Geschichte. Festschrift für Benno von Wiese, edited by V.J. Gunther, H. Koopmann, P. Pütz; and H.J. Schrimpf, 347-362. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1974.
• "Paul Heyse und die Entstehung des Naturalismus." In Acta IV Congresso Latino-Americano de Estudos Germanisticos, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1974, edited by F.T. Rosenthal und M. Fleischer, 249-255.
• "Wilhelm Jordan." Neue Deutsche Biographie 10 (1974): 605-606.
• "Wilhelm Petersen." Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon 3 (1974): 208-210.
• "Why Study Foreign Languages?" Spectrum 16 (1977): 3-5.
• "The Advent of German Poetic Realism." In Formen realistischer Erzählkunst: Festschrift für Charlotte Jolles, edited by J. Thunecke, 14-23. Nottingham: Sherwood Press, 1979.
• "Keller und die Revolution von 1848-1849." In Akten des VI. Internationalen Germanisten-Kongresses, edited by H. Rupp and H.C. Roloff, 127 -130. Bern: Peter Lang Verlag, 1980.
• "The Anticipation of German Poetic Realism in Danish Poetisk Realisme." Modern Language Notes 79 (1982): 573-89.
• "Wilhelm Jensen." Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon 6 (1982): 135-137.
• "Luther's Impact on German Literature." The Steuben News 57, no. 6 (1984): 7-8.
• "Theodor Fontane." In European Writers: The Romantic Century, edited by G. Stade, 1299-1322. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985.
• "Poetischer Realismus, Bürgerlicher Realismus, Programmatischer Realismus - die Kontroverse um die Benennung einer Epoche in der Literaturgeschichte." In Akten des VIII. Internationalen Germanisten-Kongresses, Vol. 9, edited by A. Schöne, 110-115. Tübin :Verlag, 1986.
• "Paul Heyse." In The Nobel Prize Winners: Literature, Vol. 1, edited by F.N. Magill, 145-155. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1989.
• "From Neglect to Controversy: Introducing a Volume of Criticism on Der arme Spielmann. In Grillparzer's "Der arme Spielmann": New Directions in Criticism, edited by Clifford Bernd, 1-8. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1988.
• "Notes on the Editor and Contributors." Ibid., 353-356.
• "Postscript." Ibid., 363.
• "Select Bibliography." Ibid., 357-361.
• "Storm in der amerikanischen Schul- und Universitätsgermanistik." In Theodor Storm und das 19. Jahrhundert, edited by K.E. Laage, 160-168. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1989.
• "Storm und der europäische Realismus des 19. Jahrhunderts." In Theodor Storm und das 19. Jahrhundert, edited by K.E. Laage, 18-25. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1989.
• "Seit wann gibt es die deutsche Novelle?" In Elfriede Stutz. Frühe deutsche Novellenkunst, edited by C. Bernd and U. Schwab, vii-xi. Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, No. 560. Göppingen: Kümmerle Verlag, 1991.
• "The Fame of Theodor Storm in America in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries." In The Fortunes of German Writers in America: Studies in Literary Reception, edited by W.D. Fife and others, 69-79. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press,
• "Fontane's Discovery of Britain." Modern Language Review 87 (1992): 112-121.
• "The Emergence of Poetic Realism as a Term of Literary Criticism in Germany." In Thematics Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Horst S. Daemmrich, edited by F. Trommler, 229-236. Amsterdam: Rudopi, 1995.
• "Phases of Grillparzer Scholarship in America 1821-1971." Modern Austrian Literature 28, no. 3/4 (1995): 5-28.
• "Die Politik als tragendes Strukturelement in Fontanes 'Effi Briest.'" In Wahrheit und Wort. Festschrift für Rolf Tarot, edited by B. Wehrli and others, 61-71. Zurich: Peter Lang Verlag, 1996.
• "The German Lyric in the Age of Poetic Realism." In Life's Golden Tree. Festschrift in Honor of Robert Browning, edited by G. Schoolfield and others, 171-181. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1996.
• "The Suppression Of Romanticism in Germany." In Romanticism and Beyond: Festschrift in Honor of John Fetzer, edited by C. Bernd, I. Henderson, and W. McConnell, 197-207. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Co., 1996.
• "Vom dänischen Kulturerbe. Um ein neues Verständnis für Storms Lyrik bittend." In Zerstörte Welten. Festchrift für Ernst Laage, edited by G. Eversberg and others, 33-45. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann Verlag, 2000.
• "Politik, Religion und Ästhetik in der deutschsprachigen Welt des 19. Jahrhunderts." In "Das Schöne soll sein." Aisthesis in der deutschen Literatur, edited by P. Hesselmann and others. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2001.
• "World War I as a Shaping Force in American Germanics." In Teaching German in Twentieth-Century America, edited by D. Benseler and others, 58-68. University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.
• "Die Entstehung von Theodor Storms Dichtung in Zusammenhang mit der dänischen Kultur." In Akten des. X. Germanistenkongresses Wien, Vol. 12: 153-158. Bem: Peter Lang Verlag, 2002.
• "The Origins Of The Grillparzer Society." In The Other Vienna: The Culture of Biedermeier, edited by R. Pichl und C. Bernd, 333-342. Vienna: Verlag Lehner, 2002.
• "Storm's Debt to the Danish Muse and its Disavowal in Criticism." In Kuriosum als Erkenntnis, edited by F. Unglaub, 2002.
• "Founding Professional Organizations 1870-1920." In A History of German Studies in the USA, edited by P. Hohendahl and others. New York, N.Y.: The Modern Language Association of America, in 2003.

Teaching Fields/Courses Taught

• Age of Goethe
• Poetic Realism
• 19th- and 20th--Century German poetry, drama and prose

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