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Frauke Gewecke (* 2 July 1943 in Lithuania, Reichskommissariat Ostland; † 13 July 2012 in Cyprus) was a German novelist and Hispanic.

Life and work
Frauke Gewecke completed her doctorate at the University of Hamburg in 1971 with the thesis Thematic Investigations on the pre-calderonian "Auto sacramental" (Geneva 1974). From 1974 to 1984 she was assistant at the University of Cologne at the chair of Horst Baader. There she habilitated with the work How the new world came into the old (Stuttgart 1986, Munich 1992). From 1984 to 2008 she was Professor of Romanesque Literature and Cultural Studies (with a research focus on Latin America, Caribbean) at the Romanesque Seminary of the University of Heidelberg. She was co-editor of the magazine Iberoamericana (since 2001).

Other works
The Caribbean. On the history, politics and culture of a region, Frankfurt a.M. 1984, 1988, 2007
Estudios de literatura española y francesca siglos XVI y XVII. Homenaje a Horst Baader, Frankfurt a.M. 1984
(Ed.) Death and life. Dominican Tales of the Present, Frankfurt a.M. 1989
The Will to the Nation. Nation-building and draft national identity in the Dominican Republic, Frankfurt a.M. 1996
Puerto Rico between the two Americas (1898 - 1998), 2 Bde., Frankfurt a.M. 1998
Christoph Kolumbus, Frankfurt a.M. 2006
(ed. with Léon-François Hoffmann and Ulrich Fleischmann) Haïti 1804. Lumières et ténèbres. Impact et résonances d'une révolution, Madrid/Frankfurt a.M. 2008

Weblinks

uni-heidelberg.de: obituary
uni-heidelberg.de: Speech on the funeral of Frauke Gewecke on 27. July 2012

Romanesque
University teacher (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
German
Born in 1943
Died in 2012
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