Edward Timms


Edward Timms OBE, FBA was Research Professor and a former director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. His work mainly focused on Karl Kraus and Freud. Timms was also a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. His two-volume work Karl Kraus – Apocalyptic Satirist is concerned with Kraus's satirical responses to Habsburg Vienna, his rejection of both the First World War and Nazism. Kraus had been the subject of his PhD.
He died on 21 November 2018 at the age of 81.

Works

Yale University Press reviews: Karl Kraus, Apocalyptic Satirist: The Post-War Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika Karl Kraus Und Die Fackel: Aufsatze Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte = Reading Karl Kraus Essays on the Reception of Die Fackel Theatre and Performance in Austria: From Mozart to Jelinek Vienna 1900: from Altenberg to Wittgenstein. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c1990Taking up the Torch, Sussex University Press, 2011

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