Heinz Schlaffer studies German language and culture and is an emeritus Professor of Literary Science of the University of Stuttgart. He came out with particularly sensational essays like "Die kurze Geschichte der deutschen Literatur" (The Short History of German Literature). He is married to Hannelore Schlaffer.
Schlaffer received his first Literary Science Professorship at the Philipp's University - Marburg and changed to Stuttgart in 1975. He held the teaching position in that town from 1975 until his emeritus in 2004.
He published numerous Books, among others about Lyrik im Realismus (Poetry in Realism), Der Bürger als Held (The Townspeople as Heroes), aesthetic histories, Goethe's Faust, Poesie und Wissen (Poetry and Knowledge), besides scientific writings like essays and literary criticisms in Tageszeitung.
Das entfesselte Wort : Nietzsches Stil und seine Folgen (The Aroused Word: Nietzsche's Style and his Successors). Hanser, München 2007
Poesie und Wissen : die Entstehung des ästhetischen Bewusstseins und der philologischen Erkenntnis (Poems and Knowledge: The Origins of Aesthetic Consciousness and the Philosophical Insight). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2005
Die kurze Geschichte der deutschen Literatur (The Short History of German Literature). Hanser, München ; Wien 2002
Faust zweiter Teil : die Allegorie des 19. Jahrhunderts (Faust Part II: The Allegory of the 19th Century). Metzler, Stuttgart 1989
Der Bürger als Held : sozialgeschichtliche Auflösungen literarischer Widersprüche (The Townspeople as Heroes: Social-Historical Solutions of Literary Contradictions). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt (am Main) 1973
Lyrik im Realismus : Studien über Raum und Zeit in den Gedichten (Poetry in Realism: Studies about Time and Place in Poems) Mörikes, the Droste and Liliencrons. - Würzburg 1966
2008 Heinrich Mann Prize for Essays of the Berliner Akademie der Künste
