Professor Emeritus Schamschula passed away February 13, 2024. His obituary is here.
Ph.D. University of Frankfurt (Slavic Philology).
Research interests: Influences of cultural contacts on Czech literatures, especially Germanic; movement and migration of literary themes and topics in Europe; Czech cultural history; Czech theory of literature; theory and practice of translation; completion of history of Czech literature (in German and English).
Current projects: Czech medieval texts: Old Czech drama, satire, poetry and its connections with medieval Latin and German literatures; the Russian historical novel. The relationship of oral and written epic poetry in Slavic literatures; the imag eof the rhapsode/bard/guslar in early narrative.
Selected publications:
Books
- Geschichte der tschechischen Literatur, Vol. I: Von den Anfaengen bis zur nationalen Wiedergeburt. Cologne – Vienna, 1989.
Vol. II: Von der Romantik bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg. Cologne – Vienna, 1996.
Vol. III: Von der Gruendung der republik bis zur Gegenwart. Cologne-Vienne-Weimer, 2004. - Die Anfaenge der tschechischen Erneuerung und das deutsche Geistesleben (1740-1800). Munich, 1973.
- Der russische historische Roman vom Klassizismus bis zur Romantik (Diss.). Osteuropastudien der Hochschulen des Landes Hessen, Reihe III, Frankfurter Abhandlungen zur Slavistik, Bd. 3. Meisenheim/Glan 1961.
- Jaroslav Hasek 1883-1983. Proceedings of the International Hasek Symposion Bamberg, June 25-28, 1983. [West Slavic Contributions – Westslavische Beiträge vol. 1] Frankfurt – Bern – New York, 1989.
- An Anthology of Czech Literature, 1st Period: From the Beginnings Till 1410. [West Slavic Contributions, vol. 2] Frankfurt – Bern – New York, 1991.
- An Anthology of Czech Literature, 2nd Period: The Age of Religious Discord (1410-1740) [West Slavic Contributions, vol. 3] Frankfurt – Bern – New York, 1997.
- Adam Mickiewicz, Die Ahnenfeier (Dziady). (Bilingual Polish and German), Cologne – Weimar – Vienna, 1991.
- Juliusz Slowacki, Koenig Geist (Krol – Duch). (German annotated transation) [West Slavic Contributions, vol. 4]. Frankfurt – Bern – New York, 1997.