“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is them.”
More than just The Jungle Book –
Life and work of the English writer Rudyard Kipling
The English author Rudyard Kipling wrote the world-famous children's classic The Jungle Book. But his literary oeuvre encompasses much more. Contemporaries saw him primarily as a champion of adventure, exoticism, and masculine resilience. Like no other, he embodied the ideals of Britain's imperialist era. Having risen to the status of a cultural icon at a young age, in 1907 he became the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Kipling's life is marked by extremes and strokes of fate: global fame was followed by harsh criticism, literary decline, and ultimately obscurity. His life and work also provide German readers with profound insights into a world that, although past, is not without significance for the future.
Interlocutor
Stefan Welz is an associate professor of English Literature and Modern English-Language Literature at the University of Leipzig. He received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 1996 and completed his habilitation there in 2003. From 2003 to 2006, he held visiting professorships at the Universities of Leipzig and Wuppertal. Since 2007, he has been a lecturer in English literature of the 19th to 21st centuries, as well as in modern English-language literature, with a focus on Australia/New Zealand and South Africa. Extended research and teaching visits have taken him to Kent State University, Ohio/USA; Stellenbosch University, South Africa; and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on Victorianism and Modernism, literary translation, travel literature, the "Tauchnitz Edition of British and American Authors," and human-animal relationships in literature.
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