Martin A. Hainz

Who is Martin A. Hainz?

Martin Andreas Hainz is an Austrian philologist, theorist and philosopher. He has taught at several universities in Europe and the United States, among them the universities of Vienna, Timişoara and Iaşi. He is a member of the Northeastern Language Association. His main interests are contemporary German and especially Austrian philosophy and literature. He is a scholar of Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler.

His works deal with Paul Celan and Rose Ausländer as well as Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock; he is also considered to be one of today's most important advocates of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. His interdisciplinary work has often led to surprising insights; this is especially true concerning Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, who is an ambivalent thinker and poet between sensibility, belief and inspiration. Hainz has shown that, from a dialectical perspective, poetry is the rational awareness that is adequate to believing and faith.

Hainz' researches into some nearly forgotten, but nevertheless important authors and thinkers such as Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Alfred Margul-Sperber and Constantin Brunner are also of merit.