The literary scholar and writer Inge Jens died in Tübingen at the age of 94. That reported that Swabian daily newspaper referring to their closest environment. The widow of the philologist Walter Jens, who died eight years ago, became known above all for editing and commenting on Thomas Mann’s diaries and the bestseller “Frau Thomas Mann – the life of Katharina Pringsheim”. She studied German, English and pedagogy in Hamburg, did her doctorate in 1954 with a thesis on the expressionist novella and worked for broadcasters and publishers. Her autobiography “Incomplete Memories” was published in 2009, and in 2016 she published a report on her husband’s dementia under the title “Slow Disappearance”.
Literary studies – Inge Jens died – Culture
