Hans Egon Holthusen (15 April 1913 – 21 January 1997) was a German Nazi, lyric poet, essayist, and literary scholar.
In the early 1960s, Holthusen worked at the Goethe-Institut in New York City, subsequently obtaining a professorship at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, a post which he held until 1981.
In 1960, Mascha Kaléko refused the Berlin Theodor Fontane Price because Holthusen was a jury member.
There exists an unpublished 233-page English-language biography covering the first sixty-seven years of his life or so (he died at the age of 83);[2] a comprehensive bibliography of his works came out posthumously in 2000.
[3] His personal papers (including manuscripts, diaries, private correspondence (encompassing more than five thousand letters), genealogical records, and a photographic archive) are preserved at the Library of the University of Hildesheim (Universitätsbibliothek Hildesheim) in Lower Saxony (‘The Papers of Hans Egon Holthusen’ — Nachlass Hans Egon Holthusen).