Jürgen Hein

Jürgen Hein (12 January 1942 – 1 December 2014) was a German literary critic and university lecturer.

After his Abitur from high school he engaged in German studies, philosophy and pedagogics at the University of Cologne.

From 1973 until his retirement in 2007, Hein was professor of modern German literary studies and didactics of literature at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

Hein published mainly on Ferdinand Raimund, Johann Nestroy and the Alt-Wiener Volkstheater [de], as well as on village history and the folk play.

He also wrote essays on the writers and poets Willibald Alexis, Berthold Auerbach, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Franz Grillparzer, Friedrich Hebbel, Karl von Holtei, Ödön von Horváth, Wolfgang Koeppen, Karl May, Fritz Reuter, Peter Rosegger, Adalbert Stifter, Carl Zuckmayer and many others.