Abstract
Rolf-Dieter Kluge (1937-2024), a prominent German Slavist, famous literary scholar, Chairman of the German Chekhov Society, Honorary Professor of Moscow University, has passed away. Rolf-Dieter Kluge was the organiser of the great international Chekhov Congress in Badenweiler at the end of the 1980s. His work helped to make his department at the University of Tübingen an important Slavic centre. Rolf-Dieter Kluge was behind the organisation of the first Chekhov Museum outside Russia in Badenweiler. Rolf-Dieter Kluge helped to strengthen the ties between the University of Tübingen and Moscow State University. In the mid-1990s, two joint Tübingen-Moscow student-postgraduate seminars were organised together with the author of this article. R.-D. Kluge’s legacy includes works on Chekhov, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and others. His remarkably broad creative outlook and energy attracted and inspired colleagues and students.
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