Lichberg was mostly forgotten, until literary scholar Michael Maar came across his "Lolita" short story and argued that Nabokov had derived his story from Lichberg's work in several articles and a 2005 book.
For his 1995 doctoral dissertation on Thomas Mann, titled Geister und Kunst, he was awarded the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.
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