Adelbert Reif

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Adelbert Reif (* 1936 in Berlin ; † July 4, 2013 in Munich ) was a German journalist and science and culture journalist .

Life

Reif initially volunteered at a newspaper. From the 1970s he worked as a foreign correspondent, editor at a music publisher and published in German-language newspapers and magazines such as Aargauer Zeitung , Börsenblatt , Deutsches Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt , Der Standard , Der Tagesspiegel , Die Horen , Die Presse , Die Tat , Die Welt , General-Anzeiger , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , National-Zeitung , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Rheinischer Merkur , Schweizerische Handelszeitung , Sinn und Form Spandauer Volksblatt and Stuttgarter Nachrichten .

He conducted numerous interviews with important intellectuals, artists and scientists such as Ilse Aichinger , Hannah Arendt , Roland Barthes , Ernst Bloch , Hellmut Flashar , Ossip K. Flechtheim , Saul Friedländer , Max Frisch , Erich Fromm , Nadine Gordimer , Julien Green , Werner Heisenberg , Eugène Ionesco , John Irving , Imre Kertész , Arthur Koestler , Pavel Kohout , Leszek Kolakowski , Bruno Kreisky , Hans Küng , Stanisław Lem , Siegfried Lenz , György Ligeti , Georg Lukács , Golo Mann , Fritz Mierau , Edgar Morin , Gerhard Roth , Annemarie Schimmel , Alexander Schwan , Albert Speer , Claude Lévi-Strauss , Edward Teller , Martin Walser and Carl Zuckmayer . Reif has published several books, including Conversations with Hannah Arendt (1976) and Myth and Meaning. Five radio lectures. Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss (1992).

Until 2002 he was chairman of the CDU-affiliated national-conservative Germany Foundation . He last lived in Munich and was married to the culture editor Ruth Renée Reif .

Fonts (selection)

  • Roland Barthes: Answers from the structuralists (= standpoint [e] ). Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-455-09053-2 .
  • Conversations with Hannah Arendt (= Piper series , 138). Piper, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-492-00438-5 .
  • The future of the economy. Analyzes and forecasts (= New Edition List ). List, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-471-66550-1 .
  • Albert Speer: Technology and Power (= Ullstein book , No. 33021). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-548-33021-5 .
  • "Thinking means going beyond". In memoriam Ernst Bloch 1885–1977 (= Ullstein book , no. 35152). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-548-35152-2 .
  • with Theo Faulhaber: Courage for tomorrow. Contours of the future . Herbig, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-7844-7218-4 .
  • with Theo Faulhaber: At the limits of reason. Contour talks . Herbig, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7844-7232-X .
  • with Ruth Renée Reif: Border talks. Thirteen dialogues about science (= Edition Universitas ). Hirzel, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8047-1269-X .
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss. Myth and Meaning. 5 radio lectures (= Edition Suhrkamp , 3323). One-time special edition, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-13323-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Author: Adelbert Reif , die horen, accessed on March 28, 2014.
  2. Long-time "Welt" author Adelbert Reif dies at 76 . In: Die Welt Kompakt , July 16, 2013.
  3. Author: Reif, Adelbert , Sinn und Form, accessed on March 28, 2014.
  4. Adelbert Reif: The "68er" movement, the RAF and the unresolved in the German past ( memento of the original from May 24, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Die Drei , May / 2007 edition. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.themen-der-zeit.de
  5. Thinking in dialogues. Adelbert Reif is dead . In: Neues Deutschland , July 5, 2013.
  6. Life in the Parallel Universe . derStandard.at, April 1, 2011.
  7. Freelance authors: Ruth Renée Reif , Fono Forum, accessed on March 28, 2014.