Alexander Lohner

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Alexander Lohner (* 1962) is a German philosopher and novelist .

Life

Alexander Lohner studied philosophy , catholic theology and psychology in Berlin and Munich . He then worked for several years as a research assistant or research assistant at the Philosophical Faculty of Munich's Ludwig Maximilians University . He received his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on Peter Wust and in theology with a thesis on " Death in Existentialism ". Both doctorates were awarded summa cum laude . This was followed by the habilitation with a medical or bioethical treatise.

Scientific work

Lohner taught and teaches as a lecturer at the universities of Munich, Berlin and Kassel . Appointment as professor by the University of Kassel in 2006 (applied ethics). He has published several academic books and articles in magazines and newspapers. Outside of the university he was and is active in teacher training , as a medical ethicist and in development cooperation. Among other things, Lohner is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg . He lives in Cologne.

His main areas of work are: philosophical anthropology, medical-ethical questions, thanatology, the global AIDS problem, ethical questions in (contemporary) fiction , philosophy of religion , ethics of world religions, the sect problem , ethics of neurosciences . Lohner is considered to be the most important connoisseur of existentialism in Germany.

Fiction

Alexander Lohner has also emerged as a writer of historical novels . His first literary work Die Jüdin von Trient was published by Aufbau Verlag in 2004 and is based on a real event in the 15th century (the fatal torture of Jews from Trento for an alleged ritual murder of the child Simon , who was later canonized ). The novel received positive reviews, as was the novel Das Jesustuch (2006). The Hungarian philosopher Ágnes Heller emphasizes in her essay “The Contemporary Historical Novel” that the success of the “Jewess of Trento” is based on the way in which “the interpretation of historical events leads to the portrayal of interesting characters and moving personal fates. "The philosophical discussions in the novel are designed in such a way" that they could have been conducted both before Luther and the day before yesterday ". In 2013 the novel Octavia was published. The wife of Nero , in which Lohner took up ancient and medieval traditions, according to which the Roman imperial wife Octavia actually survived the murder attempt by her husband Nero , who according to official historiography brought her death.
In 2007, Alexander Lohner and his children, including Sarah Ines Struck , and Karin Struck's companion, set up the Karin Struck Foundation.

Monographs

  • Peter Wust : Certainty and Risk, Paderborn 1995
  • Death in existentialism. An analysis of the fundamental theological, philosophical and ethical implications, Paderborn 1997
  • Personality and human dignity . An examination of the theses of the “new bioethicists”. Regensburg 2000
  • The pseudo-religious temptation. On the problem of sects and psychocults. Mönchengladbach 1999
  • The Jewess of Trento (novel). Berlin 2004
  • The cloth of Jesus (novel). Berlin 2005
  • Octavia. Nero's wife (novel). Kissleg-Immenried 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Graven, Julia: With theological ambition. Researchers as literary figures (part 5). Münchner Uni Magazin, 03/2005, pp. 10–11
  3. ↑ KNA v. 3rd August 2014
  4. ↑ Knocke, Mareike: Kissed by the Light Muse, Deutsche Universitätszeitung (DUZ), 10/2006 of October 20, 2006, p. 20ff.
  5. ↑ Der Prosa-Professor, SZ of Feb. 21, 2007, p. 48
  6. ↑ The dark spot of Christianity, Alexander Lohner's "Jüdin von Trient" is more than a church thriller, Rheinischer Merkur, 40/2004, p. 23
  7. ^ Blattmann, Ekkehard: Wrapped in linen and carried to the grave. The novel “Das Jesustuch” by Alexander Lohner tells about the crusade, murder and tolerance, Die Tagespost of Nov. 25, 2006, p. 21
  8. ^ Aesthetics and Modernity, Essays 2011, Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth (UK), p. 102
  9. ^ Website of the Karin Struck Foundation, accessed on May 13, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Lohner, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962