Alexander Pschera

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Alexander Pschera (born April 27, 1964 in Heidelberg ) is a German author , publicist , translator and blogger . He is the managing director of the Munich online media agency Maisberger.

education

Pschera attended the Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Gymnasium Hockenheim and studied German , philosophy and musicology with Ludwig Finscher at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . His studies and doctorate were funded by the German National Academic Foundation. Eduard Mörike's dissertation is on ( The Age of Idyll and the Era of Art , 1992 with Peter Michelsen ).

activities

Pschera initially wrote works on contemporary music for daily newspapers, magazines and radio, including a one-year series for Deutschlandfunk ("New Music in Historical Recordings"). He then emerged as an author, editor and publicist on topics of media theory and philosophy as well as the phenomenology of the Internet. His essays have been published by Matthes & Seitz Berlin since 2008 . He also writes regularly for SWR and Deutschlandradio Kultur . Until 2014 he wrote for the monthly magazine Cicero .

In addition, Pschera published works on the Renouveau catholique and Ernst Jünger's work. He translated Léon Bloy and presented the first German monograph on this author, which he published in 2006 in the Antaios edition of the new right " Institute for State Policy " . Pschera regularly publishes articles on Catholic culture, literature and mysticism in Die Tagespost and Vatican Magazin . He is also the author of the magazine FUGE - Journal for Religion and Modernity .

Since 2016, Pschera has been a board member of the Ernst and Friedrich Georg Jünger Society and editor of the Jünger Debate , which will be published annually by Vittorio Klostermann from autumn 2017 .

He regularly moderates the digital salon he initiated for the Catholic Academy in Bavaria .

Publications (selection)

Independent publications

  • Léon Bloy. Pilgrim of the Absolute. Edition Antaios, 2006 ISBN 3-935063-08-3
  • 800 million. Social media apology. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-88221-578-6
  • De-worldly communication . Adamas Verlag, Cologne 2012
  • Younger and France - a dangerous encounter? A Parisian conversation . Together with Julien Hervier. Translated from the French by Dorothée Pschera. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-88221-538-0
  • Dataism. Critique of Anonymous Morality . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2013
  • From floating. Romanticism in the digital . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2013.
    • From floating. Romanticism in the digital . Audio book. Read by Frank Arnold. speaklow, Berlin 2014 (2 CDs, approx. 130 minutes).
  • The Internet of Animals. The new dialogue between man and nature . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2014 ISBN 978-3-95757-014-7
  • Sheherazade dreams of the minimum wage . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2016
  • Forgotten gestures . DVB Verlag, Vienna 2018

Translated publications

  • Dataismo. Verso i Big Data: Critica della morale anonima. Edizione italiana a cura di Ubaldo Villani Lubelli. goWare 2014
  • Animal Internet. Nature and the digital revolution. Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer. New Vessel Press, New York 2016
  • Интернет животных . ad marginem Press, Moscow 2017
  • Internet zvířat (Nový dialog člověka s přírodou) Dauphin, Podlesí 2018

Article (selection)

  • You won't hear anything. You'll Hear It All: A Review of John Cage . In: Jazzthetik 6, November 1992
  • Everything is adorable. To expand Léon Bloy's world access . In: Vatican Magazin , 4 (2007)
  • Where pictures fall ... Ernst Jünger's long path to Catholicism . In: Vatican Magazin , 5 (2007)
  • Léon Bloy or overcoming . In: Krachkultur , 12 (2008)
  • The stoned text. Stephen. Bloy. Celine . In: Fuge (magazine) | FUGE - Journal for Religion and Modernity, Volume 6: Signs of distant freedom. Schöningh, 2010
  • The nocturnal side of eternal becoming. Music as an operation against nothing . In: XVIII. Rohkunstbau : power. Exhibition catalog Marquardt Palace , Potsdam, July 1 - September 11, 2011. Hans Schiler Verlag, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-89930-336-0
  • Of the sadness of not being a saint. A plea for the canonization of the French writer Léon Bloy . In: Vatican Magazin 2/2012
  • I want to be part of a financial crisis. Crysis II and the fight for money . In: WASD. Texts about games 1/2012
  • The radicalism of the waiting room. On Charles Taylor's essay on clericalism . In: Fuge (magazine) | FUGE - Journal for Religion and Modernity Volume 12/13, Berlin 2013
  • The first and the last things. Ernst Jünger and Léon Bloy . In: Günter Figal , Georg Knapp (Ed.): War and Peace. (= Jünger Studies , 6) Tübingen 2013

Online texts on the network debate

editor

  • Colorful dust. Ernst Jünger in the backlight . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-88221-725-4
  • (with Stefan Meetschen): Poets, priests and prophets. Life and work of inspiring writers . fe-medienverlag, 2016 ISBN 978-3-86357-152-8
  • (with Thomas Bantle and Detlev Schöttker): Jünger Debate 1: Ernst Jünger and Judaism. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2017 ISBN 978-3-465-04312-6
  • (with Thomas Bantle and Peter Trawny): Discussion of disciples 2: Between myth and resistance. Ernst Jünger's "On the Marble Cliffs". Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 2019 ISBN 978-3-465-04383-6
  • (with Thomas Bantle and Peter Trawny): Discussion of disciples 3: Technology and media at the brothers Jünger. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 2020 ISBN 978-3465044239
  • Léon Bloy, this side of good and evil. Diaries, letters, prose . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2019 ISBN 978-3-95757-692-7
  • Ernst Jünger. Secret celebrations. Contemplations of nature. Edited, introduced and commented on by Alexander Pschera . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2020 ISBN 978-3-608-96472-1

Translations and editions

  • The twenty-four ears of Gueule-de-Bois , from Sueur de Sang - blood sweat , translated and introduced by Alexander Pschera. In: Krachkultur , 12, 2008
  • Léon Bloy: Blood Sweat - Sueur de Sang (1870-1871) . Translated from the French, commented and introduced by Alexander Pschera. With illustrations by Heidi Sill. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-88221-837-4
  • Léon Bloy: Letter from the monastery. With an introduction . Sinn und Form , 5, 2016
  • Out and about with Léon Bloy. Conversations, thoughts, prayers - En route Avec Léon Bloy. Dialogues, Pensées, Prières . Bilingual. Compiled, translated and commented by Alexander Pschera. With illustrations by Francois-Xavier de Boissoudy. FE-Medien, Kißlegg 2017 ISBN 978-3-86357-170-2
  • Charles Péguy: The money . From the French and with a foreword by Alexander Pschera. With an afterword by Peter Trawny . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2017 ISBN 978-3-95757-317-9
  • Léon Bloy: Marie Antoinette. Knight of Death and Other Writings . Edited and translated by Alexander Pschera. Karolinger Verlag, Vienna 2017 ISBN 978-3-85416-177-4

Radio essays

  • Always Don Quixote, never Sancho Panza. Apology of the reaction , SWR 2 Essay 2017 ( online )
  • Smart Phones, Dumb People? The Promises of the Digital World and the Answer of the Philosophers , SWR 2 Essay 2018 ( Online )
  • Léon Bloy or the Catacombs of Paris , SWR 2 Essay 2018 ( Online )
  • New music. What for? An attempt to explain , SWR 2 Essay 2019

Awards

  • 1986–1990 scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
  • 1990–1992 PhD scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.cicero.de/autoren/pschera-alexander
personal data
SURNAME Pschera, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, essayist, translator and editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg