Antonia Grunenberg

Antonia Grunenberg

Antonia Grunenberg (born May 2, 1944 in Dresden ) is a German emeritus political scientist .

Antonia Grunenberg studied sociology, philosophy and German in Tübingen, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. She received her doctorate in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin in 1975 and her habilitation in political science at the Technical University of Aachen in 1986 .

Grunenberg is co-founder and board member of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thinking and, among other things, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the House of History in Bonn.

She has taught political science at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg since 1998 . Since 2006 she has been a member of the specialist scientific commission of the Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship . Her research focus is the life and work of the political philosopher Hannah Arendt . She is the founder and director of the Hannah Arendt Center at the University of Oldenburg. In 2009 she retired.

Fonts

• The connection between left-wing radicalism and the philosophy of history in practice and theory by Georg Lukacs (1918–1928) , Diss. Berlin 1975
• Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers. Thinking in the shadow of a break in tradition. In: Hannah Arendt: Hidden Tradition - Untimely Topicality? Edited by Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-05-004389-0
• Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. Story of a love. , Munich and Zurich, 2006, ISBN 3-492-04490-5
• Hannah Arendt. In the series Meisterdenker Spektrum, Freiburg 2003, ISBN 3-451-04954-6
• The sleep of freedom. Politics and Public Sense in the 21st Century. Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-498-02477-9
• The pleasure of guilt. The power of the past over the present. Berlin: Rowohlt, 2001. ISBN 3-87134-389-7 .
• Antifascism - A German Myth. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1993. ISBN 349913179X
• Opening of the inner wall. Politics and culture in the GDR 1971–1989. Edition Temmen, 1990, ISBN 3-926958-44-8
• Götterdämmerung: Rise and Fall of the German Intelligence 1900-1940. Walter Benjamin and his time. Herder, 2018, ISBN 978-3451383090

Co-editor

• Perspectives on political thought. On the 100th birthday of Hannah Arendt. Edited by Antonia Grunenberg, Waltraud Meints, Oliver Bruns, Christine Harckensee, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-56659-6
• Sabine Falke, Daniel Schubbe, Antonia Grunenberg: Objections: Politics and the welfare state in the 20th century: Festschrift for Gerhard Kraiker. 2005, ISBN 3-8300-1822-3
• Totalitarian rule and republican democracy. Fifty years of 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' by Hannah Arendt. With the collaboration of Stefan Ahrens and Bettina Koch, by Antonia Grunenberg (editor), Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-631-39709-7
• Berliner Hefte - magazine for culture and politics , several issues from 1976, Verlag Kantstraße Berlin, with u. a. Walter Aschmoneit, Horst Domdey, Volkmar Braunbehrens

interview

• "That we argue with each other" Grunenberg and Christina Thürmer-Rohr in a detailed interview about Hannah Arendt , taz from November 10, 2007

essay

• Power comes from possible ..... Power and public space with Hannah Arendt from Antonia Grunenberg
• Hannah Arendt's Jewish writings . From politics and contemporary history (APuZ 39/2006)

Web links

• Literature by and about Antonia Grunenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg