Bettina Stangneth

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Bettina Stangneth (* 1966 in Lübeck ) is a German philosopher and historian and author of several books.

Bettina Stangneth was nominated for “Bad Thinking” at the Bavarian Book Prize 2016 in the non-fiction category.

Life

Stangneth completed a degree in philosophy with Klaus Oehler and Wolfgang Bartuschat in Hamburg . It was in 1997 with a thesis on Immanuel Kant doctorate .

In 2000, the Philosophical-Political Academy Stangneth awarded the First Prize for its work on anti-Semitism in Kant. Micha Brumlik gave the laudation at the Germania Judaica in Cologne .

Her internationally best-known book is called Eichmann vor Jerusalem , alluding to Hannah Arendt's famous book Eichmann in Jerusalem . Stangneth describes the life and public impact of the National Socialist Adolf Eichmann up to his trial in Israel in 1961. It illuminates Eichmann's career and especially the time of his exile in Argentina. It's about his thinking, his relationships and the early Federal Republic. Stangneth shows that Eichmann was never satisfied with his exile, but wanted to return to Germany. He was not a bureaucrat, but only successfully camouflaged himself in Israel because he had practiced it in Argentina. Eichmann pulled off a perfidious show in Jerusalem and Hannah Arendt fell for it like almost everyone else. Nevertheless, Stangneth defends Hannah Arendt and her Eichmann book with vigor and warns critics and admirers not to make it easy for themselves. Eichmann in Jerusalem was “by no means a book from yesterday” and it was “terrific” because it was about more than Eichmann's characteristics. Above all, however, it is the book of a female philosopher who she calls the “greatest female philosopher of the 20th century”. It is wrong to read Arendt's books only from the perspective of historical science. The theory of the “banality of evil” is not wrong because Eichmann was “the wrong example”.

For her book, Stangneth uses many original manuscripts and documents that she rediscovered in German archives ( Argentina papers ) and that were previously unknown. Her research already flowed into the film Eichmanns Ende - Liebe, Verrat, Tod (ARD 2010) by Raymond Ley , which Stangneth advised scientifically. One of the best-known documents discovered is an open letter to the then Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer , which was never published. The discovery of the documents triggered an international press coverage. The book also contains a criticism of the BND's handling of the Eichmann files, some of which were also evaluated for Eichmann outside Jerusalem . Eichmann vor Jerusalem was awarded the NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis as the best non-fiction book published in German in 2011 and has been translated into many languages. The New York Times published an author profile at the time of the American edition and included the title among the 100 Notable Books of 2014. In 2015, Stangneth received the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature US $ 10,000 Recognition of Excellence Award in Toronto .

In 2012, Stangneth published the diaries and memoirs of Avner Werner Less , Eichmann's interrogation officer in Jerusalem, under the title Lie! All lie!

From 2016 to 2018 she published three philosophical essays as a “Trilogy on the Critique of Dialogical Reason”: Bad Thinking (2016), Reading Lies (2017) and Ugly Seeing (2018). In an "epilogue to the trilogy", Stangneth describes the volumes as a critical approach to the hope of the Enlightenment that thinking for yourself, listening and looking at things alone guarantees moral behavior and a secure world orientation. The Süddeutsche Zeitung called it "a lesson in tense serenity".

Von Stangneth also published annotated editions of philosophical texts from the 18th century by Immanuel Kant , Saul Ascher and Marcus Herz .

Stangneth lives in Hamburg.

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Fonts (selection)

  • Culture of Sincerity: On the systematic location of Kant's “Religion within the Limits of Mere Reason”. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-8260-1648-3 (dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1997).
  • Anti-Semitic and anti-Judaist motives in Immanuel Kant? Facts. Opinions. Consequences. In: Horst Gronke et al. (Hrsg.): Antisemitism in Kant and other thinkers of the Enlightenment. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-8260-2144-4 , pp. 11-124.
  • Religion within the limits of mere reason / Immanuel Kant. Meiner, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7873-1618-3 .
  • No I did not say that! A Brief History of the Argentina Papers. In: Insight 05. Bulletin of the Fritz Bauer Institute. Frankfurt, April 2011, pp. 18–25 (PDF 4.4 MB)
  • Eichmann before Jerusalem - The unmolested life of a mass murderer. Arche, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7160-2669-4 .
    • Eichmann before Jerusalem. The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer. Translation Ruth Martin. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-307-95967-6 .
  • Lie! All lie! Recordings from the Eichmann interrogator Avner Werner Less. Arche, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7160-2689-2 .
  • Bad thinking . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-498-06158-6 .
  • Read lies . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-498-06173-9 .
  • Ugly vision . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-498-06448-8
  • Marcus Herz's attempt on vertigo , edited by Bettina Stangneth, March 29, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7873-3447-6

Oddities

Stangneth is the model for a character in the Dutch novel Descartes' Daughter of the Gebroeders Meester . The Hamburg philosopher Bettina Stangneth becomes the murder victim of a secret society in the tradition of the Rosicrucians in Amsterdam , because in her edition of a book by Immanuel Kant she revealed alleged secrets about Kant's dispute with this secret society. The novel contains excerpts from the actually existing Kant edition by Stangneth.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Culture of Sincerity: On the systematic location of Kant's “Religion within the Limits of Mere Reason”. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-8260-1648-3 (dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1997).
  2. ↑ Printed in: Anti-Semitic and anti-Judaistic motifs in enlightenment thinkers . LIT publishing house 2001.
  3. ↑ welt.de
  4. ↑ Eichmann to Jerusalem . Contribution to the film by Margarethe von Trotta . (PDF) . Also printed in the book on the film ed. by Martin Wiebel: Hannah Arendt: Your thinking changed the world. Munich 2012.
  5. ↑ Stangneth in Werner Renz (ed.): Interests around Eichmann. Israeli justice, German prosecution and old comradeships (= scientific series of the Fritz Bauer Institute . Volume 20). Frankfurt am Main 2012.
  6. ↑ fritz-bauer-institut.de
  7. ↑ bild.de
  8. ↑ theguardian.com
  9. ↑ Stangneth wrote expert reports on the incompleteness of the files released so far and on the blackening practice for the clarification side in the acid against the Federal Intelligence Service. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kanzlei-partsch.de
  10. ^ "Eichmann vor Jerusalem" best non-fiction book of the year website of the NDR.
  11. ↑ Portrait of Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times , September 2, 2014. (online)
  12. ↑ New York Times Notable Books 2014, December 2, 2014. (online)
  13. ^ Cundill Prize website. (on-line)
  14. ↑ welt.de
  15. ↑ Alan Posener : Stitch out the eyes of reason . Review, in: The Literary World , May 21, 2016, p. 2.
  16. ^ Afterword to the trilogy in: Ugly Thinking , Hamburg 2018, pp. 137–142.
  17. ↑ SZ.de
  18. ↑ Frank and Maarten Meester: Descartes' wicked: filosofische faction. Veen Magazines, Diemen 2007, ISBN 978-90-8571-047-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Stangneth, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck