Danilo Scholz

Danilo Scholz (* 1984 ) is a German publicist , historian of ideas and translator .

Life

Scholz, the son of a single mother, grew up near Bitterfeld and passed his Abitur in 2003 at the Pforta State School . He completed a bachelor's degree in history at the University of Cambridge from 2005 to 2008 . There was, inter alia, Christopher Clark , his teacher. In 2009 Scholz was a research associate at the left-liberal Berlin think tank Progressive Center . He then studied history and philosophy from 2009 to 2012 at the École normal supérieure in Paris up to a diploma. He also attended the École des hautes études en sciences sociales from 2009 to 2011 , where he also studied history and completed his master's degree. His work on Alexandre Kojève's relationship to German philosophy won prizes in 2011 and 2013. From 2012 to 2013 he had guest residencies at the University of California, Berkeley . By 2018, he received his doctorate in Perrine Simon-Nahum and Frédéric Worms with a thesis on theories of the state and the criticism of statism in French thought: L'Antiétatisme dans la Philosophie française, 1945-1992 . From 2018 to 2019 he was a Max Weber Fellow of the European University Institute and worked on a book about Alexandre Kojève. He has continued this work as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University in New York City since 2020 . In 2019 he received the Heinrich Mann Prize from the Academy of Arts in Berlin .

Fonts (selection)

• as editor and translator with Svenja Bromberg, Birthe Mühlhoff: Euro Trash . Merve Verlag, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-8839-6357-0 .
• Alexandre Kojève and Gaston Fessard on Authority and Politics . In: Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger , 2016/3, volume 141.
• Between Vichy and Resistance. Alexandre Kojève at war . In: Journal for the history of ideas , issue 13/3 (autumn 2019), pages 23–35.

Honors

• 2011: Raymond Aron Prize
• 2013: Marc Bloch Prize
• 2019: Heinrich Mann Prize

Web links

• Danilo Scholz , biography in the portal cespra.ehess.fr
• Scholz, Danilo , biography in the portal eui.eu ( European University Institute )
• Danilo Scholz , article in the portal merkur-zeitschrift.de ( Merkur (magazine) )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Episode # 19: Twin Peaks - The Return , website in the portal muenchner-kammerspiele.de ( Münchner Kammerspiele ), accessed on February 27, 2020
2. ↑ The 100 most important young East Germans . Article from November 7, 2019 in the zeit.de portal ( Die Zeit ), accessed on February 27, 2020
3. ↑ Hans-Dieter Speck: Landesschule Pforta: Musisches Klima enriched , article from July 2, 2003 in the portal mz-web.de ( Mitteldeutsche Zeitung ), accessed on February 27, 2020
4. ^ Danilo Scholz , website in the portal progressives-zentrum.org ( Progressive Center ), accessed on February 27, 2020
5. ↑ Danilo Scholz, Fulbright Schuman Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University , website in the portal criticaltheory.berkeley.edu , accessed on February 27, 2020
6. ↑ Danilo Scholz receives Heinrich Mann Prize 2019 , article from February 19, 2019 in the portal boersenblatt.net ( Börsenblatt )