Detlev Arens

Detlev Arens (* 1948 in Siegen ) is a German freelance author and journalist . He has mainly emerged as the author of art travel guides .

Life

Arens studied German , philosophy and theater studies at the University of Cologne . In 1980 he was with the dissertation research on Arthur Schnitzler's novel " The way out " at the Polytechnic Wuppertal to Dr. phil. PhD .

Since 1985 he has made a name for himself as the author of several illustrated books and a number of art travel guides , which are primarily aimed at cultural tourists . In these guides, most of which he published in the DuMont publishing group , he introduced the Ardennes , Flanders and the Rhineland , among others . He wrote several books about the cities of Cologne and Prague . In 2001 he published a biography of Franz Kafka in Deutsches Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv) . He is also the author of numerous radio essays on art historical and philosophical topics. Arens has also authored several nature books, including one on the Wahner Heide (2006). At the end of 2010 - in keeping with the " International Year of Forests 2011 " - he published the book Der deutsche Wald . Arens, who lived in Cologne for a long time, has lived with his family in Bonn-Kessenich since 1999 .

Fonts

Own books

• Investigations on Arthur Schnitzler's novel “ Der Weg ins Freie ” , doctoral thesis, Wuppertal 1980 (in print as volume 466 in the series Europäische Hochschulschriften / 01 , Lang, Frankfurt am Main and Bern 1981, ISBN 3-8204-5964-2 )
• Sauerland with Siegerland and Wittgensteiner Land . Culture and landscape in the mountainous south of Westphalia , DuMont documents: DuMont art travel guide, DuMont, Cologne 1985 ( ISBN 3-7701-1534-1 )
• The Ardennes . An old cultural landscape in the heart of Europe , DuMont documents: DuMont art travel guide, DuMont, Cologne 1988 ( ISBN 3-7701-1995-9 )
• Prague. Art, culture and history of the "Golden City" , DuMont documents: DuMont Art Travel Guide, DuMont, Cologne 1991 (3rd, updated edition as DuMont Art Travel Guide under the title Prague. Culture and History of the "Golden City" , DuMont-Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7701-4303-5 )
• Sixty native wild plants in vivid portraits , DuMont, Cologne 1991 ( ISBN 3-7701-2516-9 )
• Prague. Eine Bildreise , Ellert and Richter, Hamburg 1992 ( ISBN 3-89234-306-3 )
• From trees and bushes. Fifty native trees in vivid portraits , DuMont, Cologne 1993 ( ISBN 3-7701-3147-9 )
• together with Robert Stamm : Rheinland, NRW , Radwandern (Volume 1), DuMont, Cologne 1995 ( ISBN 3-7701-3428-1 )
• Flanders . Flemish Belgium - the unique urban landscape around Brussels , Bruges , Ghent and Antwerp , DuMont Art Guide, DuMont, Cologne 1997 (7th, updated edition in DuMont-Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7701-3005-4 )
• Franz Kafka , Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2001 ( ISBN 3-423-31047-2 )
• together with Florian Monheim : Vault of Heaven. The most beautiful churches and cathedrals , DuMont, Cologne 2001 ( ISBN 3-7701-5867-9 )
• The water of Cologne. Forays through nature, culture and history , Greven, Cologne 2004 ( ISBN 3-7743-0350-9 )
• The Wahner Heide . Biodiversity, nature and recreation , discovery tours, Bachem, Cologne 2006
• Cologne. A big city in pictures , with photographs by Celia Körber-Leupold , 5th edition, Greven, Cologne 2006 ( ISBN 3-7743-0378-9 )
• Prague. Literary forays , Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-538-07250-3 )
• Rhenish world. Stories of connectedness , Bouvier, Bonn 2010 ( ISBN 978-3-416-03300-8 )
• The German Forest , Edition Fackelträger, Cologne 2010 ( ISBN 978-3-7716-4427-7 )
• Dragons and dragon slayers in the Rhineland , Regionalia, Rheinbach 2014 ( ISBN 978-3-9554-0136-8 )
• Kulturführer Drachenfels , Regionalia, Rheinbach 2015 ( ISBN 978-3-9554-0136-8 )
• This is Cologne: Dom. Old town. Underground. , Regionalia, Rheinbach 2016 ( ISBN 978-3-9554-0230-3 )
• The Alps. Narurerlebnis, Kulturgut, Sehnsuchtsort , Edition Fackelträger, Cologne 2016 ( ISBN 978-3-7716-4679-0 ) (Edition in French: Les Alpes. Nature, Culture, Habitat, translated by Elise Legentil, by Christine Bonneton, Chamalières (F ) 2017, ISBN 978-2-8625-3744-3 )

As a co-author

• as co-author: Das Weltkulturerbe German-speaking Raum , DuMont, Cologne 1994 ( ISBN 3-7701-3310-2 )
• as co-author: Prague. Multimedia CD-ROM for Windows , DuMont, Cologne 1996 ( ISBN 3-7701-3618-7 )
• as co-author: Vienna . Multimedia CD-ROM for Windows , DuMont, Cologne 1996 ( ISBN 3-7701-3798-1 )
• together with Marianne Bongartz and Stephanie Henseler : Cologne , DuMont-Reise-Taschenbücher, DuMont, Cologne 1998 (several editions, most recently as DuMont-Reise-Taschenbuch under this title in DuMont-Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7701-7296 -2 )
• as co-author: Unser Weltkulturerbe , DuMont, Cologne 1998 (later editions under the title Unser Weltkulturerbe. Art in Germany under the protection of UNESCO , most recently in 2005 in DuMont-Literatur-und-Kunst-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8321-7537 -7 or ISBN 3-8321-7279-3 )
• as co-author: The Rhine - our world cultural heritage , DuMont-Literatur-und-Kunst-Verlag, Cologne 2003 ( ISBN 3-8321-7323-4 )
• as co-author: 100 x Germany. The 100 most important cultural monuments , DuMont art travel guide, DuMont travel publisher, Ostfildern 2006 ( ISBN 978-3-7701-6395-3 )
• as co-author: The most beautiful travel destinations in Germany and Europe , fascination & adventure, Kunth, Munich 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-89944-348-6 )
• together with Claudia Kroth and Wolfgang Oelsner : Costumes and masks in the Cologne Carnival , Greven, Cologne 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-7743-0396-6 )

Editing

• as editor: Rhein-Maas-Kulturraum in Europa. Results of a symposium in Aachen (October 25-27, 1990) , Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne-Pulheim, and Habelt, Bonn 1991 ( ISBN 3-7927-1274-1 )
• as editor: "With his gold and fog". The Bergisches Land in the mirror of literature , Bücken & Sulzer , Overath 2004 ( ISBN 3-936405-13-1 )
• as editor: As if I had to go home right away. Düsseldorf in the mirror of literature , Greven, Cologne 2006 ( ISBN 3-7743-0387-8 )

Web links

• Literature by and about Detlev Arens in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Detlev Arens at perlentaucher.de
• Detlev Arens on the Bücken-Sulzer-Verlag website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ in print as Volume 466 in the series Europäische Hochschulschriften 01 , Lang, Frankfurt am Main and Bern 1981 ( ISBN 3-8204-5964-2 )