Eberhard Straub

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Eberhard Straub (born December 30, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German historian and publicist.

Life

The son of the ancient historian Johannes Straub studied history , art history and archeology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the University of Turin and the University of Vienna from 1962 . In 1968 he was in Munich summa cum laude for Dr. phil. PhD. In 1977 he completed his habilitation there. He then worked as an editor for the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 1986–1989 he was with the Stuttgarter Zeitung , and finally with Die Welt for six months . He then became head of public relations at the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft in Essen (until 1997). Between 1970 and 1974 he went on research trips to Spain , New York City and Vienna . Since 1998 he has lived as a freelance author in Berlin.

Act

Straub's main research interests are cultural history , historical biography and national history ( Spain , Prussia ). He also writes on the history of literature , art history and the history of music . As a historian, he is particularly interested in illuminating the basic mental and universal historical tendencies of an era as well as in the intellectual and social-psychological classification of historical personalities beyond structural- historical and sociological schemes. Their essayistic style, rich in anecdotes, and the lack of a scientific apparatus make his books attractive to a non-academic readership, while on the other hand the wealth of allusions and hidden quotations as well as the latent recourse to basic historical facts usually require at least a rudimentary knowledge of the topic .

As a journalist, Straub writes for the Berliner Zeitung , FAZ, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Compact (magazine), among others . He also accepts journalistic assignments from the business world . For a long time he belonged to the regular authors of the Siedler Verlag . In 1994 he was one of the authors of the anthology The Self-Confident Nation for the New Right .

Publications

  • The Bellum Iustum des Hernán Cortés in Mexico. Böhlau, Cologne 1976, ISBN 3-412-05975-7 .
  • The twilight of the gods of modernity. From Wagner to Orwell. Heidelberg 1987.
  • The Wittelsbachers. Berlin 1994.
  • Three last emperors. The fall of the great European dynasties. Berlin 1998.
  • Johann Gustav Droysen and the history of Prussia. De Gruyter, Berlin 2000.
  • Albert Ballin. The emperor's shipowner. Berlin 2001.
  • A little history of Prussia. Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-88680-723-9 .
  • The spanish century. Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-88680-739-0 .
  • About doing nothing. Living in a world without work. Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-937989-02-0 .
  • Fragile happiness. Love and Marriage through the Ages. Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-937989-12-9 .
  • The Furtwänglers. Story of a German family. Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-88680-839-7 .
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II. The invention of the empire from the spirit of modernity. Landt, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938844-10-6 .
  • To the tyranny of values. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-608-94615-4 ; New edition Jungeuropa, Dresden 2019, ISBN 978-3-948145-00-2 .
  • The Congress of Vienna. The great festival and the reorganization of Europe . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-608-94847-9 .
  • Republic and Democracy . Antaios, Schnellroda 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Representation Maiestatis or Churbayerische joy festivals. The court festivals in the Munich Residenz from the 16th to the end of the 18th century .
  2. ^ Habilitation thesis: Pax et imperium. Spain's struggle for peace in Europe between 1617 and 1635 .
  3. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: Ideology and Self -Image of the New Right. Look to the right , February 21, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Straub, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin