Ernst Piper

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Ernst Piper (2019)

Ernst Reinhard Piper (born March 29, 1952 in Munich ) is a German publisher and historian .

Life

Piper describes himself as a “late 68er ” and his parents as liberal-conservative. After graduating from high school in 1972, he studied history and German at the University of Munich and from 1974 at the Technical University of Berlin , where he added philosophy and received his doctorate in 1981 . Ernst Piper lives in Berlin.

In 1982 he joined the Piper publishing house of his father Klaus Piper , whose managing partner (with 20% of the shares) he was in 1983/1994. In 1994 the publishing house was sold to the Swedish Bonnier Group after Ernst Reinhard Piper had already contacted other interested parties.

From 1997 to 2000 he was managing partner of Prospero Presse and from 1998 to 2003 of Pendo Verlag . From 2003 to 2013 Piper was a partner in the literary agency Piper & Poppenhusen. He has been running the Ernst Piper literature agency since 2014.

In the 1990s Piper published some works on the " historians' dispute ". In 1998 he was a fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam , and in 2003 head of the department for Holocaust studies. In 2005 he finished his habilitation thesis on Alfred Rosenberg , which he had begun in 1993 , in mid-2006 he completed the habilitation process with the lecture "Ludwig Thoma and his publishers" and is now an adjunct professor for modern history at the University of Potsdam.

Piper is a member of the board of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy .

Fonts

  • The city map as a floor plan of the company (1982, including dissertation)
  • Ernst Barlach and the National Socialist Art Policy (1987)
  • The new old right-wing radicalism (1993)
  • 90 years of Piper (1994)
  • No final line. Against Oblivion (1996)
  • The Ciompi Uprising (2000)
  • Is There Really a Holocaust Industry? (2001)
  • Alfred Rosenberg. Hitler's chief ideologist (2005, also habilitation thesis)
  • Brief history of National Socialism from 1919 until today. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg, 2007. 351 pages. ISBN 978-3-455-50024-0
  • A Little History of Munich (2008)
  • Savonarola . Prophet of God's dictatorship (2009)
  • National Socialism. Its history from 1919 to today (2012)
  • Night over Europe. Cultural history of the First World War (2013), ISBN 978-3-549-07373-5
  • The Age of World Wars (2014)
  • 1945. Defeat and new beginning (2015)
  • Rosa Luxemburg . One life . Blessing Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-89667-540-8 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review by Hartmut Henicke
personal data
SURNAME Piper, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piper, Ernst Reinhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich