Detlef Felken

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Detlef Felken (born October 28, 1957 ) is a German lecturer , historian and program manager at the cultural studies CH Beck publishing house in Munich .

Career

Felken studied in Bonn History and American Studies and was the end of the 1980s with a dissertation on Oswald Spengler to Dr. phil. PhD . After completing a two-month internship at CH Beck Verlag in 1989 , he started working there as a lecturer in 1991. In 2000 he replaced Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg as head editor of the cultural studies publishing house. In his program work, he supervises contemporary intellectuals and historians such as Saul Friedländer , Timothy Snyder , Johannes Fried , Arnold Esch , Jürgen Osterhammel or Thomas Piketty and suggests topics that critically reflect on global, European and more recent German history. So in 2017 he campaigned for the translation of Ibram X. Kendis Branded: The True History of Racism in America . Under his aegis, the publisher published Nelson Mandela's prison letters on his 100th birthday and, from 2010, started the publication of Ulrich Herbert 's series "European History in the 20th Century". Felken lives in Munich.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Oswald Spengler. Conservative thinker between empire and dictatorship. CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3406333265 .
  • Dulles and Germany. American policy on Germany 1953–1959 . Bouvier, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3416024176 .
  • Together with Tino Jacobs (ed.): Die Welt im Buch: Kleine Chronik des Verlag CH Beck 1763–2013 . CH Beck, Munich 2013.

editor

  • A book that changed my life [Wolfgang Beck from his authors on his 65th birthday in 2006]. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 3406564615 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ October 28, 2007: Detlef Felken (50). In: book report. The ideas magazine for the book trade. October 29, 2007, accessed on September 29, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ The world in the book. Small chronicle of the publishing house CH Beck 1763-2013. January 2013, accessed on September 29, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Robert Weil: Round Birthdays: An American Appreciation - Detlef Felken. In: Book Market. The ideas magazine for the book trade. October 28, 2019, accessed on September 29, 2019 (As Weil writes, Felken recognized the special potential of Thomas Pikety's "Capital in the 21st Century" very early on and bought the rights for the German version before the English translation was published .).
  4. ^ Saul Friedländer: Serious Magician. Saul Friedländer congratulates Detlef Felken on his 60th. In: Börsenblatt - weekly magazine for the German book trade. October 28, 2017, accessed on September 29, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Ibid.
  6. ↑ European history in the 20th century. In: Website of the CH Beck publishing house. Retrieved September 29, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Felken, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lecturer, historian and program manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1957