Svenja Flaßpöhler

Svenja Flaßpöhler (* 1975 in Münster ) is a German philosopher , journalist and author .

Life

Svenja Flaßpöhler studied philosophy , German language and literature and sport at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster from 1994 to 2001 . In 2006 she received a scholarship from the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes” for her doctorate in philosophy with the work Der Wille zur Lust. Pornography and the Modern Subject .

As a freelance author, she wrote numerous essays and features from 2003 to 2011 , including for Deutschlandfunk , Deutschlandradio and the magazine Psychologie Heute .

From 2011 to 2016 Svenja Flaßpöhler was deputy editor-in-chief of the philosophy magazine , from 2013 to 2016 she was a book critic in the 3sat - "Buchzeit". Since 2013 she has been running the program of the Cologne philosophy festival phil.COLOGNE - together with Wolfram Eilenberger , Gert Scobel and Jürgen Wiebicke . Your euthanasia event was highly controversial. There was a boycott call from euthanasia opponents. From December 2016 to December 2017 she was senior editor for literature and the humanities at Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Since January 2018 she has been editor-in-chief of Philosophy Magazine .

For her book My will be done. Dying in times of assisted suicide (2007) Svenja Flaßpöhler received the Arthur Koestler Prize of the German Society for Human Dying . In her book Forgiveness. From dealing with guilt (2016) she philosophically explores the phenomenon of forgiveness and tells of her encounters with people who - as perpetrators or victims - are confronted with the most serious guilt. Svenja Flaßpöhler's own story - she was left by her mother at the age of 14 and grew up with her stepfather - forms the central theme of the book, which is her most personal to date.

She is one of the supporters of the Charter of Fundamental Digital Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016. From 2017 to 2019 Flaßpöhler was a juror at the Bavarian Book Prize .

Flaßpöhler took place in January 2018, the MeToo - campaign well intentioned, but they condemn women to a passive role. On February 1, 2018, she was on the talk show Maybrit Illner and said “MeToo is of no use to women” and “The image that is produced is that of a passive woman reacting to an almighty phallus.” This made the talk show for a controversy with Anne Wizorek . In the program “Büchermarkt” (DLF) on May 7, 2018, she defended her pamphlet The Potent Woman (2018) on the subject.

Svenja Flaßpöhler lives with her husband, the author Florian Werner , and their two children in Berlin .

Fonts

• The will to pleasure. Pornography and the Modern Subject. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38331-6 (Dissertation Uni Münster 2006, 259 pages).
• My will be done. Dying in times of assisted suicide. wjs, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937989-27-3 .
• With Tobias Rausch , Tina Wald (ed.): Kippfiguren der repetition. Interdisciplinary research on repetition in literature, art and science. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-55955-0 .
• Good poison. About jealousy and love. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-491-42109-7 .
• We pleasure workers. About freedom and coercion in a performance society. DVA, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04462-4 .
• My death is mine. About self-determined death. Pantheon, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-55227-8 .
• Forgive. Dealing with guilt. DVA, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-421-04463-1 .
• The potent woman. For a new femininity. Ullstein, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-550-05076-3 .
• With Florian Werner : Come into the world . Blessing, Munich 2019.

Awards

• 2007 Arthur Koestler Prize of the German Society for Human Dying (DGHS) for her book Mein Wille geschehe. Dying in times of assisted suicide .

Web links

• Literature by and about Svenja Flaßpöhler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Svenja Flaßpöhler in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Svenja Flaßpöhler at perlentaucher.de
• Web presence

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boycott calls against phil . Cologne . In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger from June 27, 2013.
2. ↑ About us - Philosophy magazine . In: Philosophy magazine . ( philomag.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).
3. ↑ Chrismon 10/2017, p. 29.
4. ↑ Thea Dorn, Dr. Svenja Flaßpöhler and Knut Cordsen are the new jurors for the Bavarian Book Prize. buchmarkt.de, April 5, 2017, accessed April 5, 2017.
5. ↑ Philosopher: # metoo-debate is well meant, but condemns women to a passive role. Focus.de from January 6, 2018
6. ↑ The philosopher belittles sexual violence in “Illner” - and enrages a feminist. huffingtonpost.de of February 2, 2018
7. ↑ Maybrit Illner: Philosopher Svenja Flasspöhler and feminist Anne Wizorek clash in the debate on sexism. gmx.ch from February 2, 2018
8. ↑ Philosopher Svenja Flaßpöhler on #metoo - A criminally generalizing discourse . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on May 8, 2018]).
9. ↑ Svenja Flaßpöhler on the website of the Philosophie Magazin ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.