Frank Weinreich

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Frank Weinreich (* 1962 in Osnabrück ) is a freelance German author and editor .

Life

Frank Weinreich studied philosophy , journalism and political science at the Ruhr-University Bochum , worked as a scientist at the Universities of Bochum, Dortmund and Vechta and was in Vechta with a thesis on medical ethics and bioethics as a doctor of philosophy doctorate . Since 2001 he has been working as a freelancer with a focus on practical philosophy, ethics, education, technology assessment , mythology and fantasy literature. He was best known for his work on the work of JRR Tolkien, as co-editor of the scientific yearbook of the German Tolkien Society and as the author of secondary literature on fantasy in general. Weinreich won the German Fantastic Prize in 2006 and 2008 as editor and in 2008 also took second place as an author. Since 2002 he has increasingly appeared as a short story writer and fantasy editor.

Selected publications as an author

  • Frank Weinreich: Fantasy. Introduction. Oldib-Verlag, Essen 2007. (2nd place in the election for the German Fantastic Prize 2008)
  • Thomas M Honegger, Andrew James Johnston, Friedhelm Schneidewind , Frank Weinreich: A grammar of ethics. The topicality of the moral dimension in JRR Tolkien's literary work. (= Edition Stein und Baum. Volume 1). Verlag der Villa Fledermaus, Saarbrücken 2005.
  • Frank Weinreich: Demanding conclusions. On the scope of ethics in application questions of the new biotechnologies. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2005.
  • Frank Weinreich: Netizens and Citizens. Establishing a Point of View towards Virtual Communities. In: CMC Magazine. 2/97. (december.com)
  • Frank Weinreich: Benefit and reward structures of computer-mediated communication. On the application of the Uses and Gratifications Approach in a new research field. In: Journalism. 2/98, pp. 130-142.
  • Oliver Reis, Frank Weinreich: Man on the Net: Gnostic Elements on the Internet. In: Peter Nitschke (ed.): Cultural mediation and interregionalities. Scientific series of the Collegium Polonicum. Special tape. Collegium Polonicum, Frankfurt (Oder) / Słubice / Poznań 2003, pp. 243-278.
  • Frank Weinreich: If our hope now depends on the old. Consequences of prenatal gene therapy. In: Rudolf Rehn, Christina Schües, Frank Weinreich: The dream of "better" people. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2003, pp. 85-115.
  • Frank Weinreich: Brief Considerations on Determinism in Reality and Fiction. In: F. Weinreich, Th. Honegger: Tolkien and Modernity. Volume 1, Zurich / Bern 2006, pp. 135–144.
  • Frank Weinreich: Totalitarism. In: Elisabeth Decultot, Michel Espagne, Jacques Le Rider (Eds.): Dictionnaire du Monde Germanique. Edition Bayard, Paris 2007, pp. 1133–1134.
  • Frank Weinreich: Metaphysics of Myth. The Platonic Ontology of Mythopoeia. In: Margaret Hiley, Frank Weinreich: Tolkien's Shorter Works. Walking Tree Publishers, Zurich / Bern 2008, pp. 325–347.

Selected publications as editor

  • Thomas Fornet-Ponse, Marcel Bülles, Thomas Honegger, Rainer Nagel, Alexandra Velten, Frank Weinreich (eds.): Hither Shore. Annual journal of the German Tolkien Society. Cologne / Düsseldorf 2004 ff. (Hither Shore won the German Fantastic Prize 2006 and 2008)
  • Margaret Hiley, Frank Weinreich (Ed.): Tolkien's Shorter Works. Walking Tree Publishers, Zurich / Bern 2008.
  • Frank Weinreich, Thomas Honegger (eds.): Tolkien and Modernity 1. Walking Tree Publishers, Zurich / Bern 2006.
  • Thomas Honegger, Frank Weinreich (eds.): Tolkien and Modernity 2. Walking Tree Publishers, Zurich / Bern 2006.
  • Friedhelm Schneidewind , Frank Weinreich (Ed.): Middle-earth is our world. How it "really" was. (= Edition Stein und Baum. Volume 2). An anthology. Verlag der Villa Fledermaus, Saarbrücken 2006.
  • Rudolf Rehn, Christina Schües, Frank Weinreich (eds.): The dream of "better" people. On the relationship between practical philosophy and biotechnology. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. a. 2003.
  • Eva Schürmann, Norbert Waszek, Frank Weinreich (eds.): Spinoza in Germany of the eighteenth century: in memory of Hans-Christian Lucas. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2002, ISBN 3-7728-2027-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Weinreich, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück