Gerd Bergfleth

Gerd Bergfleth (* 1936 in Dithmarschen ) is a German writer and translator .

Life

Bergfleth studied philosophy , literature and Greek studies from 1956 to 1964 in Kiel , Heidelberg and Tübingen . He has lived there since 1971 as a freelance writer and translator. From 1975 he worked initially as an editor and later also as a translator of the theoretical work of Georges Bataille . A monograph with the title Antihermeneutics that was repeatedly announced by the publishing house Matthes & Seitz from 1977 onwards has not appeared. Bergfleth wrote numerous essays, lectures and collections of fragments, among others on Karl Marx , Friedrich Nietzsche , Martin Heidegger , Maurice Blanchot , Pierre Klossowski , Emile Cioran and Jean Baudrillard . He published essays in the journals Konkursbuch and Der Pfahl, as well as in Staatsbriefe und Etappe , which are assigned to the spectrum of the New Right . In 1994 he took part in the debate about Botho Strauss ' essay Swelling Bocksgesang in the anthology The Self-Confident Nation .

Books

As an author

• Theory of Waste: Introduction to Georges Batailles Anti-Economics , Munich, Matthes & Seitz, 1985

As editor

• On the criticism of the Palavern Enlightenment , Munich, Matthes & Seitz, 1984
• EM Cioran. A conversation. Led by Gerd Bergfleth , Tübingen, Rive Gauche, 1985

Translations and annotated editions

Jean Baudrillard:

• The symbolic exchange and death (translation and epilogue: "Baudrillard and the death revolt"), Munich, Matthes & Seitz, 1982

Georges Bataille:

• Theoretical Work I: The Abolition of Economy (The Concept of Expenditure - The Ostracized Part - Communism and Stalinism) , from the French by Traugott König and Heinz Abosch; with a study by Gerd Bergfleth, Munich, Rogner & Bernhard, 1975
• The literature and the evil. Emily Brontë - Baudelaire - Michelet - Blake - Sade - Proust - Kafka - Genet , from the French by Cornelia Langendorf; with an afterword by Gert Bergfleth and an essay by Daniel Leuwers, Munich, Matthes & Seitz 1987
• Die Erotik , Munich, Matthes & Seitz, 1994
• Making amends to Nietzsche: the Nietzsche memorandum and other texts , Munich, Matthes & Seitz, 1999
• Atheological sum / 1: The inner experience together with the method of meditation and postscript 1953 , Munich, Matthes & Seitz, 1999
• Atheological sum / 2: The friendship and The Hallelujah , Munich, Matthes & Seitz, 2002
• Atheological sum / 3: Nietzsche and the will to chance , Berlin, Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2005

Essays

• Violence and passion. Anti-political fragments , in: Oskar Panizza : Die kriminelle Psychose, Munich, Matthes & Seitz, 1978, pp. 239–297
• Petite philosophie sans tête , in: Bettina Best (ed.): I ch live alone , Munich, Matthes & Seitz, 1979, pp. 36–48
• Twelve theses on sovereignty , in: Bankruptcy Book 5/1980, pp. 215–219
• About left irony , in: Bankruptcy Book 5/1980, pp. 223-236
• Ten theses on the critique of reason ; The battered Marsyas ; About left irony ; The cynical enlightenment , in: Gerd Bergfleth (ed.): On the critique of the palavernden enlightenment , Munich, Matthes & Seitz, 1984.
• The sovereignty of evil. On Bataille's revaluation of morals, in: Georges Bataille: Die Literatur und das Böse , Munich, Matthes & Seitz, 1987, pp. 189–236
• The primordial light of nature , in: Heimo Schwilk (ed.): The echo of images. Ernst Jünger in honor , Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta, 1990, pp. 11–42
• Finis Mundi , in: Der Pfahl V / 1991, Munich, Matthes & Seitz, pp. 20–36
• The static world and technology. Reflections on the 'beginninglessness' by Botho Strauss , in: Der Pfahl VI / 1992, 250–271
• The uprising of nature , in: Der Pfahl VIII / 1994, Munich, Matthes & Seitz, pp. 69–96
• Earth and home , in: Heimo Schwilk / Ulrich Schacht : The self-conscious nation. "Schwelling Bocksgesang" and other contributions to a German debate , Frankfurt / Berlin 1994, pp. 101–123
• The moment of eternity , in: Axel Matthes (ed.): The sacred in everyday life, or: Vom Swing der Dinge , Munich, Diederichs, 2012, pp. 65–92

literature

• Micha Brumlik : The fear of the father. Anti -Semitic tendencies in the area of ​​new social movements , in: Alphons Silbermann / Julius H. Schoeps : Antisemitismus nach dem Holocaust. Inventory and appearances in German-speaking countries, Cologne, Berend von Nottbeck, 1984, pp. 155–158
• Diedrich Diederichsen : Spiritual reactionaries and völkisch reason critics , in: ders .: Freedom makes poor. Life after rock'n'roll. 1990–93 , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, 1993, pp. 117–158
• Kurt Lenk : Vordenker der Neue Recht , Frankfurt, Campus, 1997, pp. 120–123

Audio

• Contribution to Radio Dreyeckland on Bergfleth's participation in the 1st Freiburg Cultural Talks on January 29, 1991
• I revolt, so we are. A radio play on the Austrian national holiday based on Gerd Bergfleth's essay "Theory of Revolt" . Design: Alexander Tschernek and Kerstin Schütze, Ö1 , October 26, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerd Bergfleth. In: matthes-seitz-berlin.de. MSB Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, accessed on January 1, 2020 .