Henning Ritter

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Henning Ritter (born July 20, 1943 in Seiffersdorf , Province of Upper Silesia , † June 23, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German journalist , writer and translator who was the editor in charge of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for a long time . Henning Ritter was the son of the philosopher Joachim Ritter .

Life

Ritter attended the old-language Schiller Grammar School in Münster and studied philosophy , art history and classical philology in Marburg , Heidelberg and Berlin. After his studies, which he did not complete, he worked as a publisher, translator and author. He published two book series in the Hanser Verlag and among other things edited a two-volume edition of the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau . From 1985 until his retirement in 2008 he was responsible for the “Humanities” section at FAZ; later he was an author for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . After many years he lived in the Wetterau (Hessen) in Berlin and was a "long-time confidante" of Carl Schmitt and Jacob Taubes . He worked for Taubes at the Free University of Berlin as a student tutor, Schmitt is described as his "fatherly friend from an early age". According to his own statement, he had "been friends with Jacob Taubes for many years".

Since the beginning of his retirement he lived in Berlin. The Kufsteiner Strasse salon owned by the couple Christiane and Lothar Pues in Berlin, where intellectuals gather, would not have come into being without Henning Ritter's initiative.

Henning Ritter's grave in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Knight was thinking of philosophy Isaiah Berlin coined: "Isaiah Berlin is among those who have given my life in some way a new direction. I almost want to say he saved me. When I met his essays ... I was torn from my position, lost in theorizing. ”Ritter met Berlin during his only visit to Germany in May 1993 in Frankfurt and was in contact with him by letter.

Henning Ritter died just four weeks before his 70th birthday on June 23, 2013 in Berlin. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 16-F-42).

Monographs

Awards and honors

In 2000, Ritter received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hamburg and in 2005 the Ludwig Börne Prize . In 2010 he received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and was appointed to the German Academy for Language and Poetry . For his notebooks , a collection of philosophical thought sketches , published in autumn 2010 , Ritter received the 2011 Leipzig Book Fair prize in the non-fiction / essay category .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink / Thorsten Palzhoff / Martin Treml (eds.), Jacob Taubes - Carl Schmitt. Correspondence with materials. Paderborn 2012. p. 14.
  2. ^ Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink / Thorsten Palzhoff / Martin Treml (eds.), Jacob Taubes - Carl Schmitt. Correspondence with materials. Paderborn 2012. p. 98.
  3. ↑ H. Ritter, The man who knew too much, in: FAZ, January 19, 2008, p. Z1.
  4. ^ H. Ritter, The meeting in Frankfurt. On the 100th birthday of the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, in: FAZ, June 6, 2009, Z3.
  5. ^ H. Ritter, The meeting in Frankfurt. On the 100th birthday of the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, in: FAZ, June 6, 2009, Z3.

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personal data
SURNAME Ritter, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Seiffersdorf , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2013
Place of death Berlin