Henning Ritter
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.
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
- The long shadow . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-458-16264-X .
- The facades on the East River . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-12158-8 .
- Misfortunes near and far. Try about pity . Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-52186-X (Italian edition 2008).
- The conquerors. 20th century thinker . Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57039-1 .
- Notebooks . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-0958-6 .
- Dear thinkers. Portraits after encounters. Series on cleats, Springe 2012, ISBN 978-3-86674-179-9 .
- The screams of the wounded. Experiment on cruelty , Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64556-3 .
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
- ^ Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink / Thorsten Palzhoff / Martin Treml (eds.), Jacob Taubes - Carl Schmitt. Correspondence with materials. Paderborn 2012. p. 14.
- ^ Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink / Thorsten Palzhoff / Martin Treml (eds.), Jacob Taubes - Carl Schmitt. Correspondence with materials. Paderborn 2012. p. 98.
- ↑ H. Ritter, The man who knew too much, in: FAZ, January 19, 2008, p. Z1.
- ^ H. Ritter, The meeting in Frankfurt. On the 100th birthday of the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, in: FAZ, June 6, 2009, Z3.
- ^ H. Ritter, The meeting in Frankfurt. On the 100th birthday of the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, in: FAZ, June 6, 2009, Z3.
Web links
- Literature by and about Henning Ritter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Henning Ritter in the German Digital Library
- Ritters CV at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( Memento from October 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Obituaries:
- Andreas Platthaus : Henning Ritter has died. A European thinker . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 24, 2013
- Jürgen Kaube / FAZ: Clarification without a promise of rescue
- Jens Jessen / Die Zeit 27/2013: The spirit of Dix-huitième
- Gregor Dotzauer / tagesspiegel.de: The thought in a haystack
personal data | |
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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 |