Jürgen Kaube

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Jürgen Kaube (2011)

Jürgen Kaube (born June 19, 1962 in Worms ) is a German journalist and sociologist . He is one of the four editors of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and responsible for the features section .

Life

Kaube obtained his Abitur at the Justus Liebig School in Darmstadt . From 1983 he studied philosophy , German and art history for six semesters at the Free University of Berlin . Kaube then switched to economics and graduated with a degree in economics. He worked as a university assistant for sociology at Bielefeld University . He describes Niklas Luhmann as his “sociological teacher” .

Kaube has been writing regularly for the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung since 1992. In 1999 he first joined the Berlin editorial team and in 2000 he moved to Frankfurt am Main , where he researched and wrote primarily on science and education policy. From 2008 he headed the “Humanities” department. In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung he was responsible for the science journalistic column “Knowledge and Interest”, now renamed “Social Systems”. In January 2012, Kaube became one of the deputies of the then FAZ head of culture, Nils Minkmar . On December 9, 2014, the FAZ's supervisory board appointed him to the editorial team of the newspaper as of January 1, 2015, as the successor to Frank Schirrmacher, who died in June 2014 . Like him, he is responsible for the features section.

Kaube is a lecturer in the field of "Modern German Literature" at the German Department of Heidelberg University . Since 2008 he has been a member of the University Council of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster.

He is also a member of the German Academy for Football Culture .

Honors

In 2012 the Kaube Market Economy Foundation awarded the Swift Prize for Economic Satire .

With his non-fiction book Max Weber - A Life Between Epochs , Kaube was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2014 (Category: Non-Fiction / Essay Writing ).

In 2015 Jürgen Kaube received the Ludwig Börne Prize . The laudator, the historian Dan Diner , praised Kaube's ability to "carry the scientific culture of spirit and matter into the public space with lucid clarity and conceptual escalation". Jürgen Kaube stands with often sharp judgments like Ludwig Börne in the tradition of the Enlightenment. - Together with the Büchner Prize winner Rainald Goetz , Jürgen Kaube - the one for his speech of thanks to the prize, the other for his eulogy for the prize winner - was honored with the award “Speech of the Year 2015” by the Tübingen Seminar for General Rhetoric .

Fonts (selection)

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Kaube  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Westfälische Wilhelm-Universität Münster: Resolution on the proposal of the committee to select the members of the University Council of the WWU for the new term of office (07.03.2013 - 06.03.2018) according to § 21 Paragraph 4 HG NRW - CVs of the proposed personalities (PDF; 226 kB); CV on the FAZ website .
  2. Stefan Andres: I later found out that Luhmann existed. In: KA plus. Critical edition. Journal for German Studies & Literature. September 12, 2008, ISSN  1617-1357 (online at kritische-ausgabe.de, accessed on March 28, 2019).
  3. There is strength in rest. Jürgen Kaube in conversation with Christoph Schmitz. Deutschlandfunk, December 14, 2014 (last accessed December 5, 2015).
  4. Joachim Güntner: Schirrmacher's legacy. Jürgen Kaube is the new “FAZ” editor . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of December 11, 2014, international edition, p. 46.
  5. ^ Janina Reibold: Employee of Modern German Literature Studies - German Department - Heidelberg University .
  6. ^ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, online editing: Members of the University Council - Kaube .
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  8. ^ Stiftung Marktwirtschaft: Jürgen Kaube receives the Swift Prize for Economic Satire 2012 .
  9. ^ Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair: Nominations for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2014 - Non-fiction / essay writing ( Memento from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  10. FOCUS Online: Börne Prize 2015 goes to “FAZ” co-editor Kaube .
  11. Michael Kluger: In the Age of Unrest. In the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, the journalist Jürgen Kaube was awarded the Ludwig Börne Prize, endowed with 20,000 euros. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse, July 13, 2015 (last accessed December 5, 2015).
  12. ^ Laudation by Jürgen Kaube for the Georg Büchner Prize winner Rainald Goetz on the website of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .
  13. Award Speech of the Year 2015 : Rainald Goetz and Jürgen Kaube, December 16, 2015.