Jürgen Stenzel

Jürgen Stenzel (* 1962 ) is a German humanities scholar of philosophy and German studies as well as a high school teacher. He is best known for his preoccupation with the person and work of the German-Jewish philosopher Constantin Brunner (1862–1937). In this context, he chairs both the International Constantin Brunner Instituut and the Constantin Brunner Foundation .

Life

The philosopher Constantin Brunner (1862–1937) was and is extensively researched by Stenzel.

Between 1984 and 1990 Stenzel studied philosophy and German at the universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg . This was followed by archival research for the International Constantin Brunner Instituut (ICBI) in The Hague between 1990 and 1996, as well as activities in adult education. In 1993 he took over the chairmanship of the Hamburg Constantin Brunner Foundation . From 1996 to 2001 he did his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Hanover and was a research associate at the Institute for General and Comparative Literature at the Free University of Berlin until 2008 (DFG project). In between, 2005–2007, he passed the first and second state exams for teaching at grammar schools and has been a teacher of German and philosophy at the Max Planck grammar school in Göttingen since 2008 .

Publications (selection)

• as ed. with Robert Zimmer : "What you think wrongly, you have to live wrongly." A Constantin Brunner reader . Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-8260-6493-7 .
• "The bad are different - the others are bad!" Constantin Brunner's theory of anti-Semitism In: attempts to describe the hostility to Jews. On the history of anti-Semitism research before 1944 , Hans-Joachim Hahn and Olaf Kistenmacher (eds.), De Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-033905-5 .
• as ed. with Irene Aue-Ben David and Gerhard Lauer : Constantin Brunner in context. An intellectual between empire and exile. de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-037382-0 .
• as ed. with Irene Aue-Ben David: Constantin Brunner. Selected letters 1884–1937. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1094-0 .
• Constantin Brunner's philosophy. d. i .: Brunner in conversation. Volume 7, Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 2003, ISBN 3-89924-024-3 .
• Philosophy as anti-metaphysics. To Constantin Brunner's picture of Spinoza. d. i. Series of publications by the Spinoza Society . Vol. 10, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-8260-2071-5 (dissertation).
• Doctor Faustus based on Thomas Mann (scenic adaptation). World premiere 23 August 2000 in the Apex Göttingen
• ›I left a sting ...‹ In: Contributions to the Constantin Brunner Symposium Hamburg 1995, with an introduction ed. by Jürgen Stenzel. d. i .: Brunner in conversation. Volume 4, Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-89206-712-0 .
• Leo Sunday. A Jewish émigré fate, with an introduction ed. by J. Stenzel. d. i .: Brunner in conversation. Volume 1, Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 1994, ISBN 3-89206-584-5 .
• No right to life. Peter Singer's Critique of the Right to Life. d. i .: Small works on philosophy. Vol. 34, Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-89206-534-9 , (previously in: PhAct ( Philosophia Activa ) 1/91, pp. 22–38; 2/91, pp. 19–38; 3/91, pp. 4-43).

Web links

• Homepage of the ICBI and the Constantin Brunner Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ constantinbrunner.net ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ uni-goettingen.de ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.