Jan Philipp Reemtsma

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Jan Philipp Reemtsma, 2014
Reemtsma at the Göttinger Historikertag 2014, with the moderator on the far left and with Ute Frevert and Herfried Münkler

Jan Philipp Reemtsma (born November 26, 1952 in Bonn ) is a German philologist , journalist and patron whose work ranges from literary studies to the social science analysis of violence. In 1996 he was kidnapped. From 2012 to the end of 2015 he was Honorary Consul of the Republic of Slovenia for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.

Live and act

Jan Philipp Reemtsma is the son of the entrepreneur Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma . He studied German and philosophy in Hamburg . After reaching the age of 26, according to the will, he was allowed to dispose of his inheritance. He sold his shares in Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH and had no longer had any connections with the company since 1980. With a fortune of 700 million euros, Manager Magazin ranks him among the 150 richest Germans .

From March 25 to April 26, 1996, Reemtsma was kidnapped . After paying a ransom, he was released by the kidnappers. His abduction, imprisonment and liberation he describes and reflects in a book with the title Im Keller , published in 1997. He later succeeded in locating the kidnapper through investigators commissioned by him in South America and thus handing him over to the criminal justice system.

Reemtsma is personally dedicated to literature and science and is a patron of cultural, scientific and political initiatives.

Arno Schmidt

In order to guarantee independence for the poet Arno Schmidt, who had a heart disease , Reemtsma offered him the value of a Nobel Prize of 350,000 DM as support in 1977. Two years after his death, in 1981 he made the establishment of the " Arno Schmidt Foundation " possible, of which he has been the sole director since 1983. He is also co-editor of the “ Bargfelder Edition” of Arno Schmidt's complete works and reads from them in public readings.

Christoph Martin Wieland

As co-editor of numerous editions of Christoph Martin Wieland's works , Reemtsma played a key role in the restoration of Wieland's long-neglected Oßmannstedt estate near Weimar , which was reopened on June 25, 2005 as a museum and research home. On the occasion of Wieland's 275th birthday on September 5, 2008, Reemtsma enabled the world premiere of the Stabat mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi in the German version, which Wieland created in 1781, initiated by the Cologne artist Cornel Wachter .

Hamburg Institute for Social Research

In 1984 he founded the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS), which he headed from 1990 to 2015. This institute has around 60 employees, publishes Mittelweg 36 , and is financed from the foundation's assets. It became known to the general public not least through two controversially discussed Wehrmacht exhibitions that dealt with the crimes of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union and the Balkans . The Polish historian Bogdan Musiał and the Hungarian historian Krisztián Ungváry found errors in the assignment of several photos that were shown at the first Wehrmacht exhibition (1995–1999). The institute was suspected of trying to silence critics through trials brought against Musiał and others. The exhibition was withdrawn and redesigned in November 1999 after evidence that around 20 of the more than 1,400 photos did not show crimes of the Wehrmacht but the victims of others. The second Wehrmacht exhibition took place between 2001 and 2004. In 2006 Michael Verhoeven's documentary The Unknown Soldier appeared on the reactions to the Wehrmacht exhibition.

Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture

In 1984 Reemtsma founded the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture and, as its board member, sponsored numerous editions, among others by Theodor W. Adorno , Jean Améry and Walter Benjamin . Research projects were also financed by the foundation, such as the development of the Film-Kurier Index by CineGraph - Hamburg Center for Film Research and the Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation .

Further patronage

In 1986 he helped finance the Hamburg Foundation for the Politically Persecuted , which was founded on the initiative of the former Mayor of Hamburg, Klaus von Dohnanyi .

Jan Philipp Reemtsma is a member of the board of trustees of the international non-profit foundation Luwian Studies , the purpose of which is “to research the second millennium BC in western Asia Minor and to disseminate knowledge about it”. In May 2016, the foundation went public with a website. At the same time, Eberhard Zangger's latest book The Luwian Civilization - The Missing Link in the Aegean Bronze Age was published .

Professorships

Reemtsma is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Hamburg . In 1999 he held the Mercator Professorship at the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg (today: University of Duisburg-Essen ).

In 2009 Reemtsma was a guest at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Schiller Professorship 2009).

Further stations in life

Reemtsma gave the laudation for Jürgen Habermas in 2001 on the occasion of the award of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade , as well as the laudation for Alexander Kluge on October 25, 2003 on the occasion of the Darmstadt awarding of the Georg Büchner Prize to Kluge. From 2003 to 2006 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and from 2013 to 2016 a member of the Science Council . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

archive

In November 2017 Jan Philipp Reemtsma handed over his literary and scientific archive to the German Literature Archive in Marbach . In addition to correspondence with contemporary writers and scholars, such as Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Marcel Reich-Ranicki , it also contains preliminary work on publications and documents on scientific, artistic and social projects, publishers and magazines that he supports. The portfolio will be gradually transferred to Marbach and developed over several years.

Private

Reemtsma is married to Ann Kathrin Scheerer and the father of Johann Scheerer . Johann Scheerer processed the kidnapping of his father in a novel.

Awards

According to Hanseatic tradition , Reemtsma refused to accept the Federal Cross of Merit awarded to him .

Works

  • The Harwich Hexameron - A British Fragment . CMZ-Verlag, Rheinbach-Merzbach 1992, ISBN 3-87062-040-4
  • u. a. Falun. Speeches & essays . Edition Tiamat, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-923118-03-1
  • The book of me. Christoph Martin Wieland's “Aristippus and some of his contemporaries” . Haffmans, Zurich 1993 (= dissertation University of Hamburg 1993)
  • More than a champion. About the style of the boxer Muhammad Ali . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995 (revised new edition in the Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-269-1 )
  • The process of becoming deaf after the Big Bang . 10 speeches and essays. Haffmans, Zurich 1995
  • In the basement . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-930908-29-8
  • Murder on the Beach. Alliances of civilization and barbarism . Essays and speeches. Hamburger Edition HIS, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-930908-34-4
  • The love mask dance . Essays on the work of Christoph Martin Wieland. Haffmans, Zurich 1999
  • Voices from the previous century . Audio images. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-93230-5
  • “How would I have behaved?” And other not just German questions . Speeches and essays. CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47398-9
  • Crime victim. Law and Justice (with Winfried Hassemer ). CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-49565-6
  • The violence doesn't speak . Drei Reden, Reclam (UB 18192), Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-15-018192-5
  • Why Hagen killed Jung-Ortlieb. Untimely about war and death . CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49427-7
  • The irrevocable ignorance of the majority . Six speeches on literature and art. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53724-3
  • Torture under the rule of law? Hamburger Edition HIS, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-936096-55-4
  • Rudi Dutschke, Andreas Baader and the RAF (with Wolfgang Kraushaar and Karin Wieland ). Hamburger Edition HIS, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-936096-54-6
  • About Arno Schmidt. Surveying a poetic terrain . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-518-41762-1
  • Name the memory . Two speeches (with Saul Friedländer ). CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-42108-2
  • Trust and violence. Attempt on a special constellation of modernity . Hamburger Edition HIS, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-936096-89-7
  • Writings on literature. Complete works. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68330-5
  • What does it mean: to interpret a literary text? Requirements and implications of talking about literature. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-69098-3
  • Violence as a way of life. Two speeches. Reclam, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-15-019382-2 .
  • Some dogs. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-458-19432-3 .
  • That was gone. Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach , Kampa Verlag, Zurich 2020 ISBN 978-3-311-40002-8 .

Articles in newspapers

  • The scale of the hideous is open to the bottom. A conversation about violence in the 20th century and the crimes of the Wehrmacht. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 14, 1997.
  • The not very clearly drawn line between normality and crime. Speech at the opening of the Wehrmacht exhibition in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 15, 1997.
  • Nathan is silent. The acceptance speech for the Lessing Prize. In: Die Zeit , November 28, 1997.
  • What to talk about. Reply to Dohnanyi. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 26, 1998.
  • The only solution. The vote for the Holocaust memorial will only be bearable if the forced laborers are compensated and the memorials are secured. In: Die Zeit , June 17, 1999.
  • Comet. Oh, you lucky ones around me. On the 175th anniversary of the death of Jean Paul. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 11, 2000.
  • The Jürgen W. Möllemann and Martin Walser cases: The elite and the mob. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , June 1, 2002.
  • What are victim interests actually? In: Rechtsmedizin 2005, pp. 86–91.
  • Lust for violence . In: Die Zeit , 11/2007. ( online zeit.de )

Editorships

  • with Bernd Rauschenbach : “Wu Hi?”. Arno Schmidt in Görlitz Lauban Greiffenberg . Edition of the Arno Schmidt Foundation by Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-251-00029-2
  • with Mauro Basaure and Rasmus Willig: renewal of criticism. An interview with Axel Honneth . Campus, Frankfurt a. M. (et al.) 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38859-5

Radio plays

  • 2008: Elderflower - A Possible Arno Schmidt Monologue - Director: Christiane Ohaus (RB / SR)

literature

Web links

General

Commons : Jan Philipp Reemtsma  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Jan Philipp Reemtsma  - Quotes

Interviews, essays and lectures

Remarks

  1. ↑ “Jan Philipp Reemtsma, social researcher and kidnapping victim, has a life theme: violence. How can you explain that people injure, torture, kill? ", " I am very much in favor of revenge, it just mustn't be " @ zeit.de, accessed January 31, 2017 (ZEIT Wissen No. 3/2016, April 12 2016)
  2. ↑ J. Ph. Reemtsma: Two Exhibitions - One Balance ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ See the report of the investigating historian's commission. ( Memento of October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 370 kB)
  4. ↑ The Unknown Soldier (2006) trailer on YouTube (1:13 min.)
  5. ^ The unknown world power @ sueddeutsche.de, November 26, 2016; Contributors ( January 31, 2017 memento on the Internet Archive ) @ luwianstudies.org, accessed January 31, 2017
  6. ↑ https://luwianstudies.org/de/neue-stiftungsraete/
  7. ^ Thomas Ribi: Controversy in the archeology: decisive battle for Troy. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved June 15, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Jan Philipp Reemtsma. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
  9. ^ Archive of Jan Philipp Reemtsma goes to Marbach. Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, November 30, 2017, accessed on August 7, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Christoph Twickel: Again on the dike. In: Zeit Online, December 10, 2016 (accessed March 4, 2018).
  11. ↑ Johann Scheerer: We are then probably the relatives. The story of a kidnapping . Piper, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-492-05909-1 .
  12. ^ First award of the Ferdinand Tönnies Medal by the Christian Albrechts University , in: Christiana Albertina , H. 66, 2008, pp. 38–48. The laudator was Lars Clausen .
  13. ^ Schader Prize 2011 to Jan Philipp Reemtsma , in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from January 26, 2011, accessed on January 27, 2011
  14. ↑ Awarding of the Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig to Jan Philipp Reemtsma @ leipzig.de, June 26, 2015, accessed January 31, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Reemtsma, Jan Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reemtsma, Jan Philipp Fürchtegott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg