Joachim Köhler (philosopher)
Joachim Köhler (* 1952 in Würzburg ) is a philosopher and author.
Live and act
After graduating from high school in Kitzingen, Köhler studied philosophy, German literature and art history in Würzburg from 1971 to 1977 , then in Tübingen (among others with Ernst Bloch ), as an exchange student at Stony Brook University near New York and at Stanford University in California as a visiting scholar ". There he began his doctoral thesis on Friedrich Nietzsche's Happy Science , with which he received his doctorate in 1977 under Heidegger's student Heinrich Rombach . Köhler then worked as a publisher's editor until he joined the Stern editorial team in 1982 , where he worked until 1997 a. a. worked as the publishing director of the Stern books and as a cultural reporter. His first book, the Nietzsche biography Zarathustra's Secret , was published in 1989. This was followed by a series of much-discussed non-fiction books on Nietzsche, Richard and Cosima Wagner and Wagner's monograph Hitler , a controversial book whose essayistic one-sidedness Koehler in his comprehensive Wagner biography from 2001 , The last of the titans , corrected. The 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 appeared Protestant publishing house his book on another "Titans" of German intellectual history, Luther! Biography of a Liberated One.
Köhler has been married since 1977 and lives in Hamburg .
Works
- Zarathustra's secret, Friedrich Nietzsche and his encrypted message . Greno, Nördlingen 1989, ISBN 3-89190-450-9 (translated into seven languages, including for the English-speaking area by Yale University Press).
- Friedrich Nietzsche and Cosima Wagner . Rowohlt, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-499-22614-6 (translated into ten languages, also in English by Yale University Press).
- Wagner's Hitler, Der Prophet und seine Vollstrecker , Blessing, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-89667-016-6 (published for the English-speaking area by Polity Press, Oxford). (Review in FAZ)
- Nietzsche's last dream . Novel. Blessing, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-89667-016-6 (translated into seven languages).
- Who was Friedrich Nietzsche? Inter Nationes 2000 (translated into three languages).
- The last of the titans, Richard Wagner's life and work . Claassen, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-546-00273-3 (translated into three languages, including by Yale University Press).
- Nietzsche ( Biographical Passions series ). Claassen 2001.
- I, Cosima . Novel. Claassen, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-546-00274-1 .
- The laughing Wagner . Heyne, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-453-17875-5 (translated for the English-speaking area by the online publisher Free Scholar Press).
- Luther! Biography of a Liberated One . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-374-04420-7 .
Web links
- "Richard Wagner, A German Drama". For the Wagner year 2013, Köhler took on the role of biographical commentator (on YouTube) in the three-part production of “Spiegel TV”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review: Non-fiction book - Wagner's idiosyncratic enforcer. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 18, 1997, accessed on January 18, 2020 (originally printed in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 18, 1997, No. 164 / page 37).
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SURNAME | Koehler, Joachim |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |