Joachim Köhler (philosopher)

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Joachim Köhler (2012)

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

  1. ↑ 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).
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg