Karl Markus Michel

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Karl Markus Michel (born September 4, 1929 in Hong Kong ; † November 15, 2000 in Berlin ) was a German essayist and editor . From 1961 to 1974 he worked as an editor at Suhrkamp Verlag . From 1975 until his death he published the cultural magazine Kursbuch . Together with his wife Eva Moldenhauer , Karl Markus Michel was also responsible for a newly edited complete edition in 20 volumes of the works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel .

Life

Karl Markus Michel was the son of a German missionary . He spent his childhood and youth in Darmstadt. After graduating from high school, he studied German literature, philosophy, sociology and art history in Munich and Frankfurt am Main. There he was a student of Kurt May and belonged to the circle around his assistant at the time, Walter Höllerer . A planned dissertation on Franz Kafka remained unwritten. From 1955 to 1958 Michel worked at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research . At the same time, he began to write articles for magazines such as the Frankfurter Hefte .

After marrying Eva Moldenhauer , Michel went to Hessischer Rundfunk in 1958 , where he worked as a radio play editor until 1961 . In 1961 he moved to Suhrkamp Verlag as an editor . There he initially oversaw the literary program together with Walter Boehlich , from the mid-1960s he played a key role in developing the scientific program. He brought authors such as Claude Lévi-Strauss , Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault to Suhrkamp. For the Hegel year of 1970, he and his wife Eva Moldenhauer published a complete edition of the works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel .

In 1965, alongside Hans Magnus Enzensberger, he was one of the founders of the culture and theory magazine Kursbuch , of which he was co-editor from 1971. From 1975 at the latest he was the first editor of the course book and remained so for life. In 1974 he retired from the Suhrkamp Verlag and founded by Axel Rütters the syndicate Verlag , which existed until the 1986th From 1980 he was part of the Munich editorial team of the TransAtlantik magazine founded by Enzensberger . From 1983 Michel lived in Berlin, where he died of cancer in 2000.

Works

Karl Markus Michel became famous with the essay The Speechless Intelligence in Two Parts from 1965/1966. In 1998 he received the Heinrich Mann Prize for all of his work . Hans Magnus Enzensberger gave the laudatory speech on March 29, 1998.

Karl Markus Michel's essays - around 50 in number - appeared in various newspapers and magazines, in addition to Kursbuch and TransAtlantik also in Die Zeit , in the magazine of the Frankfurter Allgemeine , in Stern , in Spiegel and in the Frankfurter Rundschau - occasionally under pseudonyms. The author himself has revised and compiled some texts in Von Eulen, Engeln und Sirenen .

Books and articles sorted by year of publication

  • Speechless Intelligence I. In: Kursbuch 1, June 1965, pp. 73–119.
  • Speechless Intelligence II. In: Kursbuch 4, February 1966, pp. 161-213.
  • Speechless intelligence III. In: Kursbuch 9, June 1967, pp. 200-227.
  • A wreath for literature. Five variations on a thesis. In: Kursbuch 15, 1968, pp. 169–186.
  • Institutions free of domination? In: Kursbuch 19, 1969, pp. 163-195.
  • The speechless intelligence . Frankfurt 1968.
  • Who becomes political when and why - and for what purpose. An example of the ignorance of science. In: Kursbuch 25, October 1971, pp. 1–35.
  • Submissive request for the reintroduction of censorship. In: Kursbuch 40, 1975, pp. 179-183.
  • Our everyday life. Obituary during his lifetime. In: Kursbuch 41, September 1975, pp. 1-40.
  • We superstructure workers. A letter to me and my kind. In: Kursbuch 45, 1976, pp. 9-27.
  • Nice sensual. About the devil and his kind, fumbling, sniffing and other tickling. In: Kursbuch 49, October 1977, pp. 1-35.
  • Every man for himself. Sectarian things about the individual and community. In: Kursbuch 55. 1979, pp. 38-58.
  • The seduction. Fate of an occidental gesture. In: Kursbuch 59, 1980, p. 171 [images].
  • Casuistry - the virtue of sin. In: Kursbuch 60, 1980, pp. 61–95.
  • Try to understand the "aesthetic theory". In: Materials for Aesthetic Theory. Th. W. Adornos Construction of Modernity. Edited by Burkhardt Lindner and W. Martin Lüdke. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980, pp. 41-107.
  • Stand on the open ground with a free people. Reflections on the Basic Law. In: Transatlantik, No. 3, March 1981.
  • Have sun in my heart. About a theoretical deficit. In: Kursbuch 64. 1981, pp. 25-37.
  • About Dadaism. In: Kursbuch 66, 1981, pp. 63-81.
  • Ours truly. Research into the whereabouts of the German spirit. In: Transatlantik, No. 3, March 1982.
  • The owl of Minerva in the twilight of the idols. In: Kursbuch 68, June 1982, pp. 22-39.
  • The power of the last things. In: Kursbuch 70. 1982, pp. 101-113.
  • The rule of the new credibility. In: Kursbuch 71.1983, p. 21 ff.
  • Farewell to the modern? A comedy . Kursbuch 73, 1983, pp. 169-197.
  • An empire? Draft of the reunification. In: Kursbuch 75. 1984, pp. 170 ff.
  • "One should admire the great gentlemen". Karl Markus Michel on the writer and ethnologist Victor Segalen . In: Der Spiegel, No. 15, April 9, 1984, pp. 218-225.
  • Brains and chips. In: Kursbuch 75, March 1984, pp. 145-150.
  • Out in the country. June letters 84. In: Kursbuch 77, 1984, p. 61 ff.
  • The slice of the apple of Paris. Review of Judgment. In: Kursbuch 79, February 1985, pp. 133-152.
  • Civil defense orders. In: Kursbuch 80, 1985, p. 173.
  • Crazy green. In: Kursbuch 82. 1985, pp. 196–199 [excursus]
  • In the belly of the whale. Swan song for the healthy personality. In: Kursbuch 82, 1985, pp. 115-141.
  • How the mind stirs. Culture notes in moving sequences. In: Transatlantik, special issue No. 4, 1985
  • Nothing to add, nothing to leave out - turn everything! The book of books: the riddle of riddles. In: Die Zeit, December 20, 1985
  • From the body of the angels. Of women, or if all men were angels. In: FAZ-Magazin, February 21, 1986
  • The hour of the sirens. On the decline of logocentrism. In: Kursbuch 84 ("Sprachlose Intelligence?"), June 1986, pp. 1–16.
  • Greetings from the beyond. A research report. In: Kursbuch 86, 1986, pp. 83-107.
  • The pain. Illustrations: Heinz Edelmann . In: FAZ-Magazin, September 26, 1986
  • Until death ... From the Last Judgment archives. In: Kursbuch 87, 1987, p. 125 ff.
  • The plague in the city. In: Die Zeit, June 12, 1987
  • The magic of the place. About the desire for authentic memorials and the love of ruins. In: Die Zeit, September 11, 1987
  • Language of the speechless in nature's ossuary . Photos: Wilfried Bauer . In: FAZ-Magazin, October 9, 1987
  • Return to the facade. In: Kursbuch 89, September 1987, pp. 125-143.
  • The middle. In: Kursbuch 90, November 1987 [excursus]
  • All theater. In: Kursbuch 92, May 1988, pp. 168–170 [excursus]
  • 35 steps distance - 15 steps barrier. An out of date plea for honor. In: Die Zeit, February 12, 1988.
  • The call to the spirit. A panorama of the academic scene. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, March 22, 1988.
  • The call to the spirit. In: Kursbuch 91, March 1988, pp. 27-33.
  • Praise the fake. In: FAZ-Magazin, July 22, 1988
  • Old masters, collapsing new buildings. Do the boys get stuck in their Ex & Hopp culture? In: Die Zeit, September 23, 1988
  • Of owls, angels and sirens . Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988
  • Identity as a facade. Speech to the monument conservationists. In: FAZ-Magazin, March 10, 1989
  • Between heaven and earth. A ghost train. In: Kursbuch 96, June 1989, pp. 153-171.
  • Orcus tour. In: Kursbuch 96, 1989, pp. 175–179 [excursus]
  • Is socialism finished? In: Die Zeit, December 1, 1989
  • Beware - the citizens are coming. Photos: William Klein . In: FAZ-Magazin, January 12, 1990
  • Introduction to a nuisance. In: Kursbuch March 99, 1990, pp. 1-5.
  • Saint Luke! Criticism of art criticism. In: Kursbuch March 99, 1990, pp. 129–154.
  • Faces. Physiognomic forays . Hain, Frankfurt am Main 1990
  • The human trap. In: Kursbuch 104, June 1991, pp. 23-35.
  • Adornment, fetish, bluff. A revue of the beautiful appearance. In: Kursbuch 106, December 1991, pp. 151-168.
  • Hero's Dawn. The fates of grandiosity. In: Kursbuch 108, June 1992, pp. 63-86.
  • Liebknecht's balloon. Or the past, represented as a memorial using Berlin as an example. In: Kursbuch 112, June 1993, pp. 153-173.
  • The flag. Small case history of the collaboration. In: Kursbuch 115, March 1994, pp. 1–21.
  • People in space. Views of a topography. In: Kursbuch 117, Sept. 1994, pp. 29-48.
  • The headbirth. In: Kursbuch 123, March 1996, p. 73.
  • The classic braid. In: Kursbuch September 125, 1996, pp. 45-49.
  • The black velvet upper skirt. About the man's cultural makeup. In: Kursbuch 127 March 1997, pp. 11–35.
  • Body to body. About the horrors at hand. In: Kursbuch 129. 1997, pp. 27-37.
  • Honey and Wax - About the everyday paradox of our culture . Speech on the award of the Heinrich Mann Prize . In: Kursbuch 132, June 1998, pp. 153–172.
  • Winifred and Wolf . Frankfurt am Main 1998 (together with Hans-Georg Behr )
  • Enforcement. About the cultural heritage west. In: Kursbuch 135, March 1999, pp. 159–171.
  • Top notes for the republic. Seven stages in the gradual improvement of our country. In: Kursbuch 141. Sept. 2000, pp. 51-71.
  • The patient is the phantom. In: FAZ, November 16, 2000, p. 53 [Reprint of an article from November 8, 2000 in the FAZ alongside an obituary by Henning Ritter]

Reviews

  • Now have a nice talk! KM Michel on Jürgen Habermas : Theory of communicative action. In: Der Spiegel, No. 12, March 22, 1982, pp. 210-215.
  • Cheeky ridicule and cold malice [short review on: Peter Sloterdijk . Critique of Cynical Reason . Edition Suhrkamp.] In: Der Stern, May 11, 1983
  • The Executioner's Testament [short review of: Henri Sanson . Diaries of the executioners of Paris 1685–1847 . Verlag Beck.] In: Der Stern, May 19, 1983
  • Blasphemous furniture short review on: Harold Stern . The couch . S. Fischer. In: Der Stern, May 26, 1983
  • Beloved monsters [short review on: Stephan Oettermann . The elephant curiosity . Syndicate]. In: Der Stern, May 26, 1983
  • The wrong lot [short review on: Ernst W.Heine . Kille Kille. Macabre stories . Diogenes]. In: Der Stern, June 1, 1983
  • Laughing Prophets [short review on: Rinjing Dorje , Addison G.Smith , Hans-Georg Behr . Uncle Tompa's maddened stories . Sphinx Pocket]. In: Der Stern, June 9, 1983
  • Unconcerned with the corpses of logic [short review of: Carlos Fuentes . The head of the hydra . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt]. In: Der Stern, June 15, 1983
  • Reports of a crosshead [short review on: Niklaus Meienberg : pretending to be true facts . Limmat Verlag]. In: Der Stern, July 7, 1983
  • The shot from the terrace [short review on: Hans Weigold . "One of the haunted houses". Diogenes Verlag]. In: Der Stern, July 14, 1983
  • Ripe for the biocracy [short review on: Dieter Duhm . Departure to the New Culture . Kösel-Verlag]. In: Der Stern, August 11, 1983

Short messages

  • Short message on Kursbuch 87, p. 103 ff. In: Der Spiegel No. 30, 1987, p. 11 [The fictional character of the Bamberg Symphony’s first trumpeter is apologetically demarcated from the real first trumpeter of the Bamberg Symphony.]

Editing

  • Robert Musil : From the diaries. Berlin et al., 1963
  • Political Catechisms . Frankfurt am Main 1966
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . Works in 20 volumes. New edition based on the works from 1832 to 1845. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Achim Geisenhanslüke , Michael Peter Hehl: Walter Höllerer and the emergence of the modern literary business. In: Poetics in the Technical Age. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, pp. 7–13, here p. 12.
  2. ↑ Klaus Hartung : Pathetic of the distance. On the death of Karl Markus Michel . In: Die Zeit , No. 48/2000, p. 68.
  3. ^ Kursbuch 41 , September 1975. Berlin: Kursbuch Verlag, 1975. The imprint reads: "Responsible for the content: Karl Markus Michel and Harald Wieser ."
  4. Jump up ↑ Die Sprachlose Intelligence I. In: Kursbuch 1. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, June 1965.
  5. ^ Tilman Spengler : KMM In: Kursbuch 146. Role models. Dec. 2001. Rowohlt, Berlin 2001, p. 14. One of the pseudonyms is Andreas Kaplan in one of the course books.
  6. ↑ This year corresponds with the information in the death report of the Frankfurter Rundschau from November 16, 2000. In the Tagesspiegel of September 1, 1998, however, Katrin Hillgruber, citing Enzensberger, gives the year 1969 and a remote place of publication.
  7. ↑ There was a previous article with similar content in a newspaper or magazine, published around August 1989.
personal data
SURNAME Michel, Karl Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German essayist, editor and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Hong Kong
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 2000
Place of death Berlin