Klaus-Rüdiger May

May at the presentation of his book Martin Luther - Prophet of Freedom on the Blue Sofa during the Frankfurt Book Fair 2014

Klaus-Rüdiger Mai (* 1963 in Staßfurt ) is a German dramaturge , director and writer .

Career and writing

Mai studied German, history and philosophy at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . With Rüdiger Bernhardt he wrote his doctoral thesis on Heiner Müller . In 1990 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . He then worked as an assistant director and dramaturge at various theaters. Mai was already writing texts ( radio features ) during his studies . Under the pseudonym “Nicholas Lessing” he started a series of detective novels about Cardinal Prospero Lambertini , which received a lot of praise from the public and literary criticism; He wrote other historical novels under the pseudonym Sebastian Fleming .

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His non-fiction books deal mainly with religious and socio-political issues. Martin Luther regards May as the beginning of modern Germany and modern Europe, an epoch that could be drawing to a close today. In his 2016 book Does Luther belong to Germany? Mai would like to portray him less as a theologian than as a “social theorist and practitioner” who, through his writing Von der Freiheit einer Christianmenchen , which Mai describes as the “founding manifesto of modern Europe”, has granted the people power and shown the way to their country to control and design yourself. Mai sees Luther as “the most influential social reformer of all time” and emphasizes his courage to have actively initiated and implemented a liberal alternative. In this sense, he would like to see the Luther Decade up to 2017 as an opportunity for people to “experience again that they are the true rulers and kings”, to use Luther to describe the “bogus of lack of alternatives, the monstrance of a self-deifying rule” To expose blasphemy and to take their destiny into their own hands by taking “Christ as an alternative”. In this sense, he parallels the late medieval interpretative sovereignty of the papal church, which Luther eliminated, with the influence of the EU , in which Europe "loses more of its historical ability and identity". He accuses church representatives, professional theologians and established parties of viewing Luther "more as an object of criticism, as an anti-Semite, as a peasant butcher, as a superstitious person", even being ashamed of Luther and replacing him with "unreasonable, comfortable Protestantism".

Mai is the author of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Cicero , Sunday, Deutschlandfunk and Axis des Guten , among others , and he also writes regularly for Tichy's insight . He lives with his family near Berlin .

Klaus-Rüdiger Mai is awarded the German School Book Prize 2019 for his diverse work and “his courageous commitment”.

Works

Fiction

As "Nicholas Lessing"

• His blood come on us. Historical thriller . Heyne, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-40587-5 .
• And rise from the dead. Novel . Heyne, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-47098-9 .

As "Sebastian Fleming"

• Arminius. Historical novel. Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-404-16315-1 .
• The dome of heaven . Historical novel. Lübbe, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-404-16490-5 .
• Byzantium . Historical novel. Lübbe / Ehrenwirth, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-431-03869-9 .

Non-fiction

• The bronze dealers. A hidden high culture in the heart of Europe . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-593-37912-0 .
• Mikhail Gorbachev . His life and its meaning for Russia's future . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-593-37400-5 .
• From Paul to Mother Teresa. Great figures of Christianity. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 978-3-579-06455-0 .
• Secret societies. Power, Myth and Reality . Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 3-7857-2148-X .
• The Vatican. History of a world power in the twilight . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-7857-2329-6 .
• Benedict XVI. Joseph Ratzinger: his life - his faith - his goals . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2005, ISBN 3-7857-2236-2 .
• Books that made history: From the Bible to Harry Potter . cbj, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-13362-0 .
• (with Werner Tiki coastal maker ): World religions. What people believe in . cbj, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-13960-8 .
• The secret religions . Ehrenwirth, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-431-03854-5 .
• The Bachs: a German family . Propylaea, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-549-07427-5 .
• Praise of Religions - Why It Doesn't Matter What You and Your Neighbor Believe Kreuz Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-61231-2 .
• Martin Luther - Prophet of Freedom: Biography of the novel . Verlag Kreuz , Freiburg im Breisgau 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-61226-8 .
• Does Luther belong to Germany? Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2016, ISBN 978-3-451-34846-4 .
• Gutenberg. The man who changed the world . Propylaea, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-549-07467-1 .
• Is the Church Running Out of Faith ?: A pamphlet . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2017, ISBN 978-3-374-05305-6 .

Essays

• Martin Luther's theses on the indulgence as the most effective paradox in history . In: Martin Luther : "For the love of truth ..." The 95 theses . Facsimile of the original edition (Basel 1517) and translation into German, with contributions by Reinhard Feldmann and Klaus-Rüdiger Mai, edited by Thomas A. Seidel on behalf of the International Martin Luther Foundation . Westhafen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-942836-13-5 , pp. 33-55.

Web links

Commons : Klaus-Rüdiger Mai  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Klaus-Rüdiger Mai in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official author homepage
• Klaus-Rüdiger Mai: Everything begins with origin - which is why East Germany is developing into a provocation. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 3rd September 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: The subject of revolution in more recent texts by Heiner Müller .
2. ↑ ^{a b} author Klaus-Rüdiger Mai. In: Portrait of the author on the publisher's website. Bastei Lübbe , accessed on May 27, 2016 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Does Luther belong to Germany? P. 13.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Does Luther belong to Germany? P. 11.
5. ↑ Does Luther belong to Germany? P. 51.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Does Luther belong to Germany? P. 15.
7. ↑ Does Luther belong to Germany? P. 17.
8. ↑ Are former GDR citizens migrants? | NZZ . February 5, 2018, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed February 11, 2019]).
9. ^ Cicero in May - The school attack. Retrieved February 11, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Lecture series on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution | THE SUNDAY (Saxony). Retrieved February 11, 2019 . 
11. ^ Klaus-Rüdiger Mai and his pamphlet - "Church secularizes itself". Accessed February 11, 2019 (German). 
12. ^ Articles by and about Klaus-Rüdiger Mai on the Axis of the Good .
13. ↑ Josef Kraus: May awarded for courageous commitment. (Publication of the laudation). In: tichyseinblick.de. November 2, 2019, accessed December 26, 2019 .