Leander Scholz

Leander Scholz (2018)

Leander Scholz (born April 16, 1969 in Aachen ) is a German philosopher and writer .

Life

Leander Scholz studied philosophy , art history and German at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Ruhr-Universität Bochum , the Université de Paris-Sorbonne and at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne.

For his doctorate on political wisdom , he received the Bonn University Prize.

He has written several novels, is a co-founder of Tropen Verlag and freelancer for Deutschlandfunk .

From 1999 to 2008 he was a research assistant at the Cologne Research College "Media and Cultural Communication" . From 2008 to 2020 he was a research assistant at the International College for Cultural Technology Research and Media Philosophy (IKKM) at the Bauhaus University Weimar and academic editor of the biannual magazine for media and cultural research (ZMK) published by Felix Meiner Verlag . In 2012 he received his habilitation at the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus University Weimar with a thesis on the problem of death in political philosophy since modern times. His research areas include cultural and media philosophy, political philosophy, political ecology, identity politics and thanatology.

He is married to the journalist and doctor of literature Nadja Scholz (née Wick) and lives in Berlin. In addition to various other grants , he received the Rolf Dieter Brinkmann grant from the City of Cologne in 1998 and the literature prize from the Bonn Reading and Recreation Society in 2001 .

Works

• The crowd of people. A figure of political ecology , Berlin: Kadmos 2019.
• Living together. About children and politics , Berlin: Hanser 2018.
• The death of the community. A Topos of Political Philosophy , Berlin: Akademie 2012 (= German Journal for Philosophy; special volume 33).
• Fifteen wrong seconds , Roman, Munich: Hanser 2005.
• Rosenfest , novel, audio book, Marburg: Medibus 2005.
• Rosenfest , Roman, Munich: dtv 2003. 
• The archive of wisdom. Strategies of knowledge around 1700 , Tübingen: Niemeyer 2002 (= Communicatio; Vol. 30).
• Windbraut , Roman, Munich: dtv 2002.
• Rosenfest , Roman, Munich: Hanser 2001.
• Two against one , prose, Cologne: Tropen 1998.
• Virgin parchment , Roman, Zurich: Bilger 1995.

Editing

• Ernst Kapp and the Anthropology of the Media , Berlin: Kadmos 2019 (together with Harun Maye).
• Ernst Kapp: Basic lines of a philosophy of technology. On the history of the origins of culture from new perspectives . With an introduction, Hamburg: Meiner 2015 (= Philosophical Library 675) (together with Harun Maye).
• Introduction to cultural studies , Munich: Fink / UTB 2011 (together with Harun Maye).
• Aesthetic regime around 1800 . With a contribution by Jacques Rancière, Munich: Fink 2009 (= Mediologie; Vol. 21) (together with Friedrich Balke and Harun Maye).
• The face is a strong organization: Gilles Deleuze and the politics of perception , Cologne: DuMont 2004, (= Mediology; Vol. 10) (together with Petra Löffler).
• Introduction to the history of the media , Paderborn: Fink / UTB 2004 (together with Albert Kümmel and Eckhard Schumacher).
• Archive processes: The communication of storage , Cologne: DuMont 2002 (= Mediology; Vol. 5) (together with Hedwig Pompe).
• The Ex files , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 2000, (together with Michael Zöllner).
• Number 8. Journal for theoretical television , Cologne: Tropen 1999 (together with Michael Zöllner).
• Number 7. Journal for theoretical television , Cologne: Tropen 1998 (together with Michael Zöllner).
• Artic - texts from happy science. Journal for Art, Literature and Philosophy , Bonn: Heusch, No. 1, 1993 - No. 4, 1995 (together with Andreas Drewer, David Link and Katrin Pahl).

Web links

• Short biography and information on Leander Scholz's work at Literaturport