Manfred Osten

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Manfred Osten May 2016

Manfred Osten (born January 19, 1938 in Ludwigslust , Mecklenburg ) is a German author , lawyer and cultural historian .

Life

In 1952 he fled to the Federal Republic of Germany and graduated from high school in Bad Iburg , after which he studied law , philosophy , musicology and literature in Hamburg and Munich , as well as international law in Luxembourg . In 1969 he received his doctorate "On the concept of natural law in Schelling's early writings". In the same year he joined the Foreign Service , where he served in German diplomatic missions in Paris , Cameroon , Chad , Australia andJapan was active. In the meantime he was in charge of various departments in the ministry in Bonn (“Southern Africa”, “ Third World Policy” or “ Eastern Europe ”). From 1995 to 2004 he was Secretary General of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation .

He mainly publishes works on cultural studies and cultural history . In addition, he published the portrait collection of twelve writers in the country under the title "The eroticism of the peach".

He is married to Ute Osten, nee Haubitz; the two have three children.

Honors

Publications

  • The Traveler's Tree: Poems. Travel companion Horst Janssen . Verlag St. Gertrude , Hamburg 1993. (Changed new edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-923848-48-5 )
  • The eroticism of the peach: 12 portraits of Japanese writers. (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch 2515). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-39015-5 .
  • “Everything velociferic” or Goethe's discovery of slowness. On the modernity of a classic in the 21st century . Insel, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-458-17159-2 .
  • Homunculus, accelerated time and Max Beckmann's illustrations of Goethe's modernity . Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08205-0 .
  • The stolen memory: digital systems and the destruction of the culture of remembrance; a little story of forgetting. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-458-17231-9 .
  • The art of making mistakes. (= Library of the art of living). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-518-41744-4 .
  • In the core housing. Poems. Word changes Jürgen Brodwolf . Verlag St. Gertrude, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-935855-12-9 .
  • Confucius or China's New Cultural Revolution. In: Island Almanac for 2009 - China. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-17418-9 .
  • as publisher: Alexander von Humboldt: About the freedom of man in search of truth. Insel-Suhrkamp-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-458-34221-4 .
  • That certain lightness. Horst Janssen and the Mozart factor. St. Gertrude-Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-935855-08-7 .
  • with Hans U. Brauner: The broken word applies - the end of credibility. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86906-575-5 .
  • Remember to live! Dare to be happy! - or Goethe and happiness, Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3024-5 .
  • Numerous TV interviews (over 30 TV interviews with Alexander Kluge on RTL , SAT1 , VOX , Spiegel TV and others on humanities and historical topics) and radio contributions

Others

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Awards , Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
  2. ↑ member entry of Manfred Osten at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 06.11.17
personal data
SURNAME East, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and cultural historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigslust , State of Mecklenburg , German Empire