Mathias Greffrath

Mathias Greffrath (* 1945 ) is a German sociologist , writer and journalist .

Life

After his military service, Greffrath studied sociology , history and psychology at the Free University of Berlin . After completing his studies, he became a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and worked as a freelance journalist for ARD and in the features section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

From 1991 to 1994 he was editor-in-chief of the Wochenpost magazine in Berlin . Since 1995 he has been writing as a freelance journalist for Die Zeit , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the German edition of le monde diplomatique , for the daily newspaper , the magazines GEO and Theater heute : above all about the “future of work” and the effects of globalization on culture and society. He regularly writes essays for the taz column The Pothole . In addition, he is a member of the scientific advisory board of Attac and of the PEN Center Germany .

1984: About rocking things. Montaigne's attempts. A reader. Klaus Wagenbach Publishing House, Berlin. ISBN 3-8031-2110-8 (Wagenbach's pocket library; 110)
1989: The Destruction of a Future. Talks with emigrated social scientists. Campus, Frankfurt am Main
1992: Montaigne. A panorama. (New edition of the book from 1984) The other library 85. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 3-8218-4085-4
2001: Article in Stefanie Carp (Ed.): Alles Kunst? How do people work in the new millennium and what do they do in the rest of the time? Rowohlt, Reinbek. ISBN 3-498-01319-X (based on a series of lectures by the Hamburger Schauspielhaus )
2002: with Christiane Grefe and Harald Schumann : Attac. What do the globalization critics want? Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin. ISBN 3-499-61636-X
2006: Montaigne today. Life in the meantime. (New edition of the book from 1984/1992) Diogenes, Zurich. ISBN 3-257-06162-5 (Contains a new preliminary remark and the eight essays by Greffrath on Michel de Montaigne with ten essays by Montaigne)
2016: The work in the Anthropocene. A brief world history of work with a practical purpose . Deutschlandfunk , essay and discourse , January 3rd.
2017: as publisher: RE. Capital: Political Economy in the 21st Century , Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-95614-172-0 .
2018: with Dietmar Dath : The human possible. On the topicality of Günther Anders. Picus , Vienna 2018. ISBN 978-3-7117-3009-1

Literature by and about Mathias Greffrath in the catalog of the German National Library
Bernd Kittlaus: Mathias Greffrath. In: The single generation: The authors of the 68 generation. January 14, 2004, accessed February 15, 2008 . , with article list
The renaissance is not over , as well as There was a life before growth , contributions to the series Essay and Discourse of Deutschlandfunk , October 7, 2007 and September 6, 2015
Into politics! , Essay in Oya 02/2010

personal data
SURNAME	Greffrath, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1945