Per Leo
Per Leo (* 1972 in Erlangen ) is a German writer and historian .
Life
Leo grew up in Munich, where he attended the Oskar-von-Miller-Gymnasium . His ancestors and relatives include the Vegesack shipbuilder Johann Lange , the historian Heinrich Leo and the Bremen SPD politician Detmar Leo .
He did his community service at the Wadden Sea Protection Station on the North Sea island of Pellworm and studied history , philosophy and Slavic studies first in Freiburg, then in Berlin . In 2009 he received his doctorate with Wolfgang Hardtwig at the Humboldt University in Berlin with a thesis on Ludwig Klages and the tradition of characterological thinking .
His novel Flood and Ground about the family of his grandfather Friedrich Leo (1908-1993), a former SS-Sturmbannführer in the Race and Settlement Main Office , was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair in 2014 . For the novel, which is partly set in the Vegesack Villa Bischoff , Leo was awarded the Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize of the Harbourfront Literature Festival in 2014 and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Bad Homburg in 2016.
In the book Talking to the Right , which he wrote together with Maximilian Steinbeis and Daniel-Pascal Zorn , Leo promotes the argumentation of right-wing populist and new-right positions instead of excluding them from the discourse. The book has been widely debated. As a result, Leo pleaded for the confrontation with right-wing populism and the New Right to be conducted more strategically.
Leo wrote articles and essays in u. a. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Zeit , Die Welt , Der Freitag , Merkur , Neue Rundschau published.
He lives as a freelance writer and casket producer with his family in Berlin.
Fonts
Books
- The will to being: Weltanschauung culture, characterological thinking and hostility to Jews in Germany 1890–1940 . Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-88221-981-5 .
- Flood and ground. A family novel . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 3-608-98017-2 .
- Per Leo, Maximilian Steinbeis , Daniel-Pascal Zorn : Talking with rights. A guide . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-96181-2 .
Essays
- Several chapters in: Moritz Föllmer, Rüdiger Graf (Ed.): The "Crisis" of the Weimar Republic. To the critique of an interpretation model . Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2005, ISBN 3-593-37734-9 .
- Talking about National Socialism. An attempt to complicate things. In: Merkur 70.5 (May 2016), pp. 29–41.
Prizes and awards
- 2013: Humboldt Prize, Special Prize »Judaism and Anti-Semitism«
- 2014: Shortlist Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair
- 2014: Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize
- 2014: Shortlist ZDF aspekte literature award
- 2015: Annual scholarship from the state of Baden-Württemberg
- 2016: Writer in Residence Amsterdam, Nederlands Letterenfonds
- 2016: Promotion Prize Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the City of Bad Homburg.
literature
- Ijoma Mangold : The making of a Nazi grandson . In: Die Zeit , No. 9/2014.
- Stefanie Schüler-Springorum: Review of: Leo, Per: Flut und Boden. Novel of a family [4. Ed.]. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 2014. In: H-Soz-Kult , January 4th, 2015.
- Nicolas Berg: Review of: Leo, Per: The will to essence. Weltanschauung culture, characterological thinking and hostility to Jews in Germany 1890–1940. Berlin 2013 . In: H-Soz-Kult , February 20, 2015.
Web links
- Literature by and about Per Leo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Per Leo in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Per Leo at perlentaucher.de
- The historical book: Characterology and hostility to Jews . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 30, 2013
- The present is a duty . Welt Online , February 15, 2014
- The National Socialist butter cake . Spiegel Online , February 20, 2014.
- Good house, crooked course, SS career . In: Tagesspiegel , February 24, 2014
- Accepting the fight without waging it Zeit Online October 8, 2019
- Interview with Benjamin Moldenhauer , Schlachthof Bremen , November 29, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the dissertation
- ↑ Friedrich Leo. SS membership number 278 243, NSDAP membership number 5 520 967. Friedrich Leo is a descendant of the Vegesack shipbuilder Johann Lange .
- ↑ taz, February 6, 2014
- ↑ Per Leo receives the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize . In: Focus , September 19, 2014.
- ↑ Holderlin Prize awarded. June 12, 2016, accessed March 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Interview by Alex Rühle: Men against snowflakes . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2017, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on March 18, 2019]).
- ^ Ijoma Mangold: New rights: "Talking to rights" . In: The time . October 18, 2017, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 18, 2019]).
- ↑ Book Fair - Cool down. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Interview - "You were keen on the public". Retrieved April 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Talking about National Socialism. An attempt to complicate things. In: merkur-zeitschrift.de. Retrieved November 29, 2016 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Leo, Per |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | gain |