Per Leo

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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 .

Per Leo (2014)

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

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the dissertation
  2. ↑ Friedrich Leo. SS membership number 278 243, NSDAP membership number 5 520 967. Friedrich Leo is a descendant of the Vegesack shipbuilder Johann Lange .
  3. ↑ taz, February 6, 2014
  4. ↑ Per Leo receives the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize . In: Focus , September 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ Holderlin Prize awarded. June 12, 2016, accessed March 18, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Interview by Alex Rühle: Men against snowflakes . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on March 18, 2019]).
  7. ^ Ijoma Mangold: New rights: "Talking to rights" . In: The time . October 18, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 18, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Book Fair - Cool down. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Interview - "You were keen on the public". Retrieved April 11, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Talking about National Socialism. An attempt to complicate things. In: merkur-zeitschrift.de. Retrieved November 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Leo, Per
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH gain