Philipp Blom

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Philipp Blom (2016)

Philipp Sievert Blom (born January 22, 1970 in Hamburg ) is a German writer , historian , journalist and translator .

life and work

Philipp Blom was born in Hamburg and grew up there and in Detmold . He studied philosophy, history and Jewish studies in Vienna and Oxford , where he received his doctorate in 1996 with a dissertation on Nietzsche reception and racial thinking in cultural Zionism .

Blom then worked in London and Paris and now lives in Vienna . He is married to the New Zealand writer Veronica Buckley .

He writes in English and German. His historical works deal with intellectual history and the history of mentalities: collecting miracles, collecting madness is a history of collecting culture since the Renaissance; The reasonable monster: Diderot , d'Alembert , de Jaucourt and the Great Encyclopedia not only recounts the history of a central event of the Enlightenment , but also the personal and intellectual conflicts between the Enlightenmentists . In his book The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West 1900–1914 (German 2009: The tumbling continent. Europe 1900–1914 ) Blom deals with the social, cultural and intellectual upheavals at the beginning of the twentieth century. His novels The Simmons Papers and Luxor belong to the genre of the philosophical fable. In 2000 he also published a non-fiction book on Austrian wines ( The Wines of Austria ).

The German translation of his book The wars within was published in 2014 under the title Die zerrissenen Jahre 1918–1938 .

As a journalist, Blom has published in newspapers and magazines in Great Britain ( The Guardian , The Independent , Financial Times , Times Literary Supplement ) and in German-speaking countries ( Die Zeit , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Der Standard ). In the Austrian cultural radio broadcaster Ö1 , Blom regularly moderates the discussion program Von Tag zu Tag or its follow-up program Punkt one .

Blom has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation since 2016 .

In March 2017, Blom was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .

In 2018, Blom appeared as a speaker at the Salzburg Festival . He is also a curator at the Kreisky Forum . This forum was founded in 1991, one year after the death of Bruno Kreisky , and feels committed to international dialogue in the spirit of Kreisky.

Awards and grants

Fonts

Monographs and editorships

  • Martin Buber and the spiritual revolution of the Prague Bar Kochba. Nationalist rhetoric and the politics of beauty. Dissertation, Oxford University, 1996.
  • Hermann Cohen. A philosophical biography. In: Jüdischer Almanach 1997. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-633-54119-5 .
  • (Ed.) The Simmons Papers. Translated from the English by Philipp Blom. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-8270-0234-6 .
  • Remembrance - a business? In: Petra Steinberger (Ed.): The Finkelstein Debate. Piper, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-492-04328-3 .
  • Collecting wonder, collecting mania. Scenes from the story of a passion. Translated from the English by Philipp Blom. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2004, Die Other Bibliothek series , ISBN 3-8218-4537-6 .
  • The sensible monster. Diderot, d'Alembert, de Jaucourt and the Great Encyclopedia. Translated from the English by Michael Bischoff . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-8218-4553-8 .
  • Luxor. Tisch 7, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-938476-11-7 .
  • The Wines of Austria. Faber & Faber, London 2006, ISBN 0-571-19533-4 .
  • The tumbling continent. Europe 1900–1914. Translated from the English by Philipp Blom. Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23292-1 .
  • Evil philosophers. A salon in Paris and the forgotten legacy of the Enlightenment . Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23648-6 .
  • Angelo Soliman - An African in Vienna. Brandstätter, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85033-594-2 .
  • with Veronica Buckley: Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia. Thames & Hudson, London 2013, ISBN 978-0-500-51668-3 .
  • The torn years. 1918-1938. Translated from the English by Philipp Blom. Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24617-1 .
  • with Veronica Buckley: New insights into the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Brandstätter, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85033-906-3 .
  • The world off its hinges. A history of the Little Ice Age from 1570 to 1700 and the emergence of the modern world, combined with some reflections on the climate of the present. Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25458-9 .
  • Trapped in the panopticon. Travel notes between enlightenment and the present. Residence, Salzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7017-3418-4 .
  • What is at stake . Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25664-4 .
  • An Italian trip. On the trail of the emigrant who built my violin 300 years ago. Hanser, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26071-9 .
  • Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present , New York: Liveright Publishing, 2019, ISBN 9781631494048 .
  • The great world theater. About the power of the imagination in times of upheaval. Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-552-05980-1 .

novel

Translations

Stage translations

Audio

Web links

Commons : Philipp Blom  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ philipp-blom.eu , accessed on September 17, 2019 (pdf)
  2. ↑ a b Interview: Philipp Blom: "The earth doesn't need us" In: derStandard.at , December 28, 2017
  3. ↑ Blom, Philipp. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  4. ^ Peace Prize of the German Book Trade: Philipp Blom and Stefan Könemann new to the Board of Trustees , buchmarkt.de, March 6, 2017, accessed on March 6, 2017
  5. ↑ [1]
  6. ↑ Kreisky Forum: Curators. Retrieved September 7, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Kreisky Forum: Aktuell 2018. Tuesday, September 4th, 2018. 2018, accessed on September 7th, 2018 (with audio file of the event). Kapka Kassabova : At the edge of Europe. In the middle of the world . Paul Zsolnay Verlag , Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-552-05907-8 (English: Border. A Journey to the Edge of Europe . 2018. Translated by Brigitte Hilzensauer).
  8. ↑ JBZ team selected the top ten future literature 2017 . In: The Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (JBZ) . November 29, 2017 ( jungk-bibliothek.org [accessed January 10, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Blom, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blom, Philipp Sievert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, historian, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd January 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg