The Philosophical Quartet

Television broadcast
Original title	The Philosophical Quartet
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	2002–2012
Production company	FTS Media
length	60 minutes
Broadcasting cycle	bi-monthly
genre	Talk show
production	63 programs
Moderation	Peter Sloterdijk and Rüdiger Safranski
First broadcast	January 20, 2002 on ZDF

The Philosophical Quartet was a bi-monthly cultural talk show on the Second German Television (ZDF). The title and concept are based on “ The Literary Quartet ”, also a broadcast by ZDF. Each program was hosted by the two philosophers Peter Sloterdijk and Rüdiger Safranski , who discussed fundamental issues of our society (according to their own definition) with two other - always changing - interlocutors .

On March 26, 2012 it was announced that the format will be saying goodbye from May 2012 after ten years. On May 13, 2012, the program was stopped by instructions from the artistic director Thomas Bellut . The broadcast nachtstudio with a similar format was also discontinued in 2012. In autumn 2012 the program Precht started as the successor to the Philosophical Quartet .

broadcast

Each broadcast was 60 minutes long and recorded in front of an audience and broadcast later that evening. At the end of each program, the two hosts recommended books on the subject.

Guests

The Philosophical Quartet had well-known guests; some were invited several times.

Martin Walser Michael Kruger July toe Joschka Fischer Gerd Ganteför Frank Schätzing Werner Sobek Michael Mönninger Joseph Vogl Gabor Steingart Daniel Cohn-Bendit Gero von Randow Friedrich Wilhelm Graf Michael Naumann Gunnar Heinsohn Thea Dorn Gerhard Roth Hans-Ulrich Wehler Egon Bahr Horst Teltschik Durs Grünbein Peter Bieri

Wolfgang Rihm Bernd Kauffmann Moritz Rinke Odo Marquard Alan Posener Daniel Deckers Monika Marron Heiner Mühlmann Klaus Mertes Meinhard Miegel Bodo Kirchhoff Beatrice Weder di Mauro Ernst Peter Fischer Rüdiger von Rosen Albrecht Koschorke Michael striker Karl Schlögel Harald Welzer Ines Geipel Reinhold Messner Heribert Prantl Paul Nolte

Herfried Münkler Wilhelm Schmid Maxim Biller Necla Kelek Frank A. Meyer Otto Schily Matthias Matussek Volker Schlöndorff Fritz J. Raddatz Asfa-Wossen Asserate Jan Assmann Antje Vollmer Friedrich Schorlemmer Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Margarita Mathiopoulos Claus Peymann Reinhard Kahl Michael Klett Florian Langenscheidt Hans-Olaf Henkel Norbert Bolz

See also

• The literary quartet

Web links

• Overview of all episodes
• The Philosophical Quartet in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Hanfeld : TV culture: ZDF sets “Philosophical Quartet”. In: faz.net. FAZ, March 26, 2012, accessed on October 3, 2012 . 
2. ^ End of the "Philosophical Quartet": Sloterdijk attacks TV successor Precht. In: focus.de. FOCUS Online, May 9, 2012, accessed on October 3, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Television: "The Philosophical Quartet" is discontinued. In: zeit.de. ZEIT ONLINE, March 26, 2012, accessed on October 3, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Archive: The Philosophical Quartet. (No longer available online.) In: zdf.de. ZDF, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 3, 2012 (order according to age).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.