Rolf Hosfeld

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Rolf Hosfeld (right) and Mike Josef at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015

Rolf Hosfeld (born June 22, 1948 in Berleburg ) is a German author and cultural historian as well as scientific director of the Lepsiushaus in Potsdam .

Life

Hosfeld attended the Johannes-Althusius-Gymnasium in Bad Berleburg and made his Abitur there. He began as a journalist at the Westfälische Rundschau and then studied German, political science, modern history and philosophy, first in Frankfurt / Main, then in West Berlin, where he received his MA in 1976 and then with a thesis on Heinrich Heine to become a Dr. phil. received his doctorate. It was considered to be trend-setting for a new, "postmodern" view of Heine, whose literary texts he, inspired by Michail Bachtin , Jacques Lacan , and Pierre Macherey and others, attested a polyphonic, “de-centered” compositional principle and understanding of the world of the open present, which is in clear contradiction to his theoretical (left) Hegelianism and transcends him in a forward-looking manner.

Rolf Hosfeld lives in the countryside near Potsdam .

Professional career and work

Rolf Hosfeld was a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin , editor of the Marxist-Leninist quarterly consistently and the Berlin cultural magazine omnibus , publishing editor in Berlin and responsible editor of the monthly magazine Merian , deputy editor of the monthly magazine The Gourmet , culture editor of the weekly newspaper Die Woche in Hamburg and editor of the book series Kulturverführer .

He worked as a film and television producer and director in Berlin. In this role he produced around 50 films, 15 of them under his own direction, including a four-part series on fascism as a pan-European phenomenon and a three-part series on civil wars in Eastern and Southern Europe after 1945.

Since 1982 he has been a member of the Association of German Writers (VS) and since 2002 a board member of the Peter Weiss Foundation for Art and Politics . Hosfeld has published numerous journalistic, essayistic and scientific articles, travel reports, films, TV and radio programs as well as books on historical, cultural and contemporary topics.

Since 2003 he has been working almost exclusively as a freelance writer, essayist and historian , inspired at times by the tradition of New Journalism , which operates on the borders of factual and literary . His books include the biographies of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Kurt Tucholsky and Heinrich Heine as well as a history of the GDR . His largest project to date was a four-volume story of the Germans 1815–2007, with DVDs by Hermann Pölking. His various publications on the history of the genocide of the Armenians received a high public response. For his Karl Marx biography, translated into several languages, The Ghosts He Called , he was awarded the Prize The Political Book 2010 of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . In 2016 he received the gold jubilee medal from the Yerevan State University. Together with Sönke Neitzel and Julius H. Schoeps , he is the editor of the book series Violence Policy and Human Rights published by Duncker & Humblot , Berlin.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Prussian Heads, Vol. 22, Stapp, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-87776-166-6 .
  • Operation Nemesis: Turkey, Germany and the Armenian Genocide , Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2005/2009, ISBN 3-462-03468-5 .

The Germans . German history from 1815–2007, 4 books with 12 DVDs by Hermann Pölking DNB 981591744 :

  • Part 1: 1815 to 1918: Princely glory and bourgeois worlds . Time travel in pictures, book and 3 DVDs, Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-04924-5 .
  • Part 2: 1918 to 1945: Life between revolution and catastrophe . Time travel in pictures, book and 3 DVDs, Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-492-04926-9
  • Part 3: 1 945 to 1972: Living in a double economic wonderland . Time travel in pictures, book and 3 DVDs, Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-492-04925-2 .
  • Part 4: 1972 to today: on the way to unity and freedom . Time travel in pictures, book and 3 DVDs, Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-04927-6 .
  • What was the GDR? The story of another Germany , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-03978-8 . As an audio book, read out by Bernhard Scheller: DZB Leipzig 2009 (900 minutes).
  • The spirits he called: a new Karl Marx biography , Piper, Munich / Zurich 2009/2010, ISBN 978-3-492-05221-4 . Translations: Karl Marx. Een eigenijdse biography , Atlas, Amsterdam / Antwerp 2010. Karl Marx. An Intellectual Biography . Berghahn Books, New York / Oxford 2013. Karl Marx. Zivotopis intelektuála . Paseka, Praha 2013. Karl Marks. Biography. Karpos, Beograd 2014.
  • Karl Marx. rororo monograph. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-499-50718-2 .
  • Tucholsky. A German Life , Siedler, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-88680-974-5 . As an audio book, read out by Andrea Schunck: DZB Leipzig 2012 (570 minutes). As a paperback Munich: btb, 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-74794-8 .
  • Heinrich Heine. The invention of the European intellectual , Siedler, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-88680-999-8 .
  • Death in the desert. The genocide of the Armenians, CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67451-8 . Translation: Cölde Ölüm. Ermenilerin Soykirima Ugramasi , Dönüsüm Yayinlari, Istanbul 2018.
  • Karl Marx: philosopher and revolutionary. A biography , Pantheon Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-641-22433-2 .

Other (selection)

  • as editor with Hermann Rotermund: Chen Po-Ta: Class analysis and party in China. Three essays. Druck-Verlag-Vertriebs-Cooperative, Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  • as editor with Hans-Werner Franz et al .: Eurocommunism and Theory of Politics, Argument, Berlin 1979. ISBN 978-3-920037-17-2
  • Tightrope dances. A photo book from Kreuzberg by Wolfgang Krolow. With texts by Rolf Hosfeld and Peter Paul Zahl. LitPol, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88279-016-4 .
  • as editor: Heinrich Heine and the nineteenth century. Signatures: new contributions to research . Argument, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-88619-124-9 .
  • as editor with Jim Rakete and Rainer Wörtmann: Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin. Europe's largest revue theater, Metz, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-9805563-3-6 .
  • as editor with Boris Kehrmann and Rainer Wörtmann: Friedrichs Traum. The Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, Metz, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-9805563-6-0 .
  • as editor with Boris Kehrmann and Rainer Wörtmann: Komische Oper Berlin, Metz, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-9805563-8-7 .
  • as editor: Johannes Lepsius - A German exception. The genocide of the Armenians, humanitarianism and human rights, Wallstein, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1292-0 .
  • as editor with Stephan Schaede: The genocide of the Armenians. Interdisciplinary perspectives on the historical and current role of Protestantism, Loccumer Protocols Volume 40/15, Rehburg-Loccum 2016.  ISBN 978-3-8172-4015-9
  • as editor with Christin Pschichholz: The German Empire and the Armenian Genocide, Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-1897-7 .
  • as editor with Roy Knocke: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 70, Volume 2, special volume on the genocide of the Armenians, Brill Academic Publishers 2018.
  • Contributions to: Internationale Politik, IP Transatlantic Edition, Blätter für German and international politics, Einsicht, Bulletin of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Armenological Issues Bulletin, Military History Journal, Journal for Religious and Intellectual History, Basis. Yearbook for contemporary German literature, Heine yearbook, suhrkamp pocket book materials Heinrich Heine, suhrkamp pocket book materials Thomas Brasch, the hear, the argument, Merian, GEO Saison, Die Woche, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, FAZ-Magazin, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt, Die Time, Der Tagesspiegel, Berliner Zeitung, the daily newspaper, Le Monde diplomatique, zeitzeichen. Evangelical commentary on religion and society, RB, NDR, SWR, SR, RBB, WDR, MDR, SFB, ZDF, 3sat, Arte, RIAS, DeutschlandRadio
  • Films and a .: The Stechlin (1996), Vanishing Point Luckenwalde (1997), God's Forgotten Land (1998), The Advance of the Fascists (1999), The Satellite States (2000), Hope and Treason in the East (2000), Uprising in Ukraine ( 2001), Tragedy in the Baltic States (2002), Sigmund Freud's Dream (2003).
  • Radio features (60 minutes) among others: Resist a lot and obey little: The writer Armin T. Wegner turns 100 (1986); Thubalkain - The spirits of the felled oak trunks herald calamity. The writer Karl Philipp Moritz (1988); DuBose Heyward: The Man Who Invented Porgy and Bess (1989); A young lady stood by the sea. How Europe discovered the lust for the sea (1995); Ever more beautiful forms, sometimes revealing, sometimes hiding. Joseph von Eichendorff's Women (1995); Writing novels is like traveling. The writer Cees Nooteboom (1996); The mountain calls. The history of alpinism (1996).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Hosfeld Biographical data in Rowohlt
  2. ^ "Il est des livres qui donnent l 'impression de clore une période de la critique. C 'est la case du travail de Rolf Hosfeld. “Michael Werner, Critique. "A dense work of uncommon originality ... intensely intelligent and absorbing, further evidence that Heine-criticism is beginning to undergo a maturation." Jeffrey L. Sammons: Studies of Authors, Ann Arbor 1986. ,
  3. We are not a special case. . Rolf Hosfeld in conversation with Joachim Scholl.
  4. Removal of a foreign body . Review by Bert Hoppe.
  5. ^ Operation Nemesis . Review.
  6. Theologian without God . Review by Wolfgang Schneider.
  7. The Soci as Jacobin . Review of Balduin Winter.
  8. Rise and Fall . Review by Peter Merseburger.
  9. An impossible experiment . Review by Annett Gröschner.
  10. Karl Marx . ( berghahnbooks.com [accessed December 28, 2017]).
  11. A biography with surprising volts . Review by Helmut Böttiger.
  12. Dieter Kaltwasser: Stopping the disaster with the typewriter - Rolf Hosfeld writes a biography about Kurt Tucholsky: literaturkritik.de. Retrieved December 28, 2017 (German).
  13. Helmut Kremers: Masterpiece. New Heine biography. Rolf Hosfeld: Heinrich Heine. Retrieved December 28, 2017 .
  14. Martin Kröger: Genocide of Armenians: consideration for war interests . In: FAZ.NET . April 27, 2015, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 28, 2017]).
  15. Regina Mönch: Historical dispute about Armenians: We call it genocide . In: FAZ.NET . April 20, 2015, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 28, 2017]).
  16. ^ Liane von Billerbeck: Armenia - lonely fight against a genocide . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed December 28, 2017]).
  17. Martin Kröger: Genocide against the Armenians: More than just a witness to a crime of the century . In: FAZ.NET . August 21, 2017, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 28, 2017]).