Sabine Appel

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Sabine Appel (* 1967 in Schotten ) is a German specialist in German studies and non-fiction author .

Sabine Appel studied German and philosophy in Mannheim and Heidelberg. She completed studies in Paris and Cambridge. In 1995 Appel received his doctorate in Heidelberg with a thesis on Thomas Mann's fictional character Felix Krull , supervised by Dieter Borchmeyer and Reiner Wiehl . Since then she has been working as a freelance book author. Appel wrote biographies about Elisabeth I , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Caroline Schelling , Madame de Staël , Friedrich Nietzsche , Heinrich VIII. And Katharina von Medici . Her portrayal of Goethe was named “ Book of the Year ” in 1998. In 2000 she received a literary grant from the Ministry of Culture, Rhineland-Palatinate. In 2012 she was a scholarship holder of the Hessian Literature Council in Aquitaine / France. Appel also taught at university in the areas of German language and literature, philosophy and creative writing.

Fonts

  • Catherine of Medici. Strategist of power and pioneer of modern times. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-608-96198-0 .
  • Oskar & Darja. Schlemmer's Muse, a story by Sabine Appel based on notes by Alexei Jekimowski. Hirmer, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7774-2939-7 .
  • King Heinz and Junker Jörg. Henry VIII against Luther against Rome. Theiss, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-8062-3370-4 .
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A Portrait. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20282-8 .
  • Henry VIII. The King and His Conscience. A biography. Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63856-5 .
  • Madame de Staël. Empress of the Spirit. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61729-4 .
  • Friedrich Nietzsche. Wanderer and free spirit. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61368-5 .
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. A portrait. Böhlau, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20282-8 .
  • Arthur Schopenhauer. Life and philosophy. Biography. Artemis, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 3-538-07241-8 .
  • Madame de Staël. Biography of a great European. Artemis, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-538-07231-0 .
  • Naivety and the art of living. The idea of ​​the synthesis of life and mind in Thomas Mann's Hochstapler-Memoiren (= European university publications. Series 1, German language and literature. Volume 1532). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1995, ISBN 3-631-48550-6 (dissertation University of Heidelberg 1995).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Sabine Appel: Naivety and the Art of Living. The idea of ​​the synthesis of life and mind in Thomas Mann's impostor memoir. Frankfurt am Main et al. 1995.
  2. ↑ See the review by Reiner Wild in: Germanistik. 51, 2010, p. 292.
  3. ↑ See the review by Raingard Esser in: sehepunkte 13 (2013), No. 4 [15. April 2013], online
  4. ↑ See the review by Hendrik Müller in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft . 67, 2019, pp. 964-965
personal data
SURNAME Appel, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bulkheads