Non-fiction of the month

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The list of non-fiction books of the month has been an undoped book price since 2007 (with an interruption from summer to November 2017), with which a jury named selected humanities and social science new publications on the German-speaking book market on a list.

background

The jury evaluated the books proposed in a points process and the first ten places were published. Brief reviews were written of the books. In addition to the ten books, one of the jurors alternated each month with a special personal recommendation. It was published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Norddeutscher Rundfunk , Buchjournal , Börsenblatt and Telepolis .

The list and the voting procedure were "invented" by the then SZ editor Knud von Harbou and the then NDR editor Andreas Wang, the two companies Süddeutsche Zeitung and Norddeutscher Rundfunk were perceived by the public as the publishers of the list. Wang continued to look after the list as a pensioner even after he left the NDR in 2010.

The nomination process was suspended in June 2017 after Rolf Peter Sieferle's book Finis Germania from the right-wing extremist publisher Antaios was placed in 9th place. The book was on the list because Johannes Saltzwedel said he had accumulated his twenty voting points for three consecutive months on this book. NDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung then left for good.

After a break of several months, the list was resumed in December 2017 with a changed selection process and partners from all three German-speaking countries. The subjects of the books to be evaluated have been extended to natural, social and economic sciences to reflect a wider range of societal problems. The list was continued by the world , WDR 5 , the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the ORF radio Austria 1 .

ZDF , Deutschlandfunk and Die Zeit had already started their own non-fiction leaderboard a month earlier .

The jury, the number of members of which has not been determined, will belong to the beginning of 2020, some of them from the old jury: Tobias Becker ( Der Spiegel ), Kirstin Breitenfellner ( Der Falter ), Peter Ehmer ( WDR 5 ), Eike Gebhardt, Daniel Haufler ( counterblind ) , Jochen Hörisch (University of Mannheim), Otto Kallscheuer , Petra Kammann (Feuilleton Frankfurt), Günter Kaindlstorfer , Elisabeth Kiderlen, Jörg-Dieter Kogel , Herfried Münkler ( Humboldt University Berlin ), Marc Reichwein ( Die Welt for Supplement Literary World ), Thomas Ribi ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung ), Sandra Richter ( University of Stuttgart ), Wolfgang Ritschl ( ORF ), Florian Rötzer ( Telepolis ), Frank Schubert ( Spectrum of Science ), Norbert Seitz , Joachim Treusch ( Jacobs University Bremen ) Andreas Wang, Michael Wiederstein ( GetAbstract ), Harro Zimmermann and Stefan Zweifel .

In addition, after the realignment at the end of 2017, there will be "guest jurors" who can contribute with "special recommendations" outside of the list.

1st place (since January 2007)

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jury

In June 2017 the jury consisted of the following 26 members, some of whom were back after the restructuring at the end of 2017:

See also

  • Non-fiction best-list , another list maintained by ZDF, Zeit and Deutschlandfunk, active since autumn 2017, created due to the Saltzwedel scandal

literature

  • Susanne Beyer: Human work. On my own behalf. The recommendation of a collection of essays with right-wing extremist content by a SPIEGEL editor requires an explanation. In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 2017, p. 126-128 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NDR Kultur suspends cooperation with jury "Non-fiction books of the month" , NDR, 12. June 2017
  2. ↑ Jan Grossarth: Editor of "Spiegel" gave right-wing extremist reading recommendation. In: FAZ.net . June 12, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
  3. ↑ December 2017 , with the new points system, from Börsenblatt
  4. ^ Expanding horizons , boersenblatt.net, October 12, 2017
  5. ↑ The "Non-fiction books of the month January 2020" , from Buchmarkt
  6. ↑ Non-fiction books of the month February 2020. In: buchmarkt.de. January 28, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Non-fiction books of the month March 2020. In: buchmarkt.de. February 26, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Non-fiction books of the month April 2020. In: buchmarkt.de. March 26, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Non-fiction books of the month May 2020. In: buchmarkt.de. April 27, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Non-fiction books of the month June 2020. In: buchmarkt.de. May 26, 2020, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Non-fiction books of the month: June 2017 , Telepolis, June 3, 2017