Stefan Doubt

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Stefan Zweifel in March 2004 in Zurich

Stefan Doubt (born December 22, 1967 in Zurich ) is a Swiss translator and journalist .

Life

Stefan Zweifel studied philosophy , comparative literature and Egyptology at the University of Zurich . He wrote his doctoral thesis in philosophy together with Michael Pfister on Sade , Hegel and La Mettrie . Doubt became known through the new translation of Sade's main works Justine and Juliette , which he had also worked on with Michael Pfister and which he had begun at the age of 17.

In addition, he played a leading role in exhibitions on Dadaism and Surrealism .

Until 2004 he was in charge of the trilingual culture magazine Gazzetta . He writes articles for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Weltwoche , the Swiss online magazine "Republik" and the magazines du and Literatures .

Literary club

From April 2007 to May 2014, Stefan Zweifel was a participant in the literary club program on Swiss television , which also runs on the 3sat cultural program . As the successor to Iris Radisch , he moderated the show from September 2012 until his controversial departure from the team of critics, which was generally perceived in connection with a scandal with panelist Elke Heidenreich : Stefan Zweifel had correctly reproached her in the program on April 22, 2014 that a supposed quote from Martin Heidegger could not be found in the book discussed. Doubt then demanded that the editorial team of the show examine the quote in question. Because this remained inactive, he further demanded the removal of editor-in-chief Esther Schneider - whereupon the SRF separated from him.

SRF has denied a connection between the separation and the controversy with Elke Heidenreich. Heidenreich also emphasized in a statement that the process had been "taken up by the press hastily and without reflection". She finished the sentence in question “with my words without further quoting”, “left it open at the end, it was clearly an oral speech, it was clearly no longer a quotation.” Also from her point of view, there was no connection between the discussion There was no doubt that the moderator and the controversy in the live round existed.

In retrospect, Doubt contradicted this representation. Various media criticized the behavior of Swiss television. The literary scholar Silvio Vietta stated in 2015 that a well-known literary critic used a “wrong Heidegger sentence” to accuse this “evil anti-Semitism”. When the moderator confronted her with this fact, the critic lost control and threw Heidegger's book on the floor.

In the aftermath, Doubt and SRF reached an agreement before the justice of the peace . The broadcaster subsequently wrote a letter praising the former moderator's “profound philological knowledge”.

Works

  • with Tobia Bezzola, Michael Pfister (eds.): The Marquis de Sade and the erotic fantasy of surrealism in text and images. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2001 ISBN 3-7757-1065-5
  • with Michael Pfister (ed.): Pornosophie & Imachination - Sade / Lamettrie / Hegel. Matthes & Seitz, Munich 2002 ISBN 3-88221-836-3
  • In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni - the situationist international . JRP Ringier, Zurich 2007 ISBN 978-3-905701-18-0
  • with Michael Pfister: Shades of Sade. An introduction to the work of the Marquis de Sade . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2015 ISBN 978-3-95757-119-9

Translations

  • Marquis de Sade: Justine and Juliette . Edited and translated by Stefan Zweifel and Michael Pfister. 10 volumes, Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1990–2002 DNB 551963425
  • Boris Vian : Writings, glosses and reviews on jazz. Translated by Klaus Völker, Stefan Zweifel. Hannibal, Vienna
  1. All around at midnight. 1989 ISBN 3-85445-048-6
  2. Pride and prejudice. 1990 ISBN 3-85445-049-4

Others

Movies

  • Sade, career a libertine. Documentation, format NZZ, 2000

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scandal in the “Literature Club” - What is Heidegger's? by Jürg Altwegg . In: FAZ on May 23, 2014
  2. ↑ Doubt loses power struggle against Heidenreich by Benedict Neff . In: Basler Zeitung on May 22, 2014
  3. ↑ Clarification on the departure of Stefan Zweifel at the “Literature Club” . SRF press release. May 25, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ Elke Heidenreich: How the Heidegger quote came about in the “Literature Club”. In: Tages-Anzeiger of May 27, 2014.
  5. ↑ “Swiss television embarrasses itself in the dispute over the literature club”, wrote the FAZ ( The Heidegger quote from Elke Heidenreich by Jürg Altwegg . In: FAZ on May 31, 2014). “SRF makes himself a laughing stock” the NZZ ( SRF makes himself a laughing stock , ( memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) by Rainer Stadler. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 27, 2014). In the Süddeutsche Zeitung it was written: "The reasons of the SRF for the demotion of Stefan Zweifel, who - which is the task of a critic - made a false quote recognizable as such." ( Scandal about Heidenreich's Heidegger forgery . In: Süddeutsche Newspaper , May 23, 2014). Furthermore: Swiss television fails again. The "Literature Club" of Swiss television continues to ignore the wrong Heidegger quote by Elke Heidenreich and the consequences. NZZ, June 25, 2014.
  6. ↑ Silvio Vietta: "Something is racing around the globe ..." Martin Heidegger: Ambivalent existence and criticism of globalization. Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2015 ISBN 978-3-7705-5823-0 p. 14. Extract available online
  7. ↑ Katja Baigger: On the pulse of Proust's fibrillation . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 30, 2017 ( nzz.ch [accessed November 30, 2017]).
  8. ^ Rib: Christoph Marthaler receives the art award of the city of Zurich . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 13, 2017, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed November 30, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Doubt, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss translator and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd December 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich