Sven Hillenkamp

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Sven Hillenkamp (born March 7, 1971 in Bonn ) is a German sociologist, philosopher and writer.

Life

Sven Hillenkamp was born in Bonn, but grew up in Paris and Geneva in addition to his native Bonn . He studied Islamic studies , economic and social history and political science , as well as sociology and philosophy . He broke off his studies in 1998. He was the editor of the journal Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Demokratie (New Social Movements) and worked for various other newspapers, including satires for The Truth in the taz ; from 2001 to 2004 he was editor of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

In 2007 Sven Hillenkamp moved to the Swedish capital Stockholm , where he has lived since then. In the same year he began a four-volume book series of philosophical investigations that deal with the zeitgeist of modern western societies. From this book series with the working title Constraints of Freedom. The new forms of factuality appeared in 2009 as the first volume Das Ende der Liebe , for which he received the Clemens Brentano Prize , endowed with 10,000 euros, the following year ; Above all, his “courageous attempt to grasp the state of love in the present” was honored. In 2012, his literary debut Footprints of a Flier was published , which contains a collection of reflections, essays, short stories and poems. In 2016, Negative Moderne was the second volume from Hillenkamp's major project.

In 2015 Hillenkamp accepted a teaching position at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Since then, Hillenkamp has been increasingly engaged in artistic work.

Hillenkamp is in a relationship with a Swedish psychotherapist, has two children and lives as a freelance writer in Stockholm and Berlin.

Works

  • The end of love. Feelings in the age of infinite freedom . Munich, Klett-Cotta 2009.
  • Footprints of a flying man . Munich, Klett-Cotta 2012.
  • Negative modernity. Modern structures of freedom and falling into nothing . Munich, Klett-Cotta 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Klett-Cotta - Sven Hillenkamp biography, books, information. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b heidelberg.de - Brentano Prize 2010 - press release. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Clemens Brentano Prize Jury: On the 2010 award ceremony. Accessed June 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hillenkamp, ​​Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist, philosopher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn