Thomas Karlauf

Thomas Karlauf at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016

Thomas Karlauf (born January 17, 1955 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German author.

Life

Two months after graduation went Karlauf in August 1974 after Amsterdam and became a member of in the 1940s by Wolfgang Frommel founded, operated as a foundation Stefan-George -Kreises Castrum Peregrini . He lived in the foundation's house at 401 Herengracht until 1984 and initially trained as a publishing clerk at the group's magazine, also called Castrum Peregrini and published by Manuel R. Goldschmidt. He was later editor of the magazine and published a number of articles there, including Castrum Peregrini in 1981 . Stations of the prehistory (CP booklet 150) and 1984 the material collectionStefan George and Holland (CP issue 161/162).

In 1984 Karlauf moved to Berlin and worked as a publishing editor, initially at Siedler Verlag , where he was responsible for the autobiographies of Bruno Kreisky and Franz Josef Strauss as a ghostwriter , and later at Rowohlt Verlag Berlin.

He has been a freelance author since 1996 and runs a literature agency in Berlin-Halensee . After publishing a wine guide and working as a ghostwriter on Eberhard von Brauchitsch's memoir, he returned to the topic of Stefan George. After seven years of work, his George biography Stefan George was published in 2007 . The discovery of the charism , which was largely appreciatively reviewed. Karlauf was lecturer and final editor of the research volume The Office and the Past , which was presented in October 2010 by the Independent Commission of Historians to review the history of the Foreign Office during the Nazi era and in the Federal Republic .

In 2016 Karlauf published a biography about Helmut Schmidt . According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung , he succeeded relatively well in keeping the distance necessary for a historian, despite all the sympathy for his protagonist.

Karlauf's book Stauffenberg: Portrait of an Assassin sparked a debate about Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg even before it was published . The book received various reviews. The attempt to research Stauffenberg's motifs and the style were rated positively; It was critically noted that there were no substantiations for essential allegations and that Stauffenberg's actions were derived solely from his George supporters.

Fonts

• (Co-author) Bruno Kreisky : Between times. Memories from five decades. Siedler, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-88680-148-9 .
• (Co-author) Bruno Kreisky: In the stream of politics. Experiences of a European. Siedler, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-88680-188-8 .
• (Co-author) Franz Josef Strauss : The memories. Siedler, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88680-310-4 .
• Small philosophy of passions: wine. dtv, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-423-20216-5 .
• (Co-author) Eberhard von Brauchitsch : The price of silence. Experience of an entrepreneur. Propylaea, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-549-05778-4 . Paperback edition: Ullstein, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-36273-7 .
• Stefan George. The discovery of the charism. Blessing, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89667-151-6 . Paperback edition: Pantheon, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-570-55076-2 .
• My years in the ivory tower . (About the time at Castrum Peregrini). In: Sinn und Form issue 2/2009, pp. 262–272.
• Helmut Schmidt: The later years. Siedler, Berlin 2016, ISBN 3-82750-076-1 .
• Stauffenberg: portrait of an assassin. Blessing, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-89667-411-1 .

Editing

• The historical moment. A German reading book. Siedler, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-88680-406-2 .
• with Wolfgang Wissensemich , Manfred Durniok : That was the GDR. A story of the other Germany. Rowohlt, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-87134-088-X .
• German friends. Twelve double portraits. Rowohlt, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87134-243-2 . Paperback edition: Rowohlt, Reinbek 1997, ISBN 3-499-60339-X .
• with Katharina Raabe: fathers and sons. Twelve biographical portraits. Rowohlt, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87134-273-4 . Paperback edition: Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-499-60431-0 .
• with Uta Gerhardt: Never go back to this country. Eyewitnesses report on the November pogroms of 1938. Propylaeen, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-549-07361-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Karlauf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Video interview with Thomas Karlauf about Stauffenberg, 3sat
• Interview with Thomas Karlauf, FAZ

Remarks

1. ↑ The place of birth Offenbach is given in several autobiographical short notes written by Karlauf im Castrum Peregrini ; later biographical information from his German publishers instead cites Frankfurt am Main as the place of birth.
2. ↑ Alexander Cammann: Der Dichterfürst , taz of August 28, 2007.
3. ↑ http://www.sinn-und-form.de/index.php?tabelle=leseprobe&titel_id=2771
4. ↑ Rachel Salamander: The Poet and Healer (Welt Online, November 8, 2008)
5. ↑ As stated e.g. B. in: Volker Weidermann: Stefan George: The dark side of power , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from August 5, 2007.
6. ↑ Particularly exuberant, among other things as a “literary sensation” that leaves “everything far behind”, “what has recently appeared in literary biographies”, by Frank Schirrmacher : The Secret of Stefan George , FAZ of August 3, 2007. The praise was accompanied by an excerpts from the biography in the FAZ. See the echo in literary criticism: Review notes on Stefan George - The discovery of charisma. Biography at perlentaucher.de .
7. ↑ Eckart Conze , Norbert Frei , Peter Hayes and Moshe Zimmermann : The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic . Blessing Verlag, Munich 2010, p. 3 and 720.
8. ↑ Chancellor's works, Chancellor's wrong ways. Sueddeutsche.de, accessed on July 13, 2019 . 
9. ^ Johannes Tuchel: Stauffenberg: Thomas Karlauf portrait of an assassin . March 17, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed June 21, 2019]).
10. ↑ For fatherland and armed forces. March 8, 2019, accessed June 21, 2019 . 
11. ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: These are the non-fiction books of spring. Retrieved June 21, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Katharina Kellmann: Thomas Karlauf and his speculations about July 20th. Accessed June 21, 2019 (German). 
13. ^ Thomas Karlauf: Stauffenberg. Portrait of an assassin. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .