Thomas Rietzschel

Thomas Rietzschel (born 1951 near Dresden ) is a German journalist and writer.

Life

Rietzschel studied German , history and philosophy in Leipzig . After completing his doctorate , he was a cultural correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for a decade and a half . He published books on the cultural history of modernism, especially on the early 20th century , and traveled to their locations from Siberia to Brocken and from Ascona to Australia . For this he received the media prize of the East German Cultural Council Foundation in 1997 . Since 2002 he has been advising various cultural projects. He publishes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Axis des Guten, among others . and lives near Frankfurt am Main .

In 2012 Rietzschel published the book The Hour of Dilettantes. How we allow ourselves to be swept away by examining fields of public life such as politics, economics, art, education and the entertainment industry and using current case studies to come to the conclusion that today's society is shaped by amateurs who wanted a lot but could only do little . Her motto is “learning by doing” or “everyone is an artist”. They did not act against their better judgment, but were simply clueless, but permeated by the importance of their role in which they lived "like the mime on stage". Henryk M. Broder called it in the world

“A book that has been waiting to be written. And Rietzschel [...] is the author who had to write it. An Ossi who has kept a clear view of reality in both directions and who does not want to follow either the Politburo or the Secretary General of any party when they claim that two times two could possibly result in five. "

In 2014 Rietzschel wrote the book Plundered Democracy: The Business of the Political Cartel , in which he describes Germany as being plundered by parties that are no longer representatives of the people, but have developed into commercialized companies that invent their own tasks and the people as the executor of these tasks. The citizens' disenchantment with politics is the result of the disappointment of paid professional politicians who only governed for self-preservation instead of representing their people according to the enlightened ideal out of commitment. Instead of arguments and sustainable concepts, it is only about "maintaining power and ritualized political theater". Citizens themselves have become for sale, bread is more important to them than freedom and their own existence is more important than the welfare of the community.

Fonts

• Second through brain. 21 Expressionist Narrators (Ed.), Reclam, 1987, ISBN 978-3-379-00057-4 .
• Between grief and ecstasy. 21 expressionist love stories (ed.), Der Morgen Verlag, 1988, ISBN 978-3-371-00171-5 .
• Theodor Däubler A collage of his biography. Reclam's Universal Library; Vol. 1262: Kunstwissenschaften (Ed.), Reclam Leipzig, 1988, ISBN 978-3-37900-348-3 .
• Das Schwalbenbuch und other Gedichte (Ed.), Aufbau Verlag, 1992, ISBN 978-3-351-01479-7 .
• About Germany , Reclam, 1993, ISBN 978-3-379-01486-1 .
• The hour of the dilettantes: How we let ourselves be swept away , Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-552-05554-4 .
• Audiobook (unabridged): The hour of the dilettantes: How we let ourselves be fooled . Verlag GESAFA, 2012, ISBN 978-3-943273-01-4
• Looted Democracy: The Business of the Political Cartel , Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-552-05675-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Rietzschel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Thomas Rietzschel in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Andreas Schwarz: Dilettantes: “Wanting instead of being able” , interview with Thomas Rietschel, Kurier, February 11, 2012.
• Franziska Augstein: “The hour of the dilettantes” by Thomas Rietzschel , review, Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 7, 2012.
• Thomas Rietzschel speaks about "The Hour of Dilettantes" , Interview Lounge, July 2, 2012.
• Nil Varol: Thomas Rietzschel - Looted Democracy , 3SAT, July 3, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Article by and about Thomas Rietzschel in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Accessed December 31, 2015.
2. ↑ Examples [1] and [2] .
3. ^ Author profile and articles by Thomas Rietzschel on the axis of the good.
4. ↑ Thomas Rietzschel - Author ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Portrait night studio, ZDF, February 19, 2012. 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Rietzschel - Biography , Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, 2014.
6. ↑ Peter Carstens: Much Want, Little Can , Deutschlandfunk, February 27, 2012.
7. ^ Henryk M. Broder: Merkel, Bohlen & Co. - "The dilettantes are the heroes of our days" , Die Welt, March 26, 2012.
8. ^ Nil Varol: Plenary or plebiscite: How happy does democracy make you? , 3Sat, July 1, 2014.
9. ^ Understanding of democracy: "Swindlers and broken words" Deutschlandradio Kultur, May 1, 2014.
10. ^ Henryk M. Broder: Polit-Profis are experts for organized idling , Die Welt, April 12, 2014.