Tilman Spengler

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Tilman Spengler (2011)

Tilman Spengler (born March 2, 1947 in Oberhausen ) is a German sinologist, writer and journalist.

Live and act

Spengler studied Sinology , Political Science and modern history in Heidelberg , Taipei and Munich and worked for several years at the Max Planck Institute for research into the living conditions of the scientific and technical world in Starnberg . In 1972 he completed his doctorate in Munich.

He then worked for six years as a research assistant to the philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker . In addition to his academic work, he published regularly in Die Zeit and in GEO . In 1991 he published the novel biography Lenin's Brain , which has been translated into twenty-one languages. In 1992 Spengler became head of the arts section of the weekly newspaper Die Woche . In 2003 he published his short story book when men misrepresent themselves .

Spengler is a founding member of the Lübeck literary meeting " Gruppe 05 ". Since May 2006 he has been part of the “Sinologie Heidelberg Alumni Network” (SHAN) e. V. ( Sinological Seminar of the University of Heidelberg ) as a member of the Board of Trustees. From 1980 until she was temporarily hired in 2008, he was co-editor of Kursbuch magazine . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Spengler is a China expert and was u. a. 1976 during the great earthquake there. He also accompanied the then Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in 2001 and, in May 2008, the then Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on visits to the country. In an interview in 2010, he described his relationship with China as follows: “For the intensity of close observation, the feeling of foreignness is very important to me. After a few weeks you can no longer see, hear or smell the special features. [...] For me, China is a place with a fairly high density in many areas of life. I don't know how long that keeps you thinking. I always left China early enough before it could turn into a flat phase. ”More recently, Spengler has stated that large parts of German Sinology are silent on the current Chinese political situation. After all, this is in contrast to the earlier adulation of Maoism . In 2010 Spengler gave the laudation on the occasion of the Hermann Kesten Prize being awarded to Liu Xiaobo , who was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize a little later. The sinologist was involved in the preparation of the Art of Enlightenment exhibition at the Chinese National Museum in Beijing, which has been on display for a year since April 1, 2011. In March 2011, on the occasion of her opening of his mission for Liu Xiaobo and other dissidents, Spengler was denied entry to China to accompany Foreign Minister Westerwelle. As a reason for the entry ban, a Chinese cultural official said that Spengler had "hurt the feelings of the Chinese people". In an interview, Spengler described the project as a “meaningful event”, but such events also provided “legitimizing impulses”.

Spengler wrote and moderated the 101-part series "Classics of World Literature" for the TV station BR-alpha , the episodes of which were broadcast for the first time from 2009 to 2011.

Spengler lives in Ambach on Lake Starnberg and in Berlin. He is married to the actress Daphne Wagner and has one daughter. Tilman Spengler is the great nephew of Oswald Spengler .

Awards

Works

Fonts
  • Planned population growth in the decision-making process of economic and social policy in the PRC , 1975
  • The fall of Lin Piao. Paradigm for Military-Civil Conflicts in the PRC . Notifications d. Institute f. Asia Studies Hamburg No. 76, ISBN 978-3-921-46923-1
  • Lenin's brain , Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1991, ISBN 978-3-498-06256-9
  • Ghost walls. Chinese travel pictures , Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1991, ISBN 978-3-404-14385-6
  • The painter from Beijing , Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1993, ISBN 978-3-498-06273-6
  • When men mislead. A story of suffering in 24 vertebrae , Rowohlt, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87134-272-6
  • The forehead, the eyes and the mouth . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999. 320 pages, ISBN 3-498-06274-3
  • My company. Course book of an unfinished , Berlin publishing house, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-8270-0381-4 .
  • Happiness is waiting outside the city. Reports and stories from China . Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-442-76119-7 .
  • Visiting Wagner. Art, culture and culinary delights in the Villa Wahnfried . Together with Daphne Wagner and Barbara Lutterbeck, Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2002, ISBN 3899101413
  • Mallorca: About black pigs and Madonnas. Oases for the senses . Sanssouci Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-725-41233-4
  • 15 monkeys for Ida. Or 15 monkeys for Ida, who once asked a very clever question . Together with Jörg Immendorff, Bloomsbury Children's and Youth Books, Cologne 2005, 58 pages, ISBN 3-8270-5071-5 .
  • Are you here often? The art of having a smart conversation . Ullstein, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-550-08768-4 .
  • It has to be true, otherwise I couldn't tell. 30 strokes of luck in world literature . Ullstein, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-550-08839-1 .
  • Do you really have all that in mind? Fortunes of world literature . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-28026-6 .
  • Daring attempt to stick in mid-air . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8270-1295-1 .
As editor
  • Joseph Needham . Scientific universalism. About the importance and particularity of Chinese science. Edited, introduced and translated by Tilman Spengler . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-518-07455-5
  • Lenin's last days. A reconstruction by Alexej Chanjutin and Boris Rawdin , Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-871-34097-0
  • Moscow Berlin. Stereograms , Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-827-00413-0
As translator

Web links

Commons : Tilman Spengler  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZDF Spezial from May 13, 2008 7:25 pm
  2. ↑ The downside of growth April 20, 2007.pdf. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 13, 2015 ; Retrieved April 8, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Ulrike Münter: Tilman Spengler: The Author as Sketch Painter ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). On: goethe.de in January 2010
  4. ↑ Freedom of expression also includes the “right to shut up”, quoted from Kai Strittmatter: Sueddeutsche Zeitung, No. 286 of December 10, 2010, p. 15, under the heading Die Chinaversteher online
  5. ↑ Three institutions were responsible for the exhibition: the Berlin State Museums, the Dresden State Art Collections and the Bavarian State Painting Collection in Munich.
  6. ↑ Ruth Kirchner: "Art of the Enlightenment" ends in Beijing . On: dw.de on March 26, 2012
  7. ↑ Entry ban for German author: Tilman Spengler is not allowed to go to China. Retrieved April 8, 2015 .
  8. ↑ On the opening event, see: Beijing National Museum. Spectacle and debacle in the world's largest museum , on: ZEIT-online, April 2, 2011
  9. ↑ Quoted from Silke Müller: Kant's shoes, Maos Macht In: stern 15, April 7, 2001, p. 145
  10. ↑ Tilman Spengler interviewed by Stephan Maus: You have to be ready to wash your paws . In: stern 15, April 7, 2001, pp. 146–149
  11. ↑ Classics of world literature . On: fernsehserien.de
  12. ↑ 2004 published in Tilman Spengler's biography ( memento of December 29, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) on literaturfestival.com
  13. ^ Tilman Spengler on the 70th: Chinas brain , March 2, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Spengler, Tilman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen