Werner Fuld

Werner Fuld (* 1947 in Heidelberg ) is a German author and literary critic .

Life

Werner Fuld studied literature and art history . He worked for many years as a literary critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Zeit, among others . As an author, he has published biographies , encyclopedias and two books with made-up anecdotes . In addition to Walter Benjamin's first biography (1979), he presented biographies of Wilhelm Raabe (1993) and Niccolò Paganini (2001). His book The Educational Lie (2004) also caused a stir . As editor, Fuld published, among other things, love letters from well-known personalities from world history. His books have been translated into numerous languages.

Werner Fuld lives in Spain and near Munich.

Fonts

Book publications

• Walter benjamin. Between the chairs. A biography , Munich / Vienna 1979; last as: Walter Benjamin. A biography , Reinbek near Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-499-12675-3 .
• Wilhelm Raabe. A biography , Munich / Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-423-34324-9 .
• When Kafka still loved women. Untrue anecdotes about life, love and art , Luchterhand, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-630-86842-8 .
• When Rilke was still dancing the polka. New untrue anecdotes about life, love and art , Munich 1995, ISBN 3-630-86932-7 .
• The lexicon of forgeries. Falsifications, lies and conspiracies from art, history, science and literature , Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-8218-1444-6 .
• From cats and other people , Frankfurt am Main 1999; 2nd edition 2006 under ISBN 978-3-89561-705-8 .
• Paganini's curse. The story of a legend , Frankfurt am Main 2001; most recently in 2003 under ISBN 3-499-23305-3 .
• Lexicon of the Last Words. Last messages from famous men and women from Konrad Adenauer to Emiliano Zapata , Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-8218-1618-X .
• The Lexicon of Miracles. Unexplained phenomena from resurrection to dwarf , Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-8218-1617-1 .
• The education lie. Why we know less and have to understand more , Berlin 2004; as paperback 2005, ISBN 3-596-16224-6 .
• The book of forbidden books. Universal history of the persecuted and ostracized from antiquity to today , Galiani, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86971-043-3 .
• A history of sensual writing , Galiani, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86971-098-3 .

Translations

• Susan Sontag : In the sign of Saturn. Essays ( Under the sign of Saturn ), Munich and Vienna 1981 (several editions, most recently in 2003 under ISBN 3-446-20424-5 )

As editor

• Karl August Varnhagen von Ense : Writings and Letters , Stuttgart 1991 ( ISBN 3-15-002657-1 )
• with Albert Ostermaier : The goddess and her socialist. Christiane Grautoff's autobiography - her life with Ernst Toller . With documents on the life story , Bonn 1996 ( ISBN 3-931135-18-7 )
• Artur Landsberger : Berlin without Jews , Bonn 1998 ( ISBN 3-931135-34-9 )
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : "The only one I can love so much ..." Love letters , Munich and Zurich 1999 ( ISBN 3-453-15279-4 )
• "I kiss you from head to toe ..." Love letters from famous men and women , Munich and Zurich 2000 ( ISBN 3-453-17138-1 )
• with Thomas F. Schneider: "Tell me that you love me ..." - Erich Maria Remarque - Marlene Dietrich . Evidence of a Passion , Cologne 2001 (most recently 2003 under ISBN 3-462-03338-7 )
• "So these are the last lines ...". The last letters of great personalities , Frankfurt am Main 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-8105-0675-7 or ISBN 3-8105-0675-3 )

Web links

• Werner Fuld on perlentaucher.de
• Literature by and about Werner Fuld in the catalog of the German National Library