Wolfgang Schivelbusch

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Wolfgang Schivelbusch (born November 26, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German publicist and historian.

Schivelbusch studied literature, sociology and philosophy in Frankfurt am Main. Since 1973 he has lived in New York and Berlin. He is best known for his works on the history of mentality . In 2003 he was awarded the Heinrich Mann Prize by the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

In 1978 he received the German Non-Fiction Prize for his work on the history of rail travel, published in 1977 . In 2005 Schivelbusch was awarded the Aby Warburg Foundation's Science Prize. In 2013 he received the Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

Works

  • Socialist drama after Brecht: 3 models, Peter Hacks, Heiner Müller, Hartmut Lange (= Luchterhand Collection. Vol. 139). Darmstadt / Neuwied 1974, ISBN 3-472-61139-1 .
  • History of the railway journey: On the industrialization of space and time in the 19th century. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-446-12425-X . Paperback: Fischer-TB 14828, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-596-14828-6 .
  • Paradise, taste and reason: a story of luxury foods. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-446-12984-7 . Paperback: Fischer-TB 4413, Frankfurt am Main 1990 and 1992, ISBN 3-596-24413-7 .
  • Intellectual dawn: On the situation of the Frankfurt intelligentsia in the twenties . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1982. Paperback: Suhrkamp-TB 1121, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-37621-7 .
  • Lichtblicke: On the history of artificial brightness in the 19th century. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-446-13793-9 . Paperback: Fischer-TB 16180, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-596-16180-5 .
  • A Wilhelmine Opera (= The Hessen Library ). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-458-14242-8 .
  • The Library of Lions: an episode from the time of the world wars. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-446-15162-1 . Paperback: A Ruin in the War of the Spirits. Fischer-TB 10367, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-10367-3 .
  • Light, appearance and madness: appearance of electric lighting in the 20th century (= Erco edition ). Ernst, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-433-02344-1 .
  • Before the curtain. Spiritual Berlin 1945–1948. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-446-18095-8 . Paperback: Fischer-TB 13375, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-13375-0 .
  • The culture of defeat: The American South 1865, France 1871, Germany 1918. Fest, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8286-0165-0 . Paperback: Fischer-TB 15729, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-596-15729-7 .
  • Distant relatives: Fascism, National Socialism, New Deal 1933–1939. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-446-20597-0 . Paperback: Fischer-TB 17152, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-17152-1 .
  • The consuming life of things. Experiment about consumption. Carl Hanser, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24781-9 .
  • Retreat. Stories of a taboo. Carl Hanser, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-26228-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Niklas Weber: The silence of the passengers. Wolfgang Schivelbusch's “History of the Railway Journey” reread. October 27, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Cultural history Aroma from Paradise , Der Spiegel April 7, 1980
  3. ↑ Martin Eichhorn: Kulturgeschichte der "Kulturgeschichten": Typology of a literary genre , Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2002, fn. 499, p. 124. ISBN 978-3-8260-2341-5 (= Epistemata, series literary studies , volume 417, at the same time Dissertation at the Humboldt University in Berlin 2000).
  4. ↑ shz.de from December 19, 2013 ( Memento from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin