Wolfram Eilenberger

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Wolfram Eilenberger (2016)

Wolfram Eilenberger (born August 7, 1972 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German publicist and philosopher .

Live and act

education

Eilenberger studied philosophy, psychology and Romance studies in Heidelberg , Turku and Zurich . In 2008 he received his doctorate in philosophy in Zurich with a thesis on the cultural philosophy of Michail Bachtin supervised by Michael Hampe .

activity

Eilenberger has been working as a publicist since 1999, including his columns Ethics Council in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and Live from the Ivory Tower in the Berlin Tagesspiegel . From 2003 to 2010 he worked as a philosophical correspondent for the monthly magazine Cicero .

Eilenberger's journalistic work is characterized by the application of philosophical perspectives to questions of politics, everyday culture and sport. He is also the author of numerous philosophical non-fiction books that have been translated into different languages. In the spring of 2010, Blanvalet published his book “Finns out of their senses: From someone who moved out to marry a Finnish woman”, which was on the Spiegel bestseller list (non-fiction book) for 17 weeks. The book was published in Finnish by Siltala Publishing in spring 2011 under the title Minun suomalainen vaimoni and quickly became a bestseller in Finland.

In 2009 Eilenberger's dissertation on Bakhtin's philosophy was published under the title The Becoming of Man in Word . The book was recognized by the Bakhtin editor Rainer Grübel as a "contribution to a philosophy of human communication as the basis of a cultural theory", but criticized from a philological point of view. Eilenberger only worked with mainly English translations and ignored the Russian-language secondary literature.

From 2010 to 2012 Eilenberger had lectureships at the University of Toronto , Canada. He is the Fennistin and former Finnish basketball national player Pia Päiviö married. Eilenberger lives with his family in Berlin and Copenhagen.

In 2011 Eilenberger was awarded the Mindelheim Philosophy Prize for his book “Philosophy for everyone who still plans something” (Berlin Verlag) .

He was editor-in-chief of the philosophy magazine and has been program director of the Berlin publishing house Nicolai Publishing & Intelligence since November 2017 .

Non-fiction book "Time of the Magician" (2018)

Eilenberger's latest book "The Magician's Time - The Great Decade of Philosophy 1919-1929" was published in March 2018. The work, which focuses on the philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein , Ernst Cassirer , Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger , was found after publication more than seven months on the Spiegel bestseller list. It has been translated into several languages ​​and was also on the bestseller lists in Italy and Spain.

reception

"Zeit der Zauberer" received a lot of positive national and international attention. Micha Brumlik, for example, spoke in the taz of a "book that will be unparalleled for a long time". El País praised the author for "combining biography and the history of ideas with admirable narrative skill". La Repubblica judged the book to lead "as compellingly as a novel ... into the heart of an extremely complex discussion". The writer Maxim Biller in Die Welt on February 16, 2019, however , counted Eilenberger among the "left-right Germans": Biller accused Eilenberger of neglecting the philosopher Martin Heidegger's sympathies for the Nazi regime in the time of the magicians . Eilenberger, according to Biller, "is writing a mega-bestseller about the four philosophers Heidegger, Cassirer, Benjamin and Wittgenstein and describes in it the existential argument for the Enlightenment, Neo-Kantian and Jew Ernst Cassirer with the traditional jacket Nazi Martin Heidegger as a kind of intellectual football game , no more, full of admiration for the technique and performance of the somehow more German, more virile, supposedly more profound of the two players in the end. "

Eilenberger and sport

Soccer

Eilenberger, who has a coaching license from the DFB, has been an active member of the German national team of Autonama since 2007 . Several times he was a football expert a. a. guest in the TV programs Doppelpass and Sky90 . He has been writing the monthly football column Eilenberger's Cabin Sermon on Zeit Online since May 2015 .

Eilenberger's criticism of Jürgen Klopp and Borussia Dortmund in January 2015 caused a stir in the media: Klopp's creative power had been used up and BVB in the first half of 2014/15 “was no longer a club, but a sect. And with all the classic attributes: articulation prohibitions, total community suggestion, unconditional belief in redemption. "

Eilenberger is a fan of FC Bayern Munich . He accused the club, however, of putting its identity at risk; Eilenberger spoke out in favor of Uli Hoeneß returning and particularly criticized the work of sports director Matthias Sammer . This destroy "the emotional closeness that turns a fan into a fan", "three more years with pep on the bench and Sammer on the microphone and this club is emotionally at an end."

He speaks out against the video evidence in football .

Handball

An article by Eilenberger entitled Handball: The Alternative for Germany at Zeit Online sparked an outcry on February 9, 2016 . With formulations such as “100 percent potato-German willingness to perform” and “If football is Merkel, handball is Petry”, handball was criticized as a “sport of folksy row house skewers”. With well over 500 entries within 48 hours alone on the comment function of time the article triggered in which the team of freshly baked Handball European champions Germany from Eilenberger with terms such as "blutnah," "oppositional" and "potato German" was occupied, a Shitstorm from .

A reply from the handball scene was not long in coming. Under the heading Weltanschauung: Sunk in the longing hole or cabin sermon for Eilenberger , Christian Ciemalla, editor-in-chief of the online magazine handball-world.com , missed Eilenberger respect for the handball athletes .

Awards

Bavarian Book Prize 2018 - Prize winners Wolfram Eilenberger (non-fiction) and Lucy Fricke (fiction)

Works (selection)

  • Philosophy for everyone who still has plans . Berlin Verlag, 2005 ISBN 978-3-8270-0581-6 . 2nd edition: Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8333-0476-7
  • Praise of the goal: 40 flanks in football philosophy . Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin, 2006, ISBN 3-8333-0361-1
  • This is not America: Philosophers talk about the state of the country . Matthes and Seitz, 2008
  • The Becoming of Man in Words: A Study of Michail M. Bachtin's Cultural Philosophy . Chronos, Zurich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-03-400923-2 (also dissertation at the University of Zurich, 2008)
  • Small people, big questions: 20 philosophical questions for the adults of tomorrow - and today . Berlin-Verlag, Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8270-0827-5 . Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8333-0667-9
  • Finns out of their senses: From someone who set out to marry a Finnish woman . Blanvalet, Munich, 2010, 2012², ISBN 978-3-442-37583-7
  • Canada can do me: from someone who moved into the distance with his children . Blanvalet, Munich, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7645-0404-5
  • Wolfram Eilenberger (Ed.): The crime scene and philosophy. Get smarter with the most popular TV series. Tropen, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-608-50327-2 .
  • The Magician's Age: The Great Decade of Philosophy 1919-1929 . Klett-Cotta 2018. ISBN 3608947639 .

Web links

Commons : Wolfram Eilenberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfram Eilenberger: The Becoming of Man in Word | reviews: communication: media. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Pia-Maria Päiviö Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (nors), University of Copenhagen, accessed on 19 November 2018th
  3. ↑ Congratulations, Wolfram Eilenberger…! Mindelheim Philosophy Prize, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; accessed on June 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ About us . Website of Philomagazin Verlag, accessed on June 30, 2016.
    Rupert Sommer: “Philosophy Magazin” and “Hohe Luft” in the kress-Check: Reading feed for Generation XY Unoriented . kressreport , November 16, 2011, accessed June 30, 2016.
  5. ↑ Wolfram Eilenberger does the program at Nicolai , buchmarkt.de, June 22, 2017, accessed on June 22, 2017
  6. ↑ Brumlik in the taz
  7. ↑ In original Spanish, source El Pais
  8. ↑ In the original Italian, source La Repubblica
  9. ↑ Maxim Biller: "Are you also a left-right German? " Die Welt , February 16, 2019, accessed on March 4, 2019.
  10. ↑ That is why Jürgen Klopp will not resign at BVB . Die Welt , February 5, 2015, accessed on June 30, 2016.
    Franz Josef Wagner : Dear Jürgen Klopp . Image , February 6, 2015, accessed June 30, 2016.
  11. ↑ Oliver Fritsch: Wolfram Eilenberger: Borussia Dortmund is the league's anomaly . Interview on Zeit Online, January 28, 2015, accessed June 30, 2016.
  12. ↑ Wolfram Eilenberger: Dear FC Bayern, it's over with us . Column Eilenberger's Cabin Sermon , September 16, 2015, accessed on June 30, 2016.
  13. ↑ Interview with philosopher Eilenberger: Video evidence? "Hope that as much as possible goes wrong at the World Cup". Kicker-Sportmagazin , June 6, 2018, accessed on June 7, 2018 .
  14. ^ Wolfram Eilenberger: Handball: The alternative for Germany. In: zeit.de . February 9, 2016, accessed February 20, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Essay in “Zeit Online”: The German handball - a sport of folksy row house skittles? stern.de , February 11, 2016, accessed on February 20, 2016 . Ralf Mittmann: Derailment in Zeit-Online-Column: Philosopher Eilenberger puts handball players in a nationalistic corner. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . February 12, 2016, accessed February 20, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Christian Ciemalla: belief: Engulfed in longing hole or cabin sermon for Eilenberger. In: handball-world.com. February 9, 2016, accessed February 20, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Wolfram Eilenberger wins the “Prix du meilleur livre étranger”. In: buchmarkt.de. November 22, 2019, accessed November 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Eilenberger, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau