Rüdiger Safranski facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Rüdiger Safranski
|
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| Born | 1 January 1945 Rottweil, Württemberg, Germany (today Baden-Württemberg, Germany) |
| Occupation |
|
| Notable awards | Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2005 |
Rüdiger Safranski (born January 1, 1945) is a German thinker and writer. He is known for writing books about famous philosophers and authors, helping people understand their ideas.
About His Life
Rüdiger Safranski was born in Rottweil, Germany, in 1945. From 1965 to 1972, he went to university to study many subjects. He learned about philosophy, German literature, history, and art history. He studied at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Free University of Berlin. After his studies, he worked as a teacher for German literature at the Free University of Berlin from 1972 to 1977. In 1976, he earned his PhD degree. His special project, called a "dissertation," was about how literature for working-class people developed in West Germany. In the late 1970s, he helped publish and edit a journal called Berliner Hefte. This journal was about literary life. From 1977 to 1982, Safranski taught adults. Since 1987, he has been a full-time writer. In 2005, he married Gisela Nicklaus. He lives in Berlin and Badenweiler.
His Books and TV Shows
Safranski's most popular books are about important thinkers and writers. These include Friedrich Schiller, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Since 1994, he has been a member of the P.E.N. Center. This is a worldwide association of writers. Since 2001, he has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. This is the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt. In 1989, he helped direct a TV documentary called Der Zauberer von Meßkirch. It was about the philosopher Martin Heidegger. From 2002 to 2012, he and Peter Sloterdijk hosted a TV show together. It was called Das Philosophische Quartett (The Philosophical Quartet). On this show, they discussed philosophical and ethical questions. It was shown on the German public TV station ZDF.
Some of His Books
- Einzeln sein. Eine philosophische Herausforderung (Being Alone: A Philosophical Challenge). 2021. ISBN: 978-3-446-25671-2
- Goethe. Kunstwerk des Lebens (Goethe: Life as a Work of Art). 2013. ISBN: 978-3446235816
- Goethe and Schiller. Geschichte einer Freundschaft (Goethe and Schiller: Story of a Friendship). 2009. ISBN: 978-3-446-23326-3
- Romantik. Eine deutsche Affäre (Romanticism: A German Affair). 2007. ISBN: 978-3-446-20944-2
- Schiller als Philosoph – Eine Anthologie (Schiller as Philosopher – An Anthology). 2005. ISBN: 3-937989-08-0
- Schiller oder die Erfindung des Deutschen Idealismus (Schiller, or the invention of German idealism). 2004. ISBN: 3-446-20548-9
- Wieviel Globalisierung verträgt der Mensch? (How much globalization can a human being tolerate?). 2003. ISBN: 3-446-20261-7
- Nietzsche. Biographie seines Denkens (Nietzsche: Biography of his Thinking). 2000. ISBN: 3-446-19938-1
- Das Böse oder Das Drama der Freiheit (Evil or the Drama of Freedom). 1997. ISBN: 3-446-18767-7
- Ein Meister aus Deutschland. Heidegger und seine Zeit (A Master from Germany: Heidegger and His Time). 1994. ISBN: 3-446-17874-0
- Wieviel Wahrheit braucht der Mensch? (How much truth do we need?). 1990. ISBN: 3-446-16045-0
- Schopenhauer und die wilden Jahre der Philosophie (Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy). 1988. ISBN: 3-446-14490-0
- E.T.A. Hoffmann. Das Leben eines skeptischen Phantasten (E.T.A. Hoffmann: The Life of a Skeptical Dreamer). 1984. ISBN: 3-446-13822-6
Awards He Has Won
- 1995 Friedrich Märker Prize for Essayists
- 1996 Wilhelm Heinse Medal of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature
- 1998 Ernst Robert Curtius Prize for Essay Writing
- 2000 Friedrich Nietzsche Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
- 2003 Premio Internazionale Federico Nietzsche, from the Italian Nietzsche Society
- 2005 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for his book "Schiller, or The Invention of German Idealism"
- 2006 Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis of the City of Bad Homburg
- 2006 Welt-Literaturpreis
- 2009 Corine Literature Prize, a Lifetime Achievement prize
- 2014 Thomas Mann Prize
See also
In Spanish: Rüdiger Safranski para niños
