Bettina Stangneth (born 1966) is a German philosopher. [1] Known for her work on antisemitism and National Socialism, she is the author of several books, including Eichmann Before Jerusalem (2014), which won an NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis (non-fiction book award) in 2011 when it was first published in German. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Stangneth was awarded her PhD by the University of Hamburg in 1997 for a thesis on Immanuel Kant. [6]
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential figures in modern Western philosophy.
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann was a German writer of poems, short stories, a novel, essays, letters, and diaries.
Hermann Cohen was a German Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be "probably the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century".
Mascha Kaléko was a German-language poet.
Wilhelmus Antonius Sassen was a Dutch collaborator, Nazi journalist and a member of the Waffen-SS. He became known around 1960 as "the interviewer of Adolf Eichmann".
Otfried Höffe is a German philosopher and professor.
Hubert Fichte was a German novelist.
Wolf Dietrich Schneider is a German journalist, author and language critic.
Harald R. Wohlrapp is a German philosopher. His main focus is argumentation theory.
Georg Klein in a German novelist. He lives in Jemgum. His wife Katrin de Vries is also a writer. In September 2012 he was keynote speaker at the British Council sponsored Edinburgh World Writers' Conference in Berlin. Having worked for many years as a ghost-writer Georg Klein was discovered in 2001 with his detective story "Barbar Rosa."
Freimut Duve was a German journalist, writer, politician and human rights activist. From 1980 to 1998 he was a member of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was the first OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media from 1998 to 2003. Duve was also a well-known personality in the German literary scene.
rein GOLD. ein bühnenessay is a prose work by Elfriede Jelinek, the Austrian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, published in 2013 by Rowohlt Verlag. On 9 March 2014 its world premiere as an opera was staged by Staatsoper Berlin.
Fritz Joachim Raddatz was a German feuilletonist, essayist, biographer, journalist and romancier.
Adolf Frisé was a German journalist, author and editor. He was the editor of the literary works of the Austrian philosophical writer Robert Musil.
Schloss Gripsholm. Eine Sommergeschichte is the title of a story (Erzählung) by Kurt Tucholsky, published in 1931. It is a love story with comic and melancholic elements, reminiscent of the author's first novel, Rheinsberg: Ein Bilderbuch für Verliebte.
Eberhard Ludwig Cäsar Fritsch was the editor and publisher of the pro-National Socialist monthly magazine in Argentina Der Weg which advocated a revival of National Socialism in Germany after the Second World War. He was a confidant of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina before Eichmann's capture and transfer for trial to Israel. With Willem Sassen he taped Eichmann's reminiscences with a view to publishing his memoirs. The memoirs were never published but the tapes were later used at Eichmann's trial.
Martin Geck was a German musicologist. He taught at the Technical University of Dortmund. His publications concerned a number of major composers. Among the composers in whom he specialised was Johann Sebastian Bach.
Antonia Grunenberg is a German political scientist, totalitarianism researcher and an expert on the political thought of Hannah Arendt. She is professor emerita at the University of Oldenburg, where she taught as a full professor from 1998 until her 2009 retirement, and where she was director of the Hannah Arendt Centre. She is also editor of the book series Hannah Arendt Studies.
Jürg Thomas Stenzl is a Swiss musicologist, and University professor.
Natascha Wodin is a German writer of Ukrainian origin. She was born in Fürth, Bavaria in 1945 to parents who had been forced labourers under the Nazi regime. She grew up in a camp for displaced persons. Following her mother's suicide, she was raised in a Catholic home for girls. She worked as a telephone operator and stenographer before becoming an interpreter and translator of Russian in the early 1970s.
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