Philipp Blom

Last updated

Blom in 2015 Brainwash Festival 2015 - Philipp Blom (1).jpg
Blom in 2015

Philipp Blom (born 1970) is a German historian, novelist, journalist and translator.

Contents

Biography

Blom was born in Hamburg, Germany, grew up in Detmold, and studied in Vienna and Oxford. He holds a DPhil in Modern History from Oxford University. After living and working in London, Paris and Vienna he now lives in Los Angeles with his wife Veronica Buckley.

His historical works include To Have and To Hold, [1] a history of collectors and collecting, and Encyclopédie [2] (US edition: Enlightening the World), a history of the Encyclopaedia by Diderot and d'Alembert that sparked the Enlightenment in France. In The Vertigo Years, Blom argues that the break with the past that is often associated with the trauma of World War I actually had its roots in the years before the war from 1900–1914. [3] Blom followed this with Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918–1938, a cultural history of the interwar years.

Blom has published two novels: The Simmons Papers [4] and Luxor (in German). [5]

He has also published a guide to Austrian wines, The Wines of Austria, [6] and an English translation of Geert Mak's Amsterdam (1999) (Blom has a Dutch mother and speaks the language as well).

As a journalist, Blom has written for the Times Literary Supplement, The Financial Times, The Independent, The Guardian, and the Sunday Telegraph in Britain, for various German-language publications (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Financial Times Deutschland, Berliner Zeitung, Der Standard, Die Tageszeitung), and for Vrij Nederland in the Netherlands, as well as for other magazines and journals, the BBC, and German radio stations. He had hosts a live cultural programme, "Von Tag zu Tag" and it´s successor "Punkt eins" on national radio station Ö1 on Austrian Public Radio (ORF).

2011 Blom has written the libretto for an opera, Soliman, a project with the composer Joost van Kerkhooven, and has provided translations for stage productions (The Producers for the Établissement Ronacher, and La Colombe for the Schönbrunn Theatre, Vienna).

Works

In English
In other languages

Related Research Articles

<i>Encyclopédie</i> General encyclopedia published in France from 1751 to 1772

Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, better known as Encyclopédie, was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations. It had many writers, known as the Encyclopédistes. It was edited by Denis Diderot and, until 1759, co-edited by Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Baron d'Holbach</span> German-born French philosopher (1723–1789)

Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach, known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist and writer, who was a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, near Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate, but lived and worked mainly in Paris, where he kept a salon. He helped in the dissemination of "Protestant and especially German thought", particularly in the field of the sciences, but was best known for his atheism and for his voluminous writings against religion, the most famous of them being The System of Nature (1770) and The Universal Morality (1776).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rosi Mittermaier</span> German alpine skier (1950–2023)

Rosa Anna Katharina Mittermaier-Neureuther was a German alpine skier. She was the overall World Cup champion in 1976 and a double gold medalist at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hans Magnus Enzensberger</span> German writer and editor (1929–2022)

Hans Magnus Enzensberger was a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi. Enzensberger was regarded as one of the literary founding figures of the Federal Republic of Germany and wrote more than 70 books, with works translated into 40 languages. He was one of the leading authors in Group 47, and influenced the 1968 West German student movement. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize and the Pour le Mérite, among many others.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jans der Enikel</span> Austrian poet and medieval chronicler

Jans der Enikel, or Jans der Jansen Enikel, was a Viennese chronicler and narrative poet of the late 13th century. He wrote a Weltchronik and a Fürstenbuch, both in Middle High German verse.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Socialist Alternative Politics</span> Political party in the Netherlands

The Socialist Alternative Politics is a Trotskyist political group in the Netherlands without parliamentary representation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Städel</span> Art museum in Frankfurt, Germany

The Städel, officially the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, is an art museum in Frankfurt, with one of the most important collections in Germany. The Städel Museum owns 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, more than 4,600 photographs and more than 100,000 drawings and prints. It has around 7,000 m2 (75,000 sq ft) of display and a library of 115,000 books.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wolf Schneider</span> German journalist (1925–2022)

Wolf Dietrich Schneider was a German journalist, author, and language critic. After World War II, he learned journalism on the job with Die Neue Zeitung, a newspaper published by the US military government. He later worked as a correspondent in Washington for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, then as editor-in-chief and from 1969 manager of the publishing house of Stern. He moved to the Springer Press in 1971. From 1979 to 1995, he was the first director of a school for journalists in Hamburg, shaping generations of journalists. He wrote many publications about the German language, becoming an authority. He promoted a concise style, and opposed anglicisms and the German orthography reform.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Schloss Gobelsburg</span>

Schloss Gobelsburg is a winery and castle in the Kamptal wine growing region in Lower Austria, some 50 miles to the north west of Vienna. The estate produces both red and white wines. Wine production on the estate dates to 1171; it is the oldest winery in the Danube region. The structure is a listed building.

Gottfried Sellius (1704?–1767) was a German academic and translator. He is known for his work on Teredo navalis. and to be one of the three original initiators of an encyclopedia project, which subsequently turned into the Encyclopédie.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Friedrich Christian Delius</span> German novelist (1943–2022)

Friedrich Christian Delius, also known by his pen name F.C. Delius, was a German novelist. He wrote books about historic events, such as the 1954 FIFA World Cup, and RAF terrorism. Four of his novels were translated into English, including The Pears of Ribbeck and Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman. His awards include the Georg Büchner Prize of 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alain Claude Sulzer</span> Swiss writer and translator (born 1953)

Alain Claude Sulzer is a Swiss writer and translator. He was born in Riehen, near Basel. Sulzer became a librarian, but also translated from French, for example parts of Julien Green's diaries. As a journalist he wrote for various newspapers and magazines, including the NZZ. He has published more than ten books and has won a number of literary awards in the process, such as the Rauris Literature Prize (1984), or the Hermann-Hesse-Preis (2009).

Jamie S. Rich is an author of both prose and graphic novel fiction, a web series host, and editor of American comic books. He is currently Executive Editorial Director at IDW Publishing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ulrich Raulff</span>

Ulrich Raulff is a German cultural scientist and journalist.

Bodo Hugo Hauser was a German journalist and writer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Letzter Stich</span>

Letzter Stich is a card game for 3 or 4 players in which the aim is solely to win the last trick. It originated in Germany and the names mean "last trick" respectively. It has been described as suitable for children, yet having a "surprising wealth of interesting game situations." It should not be confused with Letzter, a reverse game of greater complexity where the aim is to lose the last trick.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Florian Koschat</span>

Florian Koschat is an Austrian entrepreneur and investment banker.

Wolfgang Hirschmann is a German musicologist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ulrike Almut Sandig</span> German writer

Ulrike Almut Sandig is a German writer. She was born in Großenhain in the former GDR, and has lived in Riesa, Leipzig and Berlin. She studied religion and indology at university, and then studied at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig.

Manfred Böckl is a German writer who specialises in historical fiction. Since the 1980s, he has written novels that often revolve around Bavaria, crime, abuse of power and historical renegades and seers. He had a local breakthrough in 1991 with a novel about the Bavarian prophet Mühlhiasl. A recurring subject in Böckl's works is Celtic culture and he practices Celtic neopaganism.

References

  1. To Have and to Hold – An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting, Allen Lane/Penguin, London, 2002
  2. Encyclopédie – The Triumph of Reason in an Unreasonable Age, Fourth Estate, London, 2004
  3. The Vertigo Years – Change and Culture in the West, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2008
  4. The Simmons Papers, Faber & Faber, London, 1995; German edition Die Simmons Papiere, Berlin Verlag, Berlin, 1997
  5. Luxor, Tisch 7, Cologne, 2006
  6. The Wines of Austria, Faber & Faber, London, 2000; reissued by Mitchell Beazley, London, 2006