Non-fiction

Rüdiger Safranski

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Rüdiger Safranski, born 1945 in Rottweil (Baden-Württemberg), studied Philosophy, German Literature and History and Art History in Frankfurt and Berlin. After several years as a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin he became co-publisher and editor of the Berliner Hefte series. He settled in Berlin as a freelance author in 1985.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

2018 German National Prize
2017 E.T.A. Hoffmann Medal
2017 Ludwig Börne Prize
2014 Thomas Mann Prize
2014 Konrad Adenauer Foundation Literature Prize
2009 Corine – International Book Prize
2006 Friedrich Hölderlin Prize
2005 Leipzig Book Fair Prize – Non-fiction / essays
2000 Friedrich Nietzsche Prize
1998 Ernst Robert Curtius Prize

More Publications

Hölderlin. Komm! ins Offene, Freund!
Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2019.
 
Zeit, was sie mit uns macht und was wir aus ihr machen
Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2015.
 
Goethe und Schiller. Geschichte einer Freundschaft
Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2009.
 
Wieviel Globalisierung verträgt der Mensch?
Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2003.
 
Ein Meister aus Deutschland. Heidegger und seine Zeit
Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1994.
 
E.T.A. Hoffmann. Das Leben eines skeptischen Phantasten
Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1984.

Featured Books

Book cover Goethe. Life as a work of art

Goethe. Kunstwerk des Lebens
[Goethe. Life as a work of art]

Carl Hanser Verlag

Book cover Romanticism. A german affair

Romantik. Eine deutsche Affäre
[Romanticism. A german affair ]

Carl Hanser Verlag

Book cover Friedrich Schiller or the Invention of German Idealism

Schiller oder Die Erfindung des Deutschen Idealismus
[Friedrich Schiller or the Invention of German Idealism]

Carl Hanser Verlag

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