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Per Leo

Photo: © Alexa Geisthövel

Per Leo, born 1972 in Erlangen, studied History, Philosophy and Slavonic Literature in Freiburg and Berlin, and gained a doctorate in 2009 at Berlin’s Humboldt University. He lives with his family in Berlin and works as a freelance writer and journalist, and as a manufacturer of fine decorative boxes in wood.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2016 Friedrich Hölderlin Prize - Emerging Talent Prize
  • 2014 Klaus Michael Kühne Prize
  • 2013 Humboldt Prize - Special Prize: ‘Judaism and Antisemitism’

More Publications

Mit Rechten reden. Ein Leitfaden
(with Maximilian Steinbeis and Daniel-Pascal Zorn)
Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2017.
 
Der Wille zum Wesen: Weltanschauungskultur, charakterologisches Denken und Judenfeindschaft in Deutschland 1890–1940
Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2013.

Featured Books

Book cover Flood and soil

Flut und Boden
[Flood and soil]

Klett-Cotta Verlag

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