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Wolfram Eilenberger |
is a German writer, journalist and philosopher. He is the author of six books, the latest of which is the best-selling novel Finnen von Sinnen. The books have been translated into several languagues. He currently lives in Toronto and Berlin. Born in Freiburg i. Br., Germany in 1972, he received his MA in philosophy and literature from the University of Heidelberg and his PhD in philosophy from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. While completing his PhD as a fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (a German elite grant for promising young scholars) he began a career in journalism in Berlin, and since then his articles, essays, reviews and columns have appeared frequently in numerous national and international publications, including Die Zeit, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Der Tagesspiegel, Cicero, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Spiegel Online and Internationale Politik. He is also a regular contributor for German Public Radio (Deutschlandfunk). From 2000 to 2002 he was a philosophical columnist for Die Zeit, from 2003 to 2004 head of the foreign policy section of the German monthly magazine Cicero and since then has been a correspondent for Cicero writing mainly on foreign policy, the arts and sports. Mr. Eilenberger is the author of six books: - a bestselling humorous novel on life in the Finnish woods, "Finnen von Sinnen - Von einem, der auszog, eine finnische Frau zu heiraten” (Blanvalet, 2010); - a scholarly study of the philosophy of culture of the Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin, "Das Werden des Menschen im Wort (Chronos, Zurich, 2009); - a book on philosophy and child education “Kleine Menschen, grosse Fragen - 20 philosophische Geschichten fuer die Erwachsenen von morgen - und heute” (Berlin Verlag, 2009); - a collection of his interviews with leading American philosophers (R. Rorty, S. Cavell, M. Nussbaum...) on the idea of America, "This is not America - Philosophen sprechen ueber die Lage des Landes” was published in 2008 by Matthes & Seitz, Berlin. - a non-academic introduction to contemporary philosophy, "Philosophy fuer alle, die noch etwas vorhaben" (Berlin Verlag, 2005, BvT 2007); - a collections of essays on philosophy and soccer “Lob des Tores - 40 Flanken in Fussballphilosophie” (BvT, 2006, revised 2008). He teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto and also taught International Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Wolfram Eilenberger’s books have been translated into Korean, Polish and Finnish. He is an active member of the German national soccer team of writers (midfield) and a licensed soccer coach. Wolfram Eilenberger lives with his family in Toronto and Berlin. ~ Professional inquiries may be directed to Inge Kunzelmann at Blanvalet: inge.kunzelmann@randomhouse.de or Sandy Brunzel at Berlin Verlag: s.brunzel@berlinverlag.de Inquiries about speaking engagement, licenses or foreign rights may be directed to gaeb@litagentur.de |