WOLFRAM EILENBERGER
Writer | Philosopher | Academic
Philosopher and Writer
Wolfram Eilenberger, born 1972, is an internationally bestselling, award-winning writer and philosopher.
In 2018, he published Time of the Magicians (Zeit der Zauberer) in Germany. The book instantly became a bestseller there, as well as in countries such as Italy, and Spain. It has been translated into thirty languages.
In November 2018 it won the prestigious Bayerischer Buchpreis, in 2019 the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. It was also shortlisted for several other awards, both nationally and internationally. The book also received wide critical acclaim in the US and UK.
Eilenberger has been a prolific contributor of essays and articles to many publications, among them Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, and El País. He has taught at the University of Toronto, Indiana University Bloomington, the ETH Zürich and Berlin University of the Arts.
His new book The Visionaries (Feuer der Freiheit) will be published in the US by Penguin Random House in August 2023 and describes the legendary lives of the four most influential female philosophers of the 20th century during World War II - Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand.
Eilenberger is one of the program directors of the phil.cologne, Germany's biggest philosophy festival, and moderator of the TV program Sternstunde Philosophie (Swiss Television). He also holds a DFB football trainer’s licence and appears regularly as a soccer expert on German TV and radio.
He is married to the linguist and former Finnish national basketball player Pia Päiviö, and he lives with his family in Berlin.
Books
The years 1933 to 1943 mark the darkest chapter of modern Europe. In the face of the catastrophe, four female philosophers – Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Ayn Rand and Hannah Arendt – develop their visionary ideas: on the relationship between the individual and society, man and woman, sex and gender, freedom and totalitarism, God and humankind.
Time of the Magicians brings to life this miraculous burst of intellectual creativity, unparalleled in philosophy's history, and with it an entire era, from post-war exuberance to economic crisis and the emergence of National Socialism.
"Philosophie für alle, die noch etwas vorhaben" (berlin Verlag 2005) is a non-academic introduction to contemporary philosophy, awarded with the 'Mindelheimer Philosophiepreis' INFO
"Lob des Tores - 40 Flanken in Fussballphilosophie" (berlin Verlag 2006) is a collection of essays on philosophy and soccer INFO
"This is not America - Philosophen sprechen über die Lage des Landes" (Matthes & Seitz 2008) is a collection of interviews with leading American philosophers on the idea of America INFO
"Kleine Menschen, grosse Fragen - 20 philosophische Geschichten fuer die Erwachsenen von morgen - und heute" (berlin Verlag 2009) is a philosophy book for the whole family INFO
"Das Werden des Menschen im Wort" (Chronos 2009) is a scholary study on the philosophy of the Russian thinker Michail M. Bachtin INFO
"Finnen von Sinnen. Von einem, der auszog eine finnische Frau zu heiraten" (Blanvalet, 2012) gives personal and amusing insights into the Finnish culture and way of life INFO
"Ich glaub, ich werd zum Elch. Von einem, der mit seinen Kindern in die Ferne zog" (Blanvalet 2014) describes with a winking eye the differences between Finnish and Canadian people and what it's like to be a family man in Toronto INFO
"Der Tatort und die Philosophie. Schlauer werden mit der beliebtesten Fernsehserie" (Tropen 2014) offers a collection of essays of German intellectuals that reflect, resourcefully and accessibly, upon the TV cult series "Tatort" INFO
Contact
Michael Gaeb Literary Agency
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Media, talks, lectures: contacteilenberger@gmail.com
Publishers world wide (selection):
Brazil/Todavia, China/Penguin, Taiwan/BWP, Croatia/Fraktura, Czech Republic/Omega, Denmark/Klim, Finland/Siltala, France/ Albin Michel (Flammarion), Greece/Patakis, Iceland/University of Iceland Press, Israel/Books in the Attic, Italy/Feltrinelli, Japan/Kodansha, Korea/ The Pause (Dulnyouk), The Netherlands/De Bezige Bij, Russia/ Ad Marginem, Serbia/Agora, Spain/Taurus, Turkey/Ayrinti, UK/Penguin, USA/Penguin