Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash, FRSA ( born July 12, 1955 in London ) is a British historian and writer. His research focus is the contemporary history of Europe since 1945.

Life and work

Timothy Garton Ash visited the school in Sherborne, concluded on the basis of his excellent grades then a study of the history of science at the University of Oxford in the UK. His Thomas Mann reading he gives in webdokumentierten Berkeley University interview as decisive for his great interest in Germany to ( " Thomas Mann is to blame for my interest in Germany" - " Thomas Mann is to blame for my interest in Germany " ). Accordingly, he did research for his doctoral thesis on Berlin and the Nazis at the Free University of Berlin, where he made trip to the Humboldt University in the former East Berlin. Since many of today accessible archives were still closed, his position shifted question "What do people do about a dictatorship? " - " How people behave to dictatorships? " - Partly on the contemporary parallels in the SED state. As a contemporary historian of the emancipation of Central Europe from the Eastern Bloc socialism, he was a kind of cross-border workers between journalist and scholar ( "mixture of Both journalism and scholarship " - " a mixture of journalism and science ").

Garton Ash is now a professor and director of the European Studies Centre at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, he is also Hoover senior fellow with teaching duties at the University of Stanford. In addition to his scientific work, he is a regular contributor for various internationally renowned newspapers, including The Guardian and New York Review of Books. Garton Ash is also a member of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and a board member of the European initiative A Soul.

His best-known works are in Germany: The Magic Lantern and On behalf of Europe. He also published stories with autobiographical background: In The Act Romeo he describes the search for his own Stasi files and the subsequent discussion of the scheduled him Stasi spies. His book Free World: Europe, America, and the opportunity of the crisis is concerned with the conditions of neoliberal globalization agenda and the different strategies of the leading Western politicians to do so.

Garton Ash came in 2007 in a public debate with the French writer Pascal Bruckner. This threw him of the Muslims should be allowed a special role and stand up for a multiculturalism, which ultimately threatens the Enlightenment.

Awards

  • Federal Cross of Merit
  • Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
  • Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
  • 1991: The Political Book, awarded by the Friedrich- Ebert -Stiftung for the book The Magic Lantern
  • 2002: Hoffmann- of - life Faller Prize for his work
  • 2003: Czech Medal of Merit
  • 2008: Premio Ischia Internazionale di Giornalismo
  • 2013: Karl medal for European media

Works (selection)

  • Turn of the century: global political considerations 2000 - 2010 Hanser, Munich 2010 490 pp., ISBN 978-3-446-23598-4. .
  • Free World. Hanser, Munich 2004. 348 pp. ISBN 3-4462-0546-2
  • Time freedom. Munich in 1999, Tb 2004. ISBN 3-446-20546-2
  • The acts Romeo. Munich 1997. ISBN 3446191062
  • On behalf of Europe. Munich 1993. ISBN 3-4461-5858-8
  • The Magic Lantern. Munich 1990. ISBN 3-4461-5898-7
The New York Review of Books Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Das politische Buch Friedrich Ebert Foundation Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize Medal of Merit (Czech Republic) Ischia International Journalism Award Perlentaucher Integrated Authority File
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