Philipp Blom

Philipp Blom (born 1970 in Hamburg) is a German writer, historian, journalist and translator.

Life

Philipp Blom studied in Vienna and Oxford and a doctorate in Oxford with a thesis on the Nietzsche reception and the race thinking in the cultural Zionism.

Blom has subsequently worked in London and Paris and now lives in Vienna.

He writes in English and German. His historical works dealing with the history of ideas and the history of mentalities: Collective wonder Sammelwahn is a history of collective culture since the Renaissance; The Prudential monster: Diderot, d' Alembert, de Jaucourt and the Great Encyclopedia referenced not only the history of a central event of the Enlightenment, but also the personal and intellectual conflicts between the Enlightenment itself in his book The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West 1900-1914 ( German 2009. tumbling the continent of Europe from 1900 to 1914 ) Blom deals with the social, cultural and intellectual upheavals at the beginning of the twentieth century. His novels The Simmons Papers and Luxor are attributable to the genre of philosophical fable. In 2000 he also published a nonfiction book about Austrian wines ( The Wines of Austria).

A journalist Blom has been published ( The Time, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Der Standard) in newspapers and magazines in the UK (The Guardian, The Independent, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement ) and in the German-speaking countries. In the Austrian culture channel OE1 Blom moderated the discussion program regularly from day to day.

Awards and scholarships

  • 2013 Prix Terenci Moix, Spain
  • 2013 Gray Lecture, Canada
  • 2012-2013 Visiting Scholar, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
  • 2012 Van der Leeuw, Lezing, Groningen
  • 2012 Theodor Körner Prize for Science, Vienna
  • 2011-2012 Elias Canetti grant from the City of Vienna, Vienna
  • 2011 Gleim Literature Prize for evil philosophers. A salon in Paris and the forgotten legacy of the Enlightenment
  • 2010 De Groene Waterman Prijs, Antwerp
  • 2009 NDR Kultur Nonfiction Book Award for The tumbling continent. Europe 1900-1914
  • 2009 Scholarship of the IFK, Vienna

Writings

  • "Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia". ( With Veronica Buckley ), Thames & Hudson, London, 2013, ISBN 978-0-500-51668-3
  • " Angelo Soliman - An African in Vienna". Brandstätter Verlag, Wien 2011, ISBN 978-3-850-33594-2
  • Evil philosophers. A salon in Paris and the forgotten legacy of the Enlightenment. Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23648-6.
  • The tumbling continent. Europe from 1900 to 1914. Translated from English by Philipp Blom. Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23292-1.
  • The Wines of Austria. Faber & Faber, London 2006, ISBN 0571195334
  • Luxor. Table 7, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-938476-11-7.
  • The reasonable monster. Diderot, d' Alembert, de Jaucourt and the Great Encyclopedia. Translated from English by Michael Bischoff. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-8218-4553-8.
  • Collective wonder Sammelwahn. Scenes from the story of a passion. Translated from English by Philipp Blom. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-8218-4537-6.
  • " The commemoration - A businessman? " In: Petra Steinberger (ed.) " The Finkelstein debate", Piper, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-492-04328-1
  • " Hermann Cohen: a philosophical biography". In: Jewish Almanac, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-633-54119-5
  • The Simmons papers. (Ed.) Translated from English by Philipp Blom. Berlin -Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-8270-0234-6.

Translations

  • Daniel Cohn- Bendit and Guy Verhofstadt: For Europe. A manifesto. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-24187-9.
  • Philipp Blom: " Evil Philosophers A salon in Paris and the forgotten legacy of the Enlightenment. ". Translated from English by Philipp Blom. Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23648-6.
  • Philipp Blom: " The tumbling continent of Europe from 1900 to 1914. ". Translated from English by Philipp Blom. Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23292-1.
  • Philipp Blom: "Collective wonder Sammelwahn scenes from the story of a passion.". Translated from English by Philipp Blom. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-8218-4537-6.
  • Geert Mak: "Amsterdam". Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 978-0-674-00331-6.
  • Philipp Blom: " The Simmons Papers ". (Ed.) Translated from English by Philipp Blom. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-8270-0234-6.

Stage translations

  • The Producers, Etablissement Ronacher, June 2008
  • La Colombe ( An opera by Charles Gounod ). Palace Theater, Vienna, March, 2008
  • Soliman (libretto ), a project with the composer Joost van Kerkhooven
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