Rolf Dobelli

Rolf Dobelli (originally Döbeli ) ( born July 15, 1966 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss writer and entrepreneur.

Life

Rolf Dobelli studied philosophy and economics at the University of St. Gallen, where he also received his doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of deconstruction of the economic discourse. He then worked in management positions in the economy, such as chief financial officer and managing director of various subsidiaries of Swissair. In 1999 he founded together with friends the company getAbstract, the world's leading publisher of book summaries. 2011 Dobelli resigned from the operational management of getAbstract, to devote himself to writing. Together with Andreas Scholz Bloomberg Television he hosted from 2001 to 2009, the weekly television broadcast side manner economy. In 2010 Dobelli hosted the weekly books show on BBC. He wrote the weekly column Thinking Clearly for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( end of 2011 ), the Swiss Sunday newspaper (2010 to 2012) and until October 2012 for the period. Since October 2013 Dobelli writes a weekly column for the star.

Dobellis most famous work is The art of clear thinking. It appeared in the 2011 Carl Hanser Verlag, and stood for several months on the first place on the Spiegel bestseller list. The work is number 1 Mirror - year bestsellers of 2012. The sophomore The art of wise action appeared in 2012 and was also on the Spiegel bestseller list. These two books have been translated into over 30 languages. They were in the top 10 best-seller lists of the UK, Korea, India, Ireland and Singapore. This Dobelli is the currently most successful Swiss writer.

He achieved fame with earlier works of fiction. In his novel Thirty-five - A Midlife Story ( 2003) reflects the protagonist Gehrer, a 35 -year-old successful manager, about his past life. He describes - partly sarcastic - his identity crisis, its past and present friends and his goals. Dobellis next works were And what do you do? (2004), a novel about the disintegration of a successful manager - existence, Kingdom of Heaven (2006), a love story with bonds of Max Frisch's Homo Faber, Who am I? 777 indiscreet questions (2007), turbulence (2007) and Massimo Marini (2010 ), a coming of age novel and immigration history. All literary works have been published in the Zurich Diogenes Verlag.

Dobelli denounced in a report drawn up for the Swiss monthly and printed in shortened form in The Guardian essay on the hunger for new messages. He dispensed with the consumption of news, which he compares with poisons for the brain and the mind, and argues for a " Healthy News Diet ." Dobelli is the founder and curator of ZURICH.MINDS.

In September 2013, the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb alleged Dobelli have plagiarized several passages from his works in the art of clear thinking and in an article in TIME. Dobelli called in an interview with the Tages-Anzeiger, the "majority of the allegations ," " ridiculous or absurd." As for the accusation of the two psychology professors Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, he had taken some of their ideas, Dobelli admits to have quoted, unless otherwise specified.

Dobelli is married and lives in Lucerne.

Works

  • Rolf Döbeli: Postmodern philosophy and the discourse of the enterprise culture. Thesis, University of St. Gallen, 1991.
  • Rolf Döbeli: deconstruction of the economic discourse. Dissertation, University of St. Gallen, 1995.
  • Thirty-five. A mid-life story. Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-257-06352-0. (2004 as an audio book: ISBN 978-3-257-23445-9 detebe as Diogenes Paperback 23445 read by Ulrich Noethen, directed by Karin Lorenz, 3 CDs, Patmos, Dusseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-491-91161-3 ).
  • And what do you do? Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2004, ISBN 978-3-257-06446-9.
  • Kingdom of heaven. Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-257-06537-4.
  • Who am I? 777 indiscreet questions. Diogenes, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-257-06563-3.
  • Turbulence. 777 bottomless thoughts. Diogenes, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-257-06594-7.
  • Massimo Marini. Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-257-06754-5.
  • The art of clear thinking. 52 mistake, you better leave that to others. Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-42682-5.
  • The art of wise action. 52 wrong turns, you better leave that to others. Hanser, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-43205-5.
  • The Paradox of Material Progress in: What Should We Be Worried About? John Brockman, ed, Harper, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-062-29623-8.
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