Ulrich Raulff

Ulrich Raulff

Ulrich Raulff (born 13 February 1950 as Ulrich Raulf near Meinerzhagen) is a German cultural scientist and journalist.

Early life

Raulff studied English, philosophy and history at Marburg University, gaining his doctorate under the philosopher Dietmar Kamper in October 1977.

Career

After changing his name to Raulff, Raulf became a habilitation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 1995 in cultural studies. Since 1994 he was feuilleton -Redakteur for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , since 1997 head of department and from 2001 a senior editor with the features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 1979, he was one of the founders of the magazine Tumult. He researches and publishes on Marc Bloch, Aby Warburg and the George Circle.

Raulff is a member of the foundation board of the Stefan George Foundation. He is a member of the PEN Centre Germany and since 2007 the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt.

Prizes

• For his study circle without a master, in which he studied the history of the George circle after the death of Stefan Georges in 1933, Raulff received the prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2010 in the category "Non-fiction and essayistics".
• In 1998, he was awarded the Science Prize of the Aby-Warburg Foundation, 2013 with the Ernst Robert Curtius Prize.
• In 2013, he received the first-class merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Bibliography

• Nachwort zu Aby Warburg: Schlangenritual. Ein Reisebericht. Wagenbach, Berlin 1988 u. 1995, ISBN 3-8031-3031-X, S. 59–95.
• Ein Historiker im 20. Jahrhundert: Marc Bloch. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-10-062909-4.
• Der unsichtbare Augenblick: Zeitkonzepte in der Geschichte. Wallstein, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89244-346-7.
• Wilde Energien. Vier Versuche zu Aby Warburg. Wallstein, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-674-1.
• mit Andreas Bernard, als Herausgeber: Theodor W. Adorno, „Minima moralia“ neu gelesen (= Edition Suhrkamp, Band 2284, ISSN 0422-5821). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-518-12284-6.
• als Herausgeber mit Lutz Näfelt und Dietmar Jaegle: Das geheime Deutschland: eine Ausgrabung. Köpfe aus dem George-Kreis. Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar 2008, ISBN 978-3-937384-37-5.
• Kreis ohne Meister. Stefan Georges Nachleben. C.H. Beck, München 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59225-6.
• Wiedersehen mit den Siebzigern. Die wilden Jahre des Lesens. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2014. ISBN 978-3-608-94893-6.
• Das letzte Jahrhundert der Pferde. Geschichte einer Trennung. C.H. Beck, München 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68244-5.
• Farewell to the Horse: The Final Century of Our Relationship. Allen Lane, 2017. ISBN 9780241257609

Critical studies and reviews of Raulff's work

• Klinkenborg, Verlyn (February 22, 2018). "A horse is a horse, of course". The New York Review of Books. 65 (3): 46–47. Review of Farewell to the horse.