Ulrich Raulff

Ulrich Raulff

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

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 University of 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. In 2018 he departed his role at the German Museum of Modern Literature, after leading the German Literature Archive for nearly 15 years.

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 book "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 Leipzig Book Fair Prize 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

• Warburg, Aby Moritz (1995). Schlangenritual ein Reisebericht (in German). Berlin. ISBN 978-3-8031-3031-0. OCLC 603443937.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Raulff, Ulrich (1995). Ein Historiker im 20. Jahrhundert : Marc Bloch (in German). Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer. ISBN 3-10-062909-4. OCLC 33450894.
• Raulff, Ulrich (1999). Der unsichtbare Augenblick : Zeitkonzepte in der Geschichte (in German). Göttingen: Wallstein. ISBN 3-89244-346-7. OCLC 50169532.
• Raulff, Ulrich (2003). Wilde Energien : vier Versuche zu Aby Warburg (in German). Göttingen: Wallstein. ISBN 3-89244-674-1. OCLC 53332301.
• Bernard, Andreas; Raulff, Ulrich (2003). Theodor W. Adorno, "Minima Moralia" neu gelesen (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 3-518-12284-3. OCLC 51862778.
• Raulff, Ulrich; Näfelt, Lutz; Jaegle, Dietmar; Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach; Literaturmuseum der Moderne; Ausstellung Das Geheime Deutschland. Eine Ausgrabung Marbach am Neckar (2008). Das geheime Deutschland eine Ausgrabung; Köpfe aus dem George-Kreis; [zur Ausstellung: "Das Geheime Deutschland. Eine Ausgrabung", Literaturmuseum der Moderne, Marbach am Neckar, 13. März 2008 bis 31. August 2008] (in German). Marbach am Neckar. ISBN 978-3-937384-37-5. OCLC 227341003.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Raulff, Ulrich (2009). Kreis ohne Meister : Stefan Georges Nachleben (in German). München: C.H. Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-59225-6. OCLC 441147941.
• Raulff, Ulrich (2014). Wiedersehen mit den Siebzigern die wilden Jahre des Lesens (in German). Stuttgart. ISBN 978-3-608-94893-6. OCLC 879494046.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Raulff, Ulrich (2015). Das letzte Jahrhundert der Pferde : Geschichte einer Trennung (in German). München. ISBN 978-3-406-68245-2. OCLC 923734343.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Raulff, Ulrich; Kemp, Ruth Ahmedzai (2017). Farewell to the horse : the final century of our relationship. [London] UK. ISBN 978-0-241-25760-9. OCLC 988233898.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Critical studies and reviews of Raulff's work

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