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Elisabeth VON THADDEN Editor, DIE ZEIT, Hamburg

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 Elisabeth von Thadden was born in 1961 in Göttingen, Germany. She studied literature and history in Freiburg, Paris and Berlin. She wrote her thesis on Goethe's piece "Elective Affinities" at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. During the turnaround period after 1989 she worked as an editor for the german newspapers "Berliner Wochenpost" and "Berliner Zeitung". Since 1999 she is an editor for "Die Zeit" and is responsible for the philosophical section of the newspaper. She is married with two kids. Elisabeth von Thadden is a professor at the universities of Witten/Herdecke and Jena, both in Germany. In autumn 2010 she was a visiting fellow at the "Center for European Studies" at Harvard University. Since 2008 she is a member of the German Protestant Church Congress and since 2012 a permanent fellow at the College of Post-growth Societies at the University of Jena where she also wrote her newest book "Die berührungslose Gesellschaft" (the touchless society), published in 2018.

Publikationen

von Thadden, E.: Die berührungslose Gesellschaft, Verlag CH Beck, München, 2018
Grefe, C., Schnabel, U., von Thadden, E.: Wer denkt für morgen? Wie unsere Zukunft aussieht - 21 Denker für das 21. Jahrhundert, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Wien, 2010
von Thadden, E.: Familiäre Gründe, Berlin-Verlag, Berlin, 2000
von Thadden, E.: Erzählen als Naturverhältnis - "Die Wahlverwandtschaften". Zum Problem der Darstellbarkeit von Natur und Gesellschaft seit Goethes Plan eines "Roman über das Weltall", Fink, München 1993